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The Main Event

Timeline:
September 20th, 2018 @ Holloway & Arellano Ave



8:30 am - 9:30 am: We started moving materials, getting last minute touches added, coffee arrived, and set up our installment.


9:30 am: Cafe stop is officially opened! Xin took amazing photographs of the set up, and the members.

9:40 am - 10:00 am: We waited for audiences, tried to promote our stop but our attempts were futile due to people rushing to class.

10:10 am: First interested passerby showed up, we explained our project and offered them a cup of coffee! Our first cup was hung down the roof of our bus. Lois was in charge of hanging the cups.



10:30 am: Our stop became busy, we ran out of cups, Kevin went to go get some more. We stopped asking people to write on their cups, and brought a white board to engage the audience.

11:00 am: People actually decided to chill by our seating area, whiteboard was filled with ideas, and we ran out of milk. Kristy ran to buy a gallon of milk.

11:30 am: We officially ran out of coffee, that didn’t stop people from being interested in our stop. Jasmin kept people informed about our project and purpose.

12:00 am: Things started to quiet down, other teams came to visit us, and we took our final group picture together as a team!

12:15 am: We said goodbyes to our audience and took down our lovely project.






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