Projects
A Salt Apology
Year: 2008
A Salt Apology invited the community and public to participate in salting South of Market (SOMA) in San Francisco, CA, i.e. curing/preserving, reducing the bitterness of, or "apologizing for" the bitter places in the neighborhood that have arisen over the years.
View this projectBitter Barter & Home Office
Year: 2008
Bitter Barter...What would you barter for a Bitter Melon?, and Home Office...A comforting contradiction: home office.
View this projectBitter Melon [A]side/[In]side
Year: 2006
Bitter Melon [A]side/[In]side was a 70 people-banquet event created for Grantsmakers in the Arts pre-conference in collaboration with P-Town Parties.
View this projectBitter Melon Homeopathy for Urban Renewal: Bitter is Better
Year: 2006
Also known as the Bitter Melon Seed Bomb Event was a public intervention project that invited interested growers to cultivate Bitter Melon plants in neglected urban spaces.
View this projectCommunity Supported Agriculture: A share of Bitter Melon
Year: 2006
CSA: A share of Bitter Melon was a project to bring the experience of Bitter Melon to a random and diverse audience by distributing it through their individual farm shares and farmer’s market stands.
View this projectTopsfield Fair and the NBMC Educational Exhibit
Year: 2006
The NBMC participated in the Topsfield Fair!
View this projectGoya Honoring Day: ゴーヤの日
Year: 2008
Goya Honoring Day is a celebration of Bitter Melon. Goya Honoring Day (ゴーヤの日), a festival originating in Okinawa, Japan, is a special day to recognize Bitter Melon as a featured product of that tropical island (“Goya” is the term for Bitter Melon in Okinawa dialect.) and a popular ingredient that some even suspect is the secret to the Okinawan longevity.
View this projectMeyers-Bitter Survey
Year: 2009
Meyers-Bitter Survey is a yes/no question survey that applies examples and discoveries from the NBMC's own experiences, social-research, and events from the past year to further explore the emotion of bitterness and the concept of community, identity, and belonging.
View this projectBitter Melon Week
Year: 2005
Bitter Melon Week explored the idea of community and how community can be created through difference and foreignness using Bitter Melon as a featured ingredient.
View this projectSifting the Inner Belt
Year: 2005
Sifting the Inner Belt was a year-long public art project that consisted of a series of performance interventions and performance-based research projects, which closely observed and examined, i.e. sift, the South End neighborhood with an emphasis on creating emotional, conceptual and physical bridges between the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) and the Berkeley Community Garden (BCG).
View this projectBitter Sweet Tasting Event
Year: 2005
The National Bitter Melon Council conducted a survey using 2 curcurbits grown in the Berkeley Street Community Garden, a community garden located in Boston’s South End neighborhood in Boston, MA.
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