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Downtown Fort Worth is about to get majorly caffeinated for a cause.
The inaugural Fort Worth Coffee Festival is taking place Saturday at General Worth Square downtown, from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. The event will feature live music and dancing, an appearance by the Texas Rangers, barbecue, bounce houses for the kids — and of course, plenty of coffee, with participants like Summer Moon and Ballpark Coffee offering complimentary tastings.
Spearheading the event is Kyev Tatum, pastor of New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church, who started Ballpark Coffee as a way to help raise funds for the Inner-City Coffee Exchange. The newly launched nonprofit is an effort dedicated to improving livelihoods within 76104, particularly the east side and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods within the ZIP code. Tatum collaborated with the Texas A&M Coffee Center to produce bags of Ballpark Coffee's Homerun blend, which has notes of berries, citrus, and chocolate. Proceeds from bag sales go toward the nonprofit.
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Members of New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church pose with a bag of Ballpark Coffee.
The coffee festival happens to fall on the same day as National Make a Difference Day and the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. visited Fort Worth in 1959. Tatum says coffee is symbolic of conversation, and he hopes the event will spur discussions about equity within the community.
"We have a date with destiny downtown," he says.
While admission to the Fort Worth Coffee Festival, food, and coffee drinks are free, organizers do ask for donations benefiting the Inner-City Coffee Exchange.
More information is available here.
