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directorial debut for a film of this type. He said he was “honored” to be telling Aranda’s story. “Yermo is widely known—many artists could have done this,” he said. “I’m so glad he entrusted us to document this experience.” “Alice Street” follows two artists who create a mural in a neighborhood in Oakland. The diverse intersection, near the city’s Chinatown and the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, was changing drastically, due to what residents called gentrification. After struggling to get the mural painted, residents were then faced with the development of a luxury condominium that would have obscured the mural from view. “I was profoundly impacted by their story,” Wilkinson said. “They had to struggle, fight for a seat at the table with developers … They showed how a community can resist gentrification. It was a roller coaster ride to watch and document.” Wilkinson said that when he reached out to the MAH, they recognized the connection between his and Medina’s films, and connected them with WFF. “It’s a tremendous honor that [WFF] is interested in this story,” he said. “It’s honestly a dream come true.” Medina and “Painter of Dreams” co-director Marcus Cisneros will join Aranda and Wilkinson on June 17 at 6pm for a virtual discussion and Q&A. The pop-up event will be held June 18, 4-6pm at the City Plaza. Artists will talk about and discuss their work with the community. “The WFF is thrilled to work with all these wonderful organizations, filmmakers and artists to present this film program, and to create the space to discuss the importance of murals and the arts,” Alba said. “It’s vital to step up our support for the arts. As we recover from the pandemic we need connection, creativity and well being for everyone.”

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Finally, WFF and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) will host an in-person pop-up event in the City Plaza in downtown Watsonville. Pajaro Valley Arts, UCSC’s Everett Program and the Santa Cruz Art League are also involved in the project. “We’re very excited to present this program,” said WFF Executive Director Consuelo Alba. “It has been a very organic process, how we all came together to present this.” Alba said that WFF had already been in conversation with the Everett Program, and actively working with Calavera Media, who produced the short film “Painter of Dreams.” Meanwhile, MAH was contacted by Oakland filmmaker Spencer Wilkinson, who was looking to screen his film, “Alice Street” through a grassroots impact tour funded by the California Arts Council and The San Francisco Foundation. All of these projects collided to create Murals / Art / Activism. “Prior to the pandemic… artists were kind of isolated,” said “Painter of Dreams” Director Gabriel Medina. “We all just wanted to make the best program we could. But now, people are starting to work together. We’re getting on the same page, seeing that it’s more powerful than going it alone.” “Painter of Dreams” follows the story of Watsonville muralist Yermo Aranda and his relationship with the mural he created in the Watsonville High School (WHS) cafeteria. Originally painted in 1991 with the help of students, the piece was erroneously painted over in 2019, causing outrage in the community. The recreation, painted by Aranda, his former students and current WHS students, was unveiled earlier this year. “The film… focuses on Yermo, and the struggles he’s encountered trying to bring art to the community,” Medina said. “We want to bring his story to an audience who may have heard of it, but don’t know fully what it’s about.” “Painter of Dreams” is Medina’s

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weet, juicy melons are a gardening favorite. Easy to grow, productive and delicious, what’s not to love? To ensure a good harvest, May and June are the best months for melon planting. Melons are members of the Cucurbit family, along with pumpkins, squashes, and even luffas! There are two basic types of melon: watermelons and muskmelons. Cantaloupe, casaba, honeydew, and canary melons are all muskmelons.

Melons grow on vines with both male and female flowers. Female flowers have a miniature fruit (ovary) at the base of each blossom. Male flowers generally appear first and usually only last for one day. Melon pollen is very sticky, so honey bees must carry the pollen from one flower to the next. Hand-pollination can also be used. Melons are planted in four-foot square mounds. Plant three to five seeds, one inch deep and two inches apart, into the middle of each hill.

Water well. Once the seeds have sprouted into seedlings, snip the smallest plants off at ground level to avoid disturbing the remaining plant’s roots (and helpful soil microorganisms). Melons need to be watered every two or three days during the peak of summer. Regular watering helps prevent fruit splitting. Side dress melon plants with aged compost and water it in during the growing season to improve both crop quantity and quality. A layer of straw or sawdust can be added under melons, to get them off the ground. This helps prevent rotten areas, as well as insect damage and fungal disease. Melons can also be grown in containers or trellised. Trellised fruit will need to be supported in miniature hammocks. A melon is ready to harvest when a slight crack appears around the stem. This is called the full slip stage. Crenshaw, casaba, and some honeydew varieties do not develop a slip. Casabas and honeydews can be stored for several weeks; other varieties are best eaten right away. Melons are susceptible to the same problems as other cucurbits, including leaf spot, powdery mildew, downy mildews, mosaic virus, fusarium wilt, sudden wilt, verticillium wilt, and belly rot. Cutworms, cucumber beetles, aphids, leaf miners, leafhoppers, nematodes, wireworms, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles, squash bugs, spider mites, earwigs, stink bugs, whiteflies, and thrips may also try getting into your delicious melons, so be vigilant! Many of these problems can be avoided with row covers, diatomaceous earth, insecticidal soap, and crop rotation. You may have heard a rumor about cross-pollination and melons, but pollination between different species does not occur. What does happen is two different types of melon can cross-pollinate. That's how Crenshaw melons came about—Persian melons were crossed with casabas. It just wouldn’t be summer without slicing through the hard outer rind of a melon and devouring the sweet, refreshing fruit within. Start yours today. Kate Russell is a UCCE Master Gardener.

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