Make It Main Street HMB

12/09/2025

News Flash! Postcards To The Future Exhibit at the Coastside History Museum is extended through the end of the year! According to the Half Moon Bay History Association, there has been quite the positive response to this community-sourced mail-art project. Our shared history is one of the reasons We Love Half Moon Bay - and we are all living and making history even day. Drop in and see what our community is thinking about and hoping for our shared future -
Thanks as ever to to our sponsoring partners of Dragonfly Community Arts, Half Moon Bay Winery, and Coastside Farmers' Market in Half Moon Bay, and to the City of Half Moon Bay - Local Government, and City of Half Moon Bay - Recreation & Community Services and the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture- access to and the creation of public art , and the promotion of civic engagement and community participation is really important.

11/30/2025

11/27/2025

Our family and friends always come to the Coastside for Thanksgiving Weekend, and love to head into Downtown Half Moon Bay for a ramble. If yours do too, we suggest stopping by the Coastside History Museum and taking a gander at the Postcards to the Future Exhibit! This collaboration between Make It Main Street HMB, Moon Bay History Association and the Coastal Literary Arts Movement is on display through November, and features original works from some of our most prominent artists and community members.

Gratitude abounds for Half Moon Bay Winery, Dragonfly Community Arts, and City of Half Moon Bay - Recreation & Community Services along with the docents and volunteers of the host organizations.

Find out more listing www.makeitmainstreet.org,

11/06/2025

Postcards to the Future Exhibition Opens! - Join us for a preview
Opening Reception on Thursday, November 6, 2025, 4-7PM
Coastside History Museum 505 Johnston Street in Downtown Half Moon Bay-
Postcards To The Future is a collaborative, communal Mail-art project, inspired in part by a project of the Nobel Peace Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Along with our partners from the Coastal Literary Arts Movement and the Half Moon Bay History Association, we invited the Coastside community to share their intentions, challenges, aspirations, hopes, and concerns for the future by creating and sending a Postcard To The Future. Over 150 postcards were submitted, each an artful reflection on family, community, the environment, cultural changes, science, technology, politics, art, spirituality, friendship and love of Country, reflections on why We Love Half Moon Bay's amazing array of communities.
We'll be sending our postcards of gratitude to our partners at the City of Half Moon Bay - Recreation & Community Services, Half Moon Bay Winery, Dragonfly Community Arts, Coastside Farmers' Market in Half Moon Bay, and Coastside Farmers' Market in Pacifica , and a special Shout out to Sebastion Pedersen of SCRAP-SF for getting right into the glorious mess of spontaneous public art making with us too! National Endowment for the Arts workers and admins, hang in there!

10/28/2025

Make It Main Street HMB moves indoors for the winter months, beginning the 1st Thursday of November with the Postcards To The Future exhibition at the Coastside History Museum in Downtown Half Moon Bay. Postcards To The Future is a collaborative, communal Mail-art project, inspired by a similar project of the Nobel Peace Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Along with our partners from the Coastal Literary Arts Movement and the Half Moon Bay History Association, we invited our Coastside community to share their intentions, challenges, aspirations, hopes, and concerns for the future by creating and sending a Postcard To The Future. More than 150 postcards were submitted, each an artful reflection on family, community, the environment, cultural changes, science, technology, politics, art, spirituality, friendship and love of Country. These compelling creations will be exhibited at the Coastside History Museum for the entire month of November, then archived into an online gallery and,
become part of the museum'spermanent collection for discovery by future visitors. Join us for an Opening Reception on Thursday November 6 from 4-7 PM!
Thanks to the Half Moon Bay Winery, Dragonfly Community Arts, Friends of the Half Moon Bay Library, Coastside Farmers' Market in Half Moon Bay, Event Savvy, Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture, and the City of Half Moon Bay - Recreation & Community Services, Made On The Coast for supporting another season of spontaneous public art making! Yet another reason why We Love Half Moon Bay!

10/14/2025

Create and Send your own Postcard to the Future, and it will become a museum piece! All submissions received/postmarked by October 15 will be part of an exhibit at the Coastside History Museum, which opens with a reception on Thursday, October 30, and runs through the month of November. There are a few templates still available at Personal FX, Ink Spell Books, Jupiter & Main, Mirada ART on Main St, M Stark Gallery and The Ocean Blue Vault - so pick one up, or make your own 5x7 postcard that conveys your aspirations for or concerns about the future to : Postcards To The Future, C/O Coastal Lit, Box 3775, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 - To Find out more visit https://makeitmainstreethmb.org -
Thanks as ever for the partnership of Half Moon Bay History Association, Literary Arts, Coastside Farmers' Market in Half Moon Bay, Dragonfly Community Arts for supporting this experiment in community sourced art-making!

10/06/2025

We had the best mini, local version of the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival last Thursday making Silly Squashes, Goofy Gourds, Seasonal Centerpieces AND hosting an impromptu hula performance courtesy of Maestra Cori Magos and Hālau o Nāpua from México City, who had just arrived in town that day! Hula Kawika Alfice, who is the Director for the Kaululehua Hawaiian Cultural Center in South San Francisco, and has been teaching hula and Hawaiian cultural arts for over 25 years, accompanied with live traditional Hawaiian music and song . So Yea, not something you see in Downtown Half Moon Bay every day! The performance was enchanting, uplifting and transporting. Big Aloha to all the dancers for the gift of your presence - and thanks for also making Postcards To The Future to include in our upcoming exhibit!
And of course to Dragonfly Community Arts, Half Moon Bay Winery and the City of Half Moon Bay - Recreation & Community Services