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SOKO PLACE: More Than A Festival

SOKO Place is a cultural education and awareness tool developed to establish and maintain a local black business economy. Its core focus is to create opportunities for residents and entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses.

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SOKO Place Festival is a free annual one-day festival that aims to:

1) establish an outdoor marketplace uplifting cooperative economics.

2) strengthen the Springfield and Clark County region through arts and culture, and

3) bring residents together to celebrate and patronize local and regional black businesses.