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It’s all about community with Mokah Coffee Bar in Deep Ellum
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It’s all about community with Mokah Coffee Bar in Deep Ellum. As a main outreach arm of Life in Deep Ellum, a local community outreach organization and church, Mokah seeks to serve the people of Deep Ellum and the surrounding area with a place to meet, hang out, hear great music, see work from talented local artists, and drink some dang good coffee.
Mimo Morreale is the Director of Mokah, Creative Director of LIDE, and the worship leader of the Gathering, the church service that meets in the Live at Mokah space at the back of the LIDE building every Sunday at 11am. He also has a band, Something in the Wheel, who just held their CD release party on October 10 in the Live at Mokah space. Mimo’s goal with Mokah is “to make it a community place, like all coffee shops should be.” He feels there is hope for Deep Ellum, and hope for the coffee scene in the DFW. He, and everyone else at Mokah and Life in Deep Ellum, would love to see both thrive.
Mokah is very open to partnerships with other groups in the area, and they are always putting on concerts and art shows for local artists. These events are a great venue for new and established artists of all fields to put their work on display for their fans. And they are great places for those fans to meet others who feel the same way.
The coffee bar itself is as adaptable to change as the people of Life in Deep Ellum. It can go from just a bar and a couch to include a full lounge and the entire art gallery space as well. Their church took over the building, an old paper mill, a little over two years ago after about ten years of meeting at various locations. The coffee bar is not their first though. They are the former owners of Insomniac Coffee in Deep Ellum. Now they feel the spot on MLK is a great point for them to reach out from to the people around them with love, art, and coffee.
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