STAGE Culinary

10/17/2024

Working on my website edits, just feel like this Champlin Park High School student film with EDU Film Fest deserves a hell of a lot more love... These kids killed it!

"stART", a Do Rad Things documentary was produced and filmed by the Champlin Park High School Video Arts students in the spring of 2023 with the extraordinar...

03/08/2024

Gearing up for a MAJOR website change. Last week of the old site, HUGE BLOWOUT SALE! Every item is on sale until this site DIES! Get it while you can, not sure when my new web design team will finally pull the plug.

EVERYTHING'S ON SALE! Like 50% OFF ALL OF IT!

https://doradthings.net/shop

01/26/2024

"You will not cuss, you will not cuss, you will not cuss..." That's basically all I'm thinking about when I do public speaking. Come check it out Friday, Feb. 9th. Everett and Charlie Gallery, with the Southwest Connector.

Every artist has an interesting origin story. But nothing compares with how Mark Rivard got started. Rivard began illustrating skateboards with Sharpie markers in the early 2000s. That led to an …

11/27/2020

The brand built to support funding to STAGE Culinary! Consider Supporting Do Rad Things this holiday season... and with any luck, we may just see Stage Culinary live on after the storm has settled!

"When you're self employed everyday is spent being madly busy while trying to stay unemployed. It's confusing, I know. Throw in a hundred year pandemic that destroys even your "fallback" gig, and everyday is spent madly busy, unemployed, and with 'HOLY S**T WHAT AM I GONNA DO' levels of hustle like the world has never seen before... but still basically unemployed. It get even more confusing...
Needless to say, what a ride. You shift, you mold, you get even more innovative and creative, you go back to the roots of what brought you to where you are today and lean in with everything you've got. And you just keep working... working on anything really, just keep working.
I have put a ton effort in the time spent not in the classroom this year in front of the kids, into building a brand that will hopefully allow me to get back to those classrooms ten fold stronger. I leaned in, hard... and now I'm leaning on... So this holiday season consider shopping where you know that everytime you see that brand you support it means something. The very phrase Do Rad Things was born in the unlikeliest of classrooms, and the success of the brand will always be driven by it's history."

-Mark Rivard, Founder Stage Culinary/Do Rad Things

www.DoRadThings.net. .

10/31/2020

Do Rad Things is a lifestyle, & a lifestyle brand. It’s a simple idea, that when adapted to your decision making process produces incredible results. Do Rad Things’ mission is to maximize the potential of passions and educate the impactful pursuit of those goals.

Every Do Rad Things purchase supports our goal to create educational platforms and projects that aim to show our youth their full potential. It’s our 10% Promise...

For the duration of our brand 10% of every sale goes to funding educational projects produced by Founder, Mark Rivard (). Projects like the renowned .

Support and support our youth, and your own pursuit of being RAD.

10/17/2020

Stage Culinary Founder Mark Rivard was a guest on the TeacherFit "Humans of Education" Podcast! Check it out!

There is so many great moments in this episode. It was an honor to have Mark Rivard on the show. Check out everything he is doing in education, art, and phil...

03/18/2020

It's obviously a rough time for our beloved industry and all of the amazing restaurants and service industry friends that have supported us in the past. Stage Culinary is a nonprofit, but we teach entrepreneurship, and partner exclusively with local restaurants and small, local vendors.

The biggest blows will be to the small business' and the people they employee. Consider this:

Financial relief for Minnesota's small businesses

03/06/2020

The champion behind the food, the menus, and Stage Culinary's scary looking softy Executive Chef and Co-Founder, Shane Oporto on the Rob Morgan Is A Curious Person podcast. Have a listen to a nice chat with our guy, Chef Shane!

Shane Oporto is best known for his time as executive chef at Octo Fishbar and “Chef de Cuisine” at La Belle Vie. We talk about how, seemingly overnight, Shane went from working behind the scenes as a Chef to being asked to give interview and being flown all over the world to cook

02/19/2020

I'm so STOKED!

So here's the deal... We are SO close to having our 501(c)3 Status which will allow us to go full steam ahead with our projects and partnerships with local restaurants and public schools. But we need your help. As of RIGHT NOW you can become a Founding Member of Stage Culinary, the Nonprofit. This initial fundraise will help us establish STAGE Culinary for future generations of students in our public schools.

Let me just be honest about this... I hate Go Fund Me, but the Mark Rivard AMEX Card can no longer be the sole funding source if this venture is going to become what it's meant to be. And let's be really honest, I've seen your neighbors cat raise more money for a tummy ache on Go Fund Me, so let's use it for something that will ultimately bring life changing opportunity to REAL LIVING KIDS in our community! This is what education CAN be. Become a Founding Member TODAY! We need you. We can build this. We will change lives, and take ownership of what education can be on a public level. All contributions are greatly appreciated!

BECOME A FOUNDING MEMBER TODAY!Welcome to STAGE Culinary. Bringing creativity, art, food… Mark Rivard needs your support for STAGE Culinary- FOUNDING MEMBER!