Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
I can barely contain myself. Nothing makes me happier than emerging from our winter cocoon of quieter winter Indie-marts and blossoming like a big, drunken butterfly to the summer marts. So here we go, let’s launch our 2 year anniversary and kick off to summer marts with a bang!
Sunday June 21st, from noon to 6pm, get your sweet ass to Thee Parkside where we will be rocking almost 100 vendors bringing you the best in vintage, local design, rad stores, tees & hoodies, skateboards, zines, records, handmade oddities and a ton of other cool things you couldn’t image making up yourself, all in an outside street fair setting with about 4,000 people joining you. We’ve got bands inside (um, hello, the Frail, The Red Verse & Shannon and the Clams!), DJ’s outside, fresh BBQ food, local foodies making you sweets & treats, D.I.Y. and a tons of interactive vendors sewing, creating, painting, screening…on command and in your face. We even have drink/ beer specials & fun stuff for your Dad (afterall, it is Father’s Day). We shut down the whole streetso you can hang out all day. You can even bring your dog!
A sampling of our vendors: Shotwell, Nooworks, Four Barrell Coffee, Heathen, CC Riders, Mission Skateboards, San Franpsycho, Sita Rupe, Gangs of San Francisco, Coma and Cotton, Hanburger Panda and tons more. Peep some our fun booths from sponsors like PBR, Tricycle Records, Broke Ass Stuart, Timbuk2 and Bust Magazine giveaways. Don’t miss out!
Band Line-up:
- 1:00pm: Shannon and the Clams
- 2:15pm: The Red Verse
- 3:30pm: The Frail (Thanks Tricycle Records!)
DJ’s:
- Resident DJ, Sarahdactyl, celebrating 2 years of DJing the Mart
- Primo from Oldies Night @ The Knockout, 1964 @ Edinburgh..dirty!
The Indie-Mart Street Fair
Sunday June 21st, 12-6pm
Thee Parkside- 17th st & all down Wisconsin
Ride your bike, take the 22 Muni Line & ample parking for bikes and cars
ALL AGES- 21 to booze it up.
$2 suggested admission benefits the Avon Cancer Walk and gets you a free Zine!
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
oh we are all set.
april 26th at the indie. last of the line and we will miss divis. i brought it there to impact the economy in my new hood. and i hope it did, even if for a day. or just for mojo. i love western addy and please rep it all the time. mojo. cc rider. 821. nopa. wazeima. the weird big dollar store on the corner of mcallister. little star. blue jay. abir. lil chihuahu…i cant spell for shit. you get it. addy is rad and i love it. all of it. i love $2 beers at bean bag and 2 for $1 chicken at popeyes on tuesday. love it all.
anyhoo, mart is this sunday april 26th, 11am-4pm and we are all vendors and all rad stuff. we packed the place upstairs, downstairs and all down the sidewalk with awesome vendors repping everything from tees and hoodies, skateboards, vintage, recycled vintage, jewelry, cute dresses, your fave rad stores like shotwell, cc rider and mission skateboards, dog stuff, belts, we even have a lady who makes cat cottages from recycled materials. holy smokes we got some diversity on this one. come out…the farmers market is going on accross the street all morning, mojo is slinging the best coffee and sandwiches next door and we will eb bringing you all kinds of killer vendors, drunk dial dj’s giving you great music, some fun diy stuff going on like live sewing (messenger bags), button machines & more. its gonna be a nice day, inside and out. line moves quick and ensures you get room to shop inside, so come on by!
spring and summer, spread out. indie mart 2.0
parkside 3rd sunday of june and aug. all summer long. over 80 vendors. bands inside. bbq foods. djs outside. room to move, dance, shop or just hang out.
xo.
Friday, April 24th, 2009
hi guys. just wanted to address this. we’ve gotten some tough comments and frustration from the public, so wanted to let you all know the deal. in our two years, we had always been 21 and under as we did at venues that it was ok to have kids. i even drew a coloring book myself and folks who have been would let you know we were kid friendly and welcomed college kids and often had teen vendors to encourage them to design. the last few shows have been 21 and over because i wanted to do the event at the independent. the indie is in western addition, which is where i have had my store, which has since closed, my friends have businesses and where i live and hang out. in a bad economy, i have chosen to move it here to impact this rad neighborhood and encourage folks to shop locally over here in western addy. there are great places like mojo, parish trust, cc rider, mini bar, candy bar, fly, 821, everlasting tattoo and on and on.
though i would love nothing more than to allow everyone to come in and it be all ages, it is the policy of the independent that they are 21 and over. but for me the weight of impacting the local economy was more important. it is tough to find a venue thats a good fit for us and lets me keep the prices reasonable for vendors so i can truly keep it indie. if i want to charge $200- for a space i can have it a slew of all ages venues, but its a tough process that i put a lot of time, negotiation and work into. i assure you, i tried and have always made having all ages and kid friendly events a priority- along with always having alcohol, music and rad vendors. so, please be patient…come our next show, june 21st- we are back at thee parkside, where the we welcome all ages, dogs, babies, parrots, your pet snake, anyone and anything! its important to me to make it available to all, but i made a decision to impact my community this winter- scale back the shows so they are smaller and have them here in this hood. i apologize for those that couldnt come to our 3 shows over the winter and spring at the indie. please hang in there and check us out all summer long where we will be ALL AGES!
i can’t make everyone happy, but i do try! see you all in june and for those of you 21 and over, see you sunday!
kelly
