When: Saturday, March 22nd | 10am-4pm
Where: 1100 Railroad Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225
Join us Saturday, March 22nd, for our much-anticipated 3rd annual spring market at the charming Depot Market Square in the heart of downtown Bellingham! Celebrate the arrival of spring, longer days, and the beauty of the spring equinox with a day full of community and creativity.
We are renting both the building and the outdoor space, so there will be three kinds of booth spaces: indoors, outdoors under the parking shed roofs, and outdoors with your canopy.
Important Dates and Times:
· Applications due: 01/29/2025
· Notification of application status – either accepted, waitlist, or declined: 2/3/2025
· Vending fees due: 2/14/2025
· Vending fees become non-refundable two weeks before market: 3/7/2024
· Market date: March 22, 2025, 10am-4pm
· Load-in times: TBD
· Load-out: Vendors are not permitted to start breaking down before the market closes. Any vendors breaking down early will not be accepted in future markets we host.
Other Important Details:
· Application fee: $10 (This is non-refundable and covers our time to review and curate applications.
· Vending fees:
· 10 x 10 indoors - $125
· 10 x 10 outdoors, canopy required - $100
· 10 x 10 covered, (under the parking shed roofs), no canopy - $100
Your business must be registered in WA and you must have a UBI number and be able to collect your own sales tax.
We are beyond delighted that our little event hosting company has become known for putting on quality markets. Thank you, Bellingham makers, for all the support! But this also means that it is becoming more competitive to get in. We had so many applications for our holiday markets that we split the accepted vendors into two groups and only assigned each vendor to one market, and still had a long waitlist. So please think of your application the way you would think of a job application. You are trying to persuade us with your photos and your answers to the questions why we should select you. We want to see by your photos that your products are high quality and that your booth looks professional and that you have plenty of inventory. We have to make a lot of difficult decisions as we go through our curating process. Just because you participated in one of our previous markets is not a guarantee of acceptance. Our focus is to bring together the highest quality experience for shoppers that we can, gathered from all the amazing talent in our area.
This market is open to handmade makers, artists and artisans. Handmade means that the product was physically created by the seller. Obviously in the process of hand making our items, all of us use some bought supplies and components. But we want to showcase vendors who are pouring their creative energies into what they sell. If you are the designer, but the manufacturing of the product is outsourced to a third party, please let us know.
We believe that having our vendors promote the market is key to bringing the shoppers! Participating vendors are required to promote the market on their social media at least three out of four designated times. We will email you four different times with a graphic and suggested text for you to post that day or the next day. We will do our part too by advertising on local online events calendars, reaching out to news sources, putting up posters and flyers, and contacting our growing list of shoppers who gave us their emails to learn about upcoming markets.
You must be reachable via email. All notifications and reminders will be sent via email from BMM@bellinghammakersmarket.com. When you fill out the application form, please enter an email address that you check regularly. If you miss a deadline because an email went to your spam, junk or gmail's 'promotions' folder, we will assume that you are no longer interested in participating, and will offer your place to a vendor on the waitlist.
The booth photo is a required part of your application. We will not consider your application without a booth photo. We want to see your products beautifully displayed in your canopy, with all your signage. If you haven't created a booth photo before, there are lots of tips online. We will be using this photo to help us understand the quantity and variety of products you sell, and to visualize how it will look in a row of booths. Impress us!
If you have questions about the application, feel free to email us at bmm@bellinghammakersmarket.com.