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Celebrate Dekalb Market’s Spring Opening: This Weekend!!

in Artists, Chefs, Dekalb Market, Events, Farmers, Makers

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Dekalb Market Spring Weekender
APRIL 7 & 8 // 10AM-6PM
138 Willoughby Street
Brooklyn NY 11201

  • Beer & wine garden featuring Mimosa Morning with $1 mimosas til 2pm, Prosecco & local craft beers
  • Easter egg hunt at noon both days for kids and adults including a lucky golden prize egg!
  • Petting Zoo from 11am-2pm
  • Curated flower and garden market
  • Free butterfly & fairy face painting
  • Classes & workshops for adults and children centered around cooking, farming, gardening, and crafting offered by Family Cooks
  • Textile Arts Center weaving and natural dying workshop
  • Rooftop Farms offer their expertise on alternative urban farming

SATURDAY AT 3PM!
MICHAEL ARENELLA & HIS DREAMLAND ORCHESTRA!
(Full orchestra!)

The world’s premier Jazz-Age dance orchestra, steeped in the hot-dance band tradition of the 1920s and early 1930s. Their size ranges from a full dance orchestra to smaller incarnations. They play their “Hot-and-Sweet” music anywhere that fine and eclectic tastes meet.

SUNDAY AT 3PM!
NAOMI SHELTON & THE GOSPEL QUEENS!

Daptone Record’s Naomi Shelton is an unbeatable James Brown-shimmying, sequin-wearing, soul-singing powerhouse! Backed by her fantastic Gospel Queens and band, her performance is not to be missed!

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SAVE THE DATE: Dekalb Market’s new TWILIGHT MARKET begins on 4.28.2012!

NY Daily News | NYC Holiday Market and Fairs

in Holiday Markets, Makers, Press, Urban Space

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We agree with the New York Daily News that the place to find one of a kind gifts this season is in the local holiday markets of New York City. We at Urban Space know nothing says holiday shopping to New Yorkers more than strolling through the outdoor markets, hot cider in hand, checking out the local artist fare. Read on for more details about our markets and others in the NY Metro Area this season.

You see them take shape in sites from Grand Central Terminal to vacant lots around town, a Christmas vision of sugar plums and completed shopping lists. Makeshift winter villages — most of which pop up around the city just once a year for a couple of weeks — are full of one-of-a-kind gifts and delicious winter fare that could actually make your holiday shopping fun again. Here are a dozen places to explore, but as you dash around this week, be aware: Wherever two or more vendors are gathered, there is holiday spirit for free and, perhaps, that perfect present waiting.

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EXOT-ic Pilgrimage

in Holiday Markets, Makers

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Nemo and Julio of EXOT are bringing it once again to the Union Square Holiday Market. They carry a selection of beautiful scarves at different price points made from materials from exotic locales. Visit exottreasures.com to read an excerpt from R. Nemo Hill’s book, Pilgrim’s Feather.

  • Arcana Knitted Silk Shawls
  • $98 each
  • Available in Sun & Moon, King and Wind Prints
  • Hand-Loomed and Hand-Printed in Nepal

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