We had a wonderful weekend celebrating our 75th market event in Melbourne on the 13th – 15th of October. 2023 marked our 15th year in business, and it felt extra special to celebrate the milestone surrounded by our creative community at the Royal Exhibition Building. We loved meeting over 50 new makers, catching up with our regular stallholders and sharing the small business love with you all!

Discover the full album of photos taken by our Photographer, Samee Lapham on our Facebook page here. Don’t forget to tag your stall and your mates if you were snapped! Stallholders looking to license these images for commercial use, please contact Samee here.

As always, we couldn’t have pulled it off without a big bunch of clever humans – both behind the scenes & on the ground! So here goes our Melbourne THANK YOU shout-outs!

• Melbourne stallholders: We are so lucky to work with our stallholder community, who always inspire, delight and motivate us to keep doing what we do. We LOVE making markets because of YOU!
• Venue: To the team at The Royal Exhibition Building – Thank you for supporting our events and helping us make market magic!
• Furniture: Dann Event Hire, thank you for providing the stand-out furniture that made our glorious decor pop!
• Indigenous Program: We were stoked to welcome Gardening On Country to our lineup at this event, and we’re so excited to see what the future holds for your innovative small business.
• Media Partner: It’s always a joy to have our friends from Peppermint Magazine on site, sharing their purpose with our creative community!
• Presenting Partner: Thank you to our seasonal partner Squarespace. It’s been an epic brand alignment, and we’ve loved having you onboard for our spring and summer markets. For all the stallholders wanting to savvy up their online stores, we highly recommend Squarespace!
• Eats & Drinks: Our foodies kept us all fed with their delicious eats and treats; we were spoiled for choice! A huge thanks also goes to the teams at Allpress and Cocobella for sharing so many of your products with our visitors on the house!
• Neighbourhood Bars: Listo Margarita Bar, Minimum Wines and Molly Rose Brewing – Thanks for keeping the good vibes flowing!
• Recycling: Our coffee recycling partner, Reground, diverted over 100 kg of ground coffee from landfills and into local gardens to create healthy soil and grow nutritious food. Over 100kg of textile waste was recycled by the crews at Nala and Upparel – Such awesome stuff!
• Workshops: ClassBento and See Make Play – Thanks for encouraging creativity and play! Thanks also to ClassBento for your generous $200 workshop prize for market-goers!
• DJs: Yeo, DJ Spankpants and Lychee Dream – The vibes were immaculate!
• Photographer: Samee Lapham – Nobody captures the essence and vibe of our events like you do!
• Support Crew: The awesome team of Sidekickers, cleaners, security and support staff who help make things run smoothly behind the scenes.
• Finders Keepers: Finally, to our small but wonderfully fabulous team, high fives and big hugs all-round. That’s another huge event and milestone under your belts. Well done!
  

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