TONIGHT we launch the Finders Keepers Melbourne Spring / Summer 2015 Market, now over a whopping THREE days at The Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton!
You can enjoy the market and all it has to offer from 6pm Friday (tonight) until 10pm, continuing on Saturday from 10am until 6pm and Sunday from 10am until 4pm. Yes that’s right! We are hosting the markets over three massive days again after the huge response to our AW15 market. Thank you Melbourne!
With our new Sunday opening times, you can fill your entire weekend with market delights! As always we’ll have our impressive line-up of independent art and design stalls, tasty food trucks, treats from our artisan food stalls and sweet tunes from our much-loved live music stage.
All this for just $2 entry (and kids under 12 are completely free)! Find your favourite designers by downloading our stall site map ahead of time here [Download pdf size 392kb]. Plan your route to the super-sized, World Heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton and find all the information you need over here on our special Melbourne markets page.
DON’T FORGET – we have 2 entrance points to this event, skip the queues on the Nicholson Street Entrance and head through our Rathdowne Street Entrance!
Read on for more details about all of the awesome stuff you can enjoy this weekend.
Design Stall Highlights:
Melbourne SS15 Market Design Highlights L:R
Aacute, Naomi Murrell, Write To Me, Dear Mabel Handmade
Julie White, Made by Flint, Printspace, HEW Clothing
Shabana Jacobson Jewellery, One Hectare, Eco Peko, DoBo Bags
For our full line-up of sellers, see the Melbourne SS15 Directory
Feature Stalls:
Frankie Magazine
frankie magazine is a bi-monthly publication that is cool but approachable, fresh, opinionated, sometimes uncouth and always individual. It’s a unique publication that’s captured the hearts and minds of a devoted audience, niche in style with wide appeal. It’s for music, fashion,design, art, craft, photography, travel, life and laughs.
frankie magazine returns for the Finders Keepers Melbourne SS15 market with all kinds of tidbits to pop under the Christmas tree. There’ll be brand new 2016 diaries and calendars, vintage-inspired stocking stuffers, plus, if you subscribe or resubscribe to frankie magazine at their stall, you’ll receive a frankie goodie bag. Woohoo! If that’s all a bit too far away, you can pop by their online store now.
frankie.com.au
Angus & Celeste
Angus & Celeste are very excited to be heading out and about next week to the Finders Keepers Melbourne! Carve out some time in your busy Grand Final weekend festivities to come and say hello. Known for our classic hanging planters, plant pots and vases, this Finders Keepers we will also be giving you a sneak peek at some of our new products, that are due for release in November. We will also be saying goodbye to some of our back catalogue designs, so there could be some bargains- you never know your luck! Welcoming the onset of spring, the store will be alive with colours, plants and pots, sure to inspire the green thumb in everyone. The Finders Keepers is sure to be an awesome weekend out!
angusandceleste.com
Bespoke Letterpress
Bespoke Letterpress is traveling from Sydney to Melbourne Finders Keepers with a great big jumbo stall full of letterpress loveliness! We print the beautifully old fashioned way using lush 100% cotton papers, all hand printed on our family of big old printing presses. We will have all of our stationery favourites, as well as lots of new goodies – including new foil printed stationery, hand dyed silk ribbon and our brand new collection of double sided gift wrap fresh off the press!
We are also excited to be launching our 2015 Christmas range – all handprinted with stunning letterpress and foil, it is pretty spectacular, and we can’t wait to show this range for the first time! Make sure you pop by, caress our lovely letterpress, and say hi to this bunch of paper obsessed printing nerds!
bespokepress.com.au
Food and Drink:
This season, we are excited to announce some new food and drink offerings, including a water stall by the wonderful folk at CAPI, and a second coffee option by Melbourne locals, Seven Seeds Coffee Roasters . We will also have our fantastic selection of Food Stalls, and Food Trucks, who will have a plethora of tasty delights. We are getting hungry just thinking about it! Visit our announcement post for the full line-up.
Music Set Times:
We have an impressive set of talented musicians to entertain you while you shop, eat and relax at our market this weekend. Find the music set times below and discover more about on our skilful musicians here.
Friday 2nd October
6 – 6.30pm: Fabadelica (DJ)
6.30 – 7.15pm: Paul McManus
7.30 – 8.15pm: The Thin White Ukes
8.45 – 9.30pm: Captain Apple
9.30pm – End: Fabadelica (DJ)
Saturday 3rd October
10 – 11.30am Pastizzi (DJ)
11.30 – 12.15pm: Floyd Thursby
12.45 – 1.30pm: Aluka
2 – 2.45pm: Ayawatamaya
3.15 – 4.15pm: Lanks
4.30 – 5.15pm: Danika Smith Band
5.15 – 5.45pm Pastizzi (DJ)
Sunday 4th October
10am – 12pm: Pat Monaghan (DJ)
12 – 12.45pm: Early Music
1.15 – 2pm: Ayleen O’Hanlon
2.30 – 3.15pm: Forest Falls
3.15pm – 3.45pm: Pat Monaghan (DJ)
Social Media:
Don’t forget you can follow along all the action on our social media pages. We have our Facebook Event here (invite your friends!) as well as our Facebook page. We will be posting live updates from the market all weekend on our Instagram page and we’d love you to do the same. Use the hashtags #melbournefinderskeepers and #thefinderskeepers to join in!