2009 - CELEBRATING THE 16th ANNUAL WOMEN'S WINTER FAIRE

This popular annual Women's Winter Faire is not your typical crafts fair. Housed in a beautiful old heritage building with large columns and high ceiling, the Women's Winter Faire has gained a solid reputation over the past 15 years for the quality, beauty, and uniqueness of gifts and products for sale, made by many of BC's gifted women artisans, artists and craftswomen from Vancouver, the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and BC's interior.

The Faire has a bustling village market atmosphere, where friends meet, browse and shop, and stop at the in-house cafe for coffee and a delicious paninni or desserts to die for. It's the place to be the last weekend of November, and the weekend before Christmas. New and returning vendors each weekend! Look for eco-friendly wares, recycled materials made into one-of-a kind pieces of jewelery and clothing. Shop locally! Support BC women artisans! See you at the Faire!!

A list of participating vendors and their websites will be posted here nearer to the Faire date(s).

WHERE:
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St @ 15th Ave. Vancouver

WHEN
Saturday and Sunday, 11 am to 6 pm
November 28 & 29, 2009
December 19 & 20, 2000
Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St @ E. 15th Ave

NEW ARTISANS EACH WEEKEND!!

Do you want to be a vendor at the 16th Faire? Download and complete the application form. Mail completed application with cheque and a #10 self-addressed stamped envelope (4”x9”) to: Sounds & Furies, PO BOX 21510, 1424 Commercial Dr, Vancouver V5L 5G2.

At the Faire you can expect to find:

* Quality crafts and artwork

*One-of-a-kind items

*A wide range of gifts and prices

*Over 500 visitors daily

*An in-house cafe serving scrumptious food -- a haven for weary shoppers.

*A Social Event that offers more than shopping -- but that too!
Friendly vendors and staff

The annual Women's Winter Faire is all about bringing communities and friends together to celebrate and support women's creativity, art, businesses.

DOOR DONATION:

A door donation of $3-5 each year raises funds to help support the work of many worthwhile organizations.
From 1994 to 2008 over $63,000 has been raised which has assisted the following organization:

• A Lovin Spoonful
• AIDS Vancouver
• Childhaven.ca
• Crabtree Corner Children's Program
• Chrysalis Recovery Homes for Women
• A Vancouver Women's Chorus
• Elizabeth Fry Society
• Not So Strictly Ballroom, Vancouver's only Lesbian and Gay Dance Organization
• L.E.G.I.T. (The Lesbian and Gay Immigration Task Force)
• Lookout Emergency Aid Society
• Nanaimo Foodshare
• Neil Falkner Outward Bound Memorial Scholarship
• Out on Screen
• The Positive Women's Network
• Sisters in Sync-Vancouver's 1st lesbian dragonboat team
• Vancouver Folk Music Festival
• Vancouver Women's Health Collective
• Team Vancouver Athletic Society-the umbrella organization for gay sports teams competing in the Quadrennial Gay Games

Quotes from Happy Participating Craftswomen and Fairegoers!

"Not like any other Faire I've been to; it's my first but not last visit!"

"This is my favorite event each year; I wouldn't miss it"

"I do 23 shows a year but this was one of the best orgainzed, relaxed and well attended and friendly people willing to help each other. I WILL DO BOTH SHOWS NEXT YEAR." Maria

"I loved vendoring this craft market and knowing it is also contributing to a worthy organization is great.
I found the quality of vendors to be the best I had seen... there was a real sense of camaraderie amongst the vendors and staff.
My jewellery did really well and I got such positive feedback from people that inspired and encouraged me. Thank you." Irit Sorokin