Downtown Marketplace
Open every Saturday, March through November from 9am until 2pm, the Downtown MarketPlace features fresh homegrown produce and organic items. Fresh bread and eggs are available. Look for fresh cut flowers and native plants. These are our local farmers offering Mother Nature's best. Most of our farmers welcome WIC checks.
In this tranquil setting, celebrated local musicians play their music on stage, authors and poets present readings of their latest books, and regional artists show their arts and fine crafts. Special events bring hands-on art activities for children or sneak previews of upcoming cultural events.
Look forward to a great season continuing all the special events you'd expect and some new features to spice things up a notch.
For Marketplace Information: Allen Thompson, Downtown Events Coordinator
thompsal@earthlink.net
Find Marketplace applications, rules, and guides on our Resources page.
Downtown Marketplace Special Events
March 6: Grand reopening of the Downtown Marketplace 15th season.
March 13: St. Francis Wildlife baby shower for orphaned animals.
March 20: WFSU radio live remote.
March 27: Downtown Marketplace "SPRING FEST": an Avenue of Artists in lovely Bloxham Park across Monroe Street, 9 am 4 pm.
April 10: April is poetry month. Enter our 9th annual Haiku at Hai Noon Poetry Contest win great prizes. Enter all month long. Knott House street swing dance demonstration.
April 17: The Downtown Marketplace 10th annual "ANNUAL ART LOVERS' WEEKEND" over 55 artists from here, near and faraway!
May 8: "Wild Art in the Park", our 6th annual special wildlife event featuring wildlife Artists, live eagles, owls, turtles, elegant snakes and more.
May 15: Second Annual Book Fair, National author speaks and many local authors sign their books
May 22: It's our birthday, this year the Downtown Marketplace celebrates the 15th season.
June 12: Free Flags for the first 50 visitors in honor of Flag Day June 14.
July 3: Register to vote. Pick your party or none at all but make your voice heard. Voter Registration Drive all month long.
July 17: French Market.
August 28: Wear your most outlandish beach shirt and win a prize at our 3rd annual "Beach Shirt Market Bongo" contest. A farewell to Summer and welcome to the fall season.
September 18:
5th Annual "Hello to Some Good Buys" Art Sale
ONCE A YEAR, the Downtown Marketplace Artists place
some of their precious works of art on sale!
October 2:
Beads, Bangles, And Baubles
The Downtown Marketplace presents its 8th annual
Jewelry Show featuring over a dozen quality jewelers!
It's Low Vision Awareness Month
This week, the Division of Blind Services will provide resources and
information on what's new in technology as well as
'what it's really like to live, work, and play as a blind person."
October 9:
Celebrate and Educate with Tallahassee Firefighters
10 am to 12noon
It's Fire Prevention Week- Join our Tallahassee Firefighters for
Breathtaking Demonstrations: Rappelling from fire trucks
Extrication (Jaws of Life) teams at work!
Meet the Hazardous Materials Firefighters, Learn- Fire Extinguishers 101:
Fire Safety Program "Tips for Kids" Free Coloring Books. Pose with
Firefighters!
And most of all, come support and thank our Tallahassee Firefighters for
what they do!
October 16:
Harvest Festival: hundreds of free pumpkins, vegetable carving a Live radio
remote with WFSU
'Fused, Blown, Stained, Mosaic, and Etched"
Welcome to the 10th Annual Art of Glass show, a special feature of the
Downtown Marketplace. A dozen glass artists will be featured among the Artists Along the Avenue.
If you love art, collecting art, or simply meeting the artist behind the
work, you'll love this show.
October 30:
Look Whooooo's at the Marketplace!
Owl a Ween is October 30th with St. Francis Wildlife Live Owls: Meet all
four native owls: screech, barn, barred and great horned owls!
Bring your camera for a unique photo opportunity.
Owl Art: Fine art lithographs of a barred owl at sunrise by acclaimed nature photographer James Valentine, Available for a donation to St. Francis Wildlife. Meet the artist and get yours signed. A unique holiday gift!
November 6:
CLAY, METAL, WOOD:
Special Show featuring local and regional artists: Pottery, Metal smiths and
Wood designs of all kinds.
November 13:
Sidewalk Chalk Art Contest
Downtown MarketPlace 11th Annual 'Art at Your Feet' Sidewalk Chalk Contest.
This Saturday, join us at one of our most popular downtown events 10am -
1pm. All ages. DoubleTree Hotel Sidewalks. Prizes, no entry fee.
November 27:
Photo fest: Fine Art Photography
11th annual Photography show, Featuring local and regional photographers
whose vision is expressed by traditional darkroom techniques and through
digital manipulation-
the Big Bend is home to award-winning photographers whose images will
inspire, calm, and delight you.
From Gulf beaches to canopied roads, spiral staircases of historic sites
to endangered flowers, photography is one of the most versatile art forms.
December 11, 2010 9 am until 4 pm:
"Just One More":
The 15th Annual Holiday Art Festival, Downtown Tallahassee celebrating the
talents of great artists! Located in Ponce de Leon and Bloxham Parks along
Park Avenue and Monroe Street. Ample free parking no admission fee. For more
information call 850-224-3252, Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority.
