We are accepting crafters/applicants for the Craft Bazaar at our 25th Annual Multicultural Children’s Art Fair on Saturday, June 2, 2012 from 1-3 pm. Over 350 families come to this beloved neighborhood festival in the Richmond District in San Francisco. We have ongoing professional and amateur youth and adult performers, hands on arts, games, photo booth, food for sale and a craft bazaar.

Listed below are a few requirements. For complete information and application form click here.
– Deadline for applications: May 3, 2012
– All items must be original work of the artist and not mass-produced. NO imported or buy-sell items
– No food items
– Price of each item must be under $20

Fees
– $25 processing fee (non-refundable)
– Exhibitors are charged 25% of total sales
– $20 fee for electrical access. NOTE: Electrical access is very limited and will be approved on a first come, first serve basis.

Jury Process
– The jury is comprised of various individuals of diverse experience
– Selection process for acceptance into the fair is based on submitted pictures.

More about the organization and the event can be seen on our website: http://www.rdnc.org/home/index.php/art-a-events/art-events.html

One-Of-A-Kind Weekend-Long Festival Celebrates “Cyberpop Overload!” And Showcases The Best In Modern Japanese Film, Anime, Fashion, Music, Art, Retail Design And Popular Culture This August

San Francisco, CA, April 9, 2012 – NEW PEOPLE, a dynamic entertainment destination bringing the latest examples of Japanese popular culture to North American shores, has announced the dates for its 2012 J-Pop Summit Festival. The Festival, now in its fourth year, will be held across San Francisco’s Japantown in association with the Japantown Merchant Association on Saturday, August 25th and Sunday, August 26th.

The theme for 2012 will be “Cyberpop Overload!,” and the all-day, weekend-long event will offer many popular attractions that have made the J-Pop Summit Festival a fun annual gathering for fashion, film, anime, video game, technology and music fans as well as pop culture enthusiasts, Bay Area residents, and tourists visiting the city. More than 55,000 people attended last year’s J-Pop Summit Festival, according to the SFPD, and this year’s Festival is expected to attract even more attendees.

Information about the festival is available at J-pop.com and will feature regular updates. Additional official news alerts over the coming months will detail specific events, attractions, event partners and sponsors as well as Guest of Honor appearances.

Among this year’s most highly anticipated highlights, NEW PEOPLE is partnering with Japan’s Nippon Television Network Corporation (NTV) to present a very special event featuring the EVANGELION series in the U.S. for the first time ever! More information on this attraction will be announced in coming months.

A variety of other pop-inspired attractions including fashion shows, theatrical film premieres,  live art performances, celebrity appearances, and mini-concerts by some of Japan’s hottest bands are planned for the 2012 J-Pop Summit both inside the NEW PEOPLE complex, and also outdoors at the adjacent Peace Plaza. Innovative artists from Japan will join a variety of merchants and food vendors from the Bay Area to offer an array of pop-inspired products and delicacies for sale in open air displays on both sides of Post Street, the main Japantown thoroughfare.

“The J-Pop Summit Festival has become an important part of the cultural fabric of San Francisco and is a unique celebration of Japanese pop culture in all its colorful forms,” says Seiji Horibuchi, the President/CEO of NEW PEOPLE, Inc. and Chairman of the J-Pop Summit Festival Committee. “We’re working closely with a variety of sponsors, partners and the City of San Francisco to prepare a very exciting roster of talent and attractions that will make this year’s Festival the biggest one yet! We look forward to announcing these in coming months.”

NEW PEOPLE opened in 2009 and has become a unique must-see attraction of San Francisco’s cultural landscape. The 20,000 square foot contemporary venue features the latest examples Japanese popular culture expressed though film, art, fashion, and a variety of specialty boutiques and ongoing monthly events. NEW PEOPLE is located at 1746 Post Street in the city’s Japantown.

About NEW PEOPLE, Inc.
 Based in San Francisco, California, NEW PEOPLE, Inc. (www.newpeopleworld.com) offers the latest films, art, fashion and retail brands from Japan through its unique entertainment destination as well as through licensing and distribution of selective Japanese films. NEW PEOPLE Entertainment (www.newpeopleent.com), a film division of NEW PEOPLE, Inc. strives to offer the most entertaining motion pictures straight from the “Kingdom of Pop” for audiences of all ages, especially the manga and anime generation, in North America. Some titles include DEATH NOTE, GANTZ, KAMIKAZE GIRLS, and THE TASTE OF TEA

New Craft Fair event will be held at Church of the Valley in San Ramon from 10:AM to 4:00PM
You’re invited to participate and have a chance to show off your beautiful craftmanship at the event.
For more information please e-mail Helen Lau at hlau04@comcast.net or contact Helen Lau at 408-690-2631.

We have provided this listing on our Blog as a service to our fellow indie crafters and designers. This show is not affiliated to San Francisco Bazaar. BBSF Blog makes no guarantees or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained on this post. Please direct all questions using the contact information as listed on this blog post. DO NOT leave questions here on our blog as they will not be answered by the show organizers. See our Terms of Use section for more information.

Since 1974, The merchants, restaurants, and professionals, as well as the twin cities of Albany and Berkeley CA, have hosted the Solano Avenue Stroll, the east bay’s largest street festival! The Solano Avenue Merchants Association invites you to come and see what makes Solano Avenue such a wonderful place.

Over five hundred vendors, non-profit organizations, food booths and entertainers!

Participants and the event guests visit from everywhere throughout California; as well as neighboring states from Nevada to Maine.

The fun begins at 10 am with the opening of Solano Avenue businesses and Stroll booths and the kick-off is the theme parade with about 100 groups.

After the parade, you can visit one of 50 entertainers, 50 food booths, 150 juried arts and crafters, state of the art mechanical rides, and 150 community non-profit and government organizations, not to mention the unique and popular professional services, restaurants, and shops already here on Solano Avenue.

You will hear the best in local music, dance and other performances and absolutely stunning costumes from all over the globe!

This is a family event! We feature a special area set aside just for kids that offer giant slides, carnival games, clowns, jugglers, stilt walkers, face painters, magicians, and maybe even wizards and elves — come and see for yourselves…

The Green Zone on the east side of Solano Avenue will offer tips about simple changes you can make at your home or business to reduce global warming, displays of green technology — such as solar panels, tank-less water heaters — composting techniques, and environmental experts ready to answer your questions about what you can do to check climate change. We also have the “stage door” with over a dozen local performance/theater groups, a pet’s area, as well as a school/youth resource area

Applications at:http://www.solanoavenueassn.org/strol.htm

We have provided this listing on our Blog as a service to our fellow indie crafters and designers. This show is not affiliated to San Francisco Bazaar. BBSF Blog makes no guarantees or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained on this post. Please direct all questions using the contact information as listed on this blog post. DO NOT leave questions here on our blog as they will not be answered by the show organizers. See our Terms of Use section for more information.

The Pour House is easily San Francisco’s best kept secret. Our goals are to share and spread wine appreciation while putting a cork in wine snobbery.

They are looking for artists who would like to show/sell their art on Thursdays from 4-8pm. This is a great opportunity to get your work seen & make great contacts with the Polk St Art Community.

Also any independent market sort of folks who would like to vend on site these Thursdays – we’re having mini trunk shows each week as well. It’s our way to support the local arts & bring great art, fashion & crafts together.

Poor House is located at 1327 Polk st. For more info please send us an email or stop on by.

We have provided this listing on our Blog as a service to our fellow indie crafters and designers. This show is not affiliated to San Francisco Bazaar. BBSF Blog makes no guarantees or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained on this post. Please direct all questions using the contact information as listed on this blog post. DO NOT leave questions here on our blog as they will not be answered by the show organizers. See our Terms of Use section for more information.

Reply to: mnhvx-2929842830@comm.craigslist.org

The 13th annual How Weird Street Faire is on May 13th from Noon to 8pm, and will have 13 stages of music and performances spread throughout 13 city blocks.

This year features dance music stages by Symbiosis, Raindance, Sunset Music, Forward SF, Opel, Opulent Temple, Muti Music, Temple Nightclub, Groove Garden, Enchanted Forest, SWAG, Happy Camp, Red Marines, Pulse, Pink Mammoth, SF House, Nu Funk Boutique, and more.

Plus vendors from around the world, an entire alley of live and exhibited art, nonprofits to educate and inspire, food and drinks, and thousands of people in colorful costumes coming together to celebrate our collective destiny and this significant time.

How Weird is centered at Howard and 2nd Streets, in the heart of San Francisco’s SoMa district. The faire takes place on Howard Street between New Montgomery and 1st Street, and on 2nd Street between Mission and Folsom. Buses, trains, MUNI, and BART all come within a short walk to the faire. Plus there is free bike parking at New Montgomery and Howard, at the Main Entrance.

Vendor applications:
http://www.howweird.org/docs/HowWeird2012-vendor-application.pdf

We have provided this listing on our Blog as a service to our fellow indie crafters and designers. This show is not affiliated to San Francisco Bazaar. BBSF Blog makes no guarantees or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained on this post. Please direct all questions using the contact information as listed on this blog post. DO NOT leave questions here on our blog as they will not be answered by the show organizers. See our Terms of Use section for more information.

The annual Corte Madera/Larkspur Fourth of July Parade and Celebration is one of the biggest events on the Fourth of July in Marin. In it’s 47th year, the event draws over 10,000 people is regarded to be one of Marin’s finest parades.

The parade begins at 10:30 at Redwood High School (395 Doherty Drive, Larkspur) and ends at Corte Madera’s Town Center where festivities will continue until 5pm.

Festival in the Park
The celebration immediately following the parade at Corte Madera Town Park will feature about 70 arts and crafts vendors, food vendors, including the famous hamburger booth, plus ice cream, snow-cones and more. There will be entertainment featuring a great band on the main stage. In the Children’s Area there will be entertainment, performing birds, carnival games, and face-painting.

For an application to sell crafts call:
415-924-0441

We have provided this listing on our Blog as a service to our fellow indie crafters and designers. This show is not affiliated to San Francisco Bazaar. BBSF Blog makes no guarantees or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained on this post. Please direct all questions using the contact information as listed on this blog post. DO NOT leave questions here on our blog as they will not be answered by the show organizers. See our Terms of Use section for more information.

Indie mart is back, after winter hibernation. SF’s only truly local indie design, DIY and music party hits for 3 Summer & Fall Shows at Thee Parkside and all down Wisconsin Street. All the things you love are back again: awesome vendors, all day bands, cheap beers, stiff drinks, photobooth to get wild in, Underground food vendors, food trucks, Parkside’s tasty BBQ and tots, all the eye candy, fun and rad shopping you can imagine. Vendors include DIYers, makers, designers, screenprinters, illustrators, artists, typographers, vintage, a few carpenters, foodies and local stores. Save the date for all our shows and applications are open for vendors.

• SUNDAY JUNE 10TH, 12-7PM
• SUNDAY AUGUST 19TH, 12-7PM
• SUNDAY OCTOBER 21ST, 12-7PM 

We have provided this listing on our Blog as a service to our fellow indie crafters and designers. This show is not affiliated to San Francisco Bazaar. BBSF Blog makes no guarantees or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained on this post. Please direct all questions using the contact information as listed on this blog post. DO NOT leave questions here on our blog as they will not be answered by the show organizers. See our Terms of Use section for more information.