THE APPLICATION

The Urban Country Fair: a fair for (the) growing community
sponsored by Truth Serum and Somerville Arts Council.
Event Date: Sunday September 23, 2007 (raindate: September 30)
Time: 3-7pm (load-in/load-out times will be provided if you become a vendor)
Location: Union Square, Somerville (outdoors)

Vendor Fee: $25
Booth Size: 10' x 10' (you must bring your own canopy, tables, chairs, etc)

About the ArtsUnion Marketplace Series:
The Somerville Arts Council's ArtsUnion project is designed to bolster economic activity in Union Square through cultural programming. In past years, ArtsUnion ran crafts markets held in conjunction with the weekly Farmers' Markets. For 2007, ArtsUnion has changed the way the markets are organized. Instead of a weekly craft market, there are signature markets, which collectively will be called the ArtsUnion Marketplace. To learn more about the other markets, go to our website or call 617.625.6600 (x2985). The goals of the ArtsUnion Market Place series include: increasing the visibility of Somerville's strong local artist population; increasing economic activity for participating vendors and the area in general; and cultivating the square's artsy, diverse and unique ambiance.

Truth Serum's Urban Country Fair will combine Exhibitors, Craft and Art Sellers, Boston SkillShare workshops and old time countrified musical entertainment. Country Fairs are about sharing knowledge with neighbors while showing off your best efforts and maybe making some money while having fun. Truth Serum's Urban Country Fair will celebrate the same!

We are looking for… Crafters, Artists and Home Growers who want to sell their wares:
-Crafts and Arts that are based around recycled materials and/or all natural materials.
-Items with natural, farming, growth, etc themes. (we're being pretty loose here)
-Individual people/sellers with potted plants and herbs
-Potters who make pots for home gardens etc
-Artistic bird house/bird feeder designers/builders
-Yarn spinners, knitters etc.
-People who have a craft to sell who can do demos at their table of their craft.
-Beekeepers with bee products
-These are just suggestions. We've got plenty of room, so it should be easy to convince us you should be involved.
-you get the idea…

Everyone is welcome. While we'd like your work to fit the Urban Country Fair theme, and we want to support Somerville artists / residents, we still have plenty of room for folks and want a diverse selection of vendors/artists/exhibitors. Our goal is 25 plus vendors to create a successful, fun, entertaining, educational and great tasting market!
Ready to apply? Deadline is ROLLING, BUT DO IT SOON SO WE CAN PLAN, THANK YOU!
Please send an email to urbancountryfair(at)truthserum.org with the subject line: Urban Country Fair Artist/Crafter Application.
In the body of an email, copy and paste the items listed below and fill in your information:
1. Name and business name
2. Phone # and email address
3. Description of what you make/create/grow/can teach:
4. Provide images of your work. Either jpgs (please, no huge files) or an URL for your website.
5. Describe how you would help get the word out about Urban Country Fair
6. Somerville Resident? Yes? No?
7. Anything else you'd like to share.

We look forward to hearing from you! Please email us at info (at) truthserum.org with any questions! And please feel free to forward this call for participants to anyone you think would be interested in participating.