Our Next Event!
August 19th and 20th, 2008 - 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Montgomery Park
2701 NW Vaughn Street
Portland, OR 97210
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
We've got our 2008 holiday dates scheduled and will post more information about each show as it's ready:
- Tuesday, December 2nd - Handmade NW Downtown Holiday Artisans Fair at The World Trade Center!
- Sunday, December 7th - Handmade NW Formal Holiday Artisans Fair at Chelsea Ballroom!
- Saturday, December 20th - Handmade NW Farmers Market Holiday Artisans Fair at The PSU Ballroom!
- Sunday, December 21st - Handmade NW Solstice Holiday Artisans Fair at The Bossanova!
Our focus is grounded in Cooperative* concepts. For the ARTISTS, by the ARTISTS! We are a community of local crafters, artisans and artists who focus on promoting unique handcrafted items which you can purchase directly from their creators.
* A cooperative is defined by the International Co-operative Alliance's Statement on the Co-operative Identity as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise. A cooperative may also be defined as a business owned and controlled equally by the people who use its services or who work at it. Cooperatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy and equality. In the tradition of their founders, cooperative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others. Such legal entities have a range of unique social characteristics. Membership is open, meaning that anyone who satisfies certain non-discriminatory conditions may join. Economic benefits are distributed proportionally according to each member's level of economic interest in the cooperative, for instance by a dividend on sales or purchases.
~From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia