Whether or not it’s a photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge from a never-before-seen angle, a hand-crafted burnished clay pot or a Peruvian alpaca scarf, craft festivals all around the Bay Space provide wares starting from the whimsical to the helpful—and at all times unique.
The Bay Space has among the nation’s finest craft festivals, and along with discovering one-of-a-kind, handcrafted gadgets, buyers can count on to be regaled by such amusements as carolers, Santa visits, meals, DJs and even snow.
This 12 months, distributors and venues are pulling out all of the stops to please. (One venue even presents cuddle time with kittens, a positive remedy for vacation stress.) Right here’s our information to holiday-focused Bay Space craft festivals, grouped by metropolis.
SAN FRANCISCO
Fort Mason Vacation Evening Market 2024
Consumers can count on over 100 artist and designer craft retailers, 10 meals vehicles and Santa Claus, together with vacation ornament-making workshops and stay music by performers together with Lavay Smith & Her Pink Scorching Skillet Lickers. (Organizers additionally promise “fresh-falling snow on the waterfront,” which sounds particularly intriguing.) Items on sale embody each positive artwork and purposeful gadgets.
4 to 9 p.m. Dec. 13. Fort Mason Middle, 2 Marina Blvd., S.F. Free admission. fortmason.org/occasion/fort-mason-holiday-night-market-2024.
KQED Vacation Evening Market
Tasty and tasteful goodies from dumpling cooks, chocolatiers, meals creators, chili oil makers, candle artisans, painters, textile artists and bakers can be on show, and attendees can even get a have a look at KQED headquarters, the place the occasion is going down. The admission payment features a meals or drink coupon.
5 p.m. Dec. 13. KQED Headquarters 2601 Mariposa St., S.F. Admission $11.50. kqed.org/occasion/4657.
Artistic endeavors by San Francisco artist Kate Razo can be at 1890 Bryant Avenue Studios Festive Vacation Present 2024. (Kate Razo through Bay Metropolis Information.)
1890 Bryant Avenue Studios Festive Vacation Present 2024
This honest provides guests an opportunity to see artists of their studios up entrance, shut and private, an particularly good alternative for many who missed this 12 months’s Open Studios occasion. Forty artists at 1890 Bryant Avenue Studios are exhibiting gadgets together with prints, positive artwork, ceramics, jewellery and stationery.
Midday to five p.m. Dec. 14-15. 1890 Bryant St.., S.F. Free admission. 1890bryant.com.
San Francisco Arts Fee 2024 Vacation Artwork Vendor Market
This pop-up market within the foyer of the Conflict Memorial Veterans Constructing guarantees to have a cornucopia of first-rate treasures. Guitarist Lisa Liu will carry out at midday.
11 a.m. to five p.m. Dec. 18. Conflict Memorial Veterans Constructing, 401 Van Ness, S.F. Free admission. sfartscommission.org/calendar/2024-holiday-art-vendor-market.
BERKELEY
Mexico By Hand twentieth Anniversary Celebration Exhibit & Sale
Mexico By Hand’s crafts and people artwork come from the state of Michoacán, house to over 100,000 artesanos (craftspeople) who create their works completely by hand out of clay, wooden, fiber and steel. For the sensible, there’s things like hand-decorated serving bowls and fabric napkins in vivid blues, golds and oranges. For the ornamental, there’s a wide range of wares together with sculpture and silver earrings.
forty first Annual Telegraph Avenue Vacation Avenue Honest
11 a.m. to six p.m. Dec. 14-15 and Dec. 21-24. Telegraph Avenue between Bancroft Approach and Haste Avenue, Berkeley. Free admission. telegraphfair.com.
Berkeley Natural Middle Winter Wellness & Craft Honest
For these into self-care, this quintessentially Berkeley honest must be simply the factor. The artisans readily available are promoting handcrafted natural merchandise like teas, salves, lotions, flower essences, elixirs, broth and physique butter, in addition to beaded earrings and flower crafts. There may also be a couple of practitioners providing companies similar to tarot readings, vitality readings, and physique work. They’ll serve complimentary teas, refreshments and soup.
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 16. 1250 Addison St., Berkeley. Free admission. berkeleyherbalcenter.org/product/winter-wellness-craft-fair.
Malcolm X Craft Honest
Vivid orange and blue clay masks impressed by Kathakali, a style of Indian classical dance, macrame plant holders (Nineteen Seventies rule!) and Siamese preventing fish are among the uncommon picks at this honest, all made by hand (nicely, besides the fish). Twenty native artisans and about 15 scholar distributors from Malcolm X Elementary College are exhibiting their wares. A refrain efficiency, a bake sale and a present wrap desk are additionally on faucet.
11 a.m. to five p.m. Dec. 14. Malcolm X Elementary College, 1731 Prince St., Berkeley. Free admission. malcolmxelementary.org/craftfair.
SAN JOSE
SJMADE Winter Surprise Market
The occasion options over 250 makers, artists, designers, bakers and small companies, one of many largest within the Bay Space. And right here’s its hidden superpower: Admission is free, however for $15, attendees can spend quarter-hour cuddling with kittens. Mini Cat City, a nonprofit 501(c)-3 rescue group, is bringing about 30 adoptable kittens.
11 a.m. to six p.m. Dec. 14-15. South Corridor, 435 S Market St., San Jose. Free admission. sanjosemade.com/pages/winter-wonder-market-2024.
SANTA ROSA
Third Annual So-ho-ho Vacation Market
This occasion on the Sonoma County Fairgrounds takes place 4 days earlier than Christmas, a boon for procrastinators. Greater than 150 artisans can be exhibiting, the group Platform Dwell will play covers of Christmas hits, meals distributors will ply their wares and Santa Claus will make an look. Observe: Admission is free, however there’s a $10 payment to park on the fairground.
11 a.m. to five p.m. Dec. 21. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Street, Santa Rosa. Free admission. thesocomarket.com.
