15th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Festival
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Monona Terrace, Madison
9am to 4pm
Join us for our 15th annual event. We have new vendors this year and live music. Our repeat vendors have been buying new Fair Trade products to show you this year. We have both global and local products.
Help us spread the word! Click for PDF flyers, both
letter-size
and
4-up to print on letter and cut apart.
Special thanks to Sara Swartzendruber for designing our flyers this year!
You can also copy or save the JPG to the right and post on your web site or email to friends and family.
You can also link/attend the
2011 event page on Facebook.
If you like our general page, you can get event reminders in future years. We'll also be putting images and flyers on Facebook and highlighting new vendors. Check it out!
Scroll down past the vendor list to see our
2011 Press Release.
If you are interested in being a vendor in 2012, email festival [at] calamadison [dot] org.
List of vendors, and the source of their products:
Adonis Musati Project, South Africa.
Adventure Yarns, Tajikistan, Central Asia.
African Youth Outreach, Ingwavuma, South Africa.
Amahoro Handcrafts, Rwanda.
BaaBaa Shop LLC , Wisconsin.
Bali and Soul, Indonesia.
Bellabirds of Hope, Guatemala.
Candy Bagz, Taxco, Mexico.
Chiripa: Artisan Crafts of the Americas, Mexico.
Cloudforest Initiatives, Mexico and Guatemala.
Dawa Phuntsok, Nepal.
Doers, Afghanistan.
Downtown Designs, Kenya and other countries.
Durst Lahti Global (new in 2011), Swaziland, East Africa, Nepal.
Earth Delights, Kathmandu, Nepal
East Timor Action Network, East Timor
Equal Exchange, global.
Faces of Siberia, Siberia.
Fair Earth, East Africa.
Family Farm Defenders, Wisconsin.
Gatumi Women's Group, Kenya.
Glad Tidings Holy Land Designs, Amman, Jordan.
Global Reflections, Mexico and Guatemala.
GREENOLA Fair Trade, global.
Heart of the Sky Fair Trade, Guatemala.
Hmong Pandau, Hmong handcrafts handmade in Madison, WI.
Hope United, Kenya, Africa.
Jinja Jewelry, Uganda, Africa
Just Coffee Co-op, global.
Komite de Femme de Artisan de Thiotte, Haiti.
Koru Street (new in 2011), India and Spain.
Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture, Wisconsin.
Madison Arcatao Sister City Project, Chalatenango, El Salvador
Madison Infoshop, Madison.
Madison Rafah Sister City Project, Rafah, Palestine, West Bank and Gaza.
Madison Area Peace Coalition, Wisconsin.
Malia Designs, Cambodia.
Mata Traders, India and Nepal.
Maya Essence, Guatemala
Mayaworks (new in 2011), Guatemala.
Minga Fair Trade Imports, Ecuador and Peru.
Nature's Bakery, Madison.
Playgrounds for Palestine, Palestine.
Queen of Peace Sister Parish, Chiapas, Mexico
Rainbow Bookstore, global.
Rainbow Fleece, Wisconsin
Rhumy Wara, Salasaca.
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, Madison.
Scotch Hill Farm, Wisconsin.
SERRV, global.
SlaveFree Madison, Madison.
Tanzania Development Support (new in 2011), Tanzania.
Terra Experience, Guatemala.
Trails to Bridges, global.
Turkish Tulip Imports (new 2011), Istanbul, Turkey.
Village Health Project, Uganda
Working Capital for Community Needs, Nicaragua.
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Wisconsin
WORT Community Radio, Wisconsin.
For immediate release
Madison Marks 15 Years of Fair Trade
Holiday Shopping Event Brings Together Socially Conscious Shoppers, International Solidarity Groups and Local Producers
Madison - The largest fair trade festival in the Midwest will return to Monona Terrace on Saturday, December 3, from 9 am to 4 pm. The event is free and open to the public. This year marks the fifteenth annual Fair Trade Holiday Festival, sponsored by Community Action on Latin America. Its success is testament to Madison's leading role in the fair trade movement.
In 1997, the then-"Alternative Holiday Fair" was a small but lively event at the Pres House on the UW campus. Just outside, student activists engaged in street theater calling attention to one of the issues the fair was founded to address -- holiday toys made in sweatshops.
Over the years, the Fair Trade Holiday Festival has added dozens of vendors and drawn so many shoppers that it's had to move venues twice. This year's festival will feature more than 50 vendors, offering unique goods from countries around the world, as well as Wisconsin-grown and crafted products.
A complete vendor list can be found online at www.calamadison.org. Perennial festival favorites, including Afghan rugs, Palestinian olive oil, Nicaraguan pottery and Wisconsin cheese from family farms, will be available. Many goods are only available at the festival, as they are sourced by small groups or individuals with no retail presence.
In addition to gifts ranging from jewelry to tapestries, from games to clothing, festival vendors also offer shoppers information about where and how these items were produced. This exemplifies fair trade, by educating consumers and connecting them with producers in a way that honors and fairly compensates their skills and efforts.
Fair Trade Holiday Festival attendees can enjoy an entire day of socially conscious shopping, by visiting the Dane County Winter Farmers Market, also at Monona Terrace, in the morning.
For more information, or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Carol Bracewell
festival (at) calamadison (dot) org