Saturday, November 19, 2011 • 10 am-5pm
Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis

Lake St. & Chicago. Ave. • FREE Event

Vendors & Media

If you are interested in participating in the 2012 Green Gifts Fair, please contact Heidi at heidi@doitgreen.org or call 763-221-8222. The 2011 fair is full and we are no longer accepting vendors.

• PAY for your Green Gifts Fair booth (via Paypal).
• Green Gifts Fair VENDOR APPLICATION: Download Word Format • PDF Format
• Green Gifts Fair PROGRAM ADVERTISING APPLICATION: Download Word Format • PDF Format
• Access the MEDIA KIT, including logos and collateral materials.

Do It Green! Minnesota offers our annual Green Gifts Fair right before Thanksgiving. The event is meant to introduce green gift options and low impact ideas to celebrate the holidays from Thanksgiving to Christmas to Hanukkah to Kwanzaa to Winter Solstice, New Year's and everything in between! Come begin your holiday celebrations with us on November 19th!

• SHOP 70+ local retailers and artists for green, recycled, fair trade and organic gifts. Visit the full list of vendors here. 
• LEARN about green holiday decorating, wrapping, food & party ideas, and homemade gifts.
• EAT lunch or dinner at many of the restaurants at the market and sample low carbon holiday foods with local chef demos.
• CELEBRATE the new 2012 Do It Green! Magazine themed The Ultimate Toolkit for Sustainable Living (great gift idea!).
• ATTEND the eco fashion show, low carbon food cook off, art and cooking demos, and listen to local musicians on our main stage.
• REDUCE bring your own cloth shopping bags, reusable coffee mug for $1.50 coffee at Mapps Coffee & Tea in the market, and silverware and cloth napkins to reduce waste if you eat in the market and get 10% from listed vendors (they only serve styrofoam and plastic!).
• RECYCLE your holiday lights at the fair and test your toys and child for lead
• COME CAR-LESS Come by bike, bus, walking or carpool and get a gift! Download a Metro Transit Go Greener Pass for FREE the week of the event. There is also free parking for up to three hours in the parking ramp off of 10th Street with a market purchase.

NOTE: Vendors will be accepting cash or check only. There is an ATM in the market. 

MAIN STAGE SCHEDULE & DEMOS:

10:00am - 11:00am    Holiday music

11:00am - 12noon       Soy candle making demo by Bright Sun Candles

12:00noon - 1:00pm    Ice lantern making demo by Wintercraft

1:15pm - 2:30pm         Ready or Not band playing vintage folk, rural blues, roots music and more

3:00pm - 4:00pm         Eco Fashion show

4:00pm - 6:00pm         The Flemming Fold family band 

Cooking demos at Kitchen in the Market 

(located in the NE corner of the market)

10:30, 1:30 & 3:30 Cooking Demos for Flamin' Whiskey Apples 

Craft demos at the Art Shoppe

(located along the Lake St. entrance next to the Do It Green! Resource Center)

10:00-12:00 Hand painted paper bags

12:00-2:00pm Needle felting

2:00-4:00pm Recycled plastic ornaments

4:00-6:00pm Collage and mixed meida

ACTIVITES:

* Make your own non-toxic cleaner and learn about reducing toxins in your home with Do It Green! Minnesota and Preventing Harm Minnesota

* Color with handmade soy paraffin-free crayons by Earth Grown Crayons, play Eco Twister, and pick up a home audit checklist and food print wallet shopping card by Do It Green! Minnesota 

* Learn about low waste and low cost ways to wrap gifts including a hands-on demo of Furoshiki a Japanese style of gift wrap by Do It Green! Minnesota 

* Come play the fishing game with Sierra Club 

* Sew your own cloth gift bag or recycled tote bag with the American Sewing Guild 

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:

* Bring your chilren's toys to test them for lead by the City of Minneapolis

* Bring in your old strings of holiday lights for recycling through the Recycling Association of Minnesota

* Upload the Go Green Pass to use it for free transportation by bus or lightrail offered by Metro Transit

* Learn new energy efficiency tips for reducing your impact this winter with the Center for Energy and Environment 

* Learn about ways to host a holiday party without impacting the environment at the Do It Green! Resource Center 

* See the holiday tree diplay and learn about which options are environmentally-friendly 

Get your 2012 Do It Green! Magazine 

The Green Gifts Fair event launches the new 2012 Do It Green! Magazine titled the "Ultimate Sustainable Living Toolbox". This issue combines over 100 of our most popular articles over the past eleven years in updated versions, and many new articles. From A to Z you will learn about sustainable living for home, business, and community life in Minnesota. This guide is the perfect holiday gift for the ecologically-minded. Do It Green! Magazine will be available for $8 at the Green Gifts Fair and then at sold at over 75 local businesses. 

View all 70+ vendors attending the 2011 Green Gifts Fair

Click the link here to view a listing of all vendors, advertisers and educational tables. 

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