Crafts market returns to celebrate creatives

A REGULAR market aimed at highlighting the region’s creatives and their crafts is set to return later this month.

On Sunday, 27 November from 10am to 2pm, the Creators and Craft Market Bannockburn is set to take place at the Lions Club Parkland.

Event founder Noeline Trevor said the market’s all about showcasing the arts and crafts offerings of Golden Plains and surrounds.

“It’s about providing a platform for local artists to have somewhere to sell their products and get some promotion,” she said.

“I really started it up for the grandmas around here that knit all winter and have a hundred or so scarves and things like that to get rid of.

“It’s for people that have the love of the hobby and the craft. It’s all very local, and I’m right into that as well.”

With about 50 stalls secured, items on offer include clothing, jewellery, knitwear and haberdashery.

Stallholders include GP Arts Inc, the Bannockburn Craft Group, Sew Piecefully Patchwork, Flower Pot Men alongside individual creatives.

The market is held twice in May and November each year, and Ms Trevor said the market’s gotten bigger and bigger since it started eight years ago.

“When I started it, it was at about 25 stalls and now we average 50, and between a third to half of the stallholders are new each year,” she said.

“I’ve lived here for 35 years and I decided we didn’t have a craft market in the area at all. Lethbridge, Inverleigh, Meredith, no one was doing one.

“I’m a real community-minded person, and I saw the need for this and have just ran with it ever since.”