Posts Tagged ‘crafts’

This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Dec 2nd, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Arts and music fest JC Fridays is back today with a killer lineup of mostly-free events. Here are a few highlights: Some events do you [...]



Jersey City’s Peace by Piece Studio Looks to Create a Modern-Day Sewing Circle, with a Charitable Twist

By • Jun 23rd, 2011 • Category: Arts, Featured

Through Peace by Piece, Tina Maneca hopes to bring community members together to make stuffed animals, pillows, and quilts for needy people in homeless shelters, domestic abuse centers, hospices, and homebound residents.



Vendors & Artisans Needed for Third Annual Not Yo Mama’s Craft Fair

By • May 3rd, 2011 • Category: Arts, Blog

The Not Yo Mama’s Craft Fair is set to return to Jersey City next month, bigger and better than ever, and the organizers are looking for vendors and artisans to hawk their wares. Each year the fair seems to move into larger spaces, based on the community’s strong support; the fair was initially held at [...]



PHOTOS: Jersey City Craft Mafia’s Handmade Holiday Market

By • Dec 21st, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

Whether they were there for some last-minute holiday shopping or just to socialize with Jersey City’s craftiest folks, hundreds of people showed up at Grace Church Van Vorst on Sunday for the Jersey City Craft Mafia’s Handmade Holiday Market. “The community’s overwhelming support for shopping local from area artists this holiday season is what made [...]



This Weekend’s Best Bets

By • Dec 17th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

For full calendar listings, be sure to check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY If you’re still in last-minute holiday shopping mode, head over to the Creative Grove Artist Market today (2 to 8 pm) [...]



Plenty of Special Opportunities to Buy from Local Artists & Shops in Jersey City This Weekend

By • Dec 2nd, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

You should be able to find special surprises for anyone left on your gift list at one of the special shopping events going on around Jersey City this weekend. First up is tomorrow’s Holiday Sidewalk Fair from 2 to 6 pm in Downtown Jersey City. The event, which is being put together by the Historic [...]



Attention Artists & Crafters: The Downtown SID Needs Participants for Upcoming JC Fridays Sidewalk Sale

By • Nov 12th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

The Historic Downtown Special Improvement District (HDSID) is organizing a Holiday Sidewalk Fair for artists and crafters to sell their work along major shopping routes in Downtown Jersey City during December 3′s citywide JC Fridays arts celebration. Vendors will be set up along streets including Newark Avenue, Grove Street and Jersey Avenue from 2 to [...]



Want to Get Crafty This Holiday Season? Upcoming Classes Focus on DIY Ornaments and Cards

By • Nov 11th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

As this year’s holiday season approaches, two Jersey City venues are gearing up to teach you how to craft your own ornaments and cards. The DIY learning gets rolling this Friday, with a Holiday Card-Making class at Kanibal Home. The Montgomery Street boutique will bring in local artist James French, who will teach how to [...]



Jersey City Craft Mafia Looking for Vendors and Instructors for ‘Handmade Holiday Market’

By • Nov 3rd, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

The Jersey City Craft Mafia is looking for handmade artists, local organizations, demo leaders, gingerbread enthusiasts and — most importantly — fans of tacky holiday sweaters for its annual Handmade Holiday Market, which is slated for Sunday, December 19 at Grace Church Van Vorst. The event is a good way for Jersey City residents to [...]



Hey Crafty Folk, the Jersey City Craft Mafia Wants to Hear Your Story for Studio Tour Spotlight Series

By • Sep 17th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog

At this year’s Jersey City Artists Studio Tour, the Jersey City Craft Mafia (JCCM) is teaming up with Art House Productions to host a two-day handmade arts event at Art House’s McWilliams Place headquarters. There will be tutorials, demos, a craft supply swap and other activities “geared towards bringing crafts out of the home and [...]

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