Awaz 2012 Holiday Event List - Join us for some Community Focused Alternative Holiday Shopping!

We are pleased to announce our jam packed holiday event list for your holiday shopping pleasure!

We hope that you will join us in supporting a just and ethical holiday season. We are a channel for social change and you are the driver. Please do think of supporting us this holiday!

We have many new products including clothing, hemp products, alpaca scarves and African Drums and Shea Butter. Always something new and fresh!

We have been working hard to organize and sponsor the 2012 Fair Trade Holiday Market series in Portland this year. We have some great local organizations represented with beautiful projects overseas needing your support.

Happy Holidays!  

Saturday, November 10^th

 Alternative Gift Faire

10am-2pm

Hillsdale United Church of Christ

2948 SW Capitol Hwy

Portland, Oregon

Tuesday and Wednesday, November 13-14^th 

Kansas State University Fair Trade Marketplace

Student Union

Our summer intern Melissa from the KSU Textile and Marketing Dept. will host a table for us. Sarah started this annual holiday event as an undergraduate student at KSU in early 2000.

Sunday, November 18^th

 Portland Fair Trade Holiday Market

sponsored by Northwest Fair TradeCoalition

10am – 3pm

First Unitarian Church

Buchan Building

1011 SW 12^th Ave

Portland, OR 97205

Co-sponsored by Economic Justice Action Group

This is the 1^st of the series that Awaz is sponsoring this year! We'll have a big display for you and your shopping pleasure at all three!

Beginning the 20^th of November until the end of December

Holiday Trunk Show at Tropical Salvage

Showroom / Warehouse
2233 NW York Street

Featuring Awaz handloom cotton napkins, tablecloths and placemats

TropicalSalvage makes high quality, artisan crafted, furniture from reclaimed wood in Indonesia. In doing so, they create fair trade, conservation supportive jobs in Indonesia and support among consumers for conservation of bio-diverse and carbon-rich tropical forest ecosystems.

Take a walk in their showroom in NW and be amazed!

http://tropicalsalvage.com/

Friday-Sunday, November 23-25^th

3rd Annual International National Gift Market

sponsored by Women's Opportunities Worldwide

Eugene5th Street Market

Women’s Opportunity Worldwide (WOW) was formed in the Spring of 2010 to provide opportunities for networking and collaboration among the many nonprofit organizations  based in Oregon’s Willamette Valley working to benefit women locally and internationally.

We're glad to join this great annual event of local global justice organizations located in the heart of downtown Eugene. What a great place to promote fair trade to so many people!

Friday, Novemb^{er 30th}

Aurora Artists Association

Holiday Open House

6:30 – 9:00 pm

White Rabbit Bakery

21368 Hwy 99e

Aurora, OR 97002

We return to join local artists for their annual holiday show in the rural, antique town of Aurora, just south of Wilsonville. Discover one of Oregon’s oldest towns and their history for a day visit and evening gathering at the local coffee house and bakery. My favorite place!

Recommended stops:

• St. Josef Winery
• Aurora Movement and Healing Arts
• Colony Museum
• The Farm School

Saturday, December 1^st

^{We will magically appear in two events this day in honor of World Aids Day!} 

Fair Trade Holiday Market

10am – 2pm

Meridian United Church of Christ

Frog Pond Church

6750 Boeckman Rd.

Wilsonville, OR.

1st Annual Ethical Holiday Shopping Bazaar

Hosted by Sister's Coffee Company and Eye See Media

4:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Sister's Coffee

1235 NW Marshall

Pearl District

Featuring ethical, fair trade and empowering businesses and products from around Oregon and Washington

Check out this awesome Ethical Holiday Shopping Guide they put out every year!

Sunday, December 2^nd

4th Annual Holiday Market

12-5pm

McMenamins Cornelius Pass Roadhouse

22115 NW Imbrie Drive, Suite 310

Hillsboro, Oregon 97124

Saturday, December 8

Portland Fair Trade Holiday Market

sponsored by Northwest Fair Trade Coalition

10am – 3pm

Portland Mennonite Church

1312 Southeast 35th Avenue  

Portland, OR 97214

 

This is the 2^nd big one Awaz is sponsoring this year!

 

Sunday, December 9

Portland Fair Trade Holiday Market 

sponsored by Northwest Fair Trade Coalition

11:30am – 2pm

First Presbyterian Church

Geneva Hall (basement)

1200 SW Alder Street
Portland, Oregon 97205

Co-sponsored by the Fair Trade Leadership Team of the Advocacy & Social Justice Committee

This is the 3rd big one Awaz is sponsoring this year!

 

Sunday, December 16

Alternative Holiday Gift Fair

10 am - 1 pm
Multnomah Presbyterian Church

Multnomah Village

7555 SW 45th Avenue

 

and you can always shop online!