WE'RE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE... Our first Pride Festival!
In case you didn't know, White Center has it's very own Pride Festival! It's on June 7th!! This year at Mr. B's Mead Center, we'll have a Pride Market from 2-8, Free Live Music, DJs, and the Thai-U-Up Food Truck from 1-6! We will be open from Noon-11 pm as well!
Georgetown Music Presents free live music from 2-10 pm! Featuring:
Brent Carpenter From Georgetown Music
Jeremy Wayne of Summer Sleeves
Quilli Fin
Christiana
Marbits Music
Elephant Crows
Followed by a Live Liquid Light Show After Dark!
All Ages Show!
Here’s the Complete List of Our PRIDE Market Vendors:
Vern’s Whirlygigs - Ari will have wooden Whirlygigs for sale! Ari's dad, Vernon, has been making wooden whirlygigs to display outside in one's lawn, or even inside or on a windowsill. Ari occasionally collaborates with ideas or helps to paint them, and has taken over sales, though sometimes his dad still joins him to help sell his craft. Come by to see Vern's LAST ever batch of whirlygigs!
Mother of Queer Crafts - Aleks McClure will have handmade crochet creatures and quilts! Mother of Queer Crafts is a family and queer owned business. Their mother has been creating her entire life and has passed that love down to them and now they want to share their crafts with the community!
The Moss Goblin - Morgan Illig will have block printed clothing, patches, and paper prints for sale. They make block printed clothing and patches for the gays, the queer punks, and the witchy forest creatures.
Vern - Mo Wheeler will have keychains and jewelry made with recycled leather, heart keychains, greeting cards and magnets made from thrifted books, redesign clothes, tote bags, beaded jewelry, lighter covers and more! :) Mo makes sustainable Jewelry, Stationery, Accessories and Home Goods. She focuses on using found materials and repurposing wherever viable. They love being able to create something new but with the lowest possible impact to our environment.
Bijou Fortune - Max Alderdice (@bijoufortune) will be bringing his Tarot themed art! He will have spirituality-themed prints, queer/trans positivity stickers, original collage & scratch card art, and gift certificates for future Tarot readings & other services. Max provides psychic services, event entertainment, and spiritual counseling from a uniquely modern and queer perspective, while making art inspired by his spiritual feelings and experiences. He wants everyone to feel empowered through his fortune-telling services and his art to take the spiritual journey that's right for them.
Dulce Skull - Alex Barr (@dulce.skull) will have pinback buttons, stickers, small prints, and comics for sale. Alex created a webtoon & graphic novel titled “Pink Sugar”! His art is vivid, colorful, and queer! He loves to share his joy of life and love through his art and the things he makes.
Hyde Angelus - Rachamim Angelus (@iliothermia) will have prints, bookmarks, keychains, pins, jewelry, tote bags, and patches. :) Hyde is a transmasc illustrator of queer fantasy work who draws inspiration from his Greek-Sephardi background. He seeks to marry the elements of the queer body and love with ornate detail and a lexicon of personal symbolism.
Infinite Rebirth Arts - Maggie Sharar (@infinite_rebirth) will have original art, prints, live painted portraits, mugs, stickers, and greeting cards. She offers intuitive visionary art for collective healing. Watercolor sings to her soul and acrylic/oil provide inspiration for growth and depth. She teaches creative entrepreneur classes and meditative painting to youth and adults as well.
AdelaCreations Arts - Adelaide Asare (@adela_creations) will have art prints, vinyl stickers, sticker sheets, acrylic keychains, stationary and more! They enjoy adding gothic flare to their work as well as making them as detailed as possible. They are heavily inspired by art movements like art nouveau as well as flower language within their pieces!
Illustration by Forest LarkSpur - Forest (@forest.larkspur) will have Art prints and stickers for sale! They are a trans and queer illustrator from Appalachia who loves nature, bright colors, and promoting the trans agenda with his work (getting you to love bugs and all the little critters you can find in tide pools or under a log).
Boxes of Glass - Kare Cole (@boxesofglass) will have Glass Worlds and Tiny Cosmos for sale. You can normally find her art gallery in an eclectic vintage 1960 Shasta dubbed the 'Boxes of Glass Trailer Shop' at the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall every weekend.