Green Ant Craft Fair in Winnellie | Event

Green Ant Craft Fair

Locality: Winnellie

Address: Darwin Showgrounds, Tate Place 0820 Winnellie, NT, Australia

Website: http://www.greenantcraftfair.com

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25.01.2022 This year, we asked stallholders to make a decoration for the Christmas tree. We asked Kate Gosling to come along and judge the competition for us. The winner will receive a free stall at the Green Ant Christmas Craft Fair in 2020. We also ran a people's choice award and asked all our lovely customers to vote for their favourites. The winner of the people's choice award wins $100 cash. We're also doing a draw from the vote casters and the winner will receive a $100 gift voucher to spend at The Local in Parap. Stay tuned, we'll be announcing all the winners soon!

22.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who supported the Green Ant Craft Fair on the weekend. <3 Thanks to everyone who came along and showed their support to local creatives and picked up some beautiful handmade gifts and goodies. <3 Thanks to all our wonderful stall holders for participating and making it so special. Thanks to you all for all your hard work making beautiful things, setting up gorgeous stalls and thanks for helping us spread the word.... <3 Thanks to the media that supported us - ABC Darwin, The Country Hour, Territory 104.1, Off the Leash, Channel 10 and the NT News. <3 Thanks to all the local businesses that worked with us to create a welcoming space - Shadeworks/Territory Event Hire, Quality Plant Hire, Rent Event, Eprint, Safe NT Test & Tag and Aggreko (who didn't love the Rotary Hall being cool!?). <3 And a huge thanks to the Royal Darwin Agricultural Society crew at the Royal Darwin Showgrounds for all their support. <3 We look forward to seeing you all back at the Royal Darwin Showgrounds on the weekend of 28 & 29 November 2020 for our thirtieth anniversary craft fair! See more

21.01.2022 IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR STALL HOLDERS GREEN ANT 2020 INTERIM COVID-19 ADVICE We’ve reached that time of year when here at The Flying Gecko Project we usually start the wheels turning for the Green Ant Christmas Craft Fair. As much as we’d like to announce that at least this one thing in our lives is going to be business as usual this year, it’s really too early to know yet whether we will be able to go ahead under COVID-19 restrictions. ... With conditions still changing from week to week and particularly in light of the recent unfortunate turn of events in Victoria and the current uncertainty in NSW it’s just too early to make a call. This is largely due to the fact that there are still quite restrictive conditions being placed on large gatherings in indoor venues. If these relax, we’re good to go. If they don’t, it’s going to be incredibly difficult to manage hygiene requirements and social distancing which will impact heavily on the number of stalls as well as the number of patrons we can allow in at any time. Under those conditions, we’ll have to make a very tough decision. If restrictions tighten, we simply won’t be able to operate at all. In light of recent outbreaks, and especially now that our border is open to much of the country, the next few weeks are going to be really important in determining what November in the Top End looks like apart from being hot and sweaty, which is a given! We’d hate to get everyone’s hopes up only to dash them when you’ve been busy making stock in anticipation. So, as much as we’d love to be announcing that applications are opening soon, we’re asking for your patience while we continue the wait-and-see game that has characterised much of 2020. We want this event to happen at least as much as all of you, but we can’t risk public health and we certainly don’t want to find ourselves getting shut down either in the lead up or on the weekend itself. There’s a huge amount of planning involved and a lot of money to outlay getting everything organised for the event so we have to be certain before we press go. Thank you all for your understanding and patience. We’ll keep you posted and let you all know what’s happening as soon as we can. The Flying Gecko Project Chiggy, Boo & Orlando

18.01.2022 The doors have opened on the second day of the Green Ant Christmas Craft Fair at the Royal Darwin Showgrounds! Come on down for the best Christmas shopping around! Get all your gifts sorted and support local creatives at the same time! Stop for a snack or a meal, some ice cold lemonade or an icecream. We've got two air conditioned halls to peruse, face painting, candle making, and a competition running - vote for your favourite stallholder-made Christmas decoration for your c...hance to win a $100 gift voucher from The Local in Parap! Judge Kate Gosling will make her call around 2pm today and will also announce the people's choice winner. It's only $2 at the gate, kids get in free and we can guarantee you'll find plenty for yourself as well as gifts for the people you love, and have fun while you're doing it!

18.01.2022 Kate Gosling popped in to the Green Ant Christmas Craft Fair on Sunday to judge the Christmas decoration. Stallholders were asked to make a decoration and the winner receives a free stall at the fair in 2020. I'll let Kate tell you who won...

13.01.2022 The doors have opened on Darwin's largest craft fair at the Royal Darwin Showgrounds! Come on down and enjoy two air conditioned halls full of local creatives and their vast array of fabulous gift ideas. Enjoy a coffee and a cake or a cool drink with lunch while you're here. Don't forget to stop for a moment while you're checking out the talent in the Rotary Hall and vote for your favourite decoration on the Christmas tree for the chance to win a $100 gift voucher to spend a...t The Local in Parap. We're open until 4pm this afternoon and again tomorrow from 9am - 4pm. $2 entry fee at the gate, kids free.

12.01.2022 IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR STALL HOLDERS Here at the Flying Gecko Project we’ve been working through all the ins and outs of running the craft fair this year. We know you’ve all been itching to know what’s happening, but as we all know, nothing about 2020 has been normal and there are all sorts of issues we’ve never had to consider before. We’ve had extended conversations with the Department of Health and have drawn upon these along with extensive personal research as well as ...Continue reading

11.01.2022 DARWIN ONLINE CREATIVE DIRECTORY We're creating an online directory for our existing stall-holders and those of you who were hoping to join us in 2020. Having made the tough decision not to run the fair this year, we still wanted to find ways to connect local creatives with the wonderful members of the public who support them and buy hand crafted gifts. So here it is! It's free to join. You must make your own work to ensure that we are directing buyers to local makers and a...rtists. On-selling of products made by others, whether in Australia or imported, will not be accepted in the directory. The form is open now and closes on 20/11/2020. What are you waiting for? https://www.greenantcraftfair.com/ Follow the link from the home page, send us your info and we'll do the rest! See more

09.01.2022 I’m not sure what Boo Bippidii boppidii is doing!! Looks like she’s spreading out rather than packing up

07.01.2022 It's almost here! The Green Ant Christmas Craft Fair is this weekend! 9am - 4pm this Saturday and Sunday @ Royal Darwin Showgrounds... 150+ stalls of fantastic handmade art and craft, hot food, cold drinks, coffee, icecream and more. ***Two air conditioned halls!*** Facepainting, candle making, places sit and to relax. Buy your loved ones gifts made with love and support a local creative at the same time. Buy yourself something you love too! Meet your friends, have a coffee and cake, vote for your favourite decoration on the tree. $2 entry, kids free.

04.01.2022 What a fantastic weekend! Thank you all who participated, shopped and now the clean up begins!!

04.01.2022 Artist of the Day! AM edition Jeanette Wright Just Plain Quirky... Hello I'm Jeanette Wright and I have been on the Market stall adventure for 11 years now. I make many products from baby singlets with quirky sayings to polly clay earrings..magnets..prints..teatowels and much much more. Actually too much more so this year I have decided to downsize to just prints..cards and magnets, so this means lots of bargains for you as most of my stock will be going at a very reduced rate. Come along this Saturday and Sunday to an amazing Craft Fair! Pop in and say 'hello" at @JustPlainQuirky ..i would love to see you! Green Ant Christmas Craft Fair Darwin Showgrounds Sat 23 & Sun 24 November 9am 4pm $2 entry, kids free Air conditioned, under cover Food & drink available This is our final Artist of the Day post. We hope you've enjoyed the series and are enjoying the craft fair this weekend!

04.01.2022 Artist of the Day! Evening edition Catch Janie’s hand screen printed textiles, flags and colourful upcycled soft sculptures of quirky NT creatures at The Green Ant Craft Fair... @janieandrewsarts Green Ant Christmas Craft Fair Darwin Showgrounds Sat 23 & Sun 24 November 9am 4pm $2 entry, kids free Air conditioned, under cover Food & drink available

04.01.2022 Artist of the Day! AM edition Floriane Pereira Macrame Uniqness... Hello I am Floriane, the macrame artist behind Macrame Uniqness. I knot home decor items and fashion accessories using cotton cords such as earrings, Christmas ornaments, keyrings and lanyards and a range of wall hangings deco often made from local driftwood, cotton and wool. I can't wait to meet you all this weekend at the Green Ant Christmas Craft Fair. Come and find me on the mezzanine. I am sure you will find the perfect handmade present! Green Ant Christmas Craft Fair Darwin Showgrounds Sat 23 & Sun 24 November 9am 4pm $2 entry, kids free Air conditioned, under cover Food & drink available

03.01.2022 Stallholders... We know you're really busy... so we're extending our deadline to join the online Creative Directory we're building. We know Christmas is only five weeks away and many of you are doing the Tactile Arts Christmas Craft Fair this weekend, so we decided it was only fair to give people a little extra time to sign up for the online creative directory we are building to help connect you with your customers.... The online form is really FAST and EASY- and we plan on leaving the directory up indefinitely as a way for people to find the creatives they love between craft fairs. So we're giving you until Monday 30 November to get your information in for a free listing. We're providing the directory as a community service in the absence of the Green Ant Christmas Craft Fair and we've had lots of people join up already (three cheers to all of you!), but we're hoping to get as many of you on board as possible. You don't need to have an online shop to join, or even a website - a Facebook or Instagram page or even an email address or phone number will do, as long as you can provide a way for customers to find you from the portal. We'll be promoting it via our social media and website and will continue to do so into 2021, so don't miss out on joining and maximising your chances of customers finding you now and into the future. In just a few minutes you can sign up here: https://www.greenantcraftfair.com/ Happy Christmas trading, wherever you may be with your wares! See more