Posted on 07/10/2020 7:16:02 PM PDT by lightman
The HBG Flea, a monthly “curated pop-up market,” has announced that it will hold its first event since March, a limited event on Saturday that will require face masks and encourage social distancing.
“We’re excited to be back - this is like our family and we miss the vendors and community a lot,” Mary Imgrund and Meghan Weaver, co-founders of The HBG Flea said in an e-mail.
The show’s organizers also announced via its Facebook page earlier this week that in an attempt to be more inclusive, people of color from here on out will be able to get a vendors space for free and will be given preference in the application process.
“We saw and heard that the flea is not representative of the entire vibrant community of Harrisburg, and as a white-owned business operating in a gentrified part of town, we believed it was our duty to not just offer empty platitudes towards inclusion but actively put our values before our profit,” Imgrund and Weaver said. “Focusing on getting more diverse art into the market is one way to uphold our mission of supporting our community. We also really don’t want the focus to be on us - it’s about making sure our space is reflective of the amazing multitude of arts in Harrisburg, some of which hasn’t been nearly present enough, and we needed to do something material to make that happen.”
The deadline to apply to the next HBG Flea event on Aug. 1 is Saturday while the deadline to apply for the Sept. 5 event is July 25.
“Artists can now indicate on our application if they believe their artwork or products would help make the flea more representative of the Harrisburg community, and we will sponsor their participation fee,” Imgrund and Weaver said. “This policy will be practiced in perpetuity.”
Imgrund and Weaver said that they have received a number of new applications from new artists and they said that the response has shown them that the change was necessary. And while they have received both positive and negative feedback from their Facebook post, they have chosen to focus on the positive feedback.
“There was a lot of both very positive and very negative reactions to the post,” Imgrund and Weaver said. “We don’t want to center those who took umbrage with the announcement, but rather those who said that they welcome more diversity in the art and those who now feel their work will be appreciated and welcomed for the first time. Representation is extremely important to us, so while some may decide to shop elsewhere, others will see themselves represented adequately for the first time, and that value is immeasurable. We don’t want to just offer words of support, we want to take action.”
Booths typically cost $25 for a small space and $50 for a larger space, according to the company’s website. And all vendors must obtain the proper licenses through the city of Harrisburg.
This Saturday, July 11, the company will hold a limited event from noon to 3 p.m. in the Midtown Cinema parking lot, 250 Riley St., Harrisburg.
The event will be limited to 16 vendors and only 200 people will be allowed in the parking lot at a time. Face masks are required for both shoppers and vendors. If the event is at capacity, HBG Flea said it may ask people to wait in a socially-distant line to enter.
“We are requiring face masks and offering some handmade ones we made at a “pay-what-you-want” price, we are limiting the number of vendors to 16 maximum in the parking lot (instead of the typical 50) to make sure we can space them out enough for shopping to happen without crowding any one vendor, and we are limiting the capacity in the parking lot to 200 and will ask shoppers to form a socially distant queue to enter,” Imgrund and Weaver said.
The HBG Flea is usually held on the first Saturday of each month and features vintage and antique goods, original art, craft and handmade items, food trucks and prepared food and upcycled goods.
HBG Flea holds its events at Strawberry Square in Harrisburg half of the year and in the parking lot of the Midtown Cinema the other half of the year.
Funny you say this, had someone I know who is in their 20's recently refer to themselves as "a colored person". They weren't black but of another ethic group. I cringed when they said it. I asked my 20 something daughter if that was actually okay to say these days. She said it was something being reclaimed, but you still can't say it as a white person, unless you are British. :-)
You can say it only if you can pronounce the silent "u" (coloured)
The stupidest thing about this is that the WHITE VENDORS ARE BASICALLY PAYING FOR THOSE SPOTS WITH THEIR FEES.
When we see the annual ritual on the news of stores “donating” school supplies to minority children, understand they are just using the money they’ve collected from paying customers to cover the costs.
They definitely need to change their name. The name is racist toward Fleas.
Gud point!
Yep. So much for the Civil Rights movement/acheivements.
Washed down the history rabbit hole, if these Commie clowns get their wishes.
So. In a leftist mind, again: The black man can’t do it on their own, they need “our” help. Then we can pat ourselves on our backs for being such good paternal racists.
What a crock of poo.
now what would happen if the organization declared that only white vendors would get free booths?
Aye.
"Woke" is a wok crock.
LOL — I suppose that depends on the surroundings...
‘POC/colored people’ of the world UNITE to condemn/physically attack white people who do not agree to our calling them all RACISS.
“I do not live in that area but if I did I would avoid that market.”
Do poc’s have to wait in line like ordinary folks or can they go to the head of the line without shame?
“Doesn’t this violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964?...”
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 along with associated “Great Society” legislation was, in essence, the beginning of all this... the beginning of endless “free stuff” and omnipresent preferential treatment. It made much of the black community weak, dependent and incapable of or non desirous of self sufficiency. It also made them angry and instilled in them a sense of entitlement. Lastly, it firmly anchored most of them to the DemocRAT plantation.
‘I suppose that’s the reason for U.S. population replacement.
(only good like world government can come of that but I digress)
Quite the contrary, for me and anyone who believes in the Constitution.
I would go, pay my rental as agreed (and audio taped), and then sell my wares at the flea market.
When the SHTF with other vendors, I would join in a class action law suit with others,
and make more money in the law suit than in selling all my fleas.
The progressives like to use the Law and the courts for 'social justice' and financial gain,
then why shouldn't we do it as well ?
This is right from their playbook(!),
and the tax free funds could be given to FReeRepublic .
Equality was never possible.
Equality was never anyone’s goal.
Everybody wants to rule the world.
2020.
Bingo.
Very good.
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