Global Bazaar
Saturday, September 17
1pm-4pm
BU Beach- 270 Baystate Road, Boston, MA
Featuring artisan goods from international and immigrant communities, and cultural organizations from the Boston area.
Interested in being a vendor? Please send us an email at artsinbu@bu.edu with information about your business, including website, samples of your products and why you should be part of this bazaar.
Confirmed Vendors:
Abarigani| Website
Multi-purpose art in the company of local artists seeking to make a living from the arts.
Celebrity Series of Boston| Website
Celebrity Series of Boston is a non-profit performing arts presenting organization. Their mission is to present performing artists who inspire and enrich the community. They believe in the power of excellence and innovation in the performing arts to enrich life experience, transform lives, and build better communities. They envision a community of Greater Boston where the performing arts are a valued, life-long, shared experience — on stages, on streets, in neighborhoods — everywhere.
Cross-Cultural Collaborative| Website
All items are handcrafted in Ghana by artists that we work with and all proceeds from sales are used to educate children in our village in Ghana.
The Everett Haitian Community Center ( The EHCC)| Website
The Everett Haitian Community Center (EHCC) is proud to have been serving immigrant and marginalized communities in Everett and Greater Boston for the past 7 years by providing an authentic voice fighting for their interests on a city, state, and federal level.
Global Arts Live| Website
Global Arts Live brings inspiring music and dance from all corners of the world to stages across greater Boston. By putting the spotlight on exceptional artists and reflecting the diverse and vibrant community that is Boston, they aspire to transcend borders, cultivate community, and enrich lives.
Guayaki Yerba Mate| Website
Guayaki Yerba Maté is a caffeinated tea originating from Argentina with a brand focus on sustainability.
Handel and Haydn Society| Website
Handel and Haydn Society performs Baroque and Classical music with a freshness, a vitality, and a creativity that inspires all ages. H+H has been captivating audiences for 208 consecutive seasons (the most of any performing arts organization in the United States), speaking to its singular success at converting new audiences to this extraordinary music, generation after generation.
HandMadeByAlliyah| Website
Boston based company that sells traditional waist beads, and anklets.
Pedro Cruz| Website
Created by PEDRO was launched in the Summer of 2013 as an online creative journal for personal art. The site has since grown into an online platform where Cruz has been able to share art, stories and experiences with the world. The online shop features unique high-quality merchandise inspired by Cruz’s original works.
Sanisa Studios & Gardens|Website
Sephra Anisa Mohammed, is on a mission to share the healing powers of ancestral naturalist art, community story-telling, and medicinal plants. Inspired by the abundance of beauty and healing in nature, the artist preserves botanicals, home grown and locally foraged – to create ‘Eternal Bouquets’.
Unbound Visual Arts, Inc.| Website
Unbound Visual Arts (UVA) was organized, formed and incorporated in 2012. It’s a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity based in Allston-Brighton and is governed by a 17-person Board of Directors and Council of Advisors. They organize independently curated art exhibitions and accompanying programming that encourage learning, engagement, and change. They also organize classes, workshops, lectures, and other learning programs, and have a growing collection of over 100 works of 21st century art. In 2021, UVA launched their Exhibit Gallery at the Arthaus located in Allston, MA. Dedicated to featuring the work of local artists, it is Allston’s first community art gallery.
WBUR| Website
WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, is a public media leader committed to exceptional journalism on-air, online, on demand and on stage. Their mission is to serve the public, report the truth and enrich lives. WBUR reaches 7 million listeners across the country each week with two national programs, On Point and Here & Now. A pioneering podcaster, WBUR’s iLab produces critically acclaimed shows such as Endless Thread, Anything For Selena, Circle Round, and Consider This (NPR’s first national-local daily news podcast). WBUR is home to Boston’s largest radio newsroom and reports original, local stories throughout the day that provide insight and cultural context to the community — helping to unite a diverse, complex and changing world.
Weekend Whims| Website
Weekend Whims is a handmade polymer clay earring business created and run by Rosa Jang, a queer Korean artist and student. Weekend Whims’ designs take inspiration from popular culture, seasonal holidays, and East Asian art. Rosa is currently an art history graduate student at Boston University, and Weekend Whims is her main source of income as well as funding for community mutual aids.