The holiday season has begun, and to mark this annual shopping tradition, Western Canada’s largest craft market is coming back to downtown Vancouver!
A Vancouver tradition since 1972, the Circle Craft Christmas Market returns to the Vancouver Convention Centre West from November 10 to 14. This shopping event is a premier showcase of the very best in Canadian craft, art, and design, featuring traditional, contemporary, one-of-a-kind, and production works from over 200 artisans from coast-to-coast.
As Vancouver’s biggest Christmas market, Circle Craft gives shoppers the chance to browse, buy, and gift an incredible assortment of Canadian handmade goods, including fashion accessories, fine jewellery, home and garden décor, woodcraft, ceramics, sculptures, natural body care, fashion, gourmet foods, and more.
You won’t find these one-of-a-kind items anywhere at the mall or on Amazon. With the perfect present for every person on your holiday shopping list, the market will be your one-stop holiday shop!
Circle Craft’s market vendors are selected by a jury based on their talents and diversity and come from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds across Canada. Check out a few of the highlights of this year’s line-up of participating artists and makers:
Photo: Earth and Hide
Based in Manitoba, Earth and Hide produces high quality leather goods with a timeless rugged quality. Key pieces in the collection include the versatile Luella tote, the vintage U.S. mailbag-inspired John bag, and the Roscoe Belt (which you'll want to grab in every colour).
Photo: Anne-Marie Chagnon
Anne-Marie Chagnon creates original, superior quality jewellery for women that distinguish themselves by their independent spirit and dignified ways of self-expression. Utilizing contemporary and timeless fine materials such as chiselled pewter, sheer glass, luminous resin, lustrous copper, shimmering bronze, and 22 carat gold, each piece is designed, created and crafted in Montreal.
Photo: Monashee Pottery
Made in the beautiful mountain town of Revelstoke, Monashee Pottery’s functional, handmade ceramics offer a timeless simplicity that will brighten your everyday life and carry on with you for generations. Pieces are inspired by exploration and joy, such as the Black Tusk collection, made out of black clay and named after the stratovolcano in Whistler, and the Simple collection, which incorporates colours that evoke the colourful neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires and Sweden.
Photo: Cosman & Webb Townships Organic
Sourced from the sugar maples on their farm in the Eastern Townships of southern Quebec, Cosman & Webb Townships Organic’s 100% pure maple syrup is sustainability tapped and contains no artificial flavouring. You can’t get more “Made in Canada” with your Christmas gifting than this!
The 2021 Circle Craft Christmas Market is open Wednesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $15 for adults and $12 for seniors 65+ and youths, and free for children ages 12 and under. Tickets are 50% for entry after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Proof of vaccination and face masks are required.
To see the full list of vendors and buy your event tickets, head to signatures.ca/circle-craft.
