"This is Boston's version of London's Portobello market, with vintage clothes sellers and young fashion and jewelry designers rubbing elbows with artists and cheese makers and antiques dealers. What's exciting about this market is that it changes each week. So, some Sundays you'll discover a local artist who is there only that day. Everyone sells from tables beneath white tents."
-New York Times

"The South End Open Market has been called a Manhattan-style shopping experience, but we like to believe it is Boston-style, uniquely ours. Do the outdoor markets in New York boast a spread of Brookline's own Clear Flour Bread? Do they sell Fort Point designer Marie Galvin's exotic hats? Hanging baskets from North Shore farms? We didn't think so...."
- Meredith Anderson - Boston Globe

At this energetic four-year-old market, a sea of tents brings new life to a nondescript parking lot in the heart of Boston's hip South End neighborhood. An eclectic mix of antique collectors, emerging designers, local jewelers, artisanal bakers, greengrocers, and painters all sell their wares in a lively environment that provides a great excuse to stay in the city on a summer weekend.
- Lucky Magazine





 

The SoWa Open Market offers a shopping experience like no other in Boston. With an ever-changing group of artisans, a hip location and the chance to feel the sun on your face while you browse, it's a trip worth making. The market offers the opportunity to meet the artists, vendors and farmers behind the work, and is fast becoming part of the South End's well-known artist's community. Every week offers shoppers something different and unique - you won't want to miss it!

The market hosts a wide variety of vendors, whether you're looking for hand-crafted accessories, original art, indie designer clothing or just a fresh loaf of bread, you'll find painters, sculptors, photographers, clothing and jewelry designers, milliners, handbag designers, house wares, florists, bakers, local farmer's produce and much more every week!

Cabin fever? The 1st Annual Cabin Fever Indie Gift Show is just what the doctor ordered. And the doctor wants you heart healthy on Valentine’s Day by shopping indie for your sweetie! Browse for fabulous handmade wares from 60 of the area’s top independent designers, artists and artisans at the 1st Annual Cabin Fever Indie Gift Show.

Brought to you by the folks at the Sowa Holiday and Open Markets, it’s bound to cure those mid-winter blues. Choose from an exceptional array of indie goods: jewelry, handbags and wearables, stationary and paper goods, re-purposed accessories, gourmet foods and flowers, plus lots and lots of chocolate and hearts! The show will be held indoors in a trendy warehouse space in the thick of the SoWa Art and Media district, within walking distance of Boston’s best artist studios, galleries, boutiques and restaurants. So mark your calendars for February 5 and 6. Handmade retail therapy at its best!

Friday, February 5th 6pm-9pm
Saturday, February 6th 11am-7pm

Indoors at 460C Harrison Ave
at Thayer Street (between Harrison Ave and Albany Street)

Free parking lot at our front door off Albany Street
(GPS users - enter 369 Albany Street, Boston)

Admission - $2