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Winter Village comes to Hackney Central from Friday 5th December to Sunday 7th December 2014. The new 3-day event will showcase a vast array of creative talent specially curated by City Showcase: Markets, responsible for last year’s seasonal success story, Dalston Christmas Market.
It will take place in the grounds of St John at Hackney, a church and emerging new music venue in Hackney Central and will offer a vibrant, contemporary alternative to the more traditional ‘German style’ Christmas markets including artisans, artists, fashion and jewellery designers, leather designers, ceramicists, and card makers.
Highlights:
Stallholder participants include local traders, Fee Fee La Fou’s curiosities and typographical printed goods from Lucy Loves This, British designed goods from Cecil Vessey, Catherine Tough, Becky Baur, Eleanor Stuart and Jessica Russell Flint, handmade gold and silver jewellery by Maya Magal, leather accessories by Lost and Found Accessories, women’s fashion with a conscience, raising awareness against the trafficking of humans by Zoe Boomer, London’s history recycled by Amelia Parker and Colourful Dove’s bright and colourful tableware for chil-dren. Other participants include celebrated ceramicists Reiko Kaneko, Yas-Ming and Takae Mizutani & Sons, Ro Co’s terrariums, planters and florist Larkspur & Lavender and the renowned Hackney Empire.
Plus:
The event will feature fabulous street food vendors including: Chef de Poutine, Colonel Tom’s Gumbo, Shredded Meat, Vinn Goute, Anna Mae’s Mac n Cheese, What the Dickens! with pop cakes from Couture Surprises and award-winning Cotswold food producer Ross and Ross. Fever-Tree’s Ultimate Cocktail Bar will be serving their festive favourites like the perfect pairing of sloe gin and lemon tonic and hot rum and ginger beer toddy.
Music and entertainment on the live stage has been organised by City Showcase, the year round not-for-profit festival; The Fashion Hub will be hosting ‘The Fashion Hub Experi-ence’, an on-site 12-minute chair massage for weary shoppers; Spitalfields City Farm charity will be selling Christmas Trees and giving donkey rides; The Chocolate Factory N16 is celebrating 20 years of Open Studios.
You can also visit the Brew for Two Café in St John’s Churchyard. The café will be opening late during Winter Village and selling delicious home cooked food with a Turkish twist, as well as hot mulled wine and cider.