Winter Pop-up Market Debuts in Cobble Hill This Weekend

COBBLE HILL, BROOKLYN — A free fashion, art and design pop-up market will kick off it's winter season this weekend in the basement of St. Paul's Church at 190 Court Street in Cobble Hill. Each season, f.a.d. weekend pops up in different South Brooklyn neighborhoods to feature a pool of emerging and mid-career artists and designers from all backgrounds.

f.a.d. weekend stands for fashion, art and design weekend. Attendees can expect a curated collective space full of activities, paintings, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, and men and women fashion. Each weekend the market brings in different vendors to showcase their work.

This weekend kicks off the first f.a.d. weekend market, followed by markets Dec. 10-11 and Dec. 17-18. The market runs Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

There will be about 56 vendors between this Saturday and Sunday, the founder of f.a.d. weekend Jen Bailey told Patch. Each artist and vendor will range in style, product and price. Some of these exhibitioners include loloplant, Mayware Ceramics, ZOU XOU and Diana Teeter Art, among other bath and body vendors, stationery vendors and more.

Each season the market has different activities and workshops. December's workshops focus on the holidays, including a DIY snowflake making station, a gnome ornament workshop and more holiday crafting. A separate merchant will also sell Christmas trees right outside the church.

If you work up an appetite shopping and crafting, there are two bar/kitchen food stations that feature different vendors. This weekend the food vendors are Samosa Shack and pastry company Flat White Apron.

Bailey organized her first pop-up market seven years ago when she lived on the Lower East Side. When she moved to Brooklyn, she wanted to start a pop-up market in her own borough.

"For me, it's important for the market to be in the community I live in," Bailey told Patch.

f.a.d. weekend kicked off on May 1. The spring pop-up series went until June 26 in Downtown Brooklyn. The summer pop-up was held the second and last weekends of July and Aug. in Boerum Hill, and the fall pop-up was in the Cobble Hill Historic District the last weekend of Sept.

Photo courtesy of Jen Bailey