Not a Flea market?
We are not a traditional flea market. We're a marketplace, for sure, and our vendors are carefully selected, small- and micro-businesses, and their wares are hand-picked, homemade, handcrafted and small batch.
What you won't find is anything mass-produced or licensed, or typically sold through groups, clubs, franchises or independent salespeople on a large scale.
Our juried vintage and artisan/maker market was launched in June 2013 and returns outdoors in the summer and early fall every Sunday, activating a small parcel of greenspace along the river along South Water Street in downtown Providence, RI. We operate indoors from mid-Fall through Winter and Spring on Sundays at Farm Fresh RI Market Hall, 10 Sims Ave in Providence, RI. We're closed in January.
The Flea has hosted over 2,500 local vintage vendors and some of the area's most creative artists, artisans and makers, plus community non-profits, food trucks and carts, and live musicians. Our vendors take advantage of our busy foot traffic to meet their customers, get instant product feedback, and use the market as a launchpad to grow and to move on to the next level.
We welcome local community non-profits with any mission related to the environment, arts, youth, LGBT issues or animal welfare. We invite local musicians to play the boardwalk unplugged for our engaging, generous and appreciative patrons.
We've also hosted dozens of the area's best local food trucks, bakers, makers, carts and purveyors whose products are locally sourced and homemade, and they keep our Flea patrons and vendors satiated.
We know all of this helps the local economy by encouraging Rhode Islanders to "buy local" and support their friends and neighbors who are vending at the Flea. Thousands of visitors--both locals and tourists--shop the Flea every year. We hope to see you there soon, too!
What you won't find is anything mass-produced or licensed, or typically sold through groups, clubs, franchises or independent salespeople on a large scale.
Our juried vintage and artisan/maker market was launched in June 2013 and returns outdoors in the summer and early fall every Sunday, activating a small parcel of greenspace along the river along South Water Street in downtown Providence, RI. We operate indoors from mid-Fall through Winter and Spring on Sundays at Farm Fresh RI Market Hall, 10 Sims Ave in Providence, RI. We're closed in January.
The Flea has hosted over 2,500 local vintage vendors and some of the area's most creative artists, artisans and makers, plus community non-profits, food trucks and carts, and live musicians. Our vendors take advantage of our busy foot traffic to meet their customers, get instant product feedback, and use the market as a launchpad to grow and to move on to the next level.
We welcome local community non-profits with any mission related to the environment, arts, youth, LGBT issues or animal welfare. We invite local musicians to play the boardwalk unplugged for our engaging, generous and appreciative patrons.
We've also hosted dozens of the area's best local food trucks, bakers, makers, carts and purveyors whose products are locally sourced and homemade, and they keep our Flea patrons and vendors satiated.
We know all of this helps the local economy by encouraging Rhode Islanders to "buy local" and support their friends and neighbors who are vending at the Flea. Thousands of visitors--both locals and tourists--shop the Flea every year. We hope to see you there soon, too!