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"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, antiques or just a fresh loaf of bread, you'll find painters, sculptors, photographers, clothing and jewelry designers, milliners, handbag designers, house wares, antique dealers, florists, bakers, local farmer's produce, and much more every week!

Thank you to all of the patrons who supported us in our 2008 season! Make sure you save the dates for the 5th Annual SoWa Holiday Market on Saturday and Sunday, December 13th – 14th and the Prudential Center Artisan Market every Sunday from November 9th through December 21st.

New England Open Markets is very proud to announce the opening of our new market, the Prudential Center Artisan Market. Open every Sunday, starting November 9th through December 21st! The market will offer an ever-changing group of New England and Boston-area artisans, providing residents and visitors of Boston a unique and exciting holiday shopping experience!

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The SoWa Holiday Market is very excited to bring Boston-area holiday shoppers another year of creative, fun and unique gift buying from talented New England artisans Saturday December 13th through Sunday December 14th. Come in and meet the people who have crafted the jewelry, pottery, paintings, soaps, ornaments and much more that will be making their way under the trees and into the homes of your family and friends.

The Cathedral High School Gym, located in Boston's trendy Sowa Arts and Media District, will be transformed into a spectacular holiday marketplace featuring 80 artisans from around New England. With a wide array of handmade offerings from the fashionably chic to the hip and cutting edge, shoppers are sure to find an original gift for everyone on their list.

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