In the past three years of running the Yet Another Queer Pop-Up Market, we’ve realized that there are more questions than answers for how to be successful in your sales and run your business well as a 2SLGBTQIA+ and/or BIPOC vendor in creative markets. While we are embedded in an abundantly creative region, building a business through markets is a unique process filled with its own cycles and processes different from the larger arts scene. And it also comes with additional considerations in relation to your identity.
We’re planning to build systems, make connections, and establish a learning community that will help our creative community thrive. Whether you’re newly exploring what it means to be part of the vending scene, are in your first five years of this type of work, well-established, or have this as a side-project that complements your other offerings, wanting to grow other areas of your creative work, the learning community we envision is a space for you. And it can only be built by better understanding what your needs and wants are.
We’ll be spending the next four months taking a deep dive into listening to you – via surveys like this, invitations to share written or recorded feedback, and small discussion groups. If you would like to share your feedback beyond this survey (or instead of this survey) here are some additional options:
- write us an email with your feedback
- ask for a 15-minute 1:1 zoom call with M
- record an audio message and email it to us
- subscribe to our newsletter (via hyphae.community)
- and/or follow us on IG: hyphae_community to hear about upcoming small group discussions
You can reach us by email at hyphaecommunity@proton.me. We hope you’ll join us and share your own unique perspectives and needs along the way.
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