February Market

The February Kensington Market will be held Sunday, 27 February 2011 from 9:30am to 3:00pm.  The Market is growing every month with lots of new stalls.  We now have stallholders selling arts, plants, homemade sweets, food, drinks, preserves, hand-printed t-shirts, jewellery, face-painter, accessories, photography, pottery, baked goods and much more.  The Kensington Market is now held at the Jeppe Girls Sports Grounds at Cnr Roberts Avenue and Lancaster Street, Kensington.  Come and join us for lots of fun.

Christmas Market

The next market will be held on 28 November 2010.  The next two markets will have a Christmas theme, so there will be lots of Christmas goodies for sale. 

The market will be held at the Sports Grounds of Jeppe High School for Girls (cnr Roberts & Lancaster Ave, Kensington) from now on.  This will be a great venue.  Stallholders can put their gazebos under the trees and there is safe parking inside the grounds.  The site is also more visible from the street, so there should be more passing trade through and hopefully we will have even more people and more stallholders than we had at the previous market.

People are starting to know about the market, so it can only grow from strength to strength.

Halloween Craft Market

Watch this space for what happened at the Halloween Craft Market

HALLOWEEN MARKET - 31 OCTOBER 2010

Dress up and come and have some fun in the Park with us on Sunday, 31 October 2010.  The Market will have a Halloween theme.  Stalls will be decorated in ghoulish fashion.  Prizes for the best costume on the day.  Fun games for the kids - witches hockey, splat the bat, balloon trick-or-treat, dunking apples, pin the pumpkin.  Lots of goodies and treats to buy.  Get your bags for trick-or-treating.  Have your face painted.  Bring you families and friends and join us for the festivities.

The Market is moving to the upper corner of the Park next to the Library, making it more visible from the street.  Closer to ablutions.  The closest entrance will be the entrance at the Marathon Street, Roberts Avenue, Kitchener Road and Milner Crescent intersection.  Parking in the Library parking lot.

The Market

For too long Rhodes Park has been associated with crime, grime and deterioration, much of this being perception related.  Part of ILKA’s mandate is to develop our community and assist in drawing Kensingtonians and visitors to our area, back into our public spaces thus taking back our village in the city.   As a team, we put our heads together to look at ways in which we can achieve the goal of making Rhodes Park the centre of Kensington again, a place where we can all relax and enjoy this amazing resource.  One of the solutions was to set up a farmers and crafters market that would bring people back into our park while bringing together local artists and culinary experts to sell their wares.  The market has certainly started making an impact and although small at this point, it is growing in reputation and thanks to a dedicated team of volunteers, is about to take off.  Thankfully we have the full support of Johannesburg City Parks which has given the organising committee the freedom to grow the market. 

This blog is part of the marketing strategy that aims to showcase the amazing talents of our stall holders while giving anyone the space to share their thoughts and ideas around the market.  I would like to encourage you to support this amazing initiative as we continue to make Kensington the best suburb to live in in Jozi. 

Brendon Burmester; Chairperson of the I Love Kensington Association