Many hands make light work! If you'd like to get involved in SerendipiDay, please contact us.
We'd love to grow SerendipiDay - and provide more facilities to our community. But that needs people power! If you'd like to get involved in any way, please let us know. Volunteering is also a great way to get to know the Providers and the community.
Live music will be a held space and will have a place for people to contribute and participate. This is a space for all who share music and will embrace the resonance of the environment.
The music at SerendipiDay is live and organic. Jo MudWood is the musical space holder most Saturdays. He sets up the sound for other musicians to share their music. As well as performing himself and with Amira as the duet MudWood.
Acoustic jams, local and traveling musicians and other happenings step up to the microphone.
Come along on the day or contact at [email protected] to perform at SerendipiDay for koha.
Be a Provider
We would love for you to join us in this joyous community gathering. The foundation will be laid for a peaceful, relaxed, and uplifting space for us to connect, enjoy kai, listen to or participate in creative live music, source or share our essential items, and stay real and grounded in this time. We see this as a community fayre where people are gathered for more than a shopping experience: the heart of it is the connection and community sharing.
SerendipiDay is a family friendly fayre: no alcohol, and dogs on leads please.
Kaupapa
Organic is the kaupapa of SerendipiDay. Food, both prepared and produce, are requested to be organically grown. And products are requested to use ethically sourced materials or ingredients. Handmade is preferred. Quality secondhand goods that follow the ethos of earth friendly and wholesome are also welcome.
The fayre is all about community: connecting people, and providing a place of nourishment and replenishment. That’s why we’ve chosen to call SerendipiDay a ‘community fayre’ rather than a ‘market’.
Food
We ask that food providers liaise and communicate with each other in advance with details of what they're bringing, to minimise double ups. After all, making food to bring takes a lot of time, care, effort and also the upfront cost. The fayre is still small at the moment, and no-one likes to take home a big amount of excess food, especially if there's been a double up. This isn't about putting restrictions on people; rather, it's about respecting each other's energies and time.
There is a special group on the Signal app where food providers can communicate with each other.
Music
Live music will be a held space and will have a place for people to contribute and participate. A lot of local musicians have been denied access to share their music in many places. This is a space for all who share music and will embrace the resonance of the environment.
Spaces
Please complete the form at the bottom of this web page if you’re interested in being a Provider at the fayre and tell us what you would like to bring, and how it fits our kaupapa (organic food - or handmade/recycled/earth-friendly items).
Also let us know what kind of space you’d like. e.g. a gazebo site (and how wide your gazebo is), or if you’ll be selling out of the back of your car. Note that we only have a very limited number of vehicle sites. Most Providers will need to unload their items, and then park their car elsewhere.
Once you're accepted as a Provider, we will contact you via email every week to see if you'd like to come.
A contribution of $10 will go towards the landowner’s costs (mowing the land we use, driveway maintenance, etc.), our costs (and improvements we’d like to make to the space), and musicians. We are keen to keep the contribution reasonable, but at the same time $10 doesn’t go very far! If you have a day with fantastic sales - or use a site wider than 3 metres, please consider contributing some additional koha.
There are composting toilets in repurposed portaloos among the banana plantation.
On the day
Set up time is from 2pm, and start time is 3.30pm. Vehicles will need to be out before then, unless you have pre-arranged for your vehicle to stay on your site.
Someone will direct you to your site when you arrive.
End time is at Dusk, though you’re welcome to linger for longer if you wish.
Also on the site…
Crop Swap - every second Saturday 3-5pm at the adjacent Community Garden, with seeds, seedlings, cuttings, produce, preserves, pots, baked goods, and a garden chat! All are welcome. Organised by Transition Towns, Bay of Islands. Check out their Facebook.
Healing Hut - a place for holistic health providers to treat clients. Check out their Facebook and online booking for details. Kerikeri Organic - you will drive past the self-service shop on your way to and from SerendipiDay. It’s open 7 days a week, from 8am till late, so if there’s something you need but couldn’t source at SerendipiDay, this is the place. There’s a fantastic range of organic fruit and produce, as well as organic grocery times. Check out their Facebook.
We are looking forward to coming together and creating something wonderful! Serendipitous things are happening. Let’s celebrate SerendipiDay!
Any questions about being a Provider? Please email us at [email protected]