Old Southside Farmers Market

 






“An outdoor market with an ethnic and historic focus - where Eastern Europe meets Latin America”

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Sponsored by Urban Anthropology Inc. and the Milwaukee County Park System
Collaborators: Lincoln Village Business Association and its members, 7th/Lincoln Block Club and Lincoln Neighborhood Redevelopment Corp.

Located at lovely Kosciuszko Park in the Lincoln Village neighborhood (7th and Lincoln Ave.)
Sundays, June 15-October 26, 11:00 am to 3pm

Market features:

  • Fresh (and often organic) fruits and vegetables
  • Horse and carriage rides every Sunday
  • Ethnic music/performers
  • Non-alcoholic cold drinks
  • Street performers
  • Honey, meat and cheese
  • Crafts and local art
  • Flowers and plants
  • Polish and Latino foods
  • Free literature about the cultural history of the Old South Side and Milwaukee in general

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Special Sundays at the Market:

Cultural craft-making demonstrations - such as

  • Polish Wycinanki 'paper-cut design', wood carvings, lace/embroidery
  • Latino piñatas, metal cut-outs, box guitars, santos
  • Milwaukee South Side Artist Guild exhibits and demonstrations
  • Wisconsin Indian beading

Street performers - such as

  • Puppet shows for kids
  • Civil War Drum and Fife Corps
  • Latino clowns
  • Musicians and dancers

Artists days - such as

  • Local artists and sculptors
  • Art-on-order, such as portrait drawing, body painting, mask painting

 

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Urban-Anthropolgy Inc.

707 W. Lincoln Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53215
Phone (414) 271-9417
Fax (414) 271-9417

Executive Director: Jill Florence Lackey, PhD

Email: jflanthropologist@sbcglobal.net

Visits Since January 2005