Katia, Rose and Cat from Creative Insight Pottery, Griffin Vintage Furniture & Gifts and Rustic Daisy's are hosting their second annual Made for You By Hand Market in the Franklin Street parking lot behind their respective businesses on Saturday, September 11. The organizing team has been reaching out to Village businesses to get involved, perhaps by running a concurrent promotion that weekend.

For more information on ways you can get involved, please direct any questions to:

Katia Lemos, info@creativeinsightpottery.com

Rose Khara, info@griffinvintage.com

Cat MacCrimmon, cat.maccrimmon@yahoo.com

We're looking forward to a fun and lively weekend in the Village, especially if a number of businesses join in offering something special in tandem with the Made by Hand For You Market. The BIA will help promote the market, along with any special activities BIA businesses have planned (such as save the tax events, sidewalk sales, BOGO offers, special restaurant menu offers, etc.). on our social media and website.

Please forward details (and any graphics you may have) to adamneumann@waterdownbia.ca.

Summer Sounds Sept 10 - 12

We're adding some music and art.

Temporary art installations will land on various corners of the BIA to set the mood, add ambience and drive foot traffic Friday through Sunday of the Sept. 10 to 12 weekend.

'Summer Sounds' - are 3 ft. high pyramids that play original music from featured Hamilton musicians and are decorated with artwork created by local Hamilton artists. The pyramids will be displayed from 10 AM to 9:30 PM on Friday and Saturday and from 10 AM to 4 PM on Sunday.

Shop Late Event Sept. 10, until 9:00 PM

Traffic studies show that many commuters don't make it back to Waterdown until after 7 PM. We'd like to kick-off the market weekend with a Shop Late event that will give people an opportunity to stroll our streets, listen to the 'Summer Sounds' installations and discover (or re-discover) your businesses at a time that aligns with their schedules.

Many of you expressed an interest in participating in a Shop Late night event on the Friday evening ahead of the Made by Hand for You Market. Non-retail businesses might consider setting up an 'information' table to greet customers, hand out business cards and/or samples or sponsor some type of arts or entertainment activity.

If enough businesses chose to participate, the BIA will confirm and promote the Shop Late event as well as all participating business activities.

We're watching what is happening with the 4th wave predicted by some health officials - but in the current environment, outside activities have been deemed safe, especially where participants do not need to congregate in small spaces.

So, we're looking at bringing the Treat Walk back to Waterdown Village this fall. Instead of having costumed kids enter each participating business to collect their treats (difficult with indoor capacity limits), we're thinking about setting up 'treat stations' within different sections of the BIA footprint.

Treat bags for each station will be filled with goodies and items donated by the BIA and participating businesses from each quadrant. Families would work their way around the Village, looking for scarecrows and clues and to pick up treat bags from various treat stations. Businesses will have the opportunity to gain exposure by including cards and/or coupons and treats in the treat bags. People will also have more space to make a shop stop as they work through town.

Our last Treat Walk in 2019 was very popular and well attended. Some businesses ran out of candy quickly and had to replenish stock. It is always hard to anticipate how many treats we will need, but we will likely stuff about 300 bags for treat stations (on a first come, first serve basis). You can contribute as many or as few treats from your business as desired / able and we will divide up amongst the treat bags.

Thanks for registering or showing an interest in fall events. More details will be forthcoming as we tally poll results.