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Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sales
Ten Thousand Villages festival sales bring a global marketplace of fair trade merchandise to your community for a day or two at a time. Staffed by friendly and knowledgeable volunteers who want to tell you more about the products and the artisans who make them, festival sales are wonderful community events where you can experience the world of Ten Thousand Villages.
Festival sales are overflowing with intriguing, handcrafted merchandise ranging from folk art to ceramics, textiles, baskets, jewelry and musical instruments. Gifts for family and friends, unique home décor that will add an international flair to your home, exquisite handcrafted jewelry – you can find all this, and more, at one of the more than 280 Ten Thousand Villages festival sales across North America.
Host A Festival Sale
Our Festival Sale program enables groups to sell our merchandise without the large investment a shop requires. Festival Sales are not intended to be fund raisers, but organizers may deduct a small percentage of total sales to help cover overhead expenses such as rent and advertising. Proceeds of Festival Sales are returned to Ten Thousand Villages so we can purchase more handicrafts and support more artisans.
- A Festival Sale representative works with you to decide how much merchandise to send to your event. We ship a minimum of $4,000 retail and hope you will sell 50% to 70% of the merchandise.
- Ten Thousand Villages provides a variety of free promotional materials along with proven suggestions for promoting your sale.
- Ten Thousand Villages pays all shipping costs.
- You may keep up to 10% of the income from your sale.
If you would like to host a Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sale in your community, please complete the festival sale information request form to indicate your interest.
Stores & Festival Sales
Find A Festival Sale
To find a Ten Thousand Villages festival sale near you in the US:
Or, select a state to see a list of
or view a listing of all US festival sales.
To find festival sales in Canada, visit tenthousandvillages.ca.
Ten Thousand Villages. A Fair Trade Retailer.
Your fair trade purchase of handmade jewelry, home decor and gifts helps improve
the lives of thousands of artisans in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
