Alongside the stage, our events run a marketplace. Not as decoration, as the point.<\/p>\n
Caterers served jollof rice and asaro from chafing dishes. Skincare makers laid out oils and balms. Bakers brought cake. Stylists did nails between sets. People who normally sell through a phone number and a WhatsApp status had a table, a banner and a queue.<\/p>\n
A stall at a community event is often the first time a small business is seen by people outside its own network. It is also the cheapest market research there is.<\/p>\n
Between events, our community business directory keeps those businesses findable. Add yours<\/a>, or browse the directory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Caterers, skincare makers and crafters filled the marketplace at our Barrie gathering. Meet the Black-owned and newcomer-owned businesses behind the stalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"description":"Caterers, skincare makers and crafters filled the marketplace at our Barrie gathering. Meet the Black-owned and newcomer-owned businesses behind the stalls.","title":"Meet the makers who filled our marketplace"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgealliancecanada.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}