Status: COMPLETED February 2013 - November 2015
The Market Cooperative is a campus event which offers a space for students who are artistically talented to showcase and sell their work, while networking with other local Montréal artists. Every two months in the SSMU ballroom the group has a market where over 30 local vendors, musicians and hundreds of people attend and enjoy crafts, clothing, photography, artwork, food and more. Support from the SPF is being used to improve and grow the events with a focus on sustainability.
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Are you frustrated by the state of the large, multinational and very often unsustainable capitalist consumption society we currently live in, yet you still need to buy soap, food and awesome art to spruce up your apartment? The Market Cooperative just might be the perfect one-stop shop for you!
Given that McGill does not have a Fine Arts program, students who are artistically talented and creative have a limited platform on which to share their work with the community. When Amelia Brinkerhoff and Samuel Gregory founded the Market Cooperative in December of 2012, their intention was to create an open, creative market space for these local McGill artists - a place where creativity is encouraged in all capacities and where communities can interact in a welcoming and collaborative environment.
Currently, the Cooperative is a community of artists, musicians and friends who are passionate about supporting local entrepreneurship and creativity. Around half of the vendors who participate are McGill students, and the rest are from the Montréal community, and as such the connections the Cooperative forms have been some of the most positive benefits of the event.
Resources from the SPF will be used to make the Cooperative more a sustainable, established and connected part of McGill by bringing in a sustainability coordinator and by providing payment for the use of the ballroom, for marketing the events and a stipend for those involved in the management of the Cooperative. The events themselves promote a more sustainable method of doing business - emphasizing the benefits of buying from and supporting local artists - and a gained appreciation for the creativity and talent that surround us.
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