2004 Marketplace

Reed College Campus, Portland, Oregon
9:00 to 6:00 Daily • August 13–14–15, 2004

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The lively sounds of marimba and mbira music from Zimbabwe will accompany you while you stroll this festive, open-air musical instrument and crafts marketplace. Zimfest Market offers high quality African musical instruments from Zimbabwean and North American instrument makers. You will find beautifully handcrafted wooden marimbas, mbiras from renowned Zimbabwean mbira makers, African hosho and other percussion, exquisite Shona serpentine sculpture, art from rural Zimbabwean villages, fabric and clothing, a wide selection of southern African and Zimbabwean CDs & tapes, and much more.

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VENDOR APPLICATION DEADLINE: JULY 15

Market Vendors

Afrika’s Rising Children

P.O. Box 1076, Cave Junction OR 97523 •
African clothing including children’s clothing, calabash, jewelry, Shea butter, etc.

Ancient Ways/Nhimbe for Progress

P.O. Box 346, Scio OR 97374 • (541) 258-8710
www.ancient-ways.org •
Hand crafted stone sculpture and textile items (clothing, bags, finger puppets, scrunchies) made by women and men in Mhondoro, Zimbabwe. Ancient Ways is a 501c(3) non-profit focused on honoring indigenous traditions as they serve the life of the child, providing assistance (sponsoring children to attend school, rebuilding collapsed huts, building fuel efficient wood stoves, providing medical assistance and micro-loans) to 7 villages in Zimbabwe through Nhimbe for Progress.

Dandaro Cylch

1801 Old Green Spring Hwy., Ashland OR •
Arts and crafts, handmade traditional Zimbabwean crafts, fabrics, wooden spoons, dolls, hats, and bags. All fair trade made by individuals and co-ops.

Dandemutande

1122 East Pike Street #1163, Seattle WA 98122
www.dandemutande.org •
Zimbabwean music recordings, books, and films. Dandemutande is a resource for Zimbabwean music around the world, including an email listserve for announcements and discussions, a not-for-profit mail order catalog, a resource guide listing teachers, performers, and instrument makers, and a magazine archive of articles about the music, the instruments, and the people.

Dean Woodworking

4304 NE 18th Ave., Portland OR
www.deanwoodworking.com •
Custom-designed marimbas.

Fredtronics Custom Marimbas, Deze Division

home.teleport.com/~marimba/fredtron.htm
• (503) 233-4372
Fredtronics is a wholly owned subsidiary of Harsh Light of Reality Music, manufacturing dezes (gourd resonators for mbira), marimba building videotapes (This Old Marimba) and marimbas. Operated by Fred King, a veteran of Boka Marimba.

GOURDGEMS by Stephanie Abels

P.O. Box 388, Rainier WA 98576
(360) 894-7087 •
Gourd art and fine-tuned shekeres in custom colors and sizes, crafting “kits” and playing instructions to enhance your Zimbabwean style rhythm expression.

Hosho by MyLinda King

2904 NE Flanders St., Portland OR 97232 • (503) 233-4372
www.teleport.com/~marimba/hosho.htm •
Hosho lovingly made by MyLinda King, hota seed from Zimbabwe, instruction book and seeds. Hosho can be custom dyed to many colors.

Indigenous Design Ceramic Instruments

610 Seventh St., Baldwin MI 49304 •
I make ceramic instruments including flutes, marakas, many styles of African and Latin hand-drums.

In-Stitches

214 Milita Road, Lopez Island WA 98261
(360) 468-4425 •
Hand-quilted mbira bags to protect your instruments with silk and color.

Michael Kanner

501 Beverly Ave, Capitola CA •
Bamboo flutes and bamboo flutemaking. I will bring my tools and bamboo to make flutes with the children @$5 ea. and have flutes of all keys available for sale.

Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center

P.O. Box 28111, Eugene OR 97402 • (541) 345-9454
www.kutsinhira.org •
T-shirts, CDs, mbira bags, batiks from Zimbabwe. Kutsinhira is a center for teaching and performing Zimbabwean music and also raises money to fund community development projects in Zimbabwe.

Limitless Sky Records LLC

10852 4th Ave. S., Seattle WA 98168
www.limitlesssky.net •
We sell CDs from Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethopia, Guinea and Senegal, MP3s, cloth, organic oils from Zanzibar, incense, T-shirts made in the USA, and greeting cards and posters depicting our artists.

Marimba Productions

2171 Sarazen Ave., Sacramento CA 95822 •
Mbiras, hosho, dezes.

Marimbaworks

765 W. 40th Ave, Eugene OR 97405 • (541) 343-8153
www.marimbaworks.com •
Handcrafted marimbas, mallets, and hosho by Craig LaFollette.

MBIRA

Erica Azim, P.O. Box 7863, Berkeley CA 94707-0863
(510) 548-6053 • www.mbira.org •
MBIRA is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to educate the public regarding traditional Shona music of Zimbabwe, including mbira music, and to develop a library of recordings to preserve that music. We will be selling mbira music CDs, MBIRA t-shirts, and mbira player ebony sculptures.

Anne Muponda

2335 Lakeshore Blvd. West, Etobicoke ONT, Canada

I will be selling mbira and a variety of stone and wooden carvings from Zimbabwe.

Naira and Kobo African Imports

1616 SW 8th Dr., Gresham OR •
Clothes, baskets, jewelry, fabrics, hats, wooden carvings, and dolls.

Obada Enterprises

2725 NE Buxton, Portland OR 97232 •
Handmade Nigerian batik clothing, Nigerian jewelry, Nigerian printed cotton fabric, handmade metal sculpture by Mufu Ahmed.

Folami Obikolawole

P.O. Box 6242, Beaverton OR 97007
(503) 922-2188 •
I make beautiful handcrafted pillows and handbags from African mud cloth and deerskin. I will also sell handmade clothing and jewelry.

RhythmWalk for Zimbabwe

Loren Mach, P.O. Box 249, Eldorado Springs CO 80025
www.zimwalk.org •
I will be providing information about my fundraising walk on the Pacific Crest Trail to raise money for causes in Zimbabwe. I will also be selling RhythmWalk T-shirts.

Rosebush Marimba

27187 S. Benjamin Rd., Estacada OR 97023

Marimbas made by Peter Bush.

Forest Shomer, Inside Passage Seeds

P.O. Box 639, Port Townsend WA 98368
(360) 385-6114 •
Handcrafted hosho containing Hawaiian-grown hota seed. Supplemental hota can be purchased separately as well.

Village Health Project and Tariro Young Women’s Education Fund
510 Lochmoor Pl., Eugene OR •
This joint display will mostly be informational about two non-profit organizations that provide educational and health assistance to the people of Zimbabwe. We may be offering a few Zimbabwean craft items to support both projects.
Zilk Mallets

2595 Troy Ct., West Linn OR •
Marimba mallets.

Zimbabwe Artists Project

2236 SE Ladd Ave., Portland OR 97214 •
We will be selling appliques, painted fabrics and boards from Zimbabwe, and t-shirts (made in U.S. from design by Zimbabwean artist).

Zimbabwean Music Festival
www.zimfest.org •

T-shirts, posters, mbira bags, CDs.

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