JQT will be hosting a super casual OUTDOOR artisan market in Or Shalom's Sukkah on Sunday, October 16 from 3-6PM to promote local Jewish queer trans creatives!

Drop by, peruse the merch, shake the lulav🌿, admire the etrog🍋, relax and hang out with JQTs - it's Sukkot after all!!

There is no Jewish holiday without food, so bring something to nosh on and share, BUT PRETTY PLEASE bring your own plate/utensils/cups (these will NOT be provided).

This event is weather dependent, as the sukkah is open to the starry sky! So bundle up, bring a thermos of your fav teeeeeaaaa, and bring a blanket!!!

WHO IS TABLING (so far)?

🌠Azra Silverstein - you may remember Azra from our Jewitch Passover Seder! Drop by for a special sukkot/harvest tarot spread. Follow on IG @tarot.by.azra

🌠Retrophiliac - you've definitely seen Margaux's work on everyone and everything! Stock up on communication, neurodivergent, pride and pronoun pins. See their full merch here: https://shopretrophiliac.com/

🌠JQT - we've got JQT T-shirts and Return of the Jewdi Stickers designed by The Non-Binary Stranger, Enby pins by JQT Dream Team member Morgan Strug, tsumami-zaiku flowers by JQT Founder Carmel Tanaka, and adoooorable knitted slippers for babies, youth and adults in various pride flag colours by Carmel's mother Dalia!

WANT TO TABLE?

Are you a Jewish queer trans artist in town? If sooooo, please send an email to info@jqtvancouver.ca with link(s) or pics to your products/service, and JQT will get back to you to confirm your participation. There is no fee to table. If you would like to donate a portion of your proceeds to JQT, we would warmly welcome that, but it's not required! You are fully responsible for packing in and packing out, protecting your goods, and collecting payment for your goods.

Or Shalom Synagogue has generously donated use of their sukkah for JQT to host this event. We can use their tables, chairs and accessible washroom too. THANK YOU!

COVID-19 POLICY:

🦠JQT strictly follows the recommendations of Vancouver Coastal Health and makes decisions accordingly. Mask wearing is optional, but encouraged in group settings and to protect those in our circles who are immunocompromised.

WHO ARE WE?

🏳️‍🌈JQT Vancouver is a volunteer run Jewish Queer and Trans non-profit dedicated to ‘queering’ Jewish spaces and ‘Jew-ifying’ queer spaces. www.jqtvancouver.ca

📍Our work takes place on the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.