San José Made will be doing its 2nd Annual SJMADE Summer Fair on July 6-7, 2024 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. This is going to be a large-scale, super fun, potentially super funny indoor summertime festival featuring 300+ makers, artists, designers and creative small businesses within seven (7) themed sections:
Very Handmade: Featuring beautiful, unique, meticulously crafted and well-made handmade goods.
Way Too Cute: Featuring goods designed with one thing in mind: to be the cutest of all time.
Sparkle Emoji Aesthetic: Featuring goods meant to make people feel beautiful and positive vibes about themselves and/or about each other.
Weird & Wonderful: Featuring goods designed with uniqueness and unexpectedness but altogether wonderfulness in mind.
For All The Faves: Featuring goods inspired by and celebrating our absolute pop culture faves from movies, TV, anime, video games and music.
Totally Tiny: Featuring goods designed to celebrate the meticulous magic and boundless beauty of small crafted objects.
Cat Lover Craft Market (near Mini Cat Town's Kitten Lounge: Featuring goods inspired by and celebrating cats. This vendor section of the next will be near Mini Cat's Kitten Lounge as well as additional cat themed activities to create a maximum cat loving experience.
This event is free admission to attend. Free on-site parking is available (please read the parking info on our event page BEFORE attending the event). All ages welcome. Featuring activations by Mini Cat Town, Y2K Glam Shotz Photo Booth and DIY workshops & activities to be announced.
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Event Dates & Times
Saturday, July 6, 2024: 11 am to 5 pm
Sunday, July 7, 2024: 11 am to 5 pm
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Location
Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054 (view on Google Maps)
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Event Details
This event is free admission to attend.
There is free on-site parking available. See the "Parking" section below. There is also a VTA Light Rail Station "Great America Station" across the street from the venue. Plan your light rail trip to the event here: https://www.vta.org/trip-planner
No outside food & beverage will be allowed into the event
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Pet Policy
Per the venue's rules, strictly only service animals are allowed inside the venue. The venue's security team will ask any non-service animals to be removed from the venue if they encounter any.
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Accessibility
Accessibility parking is available at the front entrance of the Santa Clara Convention Center near the drop-off zone (and front doors into the venue). View overhead diagram.
Attendees with accessibility needs should proceed directly to the front entrance of the event, even if there is a line.
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Parking
There is free on-site parking spaces available at the Santa Clara Convention Center's Parking Lot (5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA) as well as its Secondary Parking Lot on Tasman Drive (2525 Tasman Drive, Santa Clara, CA). You can view the image to get a sense of where these lots are located in relation to the actual Convention Center building.
Additional Parking Notes:
The drop-off zone and accessibility parking area are located directly in front of the Santa Clara Convention Center near the main entrance (view our site map here).
If you enter the venue from Great American Parkway entrance near the Hyatt Regency, you should see the main parking entrance straight ahead once you turn into the venue.
If you somehow find yourself circling the parking tower on-site looking for the main entrance, you'll see a few PERMIT ONLY entrances on the ground level of the parking tower. You will NOT be able to access the lot from these entrances. If you see these PERMIT ONLY entrances, please continue circling the lot until you find the main entrance.
There are some spots marked for the Hyatt Hotel's Valet Parking on the ground level of the parking structure. Your vehicle will be towed if it is parked in one of these spots.
If the Santa Clara Convention Center Parking Lot and the Secondary Parking Lot are full on any of the days, we recommend viewing the lot options here. Please note that these options may be closed or may be paid options.
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Mini Cat Town Kitten Lounge
Reserve your kitten lounge time slot in advance
One ticket will secure 15 mins of kitten playtime at your designated time slot. There will be 30 adoptable kittens on site looking for pets and cuddles! There will be a few walk-in tickets reserved for each time slot, but we highly recommend making your reservation in advance.
Your order confirmation is your ticket entry. Tickets will not be shipped out. Tickets are non-refundable. Any child under 12 must enter with an adult (two tickets will be required in this case).
If you have a ticket and there is a line to get into the event, please proceed directly to the entrance and show the staff your ticket so you don't have to wait in line and potentially miss your time slot.
All visitors will be required to wear shoe covers and sign our liability waiver.
Mini Cat Town is a nonprofit 501(c)-3. All donations are welcomed and go back into saving more kittens. Since 2019, Mini Cat Town has rescued and adopted out over 1,500 kittens. Adoption lounges are located in Eastridge Shopping Center, Stoneridge Shopping Center and Santa Rosa Plaza. For more information, please visit https://minicattown.org.
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Y2K Glam Shotz Photo Booth
$7 per photo session. First come first serve. 2 poses per photo booth session for you and your besties. 4 people max per session. You will receive 2 wallet size prints of each pose per session, a total of 4 prints. $5 for extra prints.
View photos from Y2K Glam Shotz at previous SJMADE events!
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Keyboard Keycap Making by TinyMakesThings
$5 per keyboard keycap making session. First come first serve. Approximately 20 people per session with each session taking about one hour (30-45 mins to sculpt with 20 mins to bake the keycap). Maximum of 100 to 150 people per day.
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Door Giveaway
We will be distributing free door giveaways to the first 1,000 attendees each day. Staff and Vendors at the event will NOT be eligible to receive a door giveaway.
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View Vendor Lineup & Event Map
View the Vendor Lineup as a Google Sheet sorted alphabetically and sorted by booth number with the vendor's Instagram accounts
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