Fremont Sunday Market

Time after time we hear remarkable stories from shoppers and vendors alike, regaling the most outlandish things people come looking for and find at the market. Maybe not always the first time around, but eventually and reliably. We've come to realize that the market is a sort of magic box; what you wish for or hanker after, darned if you don't find it here. Like rare life size statues from China, strange and unusual toys from your childhood or the gal who fell in love with the Cape Cod chairs and married the maker. Maybe Fremont's in one of those vortexes, or maybe you just have to believe. But as long as you're there, try it out for yourself, see if the magic works for you.

All Year Long: Rain or Shine
The Fremont Sunday market started in the fall of 1990 with modest ambitions of providingan accessible community marketplace for anyone who wanted a place to sell their goods and try their ideas. It's grown some since then. Now it hosts as many as 200 vendors from all over the region who bring flowers and fresh farm produce, high quality crafts and artworks, world imports, and a hugely diverse flea market where browsers and treasure hunters seem to find anything and everything.

We Have Fun Here
Despite the throng of regular vendors, it's still a place where people can just show up on an early Sunday morning and get involved. Because of this, the market has a diverse and constantly changing array of interesting things to offer. Fremont, with all its shops and bistros and unusual places, is the perfect compliment to a market place. All-in-all this is a fun place to brunch and browse and an attractive venue for the artist and micro business person to meet the public on a weekly basis. And we like to remind you that not only is Fremont a dog friendly environment, many of the Fremont dogs are shop owners too. You can meet Pushkin (shown to the right) at Show Pony through the week, but you will also see him most Sundays perusing the puppy toys and fun eats at the Sunday Market.

If you want to sell at the market... or just get more info about your trip to window shop, you can get all your questions answered on the official Fremont Sunday Market website.

Note to new vendors, the Sunday Market is a grassroot organization and cannot answer all the phone calls they receive. If you are interested in selling you will need a City of Seattle business license. To become a vendor bring a copy of you license to the Sunday Market office (under the Red Door Alehouse) on Sunday at 6:45am, membership is $40 for the year and booth spaces are $40 for a 10 x 10 spot, $25 for a table space, $5 to rent a table and chair.

Fremont Outdoor Movies


This is a community spirited big screen celebration of pop classics, cult favorites, independent film, video shorts and high camp old fashioned summer fun. Co-founded by Jon Hegeman from the Fremont Market and Charlotte Buchanan from the GlamOrama, the movies are a cross between old-time matinees, Cinema Paradiso and the vanishing All-American drive-in.

Off The Wall Entertainment
Around dusk on warm summer weekend nights adventurous people of all ages arrive bedecked with lawn chairs, rubber boats, sofas, costumes and fun attire to join in the popular late night pastime. Here, too, the audience is often the best part of the show. It's the original interactive theater where people are actually encouraged to join in the atmosphere of irreverent humor and laid back good times.

Good Old-Fashioned Summer Fun
Movies are (mostly) shown on Saturday evenings. Features include the well-loved, Photo Booth, Applaus-O-Meter, contests for the best urban campsite, most creative seating, best costume or most overdressed and other ad-hoc games and entertainment (like the photo above, with hair cutting contest before the showing of Hairspray).

Admission is by donation, we ask $5 (and when we say donation, we mean... if you want us here next year, pleeeeeze give at the box office). The season typically runs from June through August (although occastional later season movies do sneak in at the last minute). Movies start at dusk and the parking lot opens for seating at 7pm for those who want to get the prime spots. For some, Hibachis and picnic dinners are a popular past time, while others forage among Fremont's many excellent pubs, bistros and restaurants prior to show time. So bring your friends, come often, and spread the word. This is the way summer movies were meant to be enjoyed.

Fremont Outdoor Movies makes it into the Guinness Book of Worlds Records with the Undead
Never a group to be outdone. In 2009 3849 Zombies decended on Fremont to watch Shaun of the Dead and dance to Thriller. Then, after the title had been stolen by a group of Zombies in England the Fremont Zombies rose again from the dead to regain the Guinness Book World Record in 2010. But then those pesky people in New Jersey again stole the title so, no rest for the undead in 2011.

Can 2011 be another record setting year? Come and join the fun and make Fremont the Zombiest place on earth.

Saturday, July 2, 2011, 2pm

Find out all the action and the latest movie listings and times here.