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Fremont Sunday Market and Outdoor Movies
The 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 providing an 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.
Saturday Nite 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
Both cinemas are a walk-in style event. Saturday nites feature Applaus-O-Meter contests for the best urban campsite, most creative seating, best costume or most overdressed and other ad-hoc games. Fridays are more relaxed without the games and hi-jinx. Admission is by donation. The season typically runs from June through September. 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.
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