During the course of the event participants would bring goods, services, art, food, and skills to share. As a group we promoted the event and helped to coordinate the schedules we would have a number of simultaneous workshops, presentations or skill-shares happening around the space simultaneously. We also recruited and scheduled live music which meant anything from marching bands, to klezmer, folk, punk and hip-hop acts.
Other like minded groups like Time's Up!, Radical Reference, Freegan, the Freegan Bike Workshop, Freecycle and others regularly set up tables, promoted their organizations and shared food, clothing, or services. Individuals often shared massage, yoga, hairstyling, face painting (not just for kids,) and tax advice instruction or services. A free market was held on average once or twice per year until the Fall of 2008 when we made them monthly events.
Unfortunately in the Winter of 2009 at least in part in due to internal issues withing the church St. Mark's decided they could no longer host the markets on such a regular basis. A number of publications reported on the possible end of the regular markets and as a result Judson Memorial Church offered us space to host the events. I coordinated between In Our Hearts and Judson and helped to organize the monthly events for the remainder of 2009.
