AAPI Month Crafting and Maker's Market at Essex Market

Celebate AAPI month with Essex Market!

We are hosting craft workshops and a maker's market to fundraise for local AAPI non-profit organizations

• Make your own pipe cleaner flower
• Decorate Heart of Dinner grocery bags for AAPI Elders
• Shop small AAPI small business to win prizes

The Lower East Side Partnership is organizing this event in conjunction with Heart of Dinner, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity that addresses food insecurity, social isolation, and loneliness among Asian American older adults living in under‑resourced and underinvested communities. Every week, they home deliver hand‑decorated care packages with about three days of culturally comforting meals, fresh produce, and a handwritten love note.

Featured small buisnesses will be selling handmade items including but not limited to:

• stickers
• enamel pins
• ceramics
• decorative rugs
• earrings
• sculptures
• mochi squares
• madeleines

15% of all sales at the maker's market and our ticket proceeds (after fees and cost of goods needed for the event) from tickets would go to AAPI non-profit organizations that address food insecurity among AAPI communities inclusive of neighborhoods like Chinatown and Lower East Side (i.e. Heart of Dinner, Meals For Unity, UA3)

Info: Shop at small AAPI owned businesses all day!

Info: Tap into you artistic side, draw and handwrite notes for Heart of Dinner's AAPI elderly recipients.

Info: Make one easy blue forget me not (small) pipe cleaner flower. Beginner friendly, suitable for young children.

Info: Make one lily (medium) pipe cleaner flower. Intermediate level, suitable for ages 12+.

Info: Make one (large) pipe cleaner flower. Advanced level, suitable for ages 12+.

Info: Make a few flowers to build a mini bouquet!

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