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The Yuletide Makers Market in Berkeley, CA!
A Holiday market with Hexenfest’s signature witchy flair!
Do you like handcrafted goods, animistic magic, and old world charm? Need some last minute gifts?
Come on out for Hexenfest's FIRST EVER Yuletide Makers' Market, featuring all handcrafted goods made by local artisans with a pagan-polytheist-witchy-animistic bent!
Jewelry, clothing, fiber art, fine art, hand bound books, candles, soaps, oddities, gift cards, and more!
Come have a unique shopping experience, and meet some local artists!
Market is held at Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists from 11am-6pm.
Our Festival
Hexenfest is a music and arts festival for witchy creatives and visionaries and those who love them. We explore themes of the otherworldly, animistic, mythic, pagan, and fairytale. We believe we are better together, and by sharing ideas in an environment of inspiration and play, we can make the world a better place. We believe in lifting each other up! Therefore you’ll find some of the friendliest people you’ve ever met at Hexenfest. Our festival tends toward a “gothic-bohemian” aesthetic. Your spooky goth self is as welcome as your shimmery shiny rainbow self. Or your leafy lacy mushroom self, or your dreamy drippy mermaid self. Bring it!
We have featured artist from genres as diverse as folk metal and industrial goth-rock, to whimsical folk, pagan folk, ethereal fairytale folk, steampunk, and myth punk. One thing they all have in common is they create an otherworldly ambiance, which allows us to open to the inner realms of magic and dream.
Join us for a weekend, and let us see the world through the eyes of enchantment
Learn about our Covid protocols here: https://www.hexenfest.net/covid-protocols
Creating Our Culture; Diversity and Consent at HF
Are you a good fit for Hexenfest? Please read our statement on diversity and consent, as well as our general guidelines and rules. If they make you say “Hell Yes!” we’d love to have you join us!
Our Sponsors
Our sponsors make it possible to keep Hexenfest affordable and intimate while still paying our performers fairly. Come meet them, and give them some love!
Got T-Shirts?
To lift our spirits and help us all stay connected throughout the pandemic, one of our sponsors commissioned this fun shirt design, which says “The best little festival that never was”. It’s got the bands listed on the back as well!
Want to see this, and other Hexenfest designs?
Get a Hexenfest 2020 Commemorative T-shirt, and say you weren’t there!