You’re pumped full of tryptophan, you caught up with the in-laws and played your last game of Apples to Apples. Maybe you saw that curious new Thanksgiving-themed slasher flick where Patrick Dempsey plays the town sheriff—the one with Addison Rae.

Now it’s time to get out of the house and remember why you moved to Portland. In its 10th year, the Portland Bazaar is adding a new Thanksgiving weekend of local shopping, in addition to its two mid-December weekends. The semi-outdoor “European market” will set up shop in the old garden center of Orchard Supply Hardware, in the Goat Blocks, Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Sunday, it’s popping up at Pioneer Courthouse Square, and congregating around the freshly lit biggest Christmas tree in town.

Vendors more or less compete to appear at the Baazar. Articulating which vendors make the cut is a bit nebulous. Delia Tethong, who’s run the Bazaar since 2015, curates the roster via longstanding relationships and email applications, and after years of growing the event and honing its character, she says she knows it when she sees it. “It’s technically an invite-only situation,” she says—the roster of over 150 vendors usually fills out in a single week.

For many vendors, the Bazaar is their only market of the year, otherwise you have to seek them out online or hope to find their goods in shops. “It’s not like a craft fair bazaar at your kids’ school,” says Tethong. Graziano and Gutiérrez’s hand-sewn-in-Portland garments made from heirloom Oaxacan textiles will be at this year’s event, as will Pigeon Toe’s minimal, pastel-toned pottery, and candles from Maak Lab (the folks behind Knot Springs’s signature smell).

The vendor lineup for the Thanksgiving weekend event is slightly curtailed, hosting around 40 vendors, most of whom will appear again in December. Tethong says the kickoff weekend will be a comfortable mix of shopping and mingling over Straightaway Cocktails and Cloudforest drinking chocolate, with bites from the St. Johns wursthaus Urban German. “We’ll have warm sausages, mulled wine—just really leaning into the Glühwein vibes,” she says, referencing the warming German “glow-wine.”

The biggest events take place in an industrial building in Northwest Portland. On December 9–10 and 16–17, more vendors than you could hope to visit will fill out the expansive space, ready to chat about their painstakingly crafted ceramics, locally processed chocolate, candles, visual art, vintage clothing and housewares, handmade furniture, baked goods, locally distilled spirits, jewelry … it’s a lot.

Tethong is excited about hosting Ham Council, a ceramic artist who usually sells her one-off mugs decorated with cheeky line drawings via Instagram drops. “She kind of has a cult-y following,” Tethong said.

Orox Leather Co. is a longtime favorite vendor. “They’re all brothers,” Tethong explains, “and their dad started the company with them—it’s literally a lineage of Oaxacan leather makers.”

The Bazaar is likely the only venue where you can chat up your favorite potter or clothier, taking the community-focused idea of local shopping a step further. The best gifts always come with a story attached. 

The Portland Bazaar European market will be in the Goat Blocks 3–8 p.m. Friday, November 24 & 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday, November 25; at Pioneer Courthouse Square 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday, November 26. 

The larger event is at the Premier Gear & Machine Works Building 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday & Sunday, December 9 & 10 and 16 & 17.