After canceling a summer event due to weather, ATL Free Fair returns to East Atlanta on Nov. 15 with free food, educational discussions, skill shares, crafts, and more. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Atlantans will gather at the Friendship Center for a day full of mutual aid and playful, educational, and collaborative connection.
Along with a full menu of free vegan-friendly food and coffee provided by the Nu Heart Collective and Perc Coffee, attendees will enjoy a community free sale, where they can bring items like clothes, books, electronics, and home goods to give away from and take whatever they’d like; free plants, cuttings, and a seed swap, facilitated by ATL Plant Bench; soil testing by the Georgia Department of Public Health; a moneyless zine pop-up by Paper Hearts; mending by Darn Good Mending; an instrument “petting zoo” with Little Treblemakers ATL; and family-friendly programming that encourages attendees to talk, listen, move, make, and learn together.
RSVPs are encouraged so organizers can provide enough food and ride sharing if needed. To RSVP, visit bit.ly/RSVPaff.
Autumn ATL Free Fair Schedule
*Outdoors
~Indoors, masks required and provided
*11 a.m. Brains and Bodies in Flux: How ADHD, autism, and other neurotypes show up in AFAB people across puberty, pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause
*12 p.m. Hyperlocal Community Resources and Community to Combat Climate Change
*1 p.m. Communication Techniques to Build Inclusive Communities
*1 pm. Global Language Learning Meetup: French, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Korean
*2 p.m. Bodily Autonomy, Birth, and the Current State of Human Rights
*3 p.m. Circle Processes for Transforming Conflict in Community
*11 a.m. Options for Reproductive Autonomy
*12 p.m. Gardening for Resistance
~1 p.m. Fire Cider: The ultimate kitchen medicine
*1 p.m. Autumn Foraging Plant Walk: Food, medicine, and fiber
*2 p.m. Reading the Forest: Understanding the native trees and the health of our urban ecosystems
~3 p.m. Climate Survival Training: Go bags
*11 a.m. Gentle Yoga Flow and Somatics
*12 p.m. Tai Chi and Qi Gong
*1 p.m. Acrobatic Performance
*1:30 p.m. Partner Stretching Demonstration
*2 p.m. Stretch Your Limits
*3 p.m. Playlab
*11 a.m. Land Blessing with Mekko Chebon Kernell
*11:30 a.m. impossible Moon Bookshop Story Time
*11:30 a.m. The People’s Puppet Show
*12 p.m. Story Time with Magdalena and Mama
*12:30 p.m. Story Time with Miss vick
*1 p.m. Introducing Raising Comrades
*2 p.m. Art Thru Words
*3 p.m. Stinging Nettles Performance
~11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Community Quilting
~11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Fall Arts and Crafts
*12 p.m. – 4 p.m. Nature Mandala
*11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Screen Printing Station
*11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Zine Making Station
To learn more, visit bit.ly/atlfreefair.
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