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Goth Pride Market – List of Vendors

We’re super-excited to share the list of amazing, talented vendors taking part in our third annual Goth Pride Market on Saturday, June 20th.

We’ve got 40 incredible artists and artisans serving up so many fantastic creations to help you celebrate this season of love and acceptance.

Leading up to market day, we’ll be running full profiles on many of these folks and their amazing work, but in the meantime, check the list below to see what they’ll have in store for you!

And then come and join us:
Saturday, June 20th
11am – 5pm
Ground Control
1279 Queen St. West

Admission is free.

Participating Vendors…

Armoire Chainmail
Ash Badwoods
BATS ARE PUNK
Black Rose Designs
Body Thudz Artisan Works
CARPENTERGOTHIC
Christian Baines
Crypt Thrift
Deadly Azure
Emo Critters
Eternal Night Candles
eX Press Art
Executive Demon
Fazooli
FeverDream Supreme
GRRRL Spells
Hazie Days
Heks Ornamental
House of Ourobelle
Hypnotic Oddities by Ash Plante
Itadakimassacre
JD Art Company
Knotty Impact
Lilo Joenck
Lowen Designs
Meliora meraki jewellery
Mg nails co
Nolan Brewer Draws
Patticake & Patrician
PRIESTESS jewelry
QT Literary Magazine
radlo studio
Roan’s Carabiner
Shinning Turtle Women
Solkius
Stitches and lace
Threaded Thrifts
Wired by Kerry
witchpussy
Zone 11:11

Vendor call for this market is now closed. Please do not contact us to be added, but visit our Vendor Information page to join the mailing list to receive notice of all upcoming vendor calls.

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Book-ish Market – Thank You!

Oh my God, you guyyyyysssss!!!

On a day when Toronto is experiencing what feels like a typhoon, when bricks and mortar businesses are posting notices about closing early due to inclement weather, when it literally hasn’t stopped raining all day, you all still stepped up!

Yes, there were fewer of you. But those of you who braved the weather still came out and shopped. And for books!

Thank you to everyone who made the trek, wrecked their umbrellas, occasionally got drenched to the skin… and supported our vendors.

Thank you to the many authors, publishers, artists, and artisans who trusted us enough to take part in our first Book-ish Market. We fully believe that the lower turn-out was due to the weather and not the theme or merchandise, and we’re already planning more of these for next year.

And of course, thank you to everyone at Ground Control. We love you all to pieces and couldn’t possibly do this without your assistance and support.

We’re back at Ground Control for our annual Goth Pride Market on June 20th, featuring 35+ artists and artisans from the 2SLGBTQ+ community. We hope that you will join us for a market that is guaranteed to be joyous, welcoming, and fucking fabulous!

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Book-ish Market – Today!

Book-ish Market
Saturday, May 23rd
11am – 5pm
Ground Control
1279 Queen St. W.

Please join us today, Saturday, May 23rd from 11am – 5pm for our first Book-ish Market where we’ll be hosting 40+ authors, writers, and small press publishers, as well as makers of zines, graphic novels, and magazines, plus other artisans of all styles, with a focus on beautiful stationery, cards, journals, and other items essential to readin’ and writin’!

Meet authors and publishers of dark fiction, fantasy, romance, and thrillers, find your favourite new comic, periodical, or zine, or stock up on blank journals, stickers, bookmarks, and bags.

Also, don’t miss the ‘Reading Room” on the Ground Control stage where local tarot readers will read your cards, palms, or tea leaves.

Our market is (mostly) family-friendly, our venue is fully accessible (except for the stage), the bar will be open so you can sip while you shop, and there’s an ATM on site.

Admission is free.

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Book-ish Market – Goth Shopping

If you’re coming to check out our Book-ish Market on Saturday, why not make a day of it and visit some of the other cool markets and events taking place in the GTA on the same day?

Visit us first at:

Book-ish Market
Saturday, May 23rd
11am – 5pm
Ground Control
1279 Queen St. W.

Then check out these other events…

Horrorama runs all day Saturday at 918 Bathurst Street, with a selection of horror films, seminars, and vendors of horror-related wares.

The Toronto Queer Market runs on Saturday at Barbara Hall Park in the gay village with a variety of vendors and drag performances, and the Good Friends Market hosts their Gay Friends Market at Dundas Street West and Dovercourt.

Further from downtown Anime North is running at the Toronto Congress Centre, and the Ontario Markets Book Fair and Craft Market takes place at the Vic Johnston Community Centre, both in Mississauga.

We hope you visit us, obviously, and check out our 40+ authors, artisans and artists. We’ve got an amazing selections of books, magazines, comics and more, as well as a fabulous selection of handmade goods with a focus on writing material and reading- and literature-themed goods.

Also, don’t miss the ‘Reading Room” on the Ground Control stage where local tarot readers will read your cards, palms, or tea leaves.

Our market is family-friendly, our venue is fully accessible (except for the stage), the bar will be open so you can sip while you shop, and there’s an ATM on site.

Admission is free.

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Book-ish Market – Tomorrow

Book-ish Market
Saturday, May 23rd
11am – 5pm
Ground Control
1279 Queen St. W.

Please join us on Saturday, May 23rd from 11am – 5pm for our first Book-ish Market where we’ll be hosting 40+ authors, writers, and small press publishers, as well as makers of zines, graphic novels, and magazines, plus other artisans of all styles, with a focus on beautiful stationery, cards, journals, and other items essential to readin’ and writin’!

Meet authors and publishers of dark fiction, fantasy, romance, and thrillers, find your favourite new comic, periodical, or zine, or stock up on blank journals, stickers, bookmarks, and bags.

Also, don’t miss the ‘Reading Room” on the Ground Control stage where local tarot readers will read your cards, palms, or tea leaves.

Our market is (mostly) family-friendly, our venue is fully accessible (except for the stage), the bar will be open so you can sip while you shop, and there’s an ATM on site.

Admission is free.

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Book-ish Market – One Week Away!

Our Book-ish Market is only one week away! Come visit us and check out the coolest books, zines, magazines, comics, and more! Plus we’ll also have great stuff to write on in the form of journals, stationery, cards and postcards, and stickers, as well as book-related stuff like tote bags and bookmarks, And some vendors of art, jewellery, toys, and decor… all made by talented local artists and artisans. Plus don’t miss our tarot “Reading Room” on the stage with Madame de Savoye and Alien Toronto Tarot available to predict what the future has in store for you!

So mark your calendar and dust off a shelf to make room for all the wonderful stuff you’ll be bringing home.

Book-ish Market
Saturday, May 23rd
11am – 5pm
Ground Control
1279 Queen St. W.

Admission is free.

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Scam Alert Reminder

Hello Darklings,

This is a reminder for potential vendors of TDAM events (or any other market or events where you are required to pay a vendor fee), to please keep yourself safe and ensure that you are dealing directly with the official TDAM account.

We have recently heard from another person who gave money to a scammer back in early January, thinking they were booking space with us for an upcoming market.

We have put a variety of safety measures in place to help prevent situations like this from happening, but they all require potential vendors to be aware of what to look for.

As a reminder:

  • we only accept applications during specific vendor call windows, and only through the form embedded on our official website – we NEVER use JotForm, Google docs, or any other 3rd party application form
  • we only use an official contact@torontodarkartsmarket.com email for all correspondence and payments – we NEVER use gmail, not even a variation of our business name, and we NEVER use DMs on any social network for official business-related interaction
  • on social media, we only post from our official Toronto Dark Arts Market accounts. For some Facebook groups that do not allow pages to post, I will share an official TDAM post via my personal account, but all information will specifically reference and link to our official website
  • we are in regular correspondence with selected vendors leading up to a market; we send out promo packages, load-in documents, and confirmations of all correspondence you send us, such as for payments or image submissions. This will always be from our official email address.

If you come across a vendor call posting that claims to be TDAM and does not link back to our website, or uses anything other than our official email address or social media accounts, please let us know. We do everything we can to get these accounts shut down, but this is an ongoing fight, and they have a tendency to pop back up again.

To ensure you’re seeing our official vendor calls, you can:

  • join the Vendor Mailing List on our website
  • subscribe to the Newsletter on our website
  • follow us on our official accounts on Instagram, Facebook or Threads

As a reminder, we are not responsible for providing either a spot or a refund to any vendor ripped off by scammers. Please be careful out there and protect yourselves.

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Book-ish Market – List of Vendors

We are so excited for our first Book-ish Market. We’ve got 40+ authors, small press publishers, comic artists, zinesters and creators of cool book-related stuff like journals, bookmarks, tote bags, stationery and more.

Plus, don’t miss our tarot “reading room” on the Ground Control stage where three of Toronto’s most fabulous tarot card readers will be set up to tell you your future. (We predict you’ll buy a lot of books!)

We’ll be running full vendor profiles on many of these folks leading up to the event, but in the meantime, check out their accounts to see what glorious delights they’ll have in store for you!

And then come and join us:
Saturday, May 23rd
11am – 5pm
Ground Control
1279 Queen St. West

Admission is free

Participating Vendors…

5th Rock
Aaron Lebold – Author
Ace of Cups Crafts
Alien Toronto Tarot
Alli Temple Books
Ban/She
Bvrcreationsshop
Chaotic Neurotic Creations 
Chloe Carmilla Rose 
Christian Baines
Created by Vall
Dave Sheppard
Dianna Gunn
Dylan Madeley, Author 
eX Press Art 
Executive Demon 
Ezra Mire 
Fever Dream Supreme 
Flesh_Artistry
Frank Paul Beghin 
Genevieve Clovis
Hazie Days
Hill Mary Full Of Grace 
Huesera: Textiles and Bones
Kxtana Studios 
Luna Craft
Madame de Savoye 
Matthew Fries
Michael Morton Illustration
Mirsktoons 
Noel Zaid 
Pastel Dumpster 
PattiCake & Patrician 
Pit of Eden
PLUNDER SHOCK
R. Haven 
Rachel Callahan 
Solkius
Stormbound Books 
Tamara Hecht, indie author 
The Great Lakes Horror Company
VK Thiran 
Wired by Kerry
Xen Publishing 

Vendor call for this market is now closed. Please do not contact us to be added, but visit our Vendor Information page to join the mailing list to receive notice of all upcoming vendor calls.

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Goth Pride Market – Vendor Call Now Closed

The vendor call for our Goth Pride Market on June 20th is now closed. We thank everyone who expressed interest in taking part.

All applicants, including those on the waiting list, will be contacted no later than April 23rd. Please check your inboxes and spam folders.

We ask that artisans who did not apply during the vendor call please do not contact us asking for a spot – any cancellations will be filled from the existing wait list.

To avoid missing calls for future events, be sure to sign up for our vendor mailing list.

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Gothic Garden Market – Thank You

Thank you to everyone who braved the rain and came out to our Gothic Garden Market yesterday. Almost 750 of you (our second largest turnout ever) came through the doors and bought all the things. You made a whole lot of amazing talented artists and artisans incredibly happy.

Thanks to those same artists and artisans who do so much incredible work and devote so much time to creating the coolest stuff. The very best part of my day is seeing your joyful faces as you leave with way less stuff to take home than you came with.

Thanks, as always to everyone at Ground Control, who give us the coolest and most welcoming place to host our market. You take such good care of us and we love working with you.

If you missed us, there are some other great alternative markets in Toronto and Southern Ontario, coming up over the next few weeks…

April 25th: Tr*nny Market – Three Dollar Bill
April 25th: Into the Void Market, Halfway to Halloween – Slovak Centre, Windsor
May 1st & 2nd: Luna Events Canada, Beltane Witches Market – Ancaster Fairgrounds, Hamilton
May 2nd & 3rd: Punk Rock Flea Market Hamilton – The Cotton Factory, Hamilton
May 3rd: Bazaar of the Bizarre – Parkdale Hall
May 16th: XtheGatheringX, Tattoos, Tacos and Tarot – Markets Ontario, Bowmanville

We return to Ground Control on May 23rd for our first Book-ish Market – we’ve got 40+ vendors including authors, small press, zines, comics and graphic novels, as well as artists selling all manner of cool stuff with a focus on stationery, journals, stickers, and book and reading accessories. We’ll also have 3 of Toronto’s coolest tarot readers taking over our stage for private readings in our Reading Room!

Plus, vendor call for our Goth Pride Market on June 20th is open until April 21st, so if you are an artist with a dark side but a rainbow swirl, please visit our website to submit an application to take part.