Please note

Dear ARTE members

Over the past few years we have made a great effort to build and establish the ARTE brand. At the ARTE markets in Times Square Centre and at Dubai Festival City we are proud to provide an outlet and an opportunity for genuine art and craft designers to display their craft & art work and skills. (We are well aware of the other markets such as school fairs, flea markets, etc, that exist in Dubai that provide alternative opportunities for vendors to sell their wares.)

We have perhaps become victims of our own success and recently we have noticed that some vendors have tried to take advantage of the popularity of the ARTE markets and have introduced products which do not satisfy the criteria which we have set as a condition of ARTE membership. The products on display at the ARTE markets have to be of the highest quality, unique design, one of a kind, original, and made with a genuine love and devotion, as well as these products have to be made in the UAE under the vendors’ management. This has also come to the attention of the mall management on whose patronage we rely.

Therefore, following an assessment of the products being displayed by a number of vendors in the past two weeks at Festival City, we have been obliged to advise certain vendors that they are not able to participate in future ARTE markets with their existing product range. It is with some regret that we have taken this action, but we consider it necessary to protect ARTE and to ensure that we maintain our unique selling proposition which both our members and our customers have come to expect from an ARTE event.

Thank you all for your understanding and support.

Kindest regards

Miriam Walsh and Paul Townsend
ARTE management
www.arte.ae