April Newsletter

Hello Artisans of the Emirates
With ARTE in RaK and ARTE in the DMM mall we are running a little late, we apologise......

We take bookings for the following UPCOMING EVENTS:
31st March to 2nd April Dubai Marina Mall Street Festival
1st April Dubai Festival City Centre near Ikea
8th April Times Square Center Dubai
6th May Dubai Festival City Centre
13th May Times Square Center Dubai

APRIL MARKETS
The bookings form for the DFC and TSC events are available here www.arte.ae/docs.html .
We only have a couple of ART spaces left at the DMM Street Festival event, all craft tables are taken.
Deadline for your payment for DFC and TSC is the last Wednesday before each of these events.

MONTHLY MARKETING THEME
The theme for April is Save the Earth and Easter. Rohini has written an amazing special on Save the Earth as an artisan. Please click on this link to read more www.arte.ae/docs/EcoARTE.docx

Art House Dubai Gallery
Arte are working with Art House Gallery to set up a "drop off" box. The box will be used as an easy form/money drop off location (instead of bothering the Art House girls). It will also be stacked with envelopes and blank forms, (should your forget yours). This may take a few weeks to get set up, so in the meantime, please continue to be polite and well mannered when dealing with ART House gallery, and make sure that any questions you may have are answered either over the phone or via Email before you reach the Art House gallery.

COMPETITIONS
· Best February stall was by our teenage vendors Miss Alycia and Elyssa doing jewellery and cards. They have been awarded with a free table in April. Best stalls are measured by LIKE clicks on our facebook fan page.
· Best March stall photographs are uploaded, and wait for your clicks. Please invite your own friends to view the album and click what they like. In order for this to work, please also tag yourself, and comment where necessary. Recently we had a fabulous conversation between a few vendors about the emotions raised by a pencil drawing.

ARTISAN HIGHLIGHT
ARTE Teenangers in the spot light. We have the regular attendance of Chad and his arty schoolmates as well as Louise and her. Where the product is entirely made by the students, and when the initiative comes from the students (less than 18 yrs old) a half rate on the overall fee is offered.

ARTISAN TIPS & TRICKS
We often see vendors who only visit an ARTE market once, never to return, and we have great difficulty understanding this logic. We total understand that each of you have your own reasons for attending which vary from a day out (away from you home and kitchen), a day with like minded people, for some it is just a test to see how the market responds to your new product idea and for others (especially in these difficult times) it is all about the money.
But in our opinion it is very difficult to judge with just one visit. If you talk to any of our founder members, they all have good days and bad. If you have a good original well made product, a fine display that represents an identity style, as well as commitment and a chatty attitude with a smiley face, then you will succeed, but it may just take a little patience. It may require a small change in your pricing, or your product to turn what seems like a total loss into a huge profit making business. The key is to keep talking to your customers and other vendors, listen to what they have to say. As the old saying goes “if you keep doing the same thing, you are going to get the same results” and life is a journey and so is your evolvement at ARTE markets.
If you have any good ideas to share, why not drop us a line so we can include it in our next newsletter in May.

DOCUMENTS
ARTE registration forms, click here. Please fill in the date of the event you wish to take part in.
ARTE market themes documents, click here.
ARTE food regulations documents, click here.
ARTE is Green documents, click here.
ARTE poster Dubai Marina Mall, click here
ARTE poster Dubai Festival City Centre, click here
ARTE poster Times Square Center Dubai, click here.
Please email these posters, put on your own website, facebook, print and cut and hand out.

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
ARTE on Facebook, click here
ARTE on Blogspot, click here
ARTE on Twitter, click here
ARTE on the Internet, click here

LOCATIONS & DIRECTIONS
Art House Dubai Gallery, click here
Times Square Center, click here
Dubai Festival City Centre, click here
Al Hamra Mall, RAK, click here
Dubai Marina Mall, click here

We look forward to your registrations and your enquiries,

Kindest regards,

Miriam Walsh & Paul Townsend
www.arte.ae
info@arte.ae









































Miriam Walsh & Paul Townsend
www.arte.ae
info@arte.ae