Night Market is our annual free outdoor event where we stay open late so you can shop, eat and drink until the sun goes down. Market House Merchants and Outdoor Market Vendors alike will be popped up outside serving food and selling locally made products, and storefronts on both Race and Elm Street will stay open until 9 PM. There will be various interactive stations as well as live music all evening. 

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Programming

Activities:

• Cincinnati Circus Company: 6 - 8 PM

• Strolling Magician

• Creative Asian Society: 6 - 9 PM

  • Free Origami Making Workshop

• Open Mic at Race St. Station: 6 - 7 PM ahead of the Poetry Slam

• Poetry Slam at Race St. Station: 7 - 8:30 PM in partnership with Quills & Queers.

Music:

• CLEÖCRT at Jane’s from 6 PM - 9 PM 

• DJ Diamond at Race St. Station from 6 - 8:30 PM

  • Open Mic from 6 - 7 PM, Poetry Slam from 7 - 8:30 PM

Games:

• PLINKO: $5 for three balls

• Split the Pot: $5 for 1 tickets for $20 for 5 tickets

Bar Partnerships:

• Castle & Key Distillery

• Sampling & a VIP Tour of the Castle & Key Distillery for 6 guests giveaway!

• Cincinnati Beverage Company

  • Little Kings Samples & Swag

  • Photo Op with the Little Kings Throne

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Participating Businesses

Storefronts:

All storefronts are open until 9 PM unless otherwise noted

• The Arepa Place (open until 8 PM)

• Bee Haven (open until 8 PM)

• BQuirkie 

• Cincinnati Hemp Company

  • Kurativ CBD - THC Free Tinctures (Buy One Get One Free)

  • 10 % Off Mix and Match 4 Pack Beverages

  • 40% off ONNO Bamboo Cincinnati Hemp Long Sleeve TShirts

• Churchill’s Fine Teas (open until 8 PM)

• $1 off Summer Tea Time Lemonade & Select Herbal Iced Teas

• The Collective

  • Tintype Sessions 5 - 9 PM

  • Live Music 5 - 9 PM

• The Daily Vintage

• Eli’s BBQ

• The Empanada’s Box (open until 7 PM)

• Kanji OTR (open until 10 PM)

• Market Wines (open until 8 PM)

• Pet Wants

• Pho Lang Thang (open until 10 PM)

• Race Street Collective

• Rhinegeist Brewery 

• Shakespeare in the Taproom 

• Teaming up with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company for a FREE performance of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing from 7 - 11 PM!

• The Rhined

• Ruby’s Chocolates

• Soft Serve Ice Cream - Buy One Get One Free!

• uGOgelato

• Uncle Leo’s (open until 2 AM)

• Saloon Saturdays

• Wendigo Tea Co.

• Herbal Tea Mocktails

Roll Up Door Businesses:

• Blue Oven Bakery

• Earthganics

• Urbana Café

• Gia & The Blooms

• SKT Ceramics

Outdoor Market:

• All Spice Merchants

• Anchu 

• Banana Stand

• Barlion’s Seafood & Poultry

• $2.50 Fresh Shucked Oysters

• ½ Dozen Fresh Shucked Oysters for $12

• Blazing Goods Bites

• Candy’s Nuts

• Chàle

• Cincy Henna 

• Henna Tattoos for all ages!

• Chino's Street Food

• Creative House of Art & Design

• Dats’ Ole School Cookin’

• Joyously Sweet

• Makers Bakers Co.

• Back With Their Famous Corndogs!

• Melanin Flame Candle Co.

• Mis Sabores

• Olive Tree Catering

• Painterinthesky Studio

• Rebecca’s Raj Express

• Sir Savill’s Ideal Rubs 

• soHza Sister

• Suncraft Collective

• Tilita Peruvian Treats

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Art & Poetry Slam:

Think you’ve got what it takes to bring the best verses to the stage? Join us at Race St. Station for an evening of poetry and competition from 7 - 8:30 PM! This Poetry Slam is in partnership with Quills & Queers.

Contest Guidelines:

• All poems must be original works by the contestant.

• The competition consists of three rounds.

• Contestants must prepare one poem per round (at least three total).

• Each round is scored independently—scores do not carry over between rounds.

• Poems may be read from memory, phone, or paper (memorization is optional but encouraged).

• Time limit: 3 minutes per poem.

• No props allowed.

• The Corporation for Findlay Market reserves the right to use submitted information for promotional purposes.

Judges:

• Engler Gonzalez (emcee)

• Rachel DesRochers

• Juls Lawrence

• Kurstin Jones

• Holly Brians Ragusa

Prizes:

• 1st Place $250

• 2nd Place $125

• 3rd Place $100

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This event is sponsored by Renewal by Anderson