Winter Wonder Market 2024

San José Made will be bringing its 2nd Annual San José Winter Wonder Market to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in downtown San José on Dec. 14-15, 2024. This is going to be a fun, festive, large-scale event where you can do your "omg last minute winter holiday" shopping, your "end of the year special treat for myself" shopping, your "a great excuse to be with family and friends" shopping or whatever type of shopping you feel like.

Featuring over 250+ makers, artists, designers, bakers, culinary minds and creative small businesses.

Event Details

Dates and Times

Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024 (11 am to 6 pm)
Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024 (11 am to 6 pm)

Location

San Jose McEnery Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose, CA 95113

Additional Info

This event is free admission to attend.
This is an indoor event.
No outside food & beverage will be allowed into the event EXCEPT for unopened bottles of water and empty canteens.
The venue will have its concessions areas open. They will offer sandwiches, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages.
Our vendor lineup features an exciting array of desserts, specialty drinks baked goods, packaged food and snacks vendors.
Per the venue's rules, strictly only service animals are allowed inside the venue. The venue's security team will ask any non-service animals to be removed from the venue if they encounter any.
Anyone with accessibility needs should proceed directly to the front of the security line if there is a line to get through security. We have notified our guards to accommodate those with accessibility needs who proceed to the front of the line. Once passing through the security points, those with accessibility needs should proceed directly to the front entrances of the exhibit halls even if there is a line to enter them (especially before the event begins).

Parking

For those driving to the event, we highly recommend using the ParkSJ website to find a nearby parking lot or parking garage. The nearest lots are:

San Jose Convention Center Garage (view). The entrance is located at 408 S Almaden Blvd, San Jose, CA 95113.
Almaden & Woz Parking Lot (view). The entrance is located at 253 Woz Way, San Jose, CA 95110.

On Sunday, most street parking in downtown San José is free all day. Please check the parking signs in the area in which you are parking before leaving your vehicle. There are some streets with permit-only parking.

There is accessibility parking available at all of the ParkSJ parking garages & lots.

There is also a VTA Light Rail Stations near the venue in downtown San José. Plan your light rail trip to the event here: https://www.vta.org/trip-planner

Vendor Application

All vendor spaces have been sold out for this event and the waitlist is currently full. Any other vendor related questions should be directed to events@sanjosemade.com.
Applications for next year's event will go live in May 2025.
We only sell booth spaces through our official website (sanjosemade.com). Vendors who purchase booth spaces for any events of ours through any other sales channels will NOT be accommodated as those channels are illegitimate. If anybody reaches out to you claiming to be selling booth spaces for any of our events, this is a scam.

Kitten Lounge by Mini Cat Town

Reserve your kitten lounge time slot in advance:

https://www.minicattown.com/product/mini-cat-town-sjmade-winter-wonder-market

One ticket ($15) will secure 15 mins of kitten playtime at your designated time slot. There will be 30 adoptable kittens on site looking for pets and cuddles! There will be a few walk-in tickets reserved for each time slot, but we highly recommend making your reservation in advance.

Your order confirmation is your ticket entry. Tickets will not be shipped out. Tickets are non-refundable. Any child under 12 must enter with an adult (two tickets will be required in this case).

If you have a ticket and there is a line to get into the event, please proceed directly to the entrance and show the staff your ticket so you don't have to wait in line and potentially miss your time slot.

All visitors will be required to wear shoe covers and sign Mini Cat Town's liability waiver.

Mini Cat Town is a nonprofit 501(c)-3. All donations are welcomed and go back into saving more kittens. Since 2019, Mini Cat Town has rescued and adopted out over 1,500 kittens. Adoption lounges are located in Eastridge Shopping Center, Stoneridge Shopping Center and Santa Rosa Plaza. For more information, please visit https://minicattown.org.

DIY Holiday Craft Station

More details coming soon!

Door Giveaway

We will be distributing free door giveaways to the first 1,000 attendees each day. This year's giveaway is a 5"x7" art print of this year's event poster created by Julia Peng of Art by Julia. Staff and Vendors at the event will NOT be eligible to receive a door giveaway.