The Chelsea Night Market is scheduled to return this summer and highlight a packed schedule of events in the downtown area, according to Mimi Graney of Chelsea Prospers.
“The Night Market is coming back again,” she said. “We’re going to do the first one at the end of May, and we’ll go into September. Last year we did one in October but it was a little too chilly.”
The hours of the market are also scaled back a little bit, ending at 9 p.m. and beginning at 6 p.m.
“The Market was very popular with young families so we’re going to end at 9 p.m. this year,” she said. “Many people were leaving before 10 p.m. last year.”
The Night Market premiered last summer and was a very popular attraction in the downtown on Luther Place – a City parking lot that has been known in the past more for trouble and hijinks than for fun and games.
The Night Market runs one time a month, and features entertainment, special performances, local food and local vendors.
Other events include:
•The annual Paw-Raid Dog Parade will take place on May 16, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
•The Fiesta Verano will take place on June 13 with either a carnival or drumming theme.
•there will be a community dining experience on the law activity on July 1, but before that, every Wednesday in June, from 5-8 p.m., there will be preparations for the big event. They will collect old outdoor furniture and paint it during the Wednesday work nights, then place it all on the green space in Chelsea Square. On July 1, they’ll have a huge community potluck at the Community Dining Room.
•Creative Crosswalks will be coming to Division Street in the next few months. Graney said they are pursuing grant funding to put up the artistic crosswalks, but would use City funds if they don’t get state money.