#ThisIsTucson hosts third annual market with 100-plus vendors

Tucson makers sold their handcrafted jewelry, apparel, stickers, ceramics and monsoon-scented candles. Food trucks served tacos and smoothies. Attendees brought boxes of granola bars and stacks of toilet paper to support local nonprofit Youth On Their Own.

Let’s do it again this year.

For the third year, #ThisIsTucson — the Arizona Daily Star’s sister site — is hosting an artisan market dubbed Tucson Together. The fun will take place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at 55 N. Fifth Ave. across from Hotel Congress.

You’ll find 100-plus makers selling handmade ube cookies, chamoy-covered sweets, prints of hand-drawn javelinas, desert-inspired bars of soap and disco balls sitting in colorful macrame hangers, among countless other wares. There will be a custom hat bar, a charm bar where you can craft your own necklace or bracelet, permanent jewelry and flash tattoos.

Five food trucks will be onsite selling burgers, Mexican-inspired pizza, Oaxacan dishes, acai bowls, coffee and matcha.

The market will also host a donation drive for Youth On Their Own, which supports the success of youth experiencing homelessness. They’re in need of mac and cheese, ramen, peanut butter, cereal, body lotion and shaving cream.

Tucson Tome Gnome, a nonprofit of three literacy-loving friends, will hide eight books — all written by Arizona authors — around the market area. Try to find one!

#ThisIsTucson is also collaborating with the neighboring Hotel Congress, which will pour drinks and offer live music from The McCharmlys. Entry is free.

Also the same day and time, the Desert Haze Market — where you can shop vintage clothing — will be set up on the Hotel Congress plaza.

For more information and to see the full lineup of vendors, visit thisistucson.com.