Twilight Markets at The Hangar

The Canberra Comm.Unity Twilight Markets @ The Hangar take place the third Saturday of every month in Fyshwick.

They present local businesses, artists musicians and part of the “Buy Local or Bye Bye Small Business”.

This Saturday’s market (March 21st) had an Easter theme throughout as it is the last one before the Easter long weekend.

At least 60 market stalls are set up in The Hangar and provide a variety of choice for all tastes.

There is food, jewellery, art, clothes, plants as well as henna and face painting.

Most of the items are made by the stall holders, with many of them using the markets to promote their businesses.

“I had gone into cake decorating from home and thought why not set up a stall at the markets,” Ann Settin said.

Ms Settin recently created Harlequin Cakes & Sweets and this was her first stall at the Twilight Markets.

She said she had been getting a lot of interest since before the markets even opened.

Other stall holders have had been at the markets for a while now, like Ted from Wyx and Wax.

“We love coming to the Twilight Markets…they’re very fun,” she said.

Wyx and Wax is a locally sourced and made candle business by two public servants.

They call making the candles a “labour of love”.

The candles are very unique in that they are made to smell as much like the item they resemble as possible.

There was a candle made to resemble a bowl of Frootloops which smelled almost identical to the cereal.

There are a lot of unique and quirky items at the Twilight Markets.

Lisa Grech runs a stall selling miniature food jewellery from her business, Urban Charms.

“I’ve always had a fascination with tiny things, since I was a little girl,” she said.

There are earrings, rings, necklaces, broaches and cufflinks, all with miniature food items on them.

Most of the stalls are a result of the stall holders’ hobbies becoming their full time work.

John is one of those people.

He used to work at the National Film and Sound Archives and he now sells LPs and other music items that have been repurposed into clocks, journals and many other things.

“I like to call it practical memorabilia as it serves a purpose,” John said of his business JonTri gifts.

The markets also have live entertainment from local musicians, a food van, and on Saturday they had the Canberra Roller Derby League skating around the stalls.

If you want to check out what unique and quirky items local Canberra business have to offer, head down to the Twilight Markets.

The markets are held on the third Saturday of each month from 3 to 8 pm at 255 Canberra Avenue, Fyshwick with a lot of free parking available out the front.