International Holiday Bazaar at St. Michael's Tucson

11/23/2024

Guatemala Project and Friends Nov. 23 and 24

"New" news

Saturday at 11 AM: - Church tour with respected architect Bob Vint (restoration, San Xavier Church; and now, historic church destroyed by arson in Douglas; consulting to protect mud adobe walls and maintain architectural integrity at St. Michael's). Think you know St. Michael's well? Bob can tell you how civil rights attorney Ed Morgan saved St. Michael's from being, at least architecturally, a second St. Philip's, after St. Michael's congregation outgrew the original "mission church" (present structure up to the transept). And about surprising information Ed Morgan's mother gave him when she was dying (surprise ending here). We'll fill in some gaps on selected art, like why there is a contemporary painting from Mexico in old "chiaoscuro" style that features angels in bow ties and a fish blowing a trumpet. And just which messenger angel that might be in the triptych now hanging on the west wall, near the organ.

2 PM - celebrated musician Ted Warmbrand will join us on Saturday at closing. He has been a Bazaar fixture for years, isn't available Sunday.

ELFA Syrian refugee support has arranged for new refugee families to prepare falafel and kabobs. We'll also welcome Hanadi, who has been in Tucson all of 9 days and will have a table for crafts and sweets. She was abandoned and all her goods stolen. In her home country she worked with disabled and special needs children. ELFA coordinator Rania will be with us to translate and to help.

11/23/2024

This weekend! Please join
Guatemala Project & Friends International Bazaar
Nov. 23, 9 AM – 2 PM & Nov. 24, 11 AM – 2 PM
St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church
Fifth Street at Wilmot Road, Tucson

Our Guatemala Project and Friends Bazaar, this Saturday and Sunday, includes the following groups:

Confirmed non-profit groups

Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance [APSA]
ELFA Syrian refugee support
Friends of BANWR [Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge] (Saturday only)
Humane Borders (Saturday only)
Keep Tucson Together
Latin American Committee (from Phoenix)
Mission Garden
Sierra Club Borderlands (Sunday only)
St. Michael's Guatemala Project
St. Michael's Social Action Committee – Cafe Justo by the pound
Tucson Samaritans

11/14/2024

Please join
Guatemala Project & Friends
Nov. 23, 9 AM – 2 PM & Nov. 24, 11 AM – 2 PM
St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church

nacimiento for sale Syrian sweets

Buy directly from local non-profit groups (St. Michael’s offers free space)
Bargains – recycled gifts & vintage/collectibles from St. Michael’s, at a fraction of value
Special foods & festivities both days
Saturday: Early Bird coffee & snacks at 9 AM, Guatemala Project report at 10 AM. O’odham fry bread, Delahanty family; Syrian kebabs & falafel, ELFA Refugee support.

Sunday: La Indita tamales, to eat & to take home. Non-profit groups. Parish writers & artists. Church Coffee hour.

Sat. & Sun. – Look for Syrian sweets & crafts, Guatemalan textiles & trinkets, olive products from Gaza & Palestine, Just Coffee, Samaritans tees & raffle tickets, Parish artists & writers, and more good local nonprofit groups (no commercial vendors).

San Juan Cotal rebozo embroidery detail
Information – Ila Abernathy, [email protected].

12/02/2023

More collectibles at bargain prices.

12/02/2023

More Bazaar bargains! See you tomorrow.

11/30/2023

Our Collectibles table is almost ready for you to check out, the Saturday and Sunday!

11/15/2023

The International Holiday Bazaar returns!

12/05/2019

The Crazy Chile Farm will be at the International Holiday Bazaar this Saturday & Sunday. Located behind the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, they are self-supporting & provide funding for a wide variety of outreach (mostly feeding programs and disaster relief).

12/05/2019

Yum!

12/04/2019

Why Bazaar?

Where else could you --

Feast on Syrian food lovingly and expertly prepared by refugees,

Hear Felipe Molina and brother explain Yoeme deer songs and sing blessings

See what Native American "'Flutes for Vets" is up to,

Meet almost all the border action groups,

Salute Ben's Bells and buy inexpensive one-of-a-kind wind chimes,

Buy a Mata Ortiz pot from Chihuahua,

Find out why the Crazy Chile Farm, Mesa, doesn't put out a donation jar (just heirloom chile powders, Ute Mountain Ute blue corn meal, and spices),

Join a children's interactive sing-along with Bruce Phillips,

Sample O'odham fry bread and "Indian" tacos prepared by Baboquivari District,

Get organic, fair-traded coffee from Café Justo (grown in Chiapas, roasted in Agua Prieta),

Browse international selections benefitting artisans in many countries (great jewelry and ornament selections and more!) from Ten Thousand Villages and Latin American Committee,

Find honey and natural products from SHIMA of Navajoland,

Sign up with Tucson Peace Center,

Rejoice with an African choir singing in Swahili,

Walk off with a vintage Indonesian puppet or crystal wine stoppers discounted at the Boutique / Collectible tables,

Support Tucson-based long-term projects in Africa and Afghanistan,

Get an authentic handwoven Maya huipil or rebozo,

Sing us to a close Sunday with Tucson folk / social protest icon Ted Warmbrand, who has provided the finale to every Bazaar since time immemorial (well, the 1990's) with a rousing version of "Good Night, Irene"?

St. Michael’s International Holiday Bazaar is this Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 3 PM. Don’t miss out!

12/03/2019

23 Non-profit groups will be at this year’s bazaar, not counting food providers and performers!

12/02/2019

This year’s trinket table will have different small treasures, for a dollar each!

12/02/2019

Coming up THIS WEEKEND! St. Michael’s 25th

INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAY BAZAAR

Saturday December 7 & Sunday December 8
10 AM to 3 PM
St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church
602 N Wilmot Rd. (at 5th St.)

�Gifts � Food � Music
�Purchase directly from your favorite non-profit groups.
�Unique gifts, global & local.
�Fry bread, Syrian delicacies, other treats.
�Bargains at “recycled gifts” & “vintage / collectibles” tables.
Fair-traded crafts from around the world –
�Ten Thousand Villages � Latin American Committee

A to Z – Afghan Women’s Center, African Education Fund, Arizona-Palestine Solidarity, Baboquivari District (fry bread on Sat.), Bob Bennett art, Culture of Peace, Flutes for Vets, Franciscan Sisters, Humane Borders, Just Coffee, Mata Ortiz “Creaciones,” No More Deaths, Oaxaca migrant shelter, Samaritans, SHIMA (Diné), ELFA -Syrian women and youth, Tucson Peace Center, Zambian Children’s Fund, more good groups.

Bazaar Tradition: Felipe Molina, Yoeme deer singer, offers blessing songs 1 p.m. Saturday. Ted Warmbrand sings us to a close Sunday, starting around 2 p.m. More music in between.

St. Michael’s provides free space; you do the rest!
Information: (520) 623-3063 www.smallangelstucson.org.

11/25/2019

It’s back! ‪

12/07/2018

St. Michael's News - Messages, Ministries and Mini-Sale! https://mailchi.mp/3076d667a5e2/xg8sknmxyb

11/05/2018

10/19/2018

No Virginia, Yes Virginia

Last year we ran a short piece, “Yes Virginia, there will be a Bazaar.”

This year, it’s “No Virginia, there won’t be a Bazaar – this year.” No one volunteered to be overall coordinator, though two non-profit vendor groups not related to the Church offered to help, so we’re giving ourselves a year’s sabbatical – perhaps a bit overdue, since the Bazaar had its origins in the early 1990’s.

Yes Virginia, there will be a Bazaar in 2019. I’m willing to coordinate in alternate years (with a lot of help from the rest of St. Michael’s), so expect the return of the Bazaar, God willing and the Church, the world, and the coordinator still standing.

Our immediate concern is for the small non-profits that like the venue, including two new ones that contacted me over the summer. We are looking for alternate-year options, but the first church contacted referred us to another, which might be a possibility in 2020 but not this year. Everyone, please keep looking.

Small dedicated groups like our intimacy, the one free table, interior space for some, no fees, and, of course, the fab food and music and performance. We do fill a good little niche and will work to find a way to continue to offer this gift to the community.

Please remember, “Yes Is Better Than No.” Fran Coleman, who keeps the book club engaged and active, recently reminded us of Byrd Baylor’s novel of that title, about urban O’odham (then still called “Papago”) in Tucson, with much not to celebrate but still finding ways to affirm.
Try it. Say “yes” to something good but inconvenient to do, even if it’s not the Bazaar.

Isaiah did, after God had overcome the proto-prophet’s sense of inadequacy: “Here am I! Send me.” [Isaiah 6:1-8]
In a more salacious context, that’s the ultimate word of James Joyce’s Ulysses. After 783 pages, Molly Bloom ends her lengthy, life-summing internal soliloquy with the same word with which it begins, “and yes I said yes I will Yes.”

Ila Abernathy