Cobargo Folk Festival

Festival Markets

As well as providing essential food and refreshments to our festival patrons, market stalls add colour and a festive atmosphere to the overall festival experience.

Location and type of stalls

All stalls are located within the festival site at the Cobargo Showgrounds, adjacent to the major thoroughfare and venues. Both powered and unpowered sites are available. Stalls are located on sites determined by the Market Coordinator.

The Festival Committee strictly controls the number and type of stalls at the festival. We do not duplicate market and food choices. This particularly applies to food stalls. We already have BBQ, pizza, Turkish Gozlene, Asian spring rolls and noodles, hot potatoes, vegetarian dishes, pancakes, icecream & chocolates, as well as excellent coffee.

We are a little more flexible with the craft stalls. For example we may have more than one jewellery stall, or musical instruments stall, providing each stall is selling a different type of product within that category. The emphasis is on handmade, craft type items, or environmentally-friendly products and alternative services.

Even if you think that what you have to offer may be a duplicate of what we already have, it is worth registering your interest with our Market Coordinator as our regular stall-holder may not be able to come or we may have decided on a change of vendor in any particular year.

Requirements

The Cobargo Folk Festival is a waste-wise event. The Festival organisers and all stallholders will take responsibility for waste management by adopting sound purchasing and packaging policies, waste and recycling collection services and clean up practices. Festivals, by their temporary nature, generate a high volume of disposable materials. Waste wise events aim to divert the maximum amount of material from being sent to landfill. All disposable materials offered by stall holders must be compostable (eg paper plates, paper bags, wooden spoons) or recyclable (eg all plastic utensils must conform to the recycling code, definitely no styrofoam products).
The goods and services you are selling must be acceptable to the Festival Committee and you will only sell the goods that you have indicated on your application form.
You must have Public Liability insurance and you must bring your Certificate of Currency with you to the festival
Selling food from a temporary food stall requires a number of important considerations. Cleanliness and hygiene standards are as important for temporary food premises as they are for any shop or restaurant that has food for sale.The set up and operation of a food stall shall comply with the Food Safety Standards from the Food Standards Australia New Zealand
The Festival operates its own Bar which conforms to strict Liquor Licensing laws and RSA standards. No alcoholic beverages are to be sold from market stalls.

Application

We welcome your expression of interest in operating a stall at the Cobargo Folk Festival. We have not made the application form available from this website as we would prefer that you make contact with our Market Coordinator, Helen Stafford, in the first instance. Helen will determine your suitability based on the abovementioned considerations and if applicable will send you the application form and detailed requirements. Alternatively, your details may be added to our database of prospective stallholders.

To obtain more information or register your interest, please contact Helen Stafford helen.stafford@workingwood.com.au (02) 6493 6595

All photographs on this page courtesy of Prem Samira and Steve Stafford