**now closed to new trader applications**
Hi! Thank you for your interest in our market celebrating the end of summer and the beginning of the darker, more inward-facing part of the year. Scroll down for the form if you’re already in the know; I’ll start with some information about the market.
The Samhain Market will be Saturday 25 October, 2025.
The Organisers
The Nottingham Pagan Markets are organised by MinorOak Coworking and Pagan Pride. The commercial side of the market (with city council cooperation) creates space for the cultural side.
Dee Miller (right) of MinorOak is the site organiser and is in charge of the physical layout and commerical side of the market. Dee works with the traders, the Sneinton Market Tenants Association, and the City Council to bring you a market that’s free to the public, accessible to all, chill, and well planned.
Esme Knight (left) of Pagan Pride is in charge of cultural parts of the market: music, dance, talks, and ritual, all of which, again, are free to the public. Esme works with performers and celebrants.
About our Traders
We feature artists, craftpeople, and other makers, as well as a few food businesses. Examples from past markets include witches, shamans, card readers, ceramic artists, jewelry makers, potters, soap and candle makers, blacksmiths and other metal workers, wood workers, farmers with fresh produce or growing kits for produce, visual artists, clothing designers, folk crafters, tabletop gaming accessory makers, up-cyclers, small scale food businesses, and traders with antique and vintage stock. We also welcome a few traders with handmade items aquared through fair trade and direct trade We discourage imported, mass produced goods, though some traders will bring a few things that are on-theme with their work. Don’t hesitate to ask if you’re curious about the origin of something!
At the Market
We’ll have live music and performances by the Nottingham Shakespeare Company as part of the market, as well as talks and possibly something special and spooky! The Nottingham Pagan Markets are free for the public, with open gates, and they take place in Sneinton Market Avenues and on the big Sneinton Market square next to the Victoria Leasure Centre. Sneinton Market is full of unique, vibrant independant businesses and studios, including a microbrewery, a bean-to-bar chocolate maker, and an award-winning baker who uses locally milled flour.
What to look for
There will be a guidebook and site plan posted on this web site before the market with detailed information about traders and perormances. You’ll find trader gazebos throught the big square and the Avenues and additional traders in the Avenues undercrofts (the roofed areas between buildings) and inside MinorOak Coworking on Gedling Street and Avenue A.
