GOOD NEWS!
The Tanners Marketplace Antiques and Craft shows are still at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center
For at least one more year we get to use the Convention Center.
The one condition was that the rate will go up by 10%. As such I do have to raise the rates a little.
Our next show is March 19th and 20
I'm giving the last November vendors a few days to let me know if they want to return for March then I'll open it to everyone.
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Upcoming Shows
2022 Schedule
March 19,20 • May 7,8
MOS Christmas in July
Craft show July 9,10
July 16,17 • Oct 15,16
Nov 19,20
Magic of Santa Crafts Dec 3,4
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2022 Vendor Space Rates
Since the Convention center has raised our rent I need to increase the vendor booth rates. I've kept them as low as I can.
Here are the space rent prices for the 2022 Tanners shows. The Magic of Santa rates will go up a little as well. For now the Reno temporary license is staying the same.
10x5 and 10x6 spaces $90.00
10x10 space $135.00
2/10x10 (10x20) space $230.00
3/10x10 (10x30) space $335.00
4/10x10 (10x20) space $420.00
10x14 and 10x15 space $175.00
10x16 Space $185.00
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Click the link below to go to the website for more information.
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We look forward to seeing everyone at the shows!
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Civilizations around the world have been celebrating the start of each new year for at least four millennia. Today, most New Year’s festivities begin on December 31 (New Year’s Eve), the last day of the Gregorian calendar, and continue into the early hours of January 1 (New Year’s Day). Common traditions include attending parties, eating special New Year’s foods, making resolutions for the new year and watching fireworks displays. |
Ancient New Year’s Celebrations
The earliest recorded festivities in honor of a new year’s arrival date back some 4,000 years to ancient Babylon. For the Babylonians, the first new moon following the vernal equinox—the day in late March with an equal amount of sunlight and darkness—heralded the start of a new year. They marked the occasion with a massive religious festival called Akitu (derived from the Sumerian word for barley, which was cut in the spring) that involved a different ritual on each of its 11 days. In addition to the new year, Atiku celebrated the mythical victory of the Babylonian sky god Marduk over the evil sea goddess Tiamat and served an important political purpose: It was during this time that a new king was crowned or that the current ruler’s divine mandate was symbolically renewed.
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Did you know? In order to realign the Roman calendar with the sun, Julius Caesar had to add 90 extra days to the year 46 B.C. when he introduced his new Julian calendar.
For the Romans, the month of January carried a special significance. Its name was derived from the two-faced deity Janus, the god of change and beginnings. Janus was seen as symbolically looking back at the old and ahead to the new, and this idea became tied to the concept of transition from one year to the next. Throughout antiquity, civilizations around the world developed increasingly sophisticated calendars, typically pinning the first day of the year to an agricultural or astronomical event.
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Ancient Egyptian culture was closely tied to the Nile River, and it appears their New Year corresponded with its annual flood. According the Roman writer Censorinus, the Egyptian New Year was predicted when Sirius—the brightest star in the night sky—first became visible after a 70-day absence. Better known as a heliacal rising, this phenomenon typically occurred in mid-July just before the annual inundation of the Nile River, which helped ensure that farmlands remained fertile for the coming year. Egyptians celebrated this new beginning with a festival known as Wepet Renpet, which means “opening of the year.” The New Year was seen as a time of rebirth and rejuvenation, and it was honored with feasts and special religious rites. Egyptians would celebrate with music, sex, revelry and—perhaps most important of all—copious amounts of beer.
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One of the oldest traditions still celebrated today is Chinese New Year, which is believed to have originated over 3,000 years ago during the Shang Dynasty. The holiday began as a way of celebrating the new beginnings of the spring planting season, but it later became entangled with myth and legend. According to one popular tale, there was once a bloodthirsty creature called Nian—now the Chinese word for “year”—that preyed on villages every New Year. In order to frighten the hungry beast, the villagers took to decorating their homes with red trimmings, burning bamboo and making loud noises. The ruse worked, and the bright colors and lights associated with scaring off Nian eventually became integrated into the celebration.
Festivities traditionally last 15 days and tend to center on the home and the family.
Since Chinese New Year is still based on a lunar calendar that dates back to the second millennium BC, the holiday typically falls in late January or early February on the second new moon after the winter solstice. Each year is associated with one of 12 zodiacal animals: the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
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Jokes :-)
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in.
A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
I see no need to make more New Year’s resolutions when the ones already on the books aren’t being enforced.
This New Year’s, I’m going to make a resolution I can keep: no dieting all year long.
I was going to quit all my bad habits for the New Year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.
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You can also get your antiques fix at one of our fun local antique stores and The Nevada Marketplace in Reno Town Mall. |
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1313 S. Virginia
775-323-1515
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960 S. Virginia St.
775-322-5865
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Reno Town Mall
775-384-3153
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