This year's bazaar features local artisans and purveyors of handmade goods such as jewelry, art, food, textiles, stationery, pottery, and fashion. In addition to the shopping experience, food vendors will provide lunch at a nominal fee. Admission to the bazaar is free and open to the public.
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About the Beeline Bazaar
The Beeline Bazaar started more than a decade ago as an initiative led by the junior class to raise money for the student-run Community Service Endowment Fund and the traditional Junior-Senior Luncheon. In the past 16 years, the Beeline Bazaar has become a widely popular event in the Memphis community for both local vendors and shoppers. The Bazaar provides valuable, hands-on learning experiences for the students involved, teaching marketing, entrepreneurship, and event management skills to the Hutchison juniors who run the event.
The Beeline Bazaar also extends beyond Hutchison, as a majority of the proceeds are given back to the community through nonprofit grants to organizations that benefit the greater Memphis area. The money is allocated by the Hutchison Community Service Endowment Fund, which is directed by the student-run Philanthropic Literacy Board. Some of the nonprofits that we have granted money in years past include: Carpenter Art Garden and the Family Safety Center, as well as the Memphis Child Advocacy Center.
A collection of plein-air oil paintings by Sally Hughes Smith ’64 is on display at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens through October 1. Smith credits Hutchison with inspiring her to become an artist.
“I always had a sense that I was meant to be an attorney. It was like a calling I had at a young age,” said Noor Obaji ’10. “It was kind of an idea that my parents put in my head when I was younger. They said, ‘Oh, you’re really good at arguing,’ which is a nice way of saying that I was argumentative and opinionated.”