The 16th Annual St. Johns Bizarre Returns May 10

200 Local Vendors, 4 Stages of Music and New Partnerships!

Sorry, Portland. It looks like last year’s bigger-than-ever St. Johns Bizarre wasn’t quite big enough. 

Because when our FREE street fair returns for its 16th year on May 10 — unofficially kicking off Portland’s summer festival season — we’re stepping things up one more time with our biggest event yet!

Our craft fair is growing again — to a record 200 local craft vendors, plus food carts and community groups — up from 180 last year. Our footprint is growing again, too, with an expanded street closure that brings in our friends at Two Rivers Books & Weird Sisters Yarn, Havalina, Bees and Beans and Wonderwood Springs, offering even more family-friendly activities and our third and fourth stages for music.

And, in another first, while you’re standing front row at the Plaza Stage, your friend who couldn’t get off work that day can tune in to XRAY.fm and listen live on the go!

Some things, of course, won’t change at all. 

The St. Johns Bizarre will still take place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., we’ll be right in the heart of downtown St. Johns (centered around the plaza in N. Lombard and Philadelphia). The music will still be entirely free — with offerings for families and a commitment to diversity that straddles genres from hip hop to electronica to rock to punk to jazz. 

And, as always, the Bizarre will wrap around the historic and beloved St. Johns Parade — another Portland favorite that’s roared back to life since the pandemic. Both the Parade and the Bizarre are all-volunteer efforts that serve to showcase the St. Johns community and business district by bringing people from all around the city to dance, shop for art, eat food and more.