It's a Buy Local Weekend

The Buy Local Expo will feature over 80 local merchants, free samples, demonstrations, tastings from the very best of our local restaurants and two stages of free fun at the Third Street Promenade and across the city.

Performances and classes on the WholeFoods Stage at Wilshire and the Santa Monica Place Stage at Broadway will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and include martial arts, ballroom dance, fencing, fitness, Zumba and musical acts.

The mayor, along with business and city officials will declare it official Buy Local Weekend on the Whole Foods Stage at Wilshire at 3:45 p.m. Grand Prize raffle tickets will be pulled directly following.

Raffle

Get "caught with your receipt showing" to be entered into a raffle for some great Santa Monica prizes - bring your receipt from any purchase on that day for your free raffle ticket to one of our locations from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at both Expo stages and the Edgemar Center on Main Street. Raffle prizes will be announced at the Expo stages, and the Grand Prizes will be announced from the Whole Foods Stage at Wilshire at 3:45 p.m. (need not be present to win).

Buy Local Scavenger HuntStop by the Buy Local booth at the Expo for the first of your scavenger hunt clues!

Additional Buy Local Weekend Events:

• Sidewalk sales citywide at Main Street, Montana Avenue, Ocean Park Blvd., Pico Blvd., and in Downtown Santa Monica on March 31
• A Buy Local scavenger hunt - visit buylocalsm.com for more details on the forming a team! The first clues will be released at the Buy Local table at the Expo
• Specials and events inside Santa Monica Place all weekend long
• Discounts and specials in your neighborhood! Check out the Buy Local Weekend map link below for more details.

 
To help make buying local as easy and affordable as possible, many local businesses will be offering special deals and discounts.

For a list of participating merchants visit:

blockbeacon.com/buylocalweekend