WHILE OUR LOCATION FOR 2027 IS STILL UNDECIDED, THE PLAN IS TO KEEP THE FESTIVAL IN THE GREATER LANSING AREA AND MAINTAIN THE SAME WEEKEND (LABOR DAY) AND HOURS:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2027 11AM-6PM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2027 11AM-4PM
Once the 2027 location has been decided, we will reach out to applicants with updated information. Some details pertaining to set-up times may change, but we are going to keep things as close to the same as we’re able to.
A Festival of Oddities is a two day event. All vendors and food trucks must attend both days. Your station must be 100% set up and ready before the start of the festival on Saturday.
(Subject to change, depending on location): You may make arrangements to bring your tables and any other large items on Friday to get a head start on set-up if you’d like, and may leave anything overnight that you choose. While we will have security, anything left overnight is done at your own risk. We are not responsible for any lost, damaged, or stolen items. Once our new location has been decided, we will provide timeframes for both Friday and Saturday set-up. As this will be a new venue for all of us, we will not allow set-up without festival staff/volunteers present.
Tear-down begins when the festival ends on Sunday. Mid-day tear down of booths will not be permitted. You are expected to attend the festival in its entirety.
Booth fees are non-refundable. The festival will be held rain or shine. If your plans change and you are unable to attend, please let us know right away. Any no-shows without notice result in vendors being added to our “no return” list. If we have to cancel the festival for any reason, all fees will be refunded.
(Subject to change if our new location is not in Barry or Eaton County.) All food vendors must submit an “intent to serve” application to the Barry Eaton Health Department at least one week prior to the festival. (If you are exempt from completing this document, please indicate this when submitting your application.) The form can be found at www.barryeatonhealth.org. If you have any questions or need help with this, please contact the health department directly.
Neither the venue nor Scream Queen Productions can be held accountable for any lost, stolen, or damaged items or equipment.
The first round of 2027 acceptance notices will go out by the end of January 2027. Acceptance to the festival is decided by a juried panel. Neither past attendance nor the order in which applications are received are deciding factors. If your application is accepted, you will be sent payment instructions via the email address on your application. Your space is not guaranteed and your business will not be confirmed until payment has been received. If you submit an application and do not receive a response, that either means we are not currently processing applications (we review them in waves), or we have no available space and you have been added to the waitlist. Either way, we will reach out to you ONLY IF we are able to offer you a booth space. We are not able to offer electricity to vendors, and you will need to bring your own table and chairs. Whether or not we are able to offer electricity to food trucks will depend on our new location, and we will share that information as soon as we can.
We will be doing spot checks throughout the weekend, and reserve the right to ask any vendor to remove unacceptable items from their booth, or, if necessary, leave the event entirely. If this happens, you will not be entitled to a refund. Unacceptable items include:
POLITICAL PROPAGANDA. This does not apply to items that reference human rights- human rights are not political.
AI “ART.” We support real artists, not AI.
MLM (Scentsy, Paparazzi, etc.) This is not an event for MLM vendors, sorry.
