Third Junktion is a thrifting event that currently takes place at a smaller scale in Third Place Studio. The event is a collaboration between Jacob Racco and Jed McAlpine. Jacob being the owner of Third Place, a creative studio and event space. Along with Jed’s Junkyard, owned by Jed, which is a retail second hand designer showroom located in the same building as Third Place.
These monthly events, feature several local clothing brands. Each event welcomes around 5-8 other clothing vendors, giving them a space to engage with people in the community. Most clothing vendors and fashion brands in the city don’t have store fronts, so events like this offer them a space to sell their products locally and grow their brand awareness within Ottawa.
There have been almost a dozen fashion related events that have happened at Third Place Studio. Which has developed into a thriving location for people in this community to meet and interact among each other.
Fashion events that take place here not only help strengthen the culture surrounding fashion and clothing, but the brands that operate during these pop-up events generate revenues within Ottawa that they typically don’t see since most of them do not have store fronts.
The hope is to extend these monthly events across the street, into the courtyard known as Uncommon. This way we can scale up a known staple in the local fashion scene to embrace more people involved in the community. We are quite limited with operating in my studio space (Third Place), only allowing 5-8 vendors and limiting the amount of event goers due to capacity restraints.
By taking the event outside during summer months, we can now open the door for roughly 20 local vendors to now sell their clothing to locals. Not only can we increase the amount of vendors, but also the amount of event goers. We can now welcome more people who are involved in the fashion subculture here in Ottawa.
The event would run very similarly to the Fly Market event I helped curate in Sniders Plaza last year. The hope is to stick with our current schedule of running the event on every third Saturday of the month (or fourth Saturday, depending on schedules). In this case from May - September.
The poster image below is a sample from a prior event!
Centretown would like to acknowledge that Ottawa is built on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.
The Anishinaabe Algonquin peoples have lived on this land since time immemorial. We recognize and deeply appreciate their historic connection to this place. We also recognize the contributions of Métis, Inuit, and other Indigenous peoples have made, both in shaping and strengthening this community in particular, and our province and country as a whole.
