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Bow Road Winter Market 2025
Sunday 7th December 2025 , 11:00am to 4:00pm
Join us this December as we open our doors for our annual Bow Road Winter Market, a chance to shop locally made unique gifts, artworks, and items and celebrate our community of artists, designers, and makers.
This Winter Market features a vast selection of high-quality, hand-crafted, unique products made by professional artists. Featuring products such as original prints and hand-stitched gifts all the way over to homeware, accessories, ceramics, and much more.
Artist Nicola McEvoy will be leading a special Bow Families workshop, a free session open to local families and children to get creative.
Festive treats and delightful seasonal offerings will also be on sale from our very own Nunnery Café.
Held in the Bow Arts Trust Courtyard, come and discover the community of talented local artists, and celebrate the festive season by shopping locally and celebrating community with your east London neighbours.
Makers’ Market
Beautiful, handmade ornaments, upcycled & environmentally conscious fashion; screen printed clothing and handcrafted notebooks and zines; jewellery and original drawings from professional artists, browse a range of handcrafted gifts.
Stalls line-up:
What’s On at the Winter Market
Bow Families Special: create your own festive masks and hats with Nicola McEvoy
Join transdisciplinary artist Nicola McEvoy for a festive themed family workshop. Create your own masks and hats to wear over the holidays! Open to children and families of all ages – all materials provided.
Visions Programme 2 led by Onyeka Igwe
Visions in the Nunnery is Bow Arts’ renowned biennial showcase of moving image, digital and performance art, selected from an international open call.
Take a seat at the Nunnery Cafe
Shopped until you dropped? Sit down for a pastry inside the Nunnery Cafe, next door to the gallery. We’ve got more for you to browse inside…including our collection of east London literature and more from the artists working in Bow Arts’ studios.
Access information
The Bow Arts Courtyard has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system.
Accessible parking is not available on-site.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Transport Information
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
