Mandy Irvine celebrates new home for popular Gympie Night Market
Gympie bargain hunters will have plenty to look forward to in 2023 with a popular night market back in a new home – bigger and better than ever, and proving a new challenge for its manager.
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Bargain hunters across the region are getting a boon to end their week with night markets making a spectacular return in a brand new home.
Organiser Mandy Irvine said the popular event was setting up at the Gympie and District Indoor Bowls Association building at Graham St, otherwise known as “the Hall”.
It is a change of scenery for the event which following the 2022 floods became a popular Thursday night attraction at Arlie’s Shed at Crescent Rd.
Ms Irvine said they had started as a way to give the Tin Can Bay markets a hand.
There soon proved be a different demand though.
“It was too late at night (for Tin Can Bay residents) to come, so we filled up really quickly with Gympie people,” Ms Irvine said.
“We realised there was a market for our market.”
Not only is it a new home for the markets, but it is a new challenge for Ms Irvine too.
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Her career experience so far included business administration, consulting, and casual hospitality work.
“It’s a new industry for me,” Ms Irvine said.
“I’m learning a lot along the way but I’m really enjoying it.”
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The proceeds of the 2023 opening markets will go towards the not-for-profit Beehive Festivals Events and Conferencing
Other community groups or charities will be beneficiaries of the markets throughout the year.
The first night in the new home is already shaping up to be a big one, she said, with 40 stalls booked, live music, food vendors “and beer and wine”.
“We are pretty much at capacity,” Ms Irvine said.
The markets will be held 4.30pm-7.30pm the first Friday of every month, starting February 3.
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