2020 Vendor Application

Calling vendors to showcase your arts/antiques at CrabappleFest 2020! This annual festival has become a favorite in Milton and takes place right in the heart of downtown Crabapple. Now accepting applications! Please select the category of your business within the application. Please note, your booth must contain 75% of items within the category you indicate. For example, if you are a sign vendor 75% must be signs and the other 25% can be supporting merchandise. Vendors that switch their merchandise prior to the event may be denied setup at the festival and/or not be permitted to showcase at future CrabappleFest dates. Booths will be inspected prior to festival start time by the City of Milton and CCA to ensure that vendor set ups reflect application and that set up follows festival rules and regulations.

***UPDATE: Crabapple Fest on April 21, 2020 has been canceled.*** Despite the City’s high hopes, Crabapple Fest will not take place this spring. The COVID-19 pandemic – and, with it, restrictions on how many people could gather in one place – originally prompted planners to move Crabapple Fest from its traditional fall date to April 2021. The hope was that the virus would have abated by then, and with it requirements for people to social distance. Instead, in recent weeks especially, the opposite has happened. The number of coronavirus-related cases, hospitalizations and deaths has surged nationwide and right here in Georgia. We understand fully the importance of keeping our vendors, service providers and entertainment providers safe, not to mention the general public, and giving our vendors, service providers and entertainment sufficient time to plan ahead. There is so much we can’t predict (including how well, how fast and how effective a vaccination program might be). And we believe a last-minute cancellation would be exceedingly unfair to those, like you, who make Crabapple Fest so special. We must make a decision now based off the current facts, not our dreams for the future. An event of this scale requires months of preparation and a wide range of advanced commitments to be a success. And we have high standards for Crabapple Fest, so it’s important to us that anything with that name is the best it can be. We’d rather not have a diluted Crabapple Fest without the spirit, scope or top quality that the community has come to expect. Thus, the City and its proud partner, the Crabapple Community Association, opted to cancel a spring Crabapple Fest and, with it, the prospect of tens of thousands gathering in Milton’s downtown in the not-too-distant future. Given what’s transpired in 2020 and the public’s strong desire for such events when the time is right, we are committed more than ever to making the next Crabapple Fest, in October 2021, even bigger and better than before. We look forward to welcoming the highest quality vendors, food and entertainment, which is why we welcome your involvement. And we’re cautiously optimistic that October 2021 will be much different, giving the opportunity once again to gather safely in large numbers. So while we’re disappointed, we’re also enthusiastic about the future. Milton is a great community with so much to celebrate. And, when it’s safe, we’ll be ready to go.

*Please note, power on site is very limited. Requests may result in additional fees.* Applications submitted without photos will not be considered. All booths must be ready by 8:30 AM Saturday, 10/3/20. Vehicular access to the vendor area will end 2 hours prior to the start of the event. Booths must be kept open from 10 AM to 5 PM Saturday. Breaking down your booth prior to end of festival may result in exclusion from future festival participation. NO SLANTED TENTS WILL BE PERMITTED THIS YEAR. No tent sharing will be permitted. All vendors are responsible for set up in the designated timeframe permitted on Friday evening or Saturday morning. Load in and load out instructions will be communicated by the Events team upon approval. *TENT WEIGHTS ARE REQUIRED FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. TENTS WILL BE INSPECTED. Tents that are not secure are subject for dismissal from the festival. If tent weights are needed please indicate below. Additional fees may apply. Fire Marshal Requirements: Fire Marshal will be doing their inspection at 8:30am on Saturday. All tents must be weighed down. Any tents over 400 sq. ft. a fire resistive certificate must be provided, these can be found on the tag in the tent. Any tents where food is being cooked, warmed, barbequed, or any other heat/flame-based process occurring under or within close proximity must provide a flame resistance certificate. Outdoor cooking hat produces sparks or grease-laden vapors shall not be performed under or in close proximity to a tent. An ABC fire extinguisher must be provided for all cooking/warming/hearting processes. A Class K fire extinguisher must be provided (in addition to an ABC fire extinguisher) for all frying. If a vendor/participant displays items or conducts activities that were not listed on the application, OR has misrepresented activities taking place in any way, the event organizers reserve the right to ask the vendor/participant to leave the event and forfeit sponsor fee. If your booth poses particular risk to attendees, festival planners reserve the right to require proper insurance documentation. Please provide licenses and health inspection approval upon application submission. By agreeing to be a community vendor at the 2020 Crabapple Fest, you assume all responsibility for, and risks and hazards of, participation in the rental activity planned by your group (“rental group”). In considerations of the City of Milton and the Crabapple Merchant Association providing permission to use the space requested, you, and all members of your rental group, do hereby release the City of Milton and the Crabapple Merchant Association, including all officials, officers, employees, sponsors, organizers, supervisors, volunteers, participants and agents (collectively the “releasees”), of any and all claims, demands and causes of action of whatever kind and nature, to include any and all bodily or personal injuries, damage to property, and any other damages or injuries, whether foreseen or unforeseen, resulting from or related to participation in the rental activity planned in the City of Milton and the Crabapple Merchant Association. You and all members of your rental group also agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the releasees from all claims for bodily and personal injuries, damage to property, and the consequences thereof arising out of you or your rental group’s joint or several negligence or willful conduct, to include that of your agents, servants or workmen. *Vendor application fees charged upon approval will be paid to Crabapple Community Association. The City of Milton and Crabapple Community Association continue to monitor the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic, with citizens and participants’ health and safety a foremost priority. Given that, if there is a surge in cases or growing public concern, our Crabapple Fest plans could change – including possibly canceling the event altogether. Another scenario is that Crabapple Fest could continue with some modifications for the safety of all involved. Whatever the route taken, the City and CCA will adhere to guidelines from the CDC and Georgia Department of Public Health. We will also examine trends and statistics related to COVID-19. If Crabapple Fest needs to be canceled, we will refund all parties and vendors’ application fees in a reasonable amount of time while promptly notifying them.