Hello to all potential CODE Conference vendors!

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We are incredibly excited for our upcoming weekend conference this October, and we are looking forward to the opportunity to use this conference as a way to introduce or reintroduce artists and educators to the wonderful resources available to them in the community.

The Vendor Market is a chance to connect with teachers, professors, artists and students and share information about your organization, theatre company, bookstore, AV company, costuming company, dancewear company, and more! The dance and drama landscape is vast so our conference delegates will be excited to see the array of community connections available to them! We are using responses from past conferences in our design of this year’s Vendor Market to ensure that your time at the conference is fruitful to our delegates and to your organization. 

The Vendor Marketplace (will from henceforth be known solely as Marketplace) will be available for vendors to run booths from Friday October 17, 2025 starting at 4:30 pm all the way to Sunday October 19 when the conference closes at 12:30 pm.

There will be various opportunities for vendor spotlights throughout the weekend including during the Master Class break on Friday and the wine social activities on Friday and Saturday evening. Participation in these events will be dependent on the package your organization chooses.

While delegates will be able to peruse the Markeplace on Friday night and throughout the day on Saturday, CODE will also be running a Marketplace Wine Social from 6:00-7:00 PM, where we will be inviting delegates to the Marketplace to enjoy a glass of wine, snacks, music, and a raffle. Our hope is that this social will provide plenty of traffic and opportunities for you to share information about your organization to as many of our delegates as possible.

As Vendors sign-up to join the conference, their logo will be added to our conference website so that delegates can get excited about what to expect! Some package options offer opportunities for vendors to engage in a social media take-over.

 We have found that a dynamic, hands-on Marketplace works best and we encourage vendors to bring photos, props, costumes, AV equipment, books…anything to really show delegates what their organization is about. Hands-on, tactile items work really well!

Throughout the conference, we will have a Raffle Booth set-up where delegates can purchase raffle tickets. CODE is inviting each vendor to participate in the raffle through donation of a prize should you choose to do so.  A raffle ticket box will be provided to each participating vendor for delegates to submit for the prizes offered by your organization. At the conclusion of the Saturday evening Wine Social, we will draw from each jar and send some lucky delegates home with a prize pack (or two!). 

  SIX booths can be placed in the front lobby as part of the Marketplace reserved for package E

 A high traffic corridor that delegates will be using regularly throughout the conference for meals and workshops.