Little Beauty Market
Over a hundred hand-picked creatives in a Frankston park, with a twilight edition folded into the city's Festival of Lights.
About this market
The Little Beauty Market fills Beauty Park in Frankston on the fourth Saturday of the month through the warmer half of the year, with over a hundred hand-picked creatives. The operators describe it as a celebration of art, design, craft, food and culture, and the hand-picked part is the operating principle: this is a selected stallholder list rather than an open one.
A hundred creatives, and some of them after dark
The stallholder categories run wide within the maker frame: art and paper craft, beauty and wellbeing, clothing and accessories, gourmet food and beverages, hot food and coffee, homewares, vintage and pet products. What complicates the calendar, and rewards checking it, is that not every date is the same market. The standard session is 9am to 2pm, but several dates each season run as twilight markets in the late afternoon and evening instead, including one in January and a Christmas market in November staged alongside Frankston City Council's Festival of Lights. Beauty Park itself is a formal park in the middle of Frankston rather than a reserve on the edge of it, which is what lets a market this size sit in walking distance of the station.
Market at a glance
Running only through the warmer months is standard for an outdoor Victorian market, and it concentrates the year: fewer dates, each one carrying a bigger crowd than a monthly market spread across all twelve months would.
One of the market's dates is not really its own event. The November twilight market runs in conjunction with Frankston City Council's Festival of Lights, so the stalls become part of a larger council production rather than the main attraction. It is an unusual arrangement for an independently run makers market, and it means the November date draws a crowd that has come for something else and finds a hundred stallholders in the middle of it.
Before you go
Fourth Saturday, and check which format the date is: 9am to 2pm for a standard market, late afternoon into the evening for a twilight one. The season runs roughly September to April, so there is nothing through the depth of winter. Bring a card and bags. Beauty Park is central and walkable from Frankston station, which is the easy approach given the parking around a hundred-stall market. This is Bunurong country.
Frequently Asked Questions
- When is the Little Beauty Market on?
- The fourth Saturday of the month, 9am to 2pm, through the warmer months from roughly September to April. Some dates run as twilight markets instead, including one in January and a Christmas market in November.
- What sort of stallholders are there?
- Over 100 hand-picked creatives across art and paper craft, beauty and wellbeing, clothing and accessories, gourmet food and beverages, hot food and coffee, homewares, vintage and pet products.
- Who runs it?
- The Untold Event Co. The November twilight market runs in conjunction with Frankston City Council's Festival of Lights.