Chrishanukwanzmadan
Oddmall: Chrishanukwanzmadan at a glance
- WHAT: Chrishanukwanzmadan is Oddmall’s holiday show celebration. Dozens of vendors, live entertainment, Santas and elves and pirates and Hanukkah Armadillos and Krampus and all the other stuff you’ve come to associate with the winter holidays figuratively drips from the walls and ceilings like tinsel from the buns of a curiously gluttonous cat. Don’t picture that last part. I don’t know why I wrote it.
- WHEN: December 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2024
- WHEN WHEN: Friday 6pm-9pm, Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 10am-5pm
Entertainment and parties continue until late Friday and Saturday. - WHERE: The Bertram Inn & Conference Center
- WHERE WHERE: 600 North Aurora Rd. Aurora, Ohio 44202
- WHERE WHERE WHERE: Discounted hotel reservation can be made by calling the hotel at 330-995-0200 and making sure to tell them you are with Oddmall.
- HOW MUCH: While entry is completely free, we have it on good authority that your generous donation of five dollars or more will plop you firmly on Santa’s nice list…
- HOW: Ski, sled, or travel by flying reindeer. Maybe drive a car or some sort of custom van with a muscular, guitar-playing Santa Claus airbrushed on the side panel.
- HUH: Vendor information can be found here. VENDOR SETUP information can be found here.
- WHY: It’s an Oddmall holiday show. An. Oddmall. Holiday. Show. This is absolutely the best place in the universe to nab amazing gifts for the people you love and also the people to whom you are obligated by social contract to buy gifts for even though you’d rather not.
Jazz Unique to Chrishanukwanzmadan
- THE ODDMALL HOLIDAY PARTIES! All Oddmall vendors and their friends are invited to the Oddmall Holiday Parties Friday and Saturday night at the hotel.
- The Friday Night Pajama Party – It’s Holidaymas Eve and we are all kids, too excited to sleep, dressed in our pajamas, sipping hot chocolate, drinking drinks and munching snacks. Pajama’s are encouraged but not required. The party starts at 9pm on Friday.
- The Saturday Night Holiday Costume Party – Let’s show up in our optional holiday costumes and get busy with our own bad selves (and each other). It’s going to be epic!. Saturday at 8pm.
- ARTS & FARTS: Oddmall: Chrishanukwanzmadan will be host to the ODDMALL ARTS & FARTS Caravan of FOOD TRUCKS! Everybody loves food trucks. It’s a known fact. FOOD TRUCK VENDORS please sign up for Oddmall: Chrishanukwanzmadan (and other Oddmall shows) using the vendor registration form.
Participating Food Vendors
F01: Double Deuce Kettle Corn
F02: Ohio Shiver Shack
F03: Let’s Eat at Bob’s
F04: 3 Kids Food Truck
F05: Lil G’s Go Go Eats
Entertainment Schedule
Friday
6:00pm: TBA
7:00pm: TBA
8:00: TBA
9:00: TBA
Saturday
1:00pm: TBA
2:00pm: Storytime with Uncle Kylan
3:00pm: The Oddmall Costume Contest
4:00pm: Maxx Fluxx
5:00pm: The Ugliest Sweater Contest
7:00pm: TBA
8:00pm: TBA
9:00pm: TBA
10:00pm: TBA
Sunday
12:pm: Mixtape 216
1:00pm: TBA
2:00pm: TBA
3:00pm: The Oddmall Costume Contest
4:00pm: All Thumbs Bassoon Ensemble
- SANTA MOTHERLOVIN’ CLAUS! Of course Santa Claus will be there. If we’re lucky we might also have Pirate Santa, Krampus, a bunch of elves, Rudolph, Hanukkah Zombie, Kwanzabot, and a veritable rogue’s gallery of holiday personalities. Guests and vendors are encouraged to come in costume!
- CRAFTING DEMOS! Oddmall artists will be hosting various demos and workshops featuring a variety of awesome projects. Some workshops have an associated fee in order to cover the cost of materials. It happens in the South Pole downstairs near the pool.
- THE ANNUAL ODDMALL VENDOR HOLIDAY GIFT EXCHANGE! If you are an Oddmall vendor and wish to participate in this festive event simply bring a wrapped gift (something you created or sell at your booth). We will collect the gifts and disperse them randomly to all participants like a bunch of reverse Grinches (or regular Santas). Don’t get caught up in the minutia of how much each gift is worth – just wrap up something you would feel good getting if it was gifted to you and you didn’t already have a whole bunch of it because you made it.
- FRIDAY NIGHT PREVIEW AND PARTY! There’s a preview show that’s open to the public while the vendors are setting up Friday evening. There will also be a party going on with live entertainment and all sorts of great jazz!
- COSTUME CONTEST! The grand prize winner nabs a FREE 4 Day Badge to Con on the Cob 2025!
- UGLY SWEATER COMPETITION! Whose sweater is the most hideous? Everybody can enter! You can bring a store-bought wooly thing or make your own. It’s up to you. There will be competitions Saturday and Sunday and also prizes handed out randomly to peeps donning gay apparel.
- Professional tattoo artists, body piercers, and other such artists are here! All body artists must be properly licensed and all operations are subject to the laws and regulations of Ohio and Summit County. Click here for more information about INKcentricity at Oddmall. Body art vendors should register for booths just as any other vendor would, using the online registration form. Con on the Cob typically has several tattoo artists in attendance.
- CIRCUS INVERSUS! Circus Inversus returns with an incredible display of aerial acrobatics!
- STORY TIME WITH UNCLE KYLAN! Uncle Kylan reads Die Hard. If we’re lucky we might also get Jungle Mango to read us The Barnyard Boogie… Saturday at 2pm in Santa’s Lair.
- BELLYDANCING! Shuvani Dance Studio regales us with their hypnotic motions.
- LIVE READINGS BY LOCAL AUTHORS!
Booth Prices
Yellow (3’x8′): $90
Purple (6’x8′): $180
Green (6’x12′): $250
Pink (10’x10′): $350
Food Truck (10’x20′): $180
A Map of the Place
Here, for the edification of the inquisitive, we present this map of the venue laid out in full Oddmall gloriosity!
Artist & Vendor List
YELLOW BOOTHS
1. Plantz n‘ nat
2. Bazaar Barz
3. Schneider’s Spiders
4. Heather’s Beaded Gifts
5. Garrett’s Sticker Shock
6. Ironwood’s Child
7. Different Branches llc
41. Real Deal Hemp Co
42. Mini Miau
43. Goofy Foot Pottery
44. Eye Candy
59. Crafty Corner by Laura
60. Onna’s Orgone Energy
61. Circus Crow Crafts
62. Jazzie’s Sculpts
63. Crafts by Courtney
112. Belle’s Bakery
113. Glitz N Glitter – Cute N Creepy
128 (double size). Cleveland CraftCo.
129. Blithe
130. Flights of Fancy Leathercraft
131. Tactition Tactless
132. Sasquatch Labs
133. Evil Eye Leather
136. Sewcial Excellence
137. Rose Petal Treasures
138. Little Bit Ecclectic
139. Hayden’s Creations
140. Rena Lamecca
141. Califarmer
146 and 147. 3 Kids Candy (in hall nearest lobby)
148. Spiritus Mundi Apothecary
149. The Artful Pixey
150. Cottage Hill Farm Market
151. Cottage Hill Farm Market
PURPLE BOOTHS
9. Pure Romance
10. Skeleton + Cauldron
11. Blossom and Balm Apothecary
12. Blended Creators
13. Sandy’s Cakes and Sweets
14. T3D Print Shop
15. Tempting Sweets Plus
16. The Enchanted Jewelry Shop
17. The Crafti Loop
18. Golden Bark Gifts
19. Karriann & Linz
20. Eternal Adornments
21. Greenrock
22. Santa’s Lair
23. Krampus’s Domain
29. Dave
30. Resin Arts and Other Wonders
31. Ironwood’s Child
32. Alpaca Snack
36. Cosmic Wolves
37. Psycho Barbie
38. Window Depot
39. Amira’s Creationz
40. Juliefoo
45. Crafting Cleveland
46. Possumchic Studio
47. K Pastva Creations
49. Kim Walsh
50. Katja’s Oddornments (Sunday only)
51. Charlene’s Toy Chest
52. Kasio’s Creepy Shadowboxes
53. Imagination of Robert Walker
54. Imagination of Robert Walker
56. Octopuss Design, llc
57. Leisa Darlyn Candies
58. Katelynne McHugh
64. A Crow’s Comforts
65. NugBudz
66. 3Cat Collectibles
67. The Light Trading Co.
68. The Light Trading Co.
69. The Light Trading Co.
70. Flexi Friends
71. Insomnia Castings
72. Name Rings
73. Bears Live Edge
74. Random Chix LLC
75. Kitten Confetti Creations
77. Druid’s Garden Tea Co.
78. Dirty Deeds Creations
79. Phlipot’s Whimsical Emporium
80. Phlipot’s Whimsical Emporium
81. RockingWireArt
82. Forest City Candle
83. Let’s Go 3D Prints
84. Bath Experts
85. Vinegars Etc.
86. Da Mixing Pot
87. Craft Addiction Shop
88. Toonbrian
90. Dryad Dollies
91. Things Made Strange
92. Gamers Lair
93. Gamers Lair
94. Kay’s Cozy Corner
95. Erica Cole Art
114. Gilded Arcadia
115. The Smokin’ Witch
116. Sarah’s Glittery Glossy Nails
117. Tastefully Simple
121. Kismet Kat Creations
122. Garrett’s Sticker Shock
123. Johnny Wonton’s
124. Johnny Wonton’s
125. Creative Imaginations
126. Creative Imaginations
127. Creative Imaginations
142. Oliver
GREEN BOOTHS
08. Liquid Luck
24. Ashwini’s Krafts N Creations
25. The Tattoo Shop
26. Stylezbyamiah
28. Mr. Fun’s
33. Bear Buddies
34. Ashwini’s Krafts N Creations
35. Niss N’ That
48. Geeks in the Castle
55. Raybar Craft Forge
76. The Toy Chest
89. Owl Talyn Press / Pheonix Book Truck
118. Black Squirrel Leather
119. Bathtub the Cat
120. Thompson DSN
134. Union Creek Soap Company
135. The Dragon’s Stone
PINK BOOTHS
96. Coco&Tica, LLC
97. Crochet Hippy Designs
98. Sisters Touched by Craft
99. Pieces by Mina
100. Attention Addled Arts
101. KBrooks Originals
102. Fyre of the Phoenix
103. Fyre of the Phoenix
104. Whimsical Pets*
105. MiniClicks
106. Wandering Bones Trading Co.
107. Ohio State Waterproofing
108. Tara’s Tasty Treats
109. Sarah’s Creations & Treasures
110. The Rock Ladies
111. The Rock Ladies
143: Pretty Punk Stuff
144. POD Jewel;ry
145. Fudge Factory
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