Help Celebrate
As we honor national heritage and liberty, we also celebrate our nation's local independent businesses who have given so many citizens opportunity and underpinned and underwritten community life and prosperity. It's also a time to consider the independent decision-making ability each of us possesses to choose the future of the place we make our home.Independents Week celebrations may include:
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- festivals and musical events
- scavenger hunts, in-store promotions and activities
- picnics, community bike rides, and other community-building activities
- prize drawings
- local and state governments demonstrating support for and recognition of independent business' role in our daily lives through proclamation.
You can take the Indie Challenge -- use Independents Week to explore your local independent businesses and see how much of your purchasing for that week you can do with them. You'll keep your money circulating in your community three times as long or more than spending it at chains where it leaves immediately for somewhere else. Every dollar you spend at a local independent business helps your community in many ways.
Get to know your neighbors. . .and help celebrate our Independents!
(We invite anyone anywhere to participate and engage their community. AMIBA affiliation is not required.)
Some Independents Week activity:
Tampa IBA (FL)
Celebrating the whole month with a fundraiser kick-off wine, beer and chocolate pairing party, local business tour with Mayor Iorio and reporters, Passport to the Indies game with prizes, and a culminating party with prize awards.
Local First Utah
Multi-day, multi-location events including raffle and giveaways at the Farmers Market, games, contests and live music at the People's Market, a festival of local music and food, and a head-to-head local foods chef battle a la Iron Chef.
Shop Local Raleigh (NC)
Press conference with Mayor Charles Meeker July 2 with
Blackstone Valley IBA (RI) and Summit IBA (CO)
Floats and banners in July 4 parades. The Summit IBA float won first prize last year!
Page After Page Bookstore, Elizabeth City (NC)
Special sales throughout the week, and an Indie Week window display.
Challenging Austin residents to demonstrate how local they are through photos, videos, blogs, and more. Weekly prize drawing, and prizes for the most creative entries to be awarded during Independents Week.
Oswego, NY
Independence Day parade, Find Your Locals scavenger culminating at the Farmers Market with prize drawings. Chalk art contest with prizes. Using Indie Week to kick off a buy local campaign.
Omaha Local IBA (NE)
Received mayoral proclamation, delivered by two city council members. Conducting a prize drawing from entries in a visit-your-independents game.
Local First Arizona
Citizens can join Mayor Gordon for lunch at the local independent Maizie's Cafe. Mazie's is creating a special sandwich for the celebration. LFA is conducting their annual Golden Ticket Indie Week promotion.