MLK Dream Run Vendor Form

Vendor Registration is now Closed-Submissions will not be accepted as of 09/18-12PM PST

Saturday Vendor Setup Instructions:

All Vendors must check in with Vendor Coordinator at the vendor check in booth prior to unloading.

Vendor set up for those vending on Saturday only or Both Days, is Friday September 20th from 3:00 pm-6:00 pm, or Saturday September 21st  from 7:00 am to 9:45 am. ALL vehicles must be unloaded and removed from the event site by 9:30 am as the event will open promptly at 10:00 am. Vendors are asked to leave their booth up until 6:00 pm on Saturday and not break down early. No vehicles will be allowed on the marketplace grounds between 9:30 am and 6:00 pm, unless as part of a fixed booth/ display ( food truck, etc.) Breakdown will begin no earlier than 6:00 pm and will have time to be completed by 7:30 pm.

After unloading, vehicles can be parked in the north campus parking lot located on N Jessup Street between N Albina St & N Kirby St.  https://www.pcc.edu/locations/cascade/

For 2-Day vendors, please remove any valuable items from your tent and if possible, lower your tent at the end of the Saturday festivities by 6:30 pm. We will have overnight security to watch the booths from Friday, Sept. 20th from 6:00 pm to Saturday at 7:00 am,  and Saturday Sept. 21st, 6:00 pm- Sunday Sept. 22nd at 7:00 am

The Soul District Business Association / MLK Dream Run and or partners or sponsors are not responsible for lost, stolen or damaged items.

Cancellation Policy

If for any reason you need to cancel your registration, please email [email protected] or call 503-841-5032. No refunds will be issued to vendors who cancel after the vendor deadline of Friday September 1, 2023

Vendors will be registered as a first come first serve bases until all spots are filled.

Festival Code of Conduct​

The following” Rules of Conduct” apply to any individual who enters onto any part of the Portland Community College Cascade Campus Property. Any person who violates any of the following rules can be told to leave the property and not return. If the excluded person does return to any part of the permitted area, he or she can be arrested for committing the crime of Criminal Trespass in the Second Degree.

Furthermore, the MLK Dream Run Planning Team and its’ representatives have the right to refuse service to any person for any non-discriminatory reason.

• No person shall engage in any conduct that violates any Federal, State, or City law.

• No person shall engage in conduct that disrupts or interferes with the designated operations of the festival or that disturbs festival participants, including but not limited to conduct that involves the uses of abusive or threatening language or gestures, creating unreasonable noise, or conduct of loud or boisterous physical behavior.

• No person shall enter the non-public area or MLK Dream Run Planning Team only area.

• No person shall possess or consume alcoholic beverages or be in possession of items commonly known to be used to conjunction with illegal drugs or be under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs.

• No person shall engage in behavior that involves asking for or seeking money from Festival participants or its volunteers.

• No person shall engage in conduct that constitutes the selling or offering to sell any goods or services that is not authorized by the MLK Dream Run Planning Team.

• No person shall deposit garbage of any type upon the festival premises except in receptacles intended for that purpose.

• No person shall interfere with ingress or egress of others at the entrance to Festival.

• No person shall possess any firearms, knives or other instruments which could be used to inflict injury upon a person or damage to property.

• No person shall deface, damage, or destroy any merchandise, fixtures or other property of the festival.

• No person shall post any signs, handbills, flyers, posters or other similar objects at the festival unless authorized by MLK Dream Run representatives.

• No person shall use the festival’s permitted area in ways that they were not intended.

• No person shall enter the festival premises without proper clothing to include shoes and shirt.

• No person shall use the festival’s restroom facilities to bath or shave.

• No person shall bring animals of any type, other than service animals, onto the festival premises.

• No person shall distribute written materials or seek signature for a petition while in or upon Festival premises, unless previous authorization has been approved.--