Vanilla Bean Class with Sara Anderson
Come learn all about vanilla and enjoy a hands-on experience of making your own top-quality vanilla extract!
Come learn all about vanilla and enjoy a hands-on experience of making your own top-quality vanilla extract!
Fair Trade Day is a holiday dedicated to promoting ethical business and building a world free from poverty and exploitation. We are excited to continue encouraging safe and sustainable work environments in developing countries.
Join us for some fun, special events we will have in honor of Fair Trade Day!
Join Us! Gallery Walk - April 19th 6-9 PM
Doyle Geddes, Artist, Educator, and Coach has four children, and 14 grandchildren. He resides with his wife in North Logan, Utah.
He graduated from Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey where he basically lived in the art room. He received a BA degree from Utah State University. He presently teaches Psychology, Humanities, English, Poetry, and Drawing at Green Canyon High School. He is a Signature artist with the Utah Watercolor Society.
We're excited to celebrate our annual International Women's Night Out event on March 8, 2024! The theme this year is to Inspire Inclusion!
We are celebrating with food, giveaways, discounts and more. Keep an eye out for more details to come!
We would love to see you there! Make sure to bring your friends!
Stop by Global Village Gifts this weekend and make a fun Valentine-themed craft, enter our giveaway and grab a sweet treat!
You will be able to make a cute recycled paper heart, with recycled books and newspaper collected from around the world.
We are excited to feature the artist, Marsha Dennis! A Utah local, Marsha has studied all forms of art but watercolor is her favorite medium. She is inspired by Van Gogh and loves creating something that takes dedication, commitment and study - but most of all heart and soul.
While painting professionally, she also teaches art in public schools. She loves interacting and meeting new artists to continue to grow her skills.
Come stop by and check her out! We can't wait to see you!
Global Village Gifts is marking its 19th year on November 7, 2022. We are celebrating milestones of growth with our volunteers, our vendors, our artisans, and our community outreach. We are immensely grateful for and humbled by how far we have come and for the people who make our mission possible.
Where We Started
Global Village Gifts opened its doors on November 7, 2003. The shop’s founder, Sally Keller, a volunteer manager of Ten Thousand Villages, wanted to help people and make a difference. In 1994 she received a unique gift from her sister-in-law: a latrine in Nepal bought under her name. This, coupled with her experiences in Africa with her daughter engaging with local Fair Trade artisans, gave her a passion for Fair Trade and the idea to bring a Fair Trade shop to Logan. At 71 years old, Sally opened the shop as an entity of Ten Thousand Villages and Julie Barker soon joined her in this endeavor. Two years later it began running independently under a new name: Global Village Gifts.
As the store has grown in popularity, it has moved through three different locations and is currently settled at 53 East 100 North in Logan. This location opened in 2019 and has given the store more visibility, greater foot traffic, and a greater presence in downtown Logan.
The shop opened with two main goals that it maintains to this day - to support artisans in developing countries and to teach the local community about Fair Trade. We have seen amazing growth in the store, our volunteers, the products we offer, and the artisans we are able to support.
How We Bring Our Mission To Life
We support artisans around the world by purchasing their goods and products at a fair price and selling them in our storefront. The practice of Fair Trade ensures that these artisans are paid a fair wage for their products and ensures adherence to child labor laws. This helps these artisans to provide for themselves, educate their children, and improve their communities. It helps them live with dignity because individuals who contribute financially to the family are more highly regarded in their society. This also creates a rippling effect on the next generation who grow up learning how to support themselves. The store currently supports 29 vendors from 48 countries and has over 1,500 products available.
We are dedicated to teaching our local community about the principles of Fair Trade. When you first walk into our colorful shop, a volunteer greets you and asks if you’re familiar with the store. They’ll share the store’s mission and talk about the basics of Fair Trade . We also engage with the community through our monthly newsletters, social media accounts, our website, and community events such as the recent Gallery Walk, Vanilla Bean Class with Sara Anderson, and Nativity Night.
Volunteers Are Our Lifeblood
As a fully non-profit organization, our volunteers are critical to the success of the store and our mission. Our volunteers manage the storefront, greet and interact with customers, and teach the public about Fair Trade. Our operation is currently run by over 30 volunteers and volunteer coordinators. So far this year we've logged 660 volunteer hours and have trained 8 new volunteers. We are immensely grateful for the time and energy they have contributed to the success of the store in the last 19 years. We want to thank our outstanding volunteers for their work and for their many years of contributing to our cause.
Thank You For Shopping With Us
We love our customers for supporting our mission by shopping locally and ethically. Each person who makes a purchase at our store makes a difference.
If you’ve never been in our store before, we encourage you to come and give alternative shopping a try! You’ll find shelves of beautiful, unique, and colorful handmade items from around the world including jewelry, cards, books, scarfs, woven baskets, soaps, children’s toys, coffee, chocolate, and other one-of-a-kind goods. With the upcoming Christmas season, it is also a great place to find a unique gift while also making a difference.
Thank you for your support over the last incredible 19 years. We look forward to the years to come!
Looking Forward To The Future
We are incredibly thankful for where we have been over the last 19 years and for the growth we have seen. We are humbled by the lives we have been able to reach and for the support of the people who have made all this possible. We are enthusiastic as we look toward the coming years and hope to continue to grow and make a difference!
Thank you!
Article written by Nicole Simmons
Join us and celebrate the beginning of the holiday season! A tradition for many, Nativity Night is a special annual event where we are open after hours and put out all of our nativities and ornaments from all over the world. Although Nativity Night is the “debut” night for our holiday decorations, items stay up through the season until January. Don’t miss out on this Global Village Gifts tradition and get first pick on our nativities!
Come learn all about vanilla! This spice comes from an Orchid and is one of the most universal flavors! Learn about how vanilla beans are grown, the process and path to get them ready to use, as well as learn how to make your own vanilla extract and how to use vanilla beans in a recipe!
Call or come by the store to sign up for the class. Due to our space, we have limited spots available for the class, the fee per person is $15. Payment methods accepted are cash, check and Venmo. See you all there!
Learn more about Sara and shop her products at https://indrivanilla.com
Come join us for another Gallery Walk! This month’s Gallery Walk will be September 23rd, from 6 to 9 PM. The artist being featured this month is Victoria Johnson.
Victoria Johnson is a Logan-based fine art photographer with work that explores human relationships with memory, time, and space. Their work is inspired by the New Topographics movement, which provides an unromanticized view into a modernized version of traditional depictions of landscapes. For Johnson, the beauty in these spaces comes from their childhood. Growing up in Brazil, they have always been interested in the overall aesthetics of suburbia that were presented to them through early 2000s Hollywood media.
Each of their photographs peels back layers of the American dream, leaving behind questions about privacy, use of resources, and architectural homogeneity.
Stop by our booth at the Gardener's Market to learn more about the store and Fair Trade!
Come join us to celebrate art during Gallery Walk! Our featured artist is Lauren Nel, you can find more artwork on her Instagram @wildfreeandcreating
Join us to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Logan Downtown Summer Sidewalk Sale!
Once a year, Logan’s downtown is transformed into a bargain-shopping extravaganza! This free event open to the public offers more than 100 shopping and eating establishments and plenty of free parking. And to celebrate downtown’s 50th year of the sidewalk sale, the savings are even greater on the best bargains of the year on more items; such as, clothing, electronics, toys, furniture, gifts, sporting goods, fabric, jewelry, salon products and services, and lots of places to eat and relax!
In celebration of World Fair Trade Day, we have partnered with two GVG volunteers, Tami Ungerman and Sue Zollinger, to bring you a bookmaking class! The class will take place in our store, at 53 East 100 North, on Tuesday, May 17th, at 5:30 PM.
Due to the size of our space, we have limited spots available. To ensure a fun and full class, we ask that you pay a $10 fee in advance in order to reserve your spot. You can reach us on Instagram at @globalvillagegifts, through email at globalvillagegiftslogan@gmail.com, or simply by coming to the store. We accept cash or Venmo for payment methods.
We’ll be attending the on-campus Monday Market event planned by the Natural Resources College. We will bring a variety of items from the store to be sold on campus. The event will take place on March 28th, from 2 to 5 PM, in the The S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources Patio, by the library.
On March 25th we will be open until 9 PM to host our featured artist’s Gallery Walk.
We are showcasing the stunning work of Sue Zollinger, Pam Loosie and Carol Goodsell, their artwork is with the eco-printing process. Eco-printing is a process that originated with India Flint, an Australian native, using small amounts of plant material. The process that uses tannins in the leaves, allowing them to print themselves, became popularized with the internet. Sue Zollinger uses an iron mordant to help the tannins penetrate and adhere to the paper or fabric.
The artists are kindly donating all of the money from art sales to Global Village Gifts. Each of the art pieces will have a starting donation price. Customers are welcome to pay more than the asking price if they wish to!
We are so excited to support these three amazing artists on the same month as International Women's Day.
Our hours will be 12-6 pm on the three days of the event, we will go from being open 12-4 pm Monday through Thursday to 12-6 pm every day after Nativity Night. Check out our Holiday Gift Guide tab for some of the items that will be available this holiday season!
During our Nativity Night, purchases of $20 and up will be eligible to enter our giveaway for a two-piece nativity set from Indonesia. Customers that spend $100 will also receive a $10 gift certificate towards their next purchase.
Please join us for our annual Nativity Night. This year our event will take place over the course of three days to allow for COVID-friendly crowds. Learn more about the event and reserve your spot by clicking on the event!
Pick up your tasting packet for $10 at Global Village Gifts and join us for a tasting experience you’ll never forget!
Explore Downtown Logan and our local artists by participating in the July Gallery Walk. At Global Village Gifts we will be featuring photography done by Shalayne Smith-Needham.
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We are gearing up to clear out old inventory and make room for new products!
Shop our Indoor "Sidewalk" Sale from July 6th - 18th and score ethically made items at up to 50% off!*
* All of our artisans have already been paid in full.
The 2020 International Women's Day campaign theme is "Each for Equal".
"An equal world is an enabled world.
Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day.
We can actively choose to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions, improve situations and celebrate women's achievements.
Collectively, each one of us can help create a gender-equal world.
Let's all be #EachforEqual."
Global Village Gifts will be celebrating women everywhere with an International Women's Night Out. Please join us on Friday, March 6th from 6-9 pm as we honor women everywhere and collectively commit to #EachForEqual.
For more information on this year's theme, please visit:
www.internationalwomensday.com
Make the evening even more exciting after participating in our event by visiting the opening of the Artists’ Gallery’s sufferage exhibit happening the same night!
As a way to educate our customers on some of the art forms found at Global Village Gifts, we would like to offer a series of crafting nights featuring commonly used artistry among our global artisans.
Please join us for an exciting evening of kantha taught by our talented volunteer, Sue Zollinger. This class is suitable for beginners and will cover a variety of running stitch techniques that can be used to give old fabrics new life.
“In Sanskrit, the word kantha simply means rags.
For centuries, poor Bengali women have taken their discarded cloth and sewn them together with a simple running stitch to create something new. The functional kantha dorokha ("two-sided quilt") was not a work of art, but simply what the poorest families used to keep warm. Kantha also had an aspect of intimacy. Old cloth in Bangladesh is said to keep the user safe from harm.
For generations of Bengali women, kantha has been a form of quiet expression. Even the most practical kantha is creative and spontaneous in nature.”
All supplies will be provided for, and light refreshments will be served.
Enjoy an evening of education, art, and socializing! Participants will bring home a hand-stitched dishtowel or journal cover.
Cost of attendance is $15/person. Space is limited, so purchase your tickets before they run out!
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Join us for special Sunday hours as we give you one more day of extended hours just in time for your last-minute shopping! Let us help you finish your holiday shopping!
Explore Downtown Logan and our local artists by participating in the December Gallery Walk. At Global Village Gifts we will be featuring student artwork from Mountain Crest High School.
“Enjoy the magic of Christmas in Downtown Logan! Gingerbread creations will be on display in Downtown Logan from December 7 to 31. Vote on your favorite creations; the top 6 creations win $100!
Voting Ballots will also be available at each site beginning December 7. Meet the architects during the Winter Gallery Walk on Friday, December 20, from 6 pm to 9 pm.”
At Global Village Gifts we will be hosting a creation made by Samantha Russell, entitled "The Gingerbread House”. Stop by to see her amazing work and give her a vote!
Monday - Thursday
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Friday - Saturday
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Closed Sunday