About
The Reno Punk Rock Flea Market is a 100% volunteer-run, community-supported non-profit that’s dedicated to amplifying the arts and music scene in Nevada through hosting public events like the Punk Rock Flea Market, educational workshops and providing a forum for creative self-expression. We’ve been producing community events since 2018 and have now expanded to several large events a year as well as a monthly all-ages matinee. Our goal for the next five years is to rent our own venue where we can facilitate even more all-ages events and provide a permanent space for all of our community members to collaborate & create. All donations go directly toward our events and community sponsorships.
Our flagship event is the Reno Punk Rock Flea Market. It’s a two-day, all-ages, DIY event. In 2022, we expanded to two Fleas a year! Our Fleas The Season Holiday Flea is in the Fall and our standard Flea is in the Spring.
Our next Flea Market is April 20th & 21st at El Sol in Sparks, NV.
Our 2024 Punk Rock Flea Market is located at El Sol Futbol Stadium in Sparks, NV.
This is our largest Flea of the year held in a 20,000 sqft indoor Futbol arena. We have space for 150 vendors! We also reserve space for 5 mutual aid/non-profit groups who will receive a free vending spot. If you’re a mutual aid group that’s interested in a free spot please reach out to us at vend@rprfm.org.
Our 2024 Flea vendor spots are now full we recommend joining our newsletter to stay informed about future Fleas and vending opportunities.
The Flea is always all ages and kids under 12 are free! The hours are 10am - 6pm. We have food trucks, activities, kids crafts, car smash and so much more!
Here’s a little bit more about the RPRFM event -
The Reno Punk Rock Flea Market is a weekend party with 14 bands (local & traveling) and 100+ vendors who are artists, activists, non-profits and makers. We smash cars, make stuff, connect with like-minded folks, drink beer and have a pretty great time. Despite the constant loud music and car smashing, we are family-friendly! (If you’re the sort of family that likes punk rock and disrupting the status quo). We also have an interactive kiddo section complete with Drag Story Time with Vertigo!
Another fan favorite is our POSSUM PILE which is basically a gigantic free clothing swap section so bring all your old stuff and leave with something new.
We have several food trucks rocking out all weekend long and a bar for your drinking needs plus an ATM in case you’d like to get some books, art, zines, clothes, whatever from our awesome vendors.
Although we are a non-profit ourselves and all of our events are volunteer-run, we also donate a percentage of our Flea revenue to sponsor other non-profit events in our community. Thank you for supporting the Flea and showing everyone how rad Reno is!
Upcoming Events
more music, more mayhem
Every last Sunday of the month is our monthly matinee, Neutral Ground, at the Holland Project. NG is a space for new bands to play their first gig and veteran bands to try out new material.
If you’d like to play NG in 2024 please fill out our form below.
Our next Neutral Ground is Sunday May 26th from 12pm - 3pm.
Through a City of Reno Equity Expansion Grant NG January, February and March are free. Thank you to the City of Reno for their support.
RPRFM is collaborating with Schellraiser, Trash Panda and Fresh Bakin’ to bring you a rad 18+ schellraiser fest preview party at the Cypress!
We're kicking off the 2024 Reno Punk Rock Flea Market in style with Vampirates, Pedaling Mongos and Ozymandias at The Holland Project!
$8 presales, $10 day of show
Always all ages.
First 100 attendees will get a limited edition RPRFM patch from Fish Flower Press.
News & Updates
Our 2023 community feedback survey is now live! We would love your input so we can continue to evolve and grow! Fill out this simple survey here and help us shape the RPRFM non-profit!
RPRFM Non-Profit Announcement
As of March 2023, the Reno Punk Rock Flea Market is an independent non-profit 501c3 organization. We are no longer part of The Generator Inc maker space non-profit.
What does this mean?
In 2018, The Reno Punk Rock Flea was founded by Kadillac Kim and Jessi Sprocket as an annual fundraiser for The Generator. As the community and the RPRFM event grew a new dream was born: to become our own nonprofit organization, to do more events, and eventually purchase our own music and community venue. We are really excited that we have taken the next step to realize this dream by becoming our own non-profit with our original flea crew spearheading this move!
As an independent non-profit, the only funding we receive is through our events as well as donations and sponsorships directly to the Flea. The Punk Rock Prom in late March 2023 was our first fundraiser event as our own RPRFM non-profit. Financially we are starting back at square one with extremely limited funding but we know through the love of the Flea and your support we will grow and evolve and hopefully, one day realize our ultimate venue ownership goal.
Thanks for your continued support and know that we are working really hard to bring you the best possible events that give back to the community and showcase all of the incredible art and talent that Reno has to offer.
Want to get involved with our new non-profit? We are currently growing our volunteer family. Visit our volunteer page for more information.
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Sponsor the flea
interested in becoming a sponsor?
The Reno Punk Rock Flea is a 5,000 person event happening twice a year! The Flea is by the community, for the community! It’s a real Reno favorite and we’re so excited to have you join the RPRFM family. Donations from sponsors help us make the Flea bigger and better. With your help, we can offer more DIY activities, bigger interactive elements and more extensive infrastructure! Let’s make this Flea the best one yet!
Our RPRFM 2024 Sponsorships are now open.
If you’re interested in sponsoring please reach out to us at outreach@rprfm.org!
The Reno Punk Rock Flea Market is a 501c3 non-profit and all sponsorship donations are tax-deductible. View the sponsorship information below for more details.
Thank you to our 2024 Flea Market Sponsors!
Thank you to our 2023 fleas the season sponsors!
Thank you to Freeman's Karate!
Reno Punk Rock Flea Market is a 501c3 non-profit committed to fostering the art and music scene in Nevada.
We reserve the right to refuse sponsorships that fail to align with RPRFM values.
Thank you for supporting D.I.Y culture and the art and music scene in Reno/Sparks.