With the holiday season in full swing let’s take a moment to celebrate eachother, shop thougtfully and give back.
Join us for an evening of community and connection. Together, we’ll raise a glass to supporting one another—in both big and small ways—while enjoying a private shopping experience at Viand Mercantile. A portion of proceeds will benefit Full Plates, Full Potential, whose mission is to strengthen child nutrition programs as a vital step in ending childhood food insecurity in Maine.
Details
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Viand Mercantile 470 Fore Street, Portland, ME, street parking available
Fee: $40 - small bites and beverages provided, X% discount on all Viand Mercantile products. (all ticket proceeds will be given to Full Plates, Full Potential)
*As we develop different types of events, we are working on prices to make these events sustainable. If cost is a factor, we want to help. For each event, we set aside tickets just for this purpose. Please email us at hello@heldportland.com.
Cancellation policy: All sales are final and non-refundable. However, your tickets are transferable to an individual. If transferred to someone, please email us their name and email address at hello@heldportland.com.
About our Partners
Viand Mercantile - Jenny Bravo launched Viand Vintage in 2020 out of her photography studio. It was started as a way to provide her community with the props she so loved to curate and photograph in her work as a commercial food photographer and stylist. What started as an online shop morphed into seasonal pop-ups around Portland, Maine. After a few years of this routine, our amazing customers were clear that Viand would be welcomed as a permanent fixture in the Portland community. And so Jenny’s search for a brick & mortar location began. In 2023 we found our new permanent home at 470 Fore Street, and with the inspiration of such a beautiful location we knew it was time to rebrand into something bigger; into Viand Mercantile.
At Viand we believe that a layered home will always be the most genuinely designed home. From vintage objects to modern accessories and gifts, we want to help you make your home feel collected and inspired. We are proud to now offer both new and vintage items in a variety of home categories by artists, makers, and brands from across the globe. We hope you walk into each of your spaces and experience Viand.
Full Plates, Full Potential -
We strive to be responsive, and accountable, to the communities that child nutrition programs serve, and especially the young people who are their primary interest holders.
We work to expand our lens to ensure that efforts to strengthen child nutrition programs take into account human wholeness, seeking to avoid unintended consequences of solutions that are too broad or too narrow.
We must be able and willing to change our approach in the face of new, better information or in response to new external challenges.
We embrace the interconnectedness of child nutrition programs and the broader ecosystem, endeavoring to learn from, inform, and strengthen each other for the sake of a stronger whole.
We celebrate incremental improvements while embracing and resourcing a mindset of continuous improvement to ensure lasting impact.
We ensure that systems and solutions are tailored to meet the differing needs of Maine’s diverse communities.