Ripe Celebrates a New Season at The Courtyard
Honouring craftsmanship, creativity and the return of the newest season of the Merchants & Makers Market, Boston Lane Café and The Collective by Ripe after a summer refresh.
03rd December 2025 (Dubai, UAE) – Ripe proudly relaunched its much-loved seasonal market at The Courtyard, with a reintroduction of The Collective by Ripe after its summer refresh on 28th November. With their newest season of Merchants & Makers kicking off and a refreshed look inside The Collective and Boston Lane Café, Ripe remains a community favourite for makers and creators alike wanting to enter UAE’s creative and homegrown retail scene. Together with the newly opened season of The Ripe Market Academy Park, these destinations reflect Ripe’s continued commitment to building and nurturing creative community spaces across the UAE.
For over a decade, Ripe has grown from a grassroots market concept into a brand that designs markets, experiences, and destinations that bring communities together while delivering value for brands and partners alike. Today, through Ripe Events, the experiential arm of the brand, this ethos extends across community and lifestyle experiences, destination placemaking, and corporate events. By curating immersive events that showcase the full breadth of Ripe’s sister brands, the company transforms spaces into vibrant community hubs where people, brands, and ideas connect.
Rooted in nostalgia yet energised by fresh ideas, this year’s season brings together the very best of craftsmanship, conscious luxury and community spirit. Visitors can look forward to a curated selection of premium local designers and artisans, from boutique fashion and handcrafted jewellery to artisanal homeware, beauty, and lifestyle. Each showcased brand, market or community reflects the values at the heart of Ripe’s mission, to support homegrown talent and nurture the UAE’s creative economy.
The reopening coincides with the nation’s 54th UAE National Day celebrations, offering the perfect opportunity for families, friends and visitors to come together and enjoy a bustling community experience. Stroll through The Collective by Ripe, explore the reenergised spaces of The Courtyard, enjoy the welcoming atmosphere of the newly refreshed Boston Lane Café and immerse yourself in the lively Merchants & Makers Market on select Fridays – where new makers join beloved local brands at The Collective like, Shoeq, Birds n Bees, Sassi, E3K Jewelry, Tribe, RAW Music and more.
Whether you’re searching for unique finds, spending quality time with loved ones or simply soaking up the creative energy of Dubai’s original artistic hub, the winter season at The Collective invites the whole community to join in and celebrate.
Season Schedule
The Ripe Market Academy Park
Dubai Police Academy, Umm Suqeim, Dubai
Every Saturday (9am – 9pm); Sunday (9am – 7pm), October 2025 – May 2026
Entry: 5 AED (Free for Kids under 12 and Senior Citizens 60+)
The Collective by Ripe
Inside The Courtyard, Al Quoz:
Daily, 9am – 7pm
Merchants & Makers MarketInside The Courtyard, Al Quoz
9am – 5pm on the following dates:
- 21 and 28 November 2025
- 12 and 19 December 2025
- 9 and 23 January 2026
- 6 and 20 February 2026
- 6 and 20 March 2026
- 3 and 17 April 2026
For more details and updates, visit ripeevents.com
About Ripe:
The Collective by Ripe
The Collective by Ripe was established in 2006 with a vision to offer an affordable platform for entrepreneurs to trial and test their creations in a retail environment. The Collective is a marketplace of makers, designers, and curators. A community of like-minded people who challenge the status-quo. They are aspiring entrepreneurs, fresh graduates, creative freelancers: all influential. They have their finger on the pulse, they strive to be independent creators. Together, this creative community of shoppers & sellers come to discover and be discovered. Our vision is aimed at supporting local SME businesses within the region. By keeping their rent low and their footfall high – we help minimize the risks generally associated with entrepreneurship. Local entrepreneurs will be given the platform to run their very own business. Our retailers can network, build, and grow their creative ideas within an upscale central hub offering support to each other.
The Ripe Market
The Ripe Market is a community-led business that was founded in 2011 with a passion to support homegrown businesses who were looking to launch and grow their business in the UAE. The Ripe Market offers emerging businesses a platform to sell, promote, and engage new and existing customers in an affordable setting. The Ripe Market runs weekly across several locations in Dubai and Abu Dhabi each year with one flagship location at the Academy Park in Umm Sequim. Over 100 SME businesses take part each week, including farmers, food, merchants and makers, activities, workshops and more.
Ripe Events
Ripe Events Management provides the unique ability to deliver brand awareness in a way you’ve never seen before. Central to our ability to deliver on brand awareness is our focus on understanding your brand, your internal marketing strategy and communication objectives. Ripe Event Management is a team of professionals passionate about creating and delivering high quality and engaging events. With years of local market knowledge, we work with only the top professionals and experts in the industry ensuring we produce the perfect event. We offer everything you require to make your event a huge success adopting a creative approach, innovative ideas, and a convenient, all-encompassing marketing service, we include strategy, concepts, design, and project management through to implementation.