About
The Reno Punk Rock Flea Market is a 100% volunteer-run D.I.Y non-profit serving the Reno art and music scene since 2018.
We’re dedicated to amplifying the arts and music in Nevada through hosting public events like the Punk Rock Flea Market, offering educational workshops, hiring local artists and bands, and providing a forum for creative self-expression for folks to share their talents with the greater community.
We produce several large events each year, as well as a monthly all-ages matinee designed to give emerging bands stage time & fair pay. Our goal for the next five years is to purchase our own venue where we can facilitate even more all-ages events and provide a permanent safe space for all of our community members to collaborate & create.
All donations go directly to our events and community sponsorships, like the School of Rock Half Stack Grant, which provides financial support to young musicians.
our next big event is punk rock pride! sign ups are now live!
More About The Punk Rock Flea Event
Our flagship event is the Reno Punk Rock Flea Market. It’s an 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.
The Flea is always all ages and kids under 12 are free! We have food trucks, activities, kids crafts, car smash and so much more!
Here’s a little bit more about our flagship event -
The Reno Punk Rock Flea Market is a weekend party with 10+ 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!
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.
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 events and organizations in our community. Past RPRFM recipients include School of Rock, G.I.R.L.S Rock Reno, Our Center, Trans Support Reno, Sassabration, Schellraiser, Dancing in the Streets and more! Our goal is to support the art and music scene in Northern Nevada, however we can! Thank you for supporting the Flea and showing everyone how rad Reno is!
Upcoming Events
May Neutral Ground
Our Next NG is May 31st with two student bands and Reno’s newest Psychobilly Trio, P.S.T.
more music, more mayhem
Every last Sunday of the month is our monthly matinee, Neutral Ground, at the Holland Project, 4th Street Coffee Bar or West Street Market depending on availability. All venues are all-ages spaces and all are invited. NG is a space for new bands to play their first gig, veteran bands to try out new material and traveling bands to get a taste of Reno! The Neutral Ground event has recently been awarded a Nevada Arts Council Grant for 2026! Neutral Ground will now be totally FREE until May 2026! Thank you so much Nevada Arts Council.
2026 Neutral Ground SIgn up form is live!
Thank you for supporting us NAC and NEA!
News & Updates
Limited merch reprint
Thanks for loving our merch! We’ve gotten a bunch of requests for our 2026 Flea merch and our 2024 pride merch so we’re doing a super limited reprint! Get them while they’re here. We wont be printing these bad boys again!
2025 End Of Year Report
Learn more about our non-profit, our processes and all the rad things we accomplished together in 2025 by checking out our end-of-year report here!
2025 community feedback survey!
Every year we put out a community feedback survey to help us shape our next year of events! Your feedback helps us choose venues, event times, and future offerings. This year we’re doing a contest! One lucky person will get 4 free tickets to our spring Punk Rock Flea! Take the survey and be entered to win!
2024 Community Feedback Survey
Our 2024 community survey is here! Help us make our non-profit the best ever! With your feedback we’ll make changes to the Fleas and our programs to better serve our community!
Neutral Ground Grant
In January of 2024, Neutral Ground received an Equity Expansion Grant from the City of Reno that allows us to host three free Neutral Ground sessions from January - March 2024. We’re happy to use these funds to pay bands, offer free admission, hire a videographer and generally contribute to the Reno DIY art and music scene.
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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