CLEVELAND — As the holiday shopping season intensifies, the Real Black Friday and Financial Foundations University are highlighting local small businesses and entrepreneurs.
On Saturday, Nov. 30, from 6 to 11 p.m., the two organizations will be presenting Small Business Saturday: Mall at the Museum at the Great Lakes Science Center.
Admission and parking in the attached garage is free.
Organizers describe it as a festive marketplace featuring more than 100 black and minority-owned businesses.
There will also be food trucks, a live band, choir, multiple DJs, games and video game trucks, and a chance to have cookies and photographs with Santa.
Free haircuts will be offered to the first 100 attendees.
This year's event also includes a pitch competition where local entrepreneurs and small businesses will compete for cash prizes to advance their businesses.
Among the contestants will be two teen brothers from Garfield Heights who started their own business, The Trash Boys, over the summer.
Watch News 5's July report on the teens' efforts to help residents and clean up the environment.
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More information on the event can be found HERE.
