Plants and Prints Series: Oils and Salves
Sep
28

Plants and Prints Series: Oils and Salves

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Plants & Prints is a community-centered series of herbal medicine making workshops hosted at Hard-Pressed and facilitated by Seedfolk Herbs and Cuneiform Press. The workshops will provide accessible, hands-on education in folk herbal medicine and printmaking to foster community care, creative expression, and health sovereignty.

By combining printmaking with the practice of herbal medicine making, we aim to:

  •  Grow local medicine making and printmaking skills

  •  Support intergenerational learning

  •  Empower participants to care for themselves and their communities

  •  Use print as a medium to share recipes, zines, and health resources

Three workshops will be conducted on Sundays from 1 to 4PM. Workshop topics will

include:

  • September 28: Oils and Salves

  • October 12: Fire Cider

Each workshop will include:

  •  A short lesson on the herbs

  •  Hands-on medicine making

  •  Print/design activity

  •  Take-home remedies and ephemera

Maximum of 6 participants in each workshop.

$75 per workshop, or sliding scale of $100-$150 for registering for both workshops.

REGISTER HERE.

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Plants and Prints Series: Fire Cider
Oct
12

Plants and Prints Series: Fire Cider

  • Hard-Pressed Community Printshop & Zine Library (map)
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Plants & Prints is a community-centered series of herbal medicine making workshops hosted at Hard-Pressed and facilitated by Seedfolk Herbs and Cuneiform Press. The workshops will provide accessible, hands-on education in folk herbal medicine and printmaking to foster community care, creative expression, and health sovereignty.

By combining printmaking with the practice of herbal medicine making, we aim to:

  •  Grow local medicine making and printmaking skills

  •  Support intergenerational learning

  •  Empower participants to care for themselves and their communities

  •  Use print as a medium to share recipes, zines, and health resources

Three workshops will be conducted on Sundays from 1 to 4PM. Workshop topics will

include:

  • September 28: Oils and Salves

  • October 12: Fire Cider

Each workshop will include:

  •  A short lesson on the herbs

  •  Hands-on medicine making

  •  Print/design activity

  •  Take-home remedies and ephemera

Maximum of 6 participants in each workshop.

$75 per workshop, or sliding scale of $100-$150 for registering for both workshops.

REGISTER HERE.

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Remembering Ayşenur Eygi
Sep
5

Remembering Ayşenur Eygi

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Join us in creating a ceremonial space honoring the life of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi and the martyrs of Beita, Palestine, and learn about the village in a presentation about Beita’s ongoing resistance to occupation.

Prints will be for sale to fundraise for the Peace and Justice Center’s support of Beita.

On September 6, 2024, international solidarity activist Ayşenur was killed by an IOF soldier. There have been numerous killings of americans (alongside over 1k Palestinians in the West Bank since 10/7/23) by the IOF and illegal settlers in Palestine but none of them have been held accountable.

Beita, a village in the West Bank, has long been home to heart, strength, and resistance in the face of occupation. Learn more about this village where Ayşenur stood in solidarity alongside Palestinians.

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Letterpress Basics
Aug
31

Letterpress Basics

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In this four hour workshop we will each design and print a one-color design. Each participant will walk away with a stack of prints to share with their pals. This is a great workshop to learn the basics of setting type, and printing on the Vandercook cylinder press. 

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August Abundance Potluck
Aug
19

August Abundance Potluck

Bring your garden oversupply and a dish to share, and come over to eat and hang at Hard-Pressed Printshop and Library! Let's come together over our shared love for the brief and beautiful bounty of Vermont summer. All zucchini’s welcome! (Don't have a garden? You're invited! Bring anything!)

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Tiger Swallow Tail Mirror: an evening of music with Lilith Smith
Aug
11

Tiger Swallow Tail Mirror: an evening of music with Lilith Smith

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$5-10 suggested donation

Lilith is a painter, puppeteer, and a hobbyist composer. She will present a selection of pieces, including a variety of rounds, a piece for ocarina ensemble, a piece for solo cello, and various groupings of brass and winds.

Lilith’s musical influences include the Wandelweiser Collective, indeterminacy, medieval multipart music, minimalism, Lithuanian Sutartines, and the sounds of cicadas.

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Songs from the Levant with Elsa
Aug
7

Songs from the Levant with Elsa

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Elsa Saade is a musician, puppeteer, doula and activist. She bridges her practice with her lived experience in Lebanon where she was born and in New York City where she has lived. When performing, obsessed with grief and turmoil embedded in folk songs and traditions of Bilad Al Sham and beyond, Elsa wants her art to serve as a doula of moments around metaphorical birth and death. She will be presenting original musical compositions from a soon to be launched album and collaborating with Dima Mabsout to present visual experiences inspired by their time together in Vermont.

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Coptic Bookbinding Workshop
Aug
3

Coptic Bookbinding Workshop

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Local artist and printmaker Kassandra Morse will be teaching the coptic book binding method, which will result in a personalized sketchbook with an open spine displaying the decorative coptic binding technique.

All materials provided. There is a maximum of 10 participants. $75-125 sliding scale.

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Summer Abundance Potluck
Jul
22

Summer Abundance Potluck

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Got too many zucchini or cucumbers growing in your garden or in your CSA? Feeling inspired to make a fresh dish and share with friends? Come on by for a mid-summer potluck!

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Botanical Impressions Exploration on Paper
Jul
19

Botanical Impressions Exploration on Paper

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Join artist and florist Marger Maldonado in an exploration of natural impressions with plants on paper! Create unique organic prints using both fresh and dry flowers, leaves, and plant material through varying techniques.

Dye paper with colors found around us. 

While the plants work their magic to imprint, we will color paper using natural botanical pigments if you choose. Pre~dyed paper will be there to write on, reflect, doodle…

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