Printermaker's Brunch!
Aspiring printmakers welcome!
What: Pay What You Will lino-cut workshop and print party celebrating Radical Care and Bodily Autonomy ahead of our Nov 8th event with The Auto Body Shop from Pittsburgh, PA! Carve images for posters and postcards that will be used to create Thank You cards for providers and a pledge of continued care for all bodies.
When: November 2nd, 11am-2pm.
More: This is the first in our winters’ long Printer’s Brunch workshop series, Printing Messages of Hope and Connection, which will culminate in public exhibitions next summer. Coffee, tea, and snacks to be served.
*Printermaker’s Brunch Workshops are Pay What You Will, but registration is necessary, and any amount donated will be used to support further programming at Hard-Pressed.*
REGISTER HERE
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
What is Bodily Autonomy?
The Auto(nomous) Body Shop is a Pittsburgh based mobile mutual aid resource supporting bodily autonomy & community care. They provide free info + supplies + propaganda to empower folks to be the go to friend for reproductive health, abortion care, & harm reduction, while actively supporting access to abortion care that is effective and physically/emotionally/spiritually safe.
They’re taking the show on the road next month and coming to see us way up in Vermont! 🤘
This event has everything:
💬Conversations with & presentations from care providers
📓 @mutualadmirationzine slinging zines & collective care vibes
🎟️Raffle with items from local artists & organizations (benefiting @vtabortionfund !)
🖨️Printing projects, zine making, buttons & collage!
🎶Music from the talents of @rocketship_jewelry & @wespearcemusic
🔌Resource & supply sharing
🥨Snacks and bevs
& so much more!
*Free event, donations welcome!
* Accessibility note: Some aspects of this event will be held on the 2nd floor in our zine library, only accessible by stairs.
*Masking encouraged, we’ll have some available by the door.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Madvocate Sip and Read
Come sip a warm drink and read the very first issue of The Madvocate with community around you! After coffee, we’ll be coordinating newspaper drops at sites in the area, join if you want!
The Madvocate is Vermont’s only statewide newspaper written by and for psychiatric survivors, mad people, and those labeled mentally ill. Created and led by people with lived experience, it blends news, arts, resources, and opinion with a sharp editorial voice rooted in justice and community.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Plants & Prints: Fire Cider
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
The Fire Cider 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.
$50-75 sliding scale
Block Printing Workshop
Participants will learn to plan and carve a linoleum block of their own design!
You’ll leave with 10-15 4×6 cards or prints, just in time for gift-giving season.
$40-70 sliding scale.
REGISTER HERE
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Cosmolocal Solar
Join our friends at otherWise (formerly EcoGather) for a two part workshop exploring the many ways of using various configurations of solar panel-generated power to power our lives.
The first portion of this series will be a hybrid webinar. otherWise will be virtually streaming a live presentation from Lab B in Burlington covering the foundational background knowledge needed to complete simple salvage solar projects.
Part two will be held at Hard Pressed, offering an opportunity for those in the NEK to show up and practice the skills covered in the online webinar, or for folks that attended any of the other workshops to show up again and get more practice setting up a simple solar panel, charge controller, and inverter system.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Plants and Prints Series: Elderberry Syrup
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
Two workshops will be conducted on Sundays from 1 to 4PM. Workshop topics will include:
September 28: Fire Cider
October 12: Elderberry Syrup
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.
$50-75 sliding scale per workshop, or sliding scale of $85-$150 for registering for both workshops.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Needle Felted Spooky Garland Making
Join Anastasia Scollon of Percolate Craftery to learn the basics of needle felting and go home with a festive garland perfect for spooky season! You can choose to make ghosts, pumpkins, or mushrooms for your garland. You bring your creative juices and she'll bring the band-aids.
All materials included!
$30-60 sliding scale. Read more about why we use a sliding scale and how to choose an amount to pay.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Plants and Prints Series: Fire Cider
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
Two workshops will be conducted on Sundays from 1 to 4PM. Workshop topics will include:
September 28: Fire Cider
October 12: Elderberry Syrup
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.
$50-75 sliding scale per workshop, or sliding scale of $85-$150 for registering for both workshops.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
The Global Struggle for Forests with Global Justice Ecology Project
Join long-time activists and former Vermonters, photographer Orin Langelle and Global Justice Ecology Project Executive Director Anne Petermann for photographs, stories, and discussions about global and local struggles for forests, justice, and sovereignty.
We’ll be gathering upstairs in the zine library for this special presentation, conversation, and book signing. We’re stop 2 of 3 for GJEP’s Fall VT Tour.
More information can be found HERE.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Apples and Arts Fair at the Peacham Farmers Market
Hard Pressed will be tabling and selling prints!
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Remembering Ayşenur Eygi
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.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Letterpress Basics
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.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.
Middle Son Tattoo Opening
tickets and more info here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shop-opening-middle-son-tattoo-tickets-1254882570549
Open Studio Hours
Stop by and work on your own projects, flip through the zine library, or just come say hello and see what we’re up to.