open studio

Focus on a project of your own in the company of other work-from-homies, freelancers, and creative souls. Use your laptop, sketchbook, make a collage, and more. You’ll have access to our crafting tools, sewing machine, scanner, printer, and wifi. Plus a complimentary coffee, tea, or seltzer.    /    $10 (up to 90-min) / $20 (up to 4 hours) — (materials extra)

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Open Strings is a gentle, educational jam session open to all ages and levels of music lovers. This class encourages collaborative play with minimal instruction and maximum exploration.

Over the course of one hour, we will make room to discover the possibilities inherent in our instruments—and in ourselves. Together, we will challenge the idea of what it means to be “good enough” to play with others. Often, when we imagine jamming with other musicians, we believe we need to reach a certain threshold of knowledge, experience, or skill. This belief can hold us back from discovering what we actually want to learn.

By stepping out of our comfort zones and into a cozy, supportive community of fellow students, growth becomes inevitable.

Open Strings is led by Clarissa Peress, a songwriter, guitar student, educator, and soon-to-be graduate of Berklee College of Music. Participants will leave with simple exercises and realistic practice routines tailored to their individual interests.

This class is not about getting “good” at your instrument—it’s about feeling good while playing, and allowing progress to arise from a safe, grounded place.

$30 for all 3 sessions (or $13/session)

Pre-register here / Payment can be made directly to Clarissa, cash or venmo.

Session runs January 5–March 30, 2026. Pre-registration for the full session required. Led by Sasha Patkin.

Rediscover your creative self this winter with a guided accountability group based on The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan — the beloved 12-week program for unblocking and nurturing creativity.

Part book club, part creative support circle, this group will journey through the book together, following its weekly readings, exercises, and reflections to awaken creative confidence and play. Participants will connect through a moderated group chat to share progress, insights, encouragement, and challenges, and will have opportunities for virtual co-working sessions - such as writing Morning Pages together - to keep the momentum going.

Participants are strongly encouraged to attend the four in-person sessions at the start of each four-week mark, and will also have the option of meeting every Monday night for the duration of the course either in person at the studio or through Zoom to discuss weekly progress and insights.

Whether you’re an artist, writer, or someone who simply feels the pull toward a more creative life, this group is open to all - beginners, seasoned practitioners, and those returning to The Artist’s Way alike.

Join us to connect, create, and hold yourself lovingly accountable to your creative growth.

Group Meeting Dates:
January 5 – full group in-person meeting
January 12
January 19
January 26
February 2 – full group in-person meeting
February 9
February 16
February 23
March 2 – full group in-person meeting
March 9
March 16
March 23
March 30 – full group in-person meeting

Register

with Avu Vintage

Sew, knit, crochet, mend and more in the company of fellow fiber artists of all levels. (Beginner knitting class during this time is canceled this week – join us for Knitting with Fabric - Helix Bag Knit-Along)

You can  borrow tools (including a sewing machine) and purchase materials, or bring your own.    /    $10 (beginner knitting lesson +$10)

Register

Three Tuesdays, 6:30pm–8:30pm

February 3
February 10
February 17

Over the course of three sessions, Alison of Avu Vintage will guide you through creating the eco-conscious “Helix bag” by Rows. The bag is a stylish shoulder bag, stitched with repurposed fabric yarn made from old bedsheets, tablecloths, and and other unwanted/unused fabrics destined for new life. It’s a beautiful everyday bag, and can be adjusted from the pattern to be larger or smaller depending on your preference (I plan to make a larger farmers market bag!!).

In the first session, we will cut our chosen fabrics into yarn and will then learn the stitch patterns, all with Alison’s guidance. Most intermeidate knitters will be able to complete the bag in three sessions (or fewer if you’re working on your project between sessions!).

If you do complete the bag before the final session, you are welcome to attend our Fiber Arts studio sessions (which coincide with the workshop) to start another bag or work on another project (additional materials will be for sale).

Skill level: Intermediate - Advanced beginners welcome

Yarn: We will be repurposing old fabric by cutting it into a continuous strip to use as a super chunky weight yarn. You can use one large piece of fabric like a bed sheet, tablecloth, or duvet cover to create one continuous strip, or you can use smaller pieces and tie them together. We will provide fabric, but feel free to bring your own.

Needles: Needles will be provided. (15mm/US 19 circular knitting needles 24”-36”)

Pattern: Please purchase the Helix Bag knitting pattern by Rows prior to the workshop. https://www.rowsknitwear.com/product-page/helix-bag-knitting-pattern

$65, registration required (Members, $35)

Register

with Anna Mae Becker

Cut and paste a materpiece using our collection of secondhand papers and magazines, or join us in another papercraft project for the week. We’ll provide you with optional prompts and design constraints to challenge your approach and create with curiosity, openness, and intention. Materials provided.    /    $20

Register 

open studio

Focus on a project of your own in the company of other work-from-homies, freelancers, and creative souls. Use your laptop, sketchbook, make a collage, and more. You’ll have access to our crafting tools, sewing machine, scanner, printer, and wifi. Plus a complimentary coffee, tea, or seltzer.    /    $10 (materials extra)

Register

Come generate a piece of short fiction, a micro-essay, or a poem to submit for publication in the upcoming issue of the Quinobequin Review: Magic in the Charles River Watershed. 

What mysteries and wonders live close to home? What spine-tingling, jaw-dropping stories or visuals make you believe in magic? What exists just alongside this realm?

About the Quinobequin Review: The Q is a print-only community journal publishing art and stories from Greater Boston. At the Q, we want to know what it feels like to live here, now. Learning about where we live is incredibly connecting and grounding. It is a call back to the physical in a world that is always online. It is a way to preserve local culture in an era of rapid globalization. It makes us better stewards for a landscape that needs us more than ever. And it is truly world-expanding; it reminds us that the same place can mean so many things to so many people

$15 (members $7.50)
Register

open studio

Focus on a project of your own in the company of other work-from-homies, freelancers, and creative souls. Use your laptop, sketchbook, make a collage, and more. You’ll have access to our crafting tools, sewing machine, scanner, printer, and wifi. Plus a complimentary coffee, tea, or seltzer.    /    $10 (up to 90-min) / $20 (up to 4 hours) — (materials extra)

Register

Open Strings is a gentle, educational jam session open to all ages and levels of music lovers. This class encourages collaborative play with minimal instruction and maximum exploration.

Over the course of one hour, we will make room to discover the possibilities inherent in our instruments—and in ourselves. Together, we will challenge the idea of what it means to be “good enough” to play with others. Often, when we imagine jamming with other musicians, we believe we need to reach a certain threshold of knowledge, experience, or skill. This belief can hold us back from discovering what we actually want to learn.

By stepping out of our comfort zones and into a cozy, supportive community of fellow students, growth becomes inevitable.

Open Strings is led by Clarissa Peress, a songwriter, guitar student, educator, and soon-to-be graduate of Berklee College of Music. Participants will leave with simple exercises and realistic practice routines tailored to their individual interests.

This class is not about getting “good” at your instrument—it’s about feeling good while playing, and allowing progress to arise from a safe, grounded place.

$30 for all 3 sessions (or $13/session)

Pre-register here / Payment can be made directly to Clarissa, cash or venmo.

with Avu Vintage

Sew, knit, crochet, mend and more in the company of fellow fiber artists of all levels. (Beginner knitting class during this time is canceled this week – join us for Knitting with Fabric - Helix Bag Knit-Along)

You can  borrow tools (including a sewing machine) and purchase materials, or bring your own.    /    $10 (beginner knitting lesson +$10)

Register

Three Tuesdays, 6:30pm–8:30pm

February 3
February 10
February 17

Over the course of three sessions, Alison of Avu Vintage will guide you through creating the eco-conscious “Helix bag” by Rows. The bag is a stylish shoulder bag, stitched with repurposed fabric yarn made from old bedsheets, tablecloths, and and other unwanted/unused fabrics destined for new life. It’s a beautiful everyday bag, and can be adjusted from the pattern to be larger or smaller depending on your preference (I plan to make a larger farmers market bag!!).

In the first session, we will cut our chosen fabrics into yarn and will then learn the stitch patterns, all with Alison’s guidance. Most intermeidate knitters will be able to complete the bag in three sessions (or fewer if you’re working on your project between sessions!).

If you do complete the bag before the final session, you are welcome to attend our Fiber Arts studio sessions (which coincide with the workshop) to start another bag or work on another project (additional materials will be for sale).

Skill level: Intermediate - Advanced beginners welcome

Yarn: We will be repurposing old fabric by cutting it into a continuous strip to use as a super chunky weight yarn. You can use one large piece of fabric like a bed sheet, tablecloth, or duvet cover to create one continuous strip, or you can use smaller pieces and tie them together. We will provide fabric, but feel free to bring your own.

Needles: Needles will be provided. (15mm/US 19 circular knitting needles 24”-36”)

Pattern: Please purchase the Helix Bag knitting pattern by Rows prior to the workshop. https://www.rowsknitwear.com/product-page/helix-bag-knitting-pattern

$65, registration required (Members, $35)

Register

with Emily

Cut and paste a materpiece using our collection of secondhand papers and magazines, or join us in another papercraft project for the week. We’ll provide you with optional prompts and design constraints to challenge your approach and create with curiosity, openness, and intention. Materials provided.    /    $20

Register 

open studio

Focus on a project of your own in the company of other work-from-homies, freelancers, and creative souls. Use your laptop, sketchbook, make a collage, and more. You’ll have access to our crafting tools, sewing machine, scanner, printer, and wifi. Plus a complimentary coffee, tea, or seltzer.    /    $10 (materials extra)

Register

open studio

Focus on a project of your own in the company of other work-from-homies, freelancers, and creative souls. Use your laptop, sketchbook, make a collage, and more. You’ll have access to our crafting tools, sewing machine, scanner, printer, and wifi. Plus a complimentary coffee, tea, or seltzer.    /    $10 (up to 90-min) / $20 (up to 4 hours) — (materials extra)

Register

Open Strings is a gentle, educational jam session open to all ages and levels of music lovers. This class encourages collaborative play with minimal instruction and maximum exploration.

Over the course of one hour, we will make room to discover the possibilities inherent in our instruments—and in ourselves. Together, we will challenge the idea of what it means to be “good enough” to play with others. Often, when we imagine jamming with other musicians, we believe we need to reach a certain threshold of knowledge, experience, or skill. This belief can hold us back from discovering what we actually want to learn.

By stepping out of our comfort zones and into a cozy, supportive community of fellow students, growth becomes inevitable.

Open Strings is led by Clarissa Peress, a songwriter, guitar student, educator, and soon-to-be graduate of Berklee College of Music. Participants will leave with simple exercises and realistic practice routines tailored to their individual interests.

This class is not about getting “good” at your instrument—it’s about feeling good while playing, and allowing progress to arise from a safe, grounded place.

$30 for all 3 sessions (or $13/session)

Pre-register here / Payment can be made directly to Clarissa, cash or venmo.

Hosted with and emceed by Caroline Brink

Music, poetry, comedy, magic, dance - come share your talent, enjoy a hot beverage, do some crafting, or just come to watch

In-person sign ups begin at 7:00

Register

with Avu Vintage

Sew, knit, crochet, mend and more in the company of fellow fiber artists of all levels. Want to learn to knit? Join Alison in the Lounge at 6pm for a beginner knitting class for a portion of the evening to get you started. You can  borrow tools (including a sewing machine) and purchase materials, or bring your own.    /    $10 (beginner knitting lesson +$10)

Register

Three Tuesdays, 6:30pm–8:30pm

February 3
February 10
February 17

Over the course of three sessions, Alison of Avu Vintage will guide you through creating the eco-conscious “Helix bag” by Rows. The bag is a stylish shoulder bag, stitched with repurposed fabric yarn made from old bedsheets, tablecloths, and and other unwanted/unused fabrics destined for new life. It’s a beautiful everyday bag, and can be adjusted from the pattern to be larger or smaller depending on your preference (I plan to make a larger farmers market bag!!).

In the first session, we will cut our chosen fabrics into yarn and will then learn the stitch patterns, all with Alison’s guidance. Most intermeidate knitters will be able to complete the bag in three sessions (or fewer if you’re working on your project between sessions!).

If you do complete the bag before the final session, you are welcome to attend our Fiber Arts studio sessions (which coincide with the workshop) to start another bag or work on another project (additional materials will be for sale).

Skill level: Intermediate - Advanced beginners welcome

Yarn: We will be repurposing old fabric by cutting it into a continuous strip to use as a super chunky weight yarn. You can use one large piece of fabric like a bed sheet, tablecloth, or duvet cover to create one continuous strip, or you can use smaller pieces and tie them together. We will provide fabric, but feel free to bring your own.

Needles: Needles will be provided. (15mm/US 19 circular knitting needles 24”-36”)

Pattern: Please purchase the Helix Bag knitting pattern by Rows prior to the workshop. https://www.rowsknitwear.com/product-page/helix-bag-knitting-pattern

$65, registration required (Members, $35)

Register

with Emily

Cut and paste a materpiece using our collection of secondhand papers and magazines, or join us in another papercraft project for the week. We’ll provide you with optional prompts and design constraints to challenge your approach and create with curiosity, openness, and intention. Materials provided.    /    $20

Register 

open studio

Focus on a project of your own in the company of other work-from-homies, freelancers, and creative souls. Use your laptop, sketchbook, make a collage, and more. You’ll have access to our crafting tools, sewing machine, scanner, printer, and wifi. Plus a complimentary coffee, tea, or seltzer.    /    $10 (materials extra)

Register

open studio

Focus on a project of your own in the company of other work-from-homies, freelancers, and creative souls. Use your laptop, sketchbook, make a collage, and more. You’ll have access to our crafting tools, sewing machine, scanner, printer, and wifi. Plus a complimentary coffee, tea, or seltzer.    /    $10 (up to 90-min) / $20 (up to 4 hours) — (materials extra)

Register

with Avu Vintage

Sew, knit, crochet, mend and more in the company of fellow fiber artists of all levels. Want to learn to knit? Join Alison in the Lounge at 6pm for a beginner knitting class for a portion of the evening to get you started. You can  borrow tools (including a sewing machine) and purchase materials, or bring your own.    /    $10 (beginner knitting lesson +$10)

Register

with Emily

Cut and paste a materpiece using our collection of secondhand papers and magazines, or join us in another papercraft project for the week. We’ll provide you with optional prompts and design constraints to challenge your approach and create with curiosity, openness, and intention. Materials provided.    /    $20

Register 

Session runs January 5–March 30, 2026. Led by Sasha Patkin.

Rediscover your creative self this winter with a guided accountability group based on The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan — the beloved 12-week program for unblocking and nurturing creativity.

Part book club, part creative support circle, this group will journey through the book together, following its weekly readings, exercises, and reflections to awaken creative confidence and play. Participants will connect through a moderated group chat to share progress, insights, encouragement, and challenges, and will have opportunities for virtual co-working sessions - such as writing Morning Pages together - to keep the momentum going.

Participants are strongly encouraged to attend the four in-person sessions at the start of each four-week mark, and will also have the option of meeting every Monday night for the duration of the course either in person at the studio or through Zoom to discuss weekly progress and insights.

Whether you’re an artist, writer, or someone who simply feels the pull toward a more creative life, this group is open to all - beginners, seasoned practitioners, and those returning to The Artist’s Way alike.

Join us to connect, create, and hold yourself lovingly accountable to your creative growth.

Group Meeting Dates:
January 5 – full group in-person meeting
January 12
January 19
January 26
February 2 – full group in-person meeting
February 9
February 16
February 23
March 2 – full group in-person meeting
March 9
March 16
March 23
March 30 – full group in-person meeting

Register

Session runs January 5–March 30, 2026. Led by Sasha Patkin.

Rediscover your creative self this winter with a guided accountability group based on The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan — the beloved 12-week program for unblocking and nurturing creativity.

Part book club, part creative support circle, this group will journey through the book together, following its weekly readings, exercises, and reflections to awaken creative confidence and play. Participants will connect through a moderated group chat to share progress, insights, encouragement, and challenges, and will have opportunities for virtual co-working sessions - such as writing Morning Pages together - to keep the momentum going.

Participants are strongly encouraged to attend the four in-person sessions at the start of each four-week mark, and will also have the option of meeting every Monday night for the duration of the course either in person at the studio or through Zoom to discuss weekly progress and insights.

Whether you’re an artist, writer, or someone who simply feels the pull toward a more creative life, this group is open to all - beginners, seasoned practitioners, and those returning to The Artist’s Way alike.

Join us to connect, create, and hold yourself lovingly accountable to your creative growth.

Group Meeting Dates:
January 5 – full group in-person meeting
January 12
January 19
January 26
February 2 – full group in-person meeting
February 9
February 16
February 23
March 2 – full group in-person meeting
March 9
March 16
March 23
March 30 – full group in-person meeting

Register