upcoming classes
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Intro to Knitting: Hats
Mondays 6 - 8 PM: March 16, 23, 30
$110 (plus $40 materials)
Learn to knit on your own hat! After learning to cast-on, knit, purl, and decrease, you’’ll be ready to knit a sweater or take on any other project that captures your imagination.
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Kolrosing
3/17: 6:30-9pm
$45 (plus $15 materials)
Join Jules Luna Dungca to learn basic knowledge and skills of kolrosing through discussion, demos, practice of techniques, and feedback. Leave with confidence to continue practicing and experimenting with these foundations.
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Old Time Music Workshop & Jams
Tuesday, March 24 ~ 7 -9 PM
Sunday, March 29 ~ 3 -5 PM
Sliding scale $5 - 25
Come join the Twin Town Old Time Music Festival to learn a few old-time tunes and join in a participatory old time jam!
Youth welcome — minimum age 15 without an adult.
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Milagros Mexicanos
March 26 5 - 9 PM
$60 (plus $40 materials)
This class explores the history and art of Mexican milagros—small works of art usually made from metal, wood, or wool. Learn about the meaning behind the heart symbol and create your own to take home.
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Tamales and Community Nourishment
March 28, 2026 9 - 5 PM
$130 (plus $45 materials)
Tamales are a Mesoamerican dish, spanning across Mexico and Latin America, transforming with their environments and surviving colonization. Learn from Anissa Cavazos how to prepare Tamales rojo de puerco—red pork tamales—including how to make the meat and masa, assemble, and steam.
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Natural Dyeing with Marigold
March 29 12 - 4 PM
$85 (plus $10 materials)
Explore the ancient art of natural dyeing with Isabella Sanchez by learning how plants have been used across cultures to create color long before synthetic dyes existed. In this beginner-friendly class, you’ll work with marigold to prepare fabric and create warm yellow and gold hues using a traditional dye vat.
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Traditional Appalachian Clogging
Mondays 7 - 8 PM: Mar 23 - Apr 27
$125
Traditional Appalachian clogging is a rhythmic, percussive, freestyle dance that emerged from the blending of Irish, African, and Indigenous dance traditions. Andy Lambert leads students in learning foundational clogging steps, exploring how to combine them into personal patterns, and experimenting with freestyling.
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Mazinigwaadan—Bead it!
COMING SOON
In this beginner-friendly class led by Mary LeGarde, participants will design and create a beaded pendant that will be made into a bolo tie. Carve out some time out of your busy schedule to work with your hands, to learn a new skill, and to connect with your community.
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service learning: staked stools
April 4-6, 9 AM to 4 PM each day
By donation - Class is valued at $400
Three-legged staked stools have long been a staple of workshops, valued for their strength, simplicity, and efficient use of materials. Led by Gabe Strand, students will build stools for the CPC workshop while learning foundational hand-tool woodworking skills—from shaping legs and drilling angled joinery to finishing with milk paint.
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3D Wet Felting
April 25 - 26: 9 AM - 4 PM
$260 (plus $40 materials)
Wet felting wool is an ancient craft developed independently by cultures around the world. In this class, Tasha Miller Griffith will teach 3D wet felting techniques—starting with a small vessel and progressing to personalized projects like bags, covers, or lanterns—while exploring texture, form, and design through hands-on making.
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darning for socks and shirts
April 23: 6 - 8:30 PM
$65 (plus $20 materials)
Darning is a time-honored mending technique once essential when clothing and textiles were too valuable to discard, using needle and thread to recreate fabric structure. In this evening class, Tasha Miller Griffith will teach the basics of darning woven and knitted fabrics, practice on samples, and gain the skills to repair garments.
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Make a bookshelf: Hand Tool Foundations
April 11: 9 AM - 5 PM and April 12: 1 - 5 PM
$165 (plus $45 materials)
Many of the techniques used to build simple furniture today trace back to some of the earliest surviving examples of woodworking, valued for their durability, efficiency, and beauty. In this class, Jake Mathioudis Goudey will lead students in building a small bookshelf using hand tools.
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Pockets, Patches and the Politics of Keeping Things
April 19 & 26: 5 - 8pm
$125
Across cultures, hand sewing and hand weaving have long been essential practices for repair, reuse, and care—skills rooted in thrift, adaptation, and keeping things in use. In this beginner-friendly class with instructor Aja Bond, students will learn foundational techniques for pockets, patches, darning, and closures.