New classes starting at Design Gym! Sign up now...
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Sewing 101 class poses with their new pillows and their instructor, Yolette Fontaine, the seamstress for high fashion brand Kreyol.
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Imagination Methodologies--on ZOOM
Wednesdays (come to any or all), November 9th, 16th, 30th
Design Dialogues w/ John Sharp, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, and Rashin Fahandej
Can one become better at creativity and imagination or is it simply a gift? In Imagination Methodologies, we’ll talk with three different creatives who use methods and techniques as part of their practice of imagination. Through the sharing of these techniques, we hope to make the case that we can all practice imagination.
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John Sharp--November 9th
Register here for free zoom event.
John Sharp is a designer, art historian, curator and educator. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, art games and non-digital games. Along with Colleen Macklin, John co-directs PETLab (Prototyping, Education and Technology Lab), a research group focused on games and their design as a form of social discourse. He is an associate professor at Parsons The New School for Design.
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Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo--Nov 16th
Register here for free zoom event.
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo is a Black feminist rap artist and producer from Ithaca, NY, with family roots in Cote D'Ivoire and the Congo. She is an Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University, teaching rap songwriting and feminist sound studies. Enongo is also the Director of Audio for Glow Up Games, a women-of-color led game studio and a member of theKEEPERS, a Hip Hop collective mapping the international contributions of womxn and girls across Hip Hop's 50-year history.
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Rashin Fahandej--Nov 30th
Register here for free zoom event.
Rashin Fahandej is an Iranian-American futurist, immersive storyteller, and cultural activist. Fahandej’s artistic initiatives are multiyear experimental laboratories for collective radical reimaginations of social systems, using counter-narratives of care and community co-creation to design equitable futures. Her projects center on marginalized voices and the role of media, technology, and public collaboration in generating emotional connections to drive social change.
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NEW: Prototype Lab--Saturday, November 19th, 12-5pm
How can prototyping our ideas help us better understand if they’ll yield the effects we want? This 1-day lab explores the role of prototyping within a design process. It is open to people who are actively working on a project or who just want to learn more about when and how to use prototyping in their work.
Email us here to register for Prototype Lab.
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Maker Classes (Thursday nights, 6-8pm):
Documentary Video--starts this week!
Thursdays, November 3rd, 10th, 17th 6pm-8pm
This is an introductory workshop teaching the basic ideas and skills necessary to create a short piece of work in 3 weeks.
Born and raised in an immigrant family in Roxbury, Massachusetts, instructor Donté Thomas is an educator, filmmaker, and installation artist who has worked in the media industry for over 10 years, creating motion and still graphics at design houses and working with award winning filmmakers, playwrights and curators. He has also been a media educator in the Boston Public Schools.
Email us here to register. Space is limited!
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Woodworking
2 classes!
1) NEW: Woodworking with Ayako Maruyama on Mondays, 11/21 and 11/28
This 2-part workshop will introduce you to power and hand tools, basic joinery and construction. Beginners welcome!
2) Woodworking series on Thursdays, December 1st, 8th, 15th 6pm-8pm
In this workshop, you will learn the how to use large and small woodworking tools in order to manifest your own project during the winter holidays! Instructor Jemuel Stephenson, artist, designer, digital creator, and inventor from Dorchester, MA.
Email us here to register. Space is limited!
Class numbers are limited, so let us know you're interested!
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One-off Classes in December
Persona Poem Workshop
Monday, December 12th, 6-8pm
Learn how to write a poem in the 1st person voice from a different perspective. A persona poem is a poem in which the poet takes on the voice of a character, a fictional identity, or a persona. Because a dramatic monologue is by definition one person’s speech, it is offered without overt analysis or commentary, placing emphasis on subjective qualities that are left to the audience to interpret. Join us for this 1 evening, 2 hour workshop.
Email us here to register.
Critical Love
Wednesday, December 14th, 5:30-7:30
Join us for an evening of loving critique. You have an idea, a project, a prototype, a song, a poem, a joke, a video....that isn't finished yet. You want to hear back from peers who want the best for you and your endeavor?! Join us. Share what you've got and we'll share what we experience thus far. Facilitator Letta Neely.
Email us here to register.
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Cultural Sector Recovery Grants for Individuals offers unrestricted grants of $5,000 to creatives and gig workers and more to support recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and set a path for growth. DEADLINE TODAY (Nov 1st).
- Brief application can be found HERE.
- Recording of the INFO SESSION is HERE
- They say it takes less than 15 minutes to apply!
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