Kintsugi Workshop with Tara
Apr
14
12:00 PM12:00

Kintsugi Workshop with Tara

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” –Leonard Cohen

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. If a bowl is broken, rather than discarding the pieces, the fragments are put back and the cracks are adorned with gold. Join us for a unique workshop based on the ancient Japanese practice of Kintsugi led by Art Therapist Tara DeLuca. 

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Grass Coil Basketweaving Workshop
Jun
1
1:00 PM13:00

Grass Coil Basketweaving Workshop

Learn to basketweave with locally harvested grasses!

Hosted by Dirty Gaia, join us for this outdoor workshop where participants will learn how to create coil baskets with locally harvested grasses. Together we’ll learn how to identify local grasses, harvest in a sustainable way, and weave our very own coil baskets!

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Make Your Own Linocut Holiday Cards
Dec
3
1:00 PM13:00

Make Your Own Linocut Holiday Cards

Join Circle Creative Collective for a relaxing afternoon of making your own linocut print holiday or greeting cards. Linocut is a printmaking technique where an image is carved into linoleum (or similar), then ink is rolled over the surface, and finally a paper pressed on top to receive the image. In this workshop, participants will choose from supplied designs (or design their own), carve, ink, and print on card stock. No experience necessary, and all materials are provided. 

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Needle Felted Ornaments & Woolen Treasures
Nov
26
1:00 PM13:00

Needle Felted Ornaments & Woolen Treasures

Join us in making unique woolen treasures with the ancient craft of needle felting!

Needle felting is the process of creating sculptures from wool fibers, using barbed felting needles.

This event is for beginners and aspiring needle felting artists alike! You’ll learn the basics of how to create forms so you can make your own creatures and ornaments like gnomes, mushrooms, santas and other magical creatures that make adorable ornaments or gifts.

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Handmade Leather Mask Market
Aug
20
1:00 PM13:00

Handmade Leather Mask Market

Join us at the studio for our first ever Handmade Leather Mask Market!

The one-of-a-kind masks, featuring Nature Spirits such as birds, butterflies, flowers, trees, animals, and elemental beings of all kinds, have been designed and made by Circle Creative Collective through our ARTESENIA program.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore and discover the mask that’s been waiting for you!

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Handmade Journal Making
Apr
1
12:00 PM12:00

Handmade Journal Making

In this workshop, you’ll be learning how to make a journal from start to finish using a traditional Coptic binding approach. Enjoy an afternoon creating unique journals that can receive your writing, dreams, as well as photos and art. Let’s play together with up cycled and beautiful fabrics and papers! This will be a day full of inspiration, joy and grounding.

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Medicine Drum Birthing
Mar
11
10:00 AM10:00

Medicine Drum Birthing

“A day filled with beauty, love, nurturing of our spirits and a channeling of our hearts through our hands. Connecting us to our hearts and our Earth Mother. I offer the teachings of the drum that my Ojibwe elders verbally passed down to me, with respect for those who passed along knowledge of how and why to make drums since the beginning of time.“

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Valentine's Undies Embroidery
Feb
11
6:30 PM18:30

Valentine's Undies Embroidery

Come make ‘magic’ with needle and thread!

Join us for an evening of hilarious yet focused creative time as we learn embroidery skills and decorate a pair of underwear. Think love! Think laughter! And then move from head to hands as you explore the wonderful skill of embroidery in our beautiful New Paltz studio. No sewing experience necessary. 

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Sankofa's Third Annual Sweetgrass Basketweaving Workshops
Nov
5
to Nov 6

Sankofa's Third Annual Sweetgrass Basketweaving Workshops

Learn the basics of sweetgrass basket weaving with two generations of Gullah Geechee women from South Carolina who have kept this family tradition alive, all the way from Senegal and Sierra Leone, Africa. Andrea Cayetano-Jefferson and daughter Chelsea Cayetano will lead both exciting hands-on workshops and offer a brief talk about the history and cultural impact of this beautiful craft. You will most certainly have a blast with this spirited mother and daughter duo, as well as settle into a meditative rhythm with this ancient and engaging skill!

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LUMINOUS: Tales For Seeing In The Dark
Oct
30
5:00 PM17:00

LUMINOUS: Tales For Seeing In The Dark

👁✨PLEASE NOTE, OUR SHOWS ARE SOLD OUT PLEASE JOIN OUR WAITING LIST! MORE TICKETS MAY BECOME AVAILABLE. ✨ LUMINOUS takes you into the cavernous heart of the Earth through contemplative story and song honoring the thinning veil between worlds. It is a celebration of life, by honoring grief, impermanence, and the wisdom of the unseen world. Together with BLOOM, this second offering of hope and healing completes an important story of life's most essential cycles of birth and death.

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LUMINOUS: Tales For Seeing In The Dark
Oct
29
8:00 PM20:00

LUMINOUS: Tales For Seeing In The Dark

👁 ✨ PLS NOTE: OUR SATURDAY TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT. PLEASE JOIN OUR WAITING LIST! MORE TICKETS MAY BECOME AVAILABLE.LUMINOUS is a powerful celebration of the thinning of the veil, gifting us a unique honoring of our ancestors , the beloved departed, and even aspects of ourselves that we may have buried. Through story, song, community, a journey into the earth and our own hearts, LUMINOUS is a beautiful balm that will help bring light to these coming darker months of introspection.

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Listening and Playing With the Trees... A Super Fun One Day Nature/Creative Arts Workshop for 5-9 year olds!
Aug
18
10:00 AM10:00

Listening and Playing With the Trees... A Super Fun One Day Nature/Creative Arts Workshop for 5-9 year olds!

Circle Presents... Listening and Playing With the Trees
A Super Fun One Day Nature/Creative Arts Workshop for 5-9 year olds!

Enjoy Nature Inspired Storytelling, Drumming, Crafts, Art,
Movement (including Yoga), Theater Games, Music and more!

Hudson Valley 5-9 year olds! Come join us at Circle Studio with the nurturing, inspiring...Joy and Wonders team Jill Olesker and Sue Siverstream for an end-of-summer workshop where playful curiosity rules!

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BLOOM: A Story of Rebirth (All ages!)
Jun
4
8:00 PM20:00

BLOOM: A Story of Rebirth (All ages!)

BLOOM: the Rebirth invites you and your family to rediscover your dreams and your most joyous and authentic you. Step upon candlelit paths through interactive dreamscapes celebrating wonder and the fullness of spring. Join our visceral journey through the woods and be both witness and player on an exuberant full sensory experience where performance meets the sacred and celebration. This is avant-garde ceremony, breaking the bounds and touching pure magic as creativity emerges from the trees and forest floor, falls from the sky, and is illuminated all around you. It's a spectacle, an inspiration, an awakening and an offering to the earth and our collective future. This May, meet magical creatures who will share wisdom, music, dance, and even bring healing. BLOOM is living theater wrapped in a prayer.



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BLOOM: A Story of Rebirth (adults)
May
28
8:00 PM20:00

BLOOM: A Story of Rebirth (adults)

BLOOM: the Rebirth invites you to rediscover your dreams and your most joyous and authentic you. Step upon candlelit paths through interactive dreamscapes celebrating wonder and the fullness of spring. Join our visceral journey through the woods and be both witness and player on an exuberant full sensory experience where performance meets the sacred and celebration. This is avant-garde ceremony, breaking the bounds and touching pure magic as creativity emerges from the trees and forest floor, falls from the sky, and is illuminated all around you. It's a spectacle, an inspiration, an awakening and an offering to the earth and our collective future. This May, meet magical creatures who will share wisdom, music, dance, and even bring healing. BLOOM is living theater wrapped in a prayer.



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