APRIL 2 | 5:30 PM | Brooks Memorial Library, western Wabanaki territory / Brattleboro, VT

Vegetarian, vegan, & gluten free food options available. Supper is all-ages! Supportive family & friends are welcome :)

Enjoy food together & then stick around for this fabulous event at 7PM with Jeanne Thorton & her novel A/S/L, in conversation with Imogen Binnie! Books for sale on-site from our friends at Everyone’s Books.

APRIL 2 | 7:00-8:30PM | Brooks Memorial Library, western Wabanaki territory / Brattleboro, VT

Join us and Brooks Memorial Library as we celebrate award-winning author Jeanne Thornton and the release of her new novel, A/S/L. She will be joined in conversation by local author Imogen Binnie (Nevada). There will be time for audience Q&A, followed by a book signing.

Copies of A/S/L will be available for purchase at this event from local bookseller Everyone’s Books.

HAPPENING IN BRATTLEBORO, VT

APRIL 5 | APRIL 13 | MAY 11 - 12-4PM

There are currently spots available in the May 11 session only.

Learn how to carve a wooden spoon alongside other rural LGBTQ+ people using hand tools and enjoy the meditative nature of creating something slowly with your hands! Sign up for one session or all three. This series will culminate in a Spring art opening among the trees from whence our spoons came. No carving experience is necessary. These workshops will be taught by HB who has been carving spoons since 2018.

All carving materials & wood provided; please bring your own lunch & water.

Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1, all day in eastern Wabanaki territory/ Maine

We have been running our Out in the Open Summits for Rural & Smalltown LGBTQ+ Folks since 2015.

Summits are places to gather in community, (re)connect with and actively queer rural traditions, build relationships and trust among other rural and small town LGBTQ+ people, celebrate & grieve together, and create a roadmap to move us closer to our collectively liberated and joyful futures.

We’ve offered sessions on goat care & cheesemaking, alternatives to policing, creating your own drag character, and everything in between. Stay tuned for more information about this iteration of the Summit!

Registration opens in March 2025

Saturday March 29, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Penobscot territory/Belfast ME

Printmaking can be accessible to anyone willing to get their hands dirty! LGBTQ+ identified folks are invited to join Out in the Open and Waterfall Arts for a morning of demos and experimentation with a short-run DIY screen printing process and gelli plates. These mediums are accessible to do anywhere, and can be used to share messaging/ act as posters to express ourselves. 

What messages of resistance and vision for the future are you connecting with lately? Who’s words empower and encourage you, or what’s coming up that you need to get out into the world? How would you express your vision for a just and beautiful world through poster art? What ideas, concepts, or experiences do you want to put out into the world on a colorful, handcrafted poster?

We’ll start off with a short walk around the grounds to gather materials from nature to make texture on the gelli prints– and participants can bring objects from home or place outdoors that they love to spend time. There will be time devoted to writing and reflecting on the message for your poster, demonstration of the process, and to create posters together with provided materials. Expect to produce 10 – 15 posters to take home, or to post up with your messages on them.  

Participants will have the option to coordinate with instructors to meet up to walk together to post their prints around town and the places they live to amplify their message.  

Registration is $10, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Reach out if you want a $0 registration: info@weareoutintheopen.org

Accessibility notes: The studio is located on the first floor of Waterfall Arts, up one flight of stairs (9 steps).