While some may consider it the most wonderful time of year, for others the holidays are more anxiety-producing than exciting. Counselor, mental health support specialist, and owner of Grit + Grace, Ahyana King invites you to gather with her as she shares some tips on how to navigate this holiday season well. Spend time learning about how to proactively prioritize your peace, set boundaries, and gift yourself a holiday season of mental and emotional wellness. In addition to the workshop Ahyana will have items from her inspiring wellness collection for purchase.

In collaboration with our friends at Tribute, join us for a private screening of RIVERBLUE, a documentary about the denim industry’s devastating toll on our planet. Narrated by clean water supporter Jason Priestley, this groundbreaking film examines the destruction of our rivers, its effect on humanity, and the solutions that inspire hope for a sustainable future.

In collaboration with our friends at Tribute, join us for a private screening of The True Cost, a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story behind the fashion industry, and asks us to consider: who really pays the price for our clothing?

Kindred spirts, TRIBUTE, join us in theLiving Room for the weekend to showcase a small capsule collection of new and vintage apparel, and to host two film screenings around fashion’s long history of damaging our planet: RIVERBLUE and The True Cost.

Tribute is a shop dedicated to promoting ethical fashion and design, showcasing products created under the principles of eco-friendly, sustainable, artisanal and ethical manufacturing.

Photo by Donnie Gerald, courtesy of Tribute.

Led by Mia Angel / @encantaro in partnership with St.Plant / @st.plant

Handbuilding is a slow and meditative process of manipulating clay using just your hands and a few tools. Mia Angel from Encantaro Ceramica will guide this two-hour class and walk you through three essential handbuilding techniques: pinch, coil, slab.

This is a great opportunity to (re)connect directly with clay as an art medium, build your very own art pieces, and establish a strong foundation for future ceramic endeavors. All skill-levels are encouraged to join us.

Clay and tools will be provided. Please come dressed in something you don't mind getting a little dirty.

Jennifer Lapan of Alteration Nation walks us through the basics of sewing on a machine. Learn how to thread a sewing machine, wind a bobbin and sew a straight hem.

Guests are welcome to bring their machine for hands-on instruction.

Part 2 of 3 from Incorporating Flowers in Your Daily Life, a floral design series led by Michelle Samson/@misafloral in partnership with St.Plant/@st.plant.

The purpose of this class is to share with students different techniques and tools to use when arranging in different types of vessels. Michelle will provide instruction. Amira from St. Plant will provide a selection of vintage vessels from which students can choose for use in the class and also to take home.

#Reduce Reuse Recycle + Relove! theTwelve and St.Plant welcome Nicole Crowder to theLiving Room to show us how to fall back in love with your furniture, or renew some else’s trash to become your next beloved treasure. Nicole will be demonstrating how to strip and reupholster a chair from start to finish using bold fabrics in contrasting prints and patterns, and will be providing useful tips and techniques for how-to reupholster your furniture at home, as well as resources for where to source secondhand furniture and fabrics.

This demonstration is intended to be an open dialogue where attendees are encouraged to ask questions as we go along, either about the piece of furniture being reupholstered or general upholstery or furniture restoration question

With the impending ecological collapse finally getting mainstream coverage, words like eco-anxiety and environmental collapse are constantly trending. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information out there on the climate crisis. Is it truly hopeless? Here to sift through the stats and answer all your earth-friendly questions is friend of theTwelve, Kirndeep Singh. An interdisciplinary Sustainability professional whose work focuses on politics, education and earth justice, Kirndeep will be joining us in theLiving room for a Sustainability-focused time of discussion on how we, as empowered citizens, can do our part towards a more sustainable world.