EVENTS

Learn four traditional Japanese stab stitches and leave with four hand-bound books made at the BOOKFORGE table.

Jam & Slam is ELT’s Monday-night Soft Social for musicians, poets, spoken-word artists, and collaborators to jam, write, perform, experiment, or simply find people to make something with.

Open Bench is ELT’s Tuesday-night Soft Social for bringing unfinished work, starting something new, working alongside other people, and making at your own pace without a class, deadline, or required outcome.

Writer’s Night is ELT’s Wednesday-night Soft Social for writers of every kind to bring work in progress, start something new, read, revise, exchange ideas, or simply spend a few hours writing in the company of other writers.

Bring a sketchbook, borrow basic materials, and draw in a room where nobody has to prove anything.

Coffee becomes pigment, labor history, and cultural signal in a provisional installation by Ezju.

Bring one record worth sharing. We will listen closely, study the cover, and let the room talk.

Make one traditional Four-Hole Japanese notebook together, then take home a Noble Binding kit to continue the structure at home.

Choose two traditional Japanese stab-binding structures to complete in class and take home the remaining two as repeatable projects.

Artists, makers, books, food, useful objects, and unexpected finds take over the ground floor for First Thursday.

INK SHIFT 2026 is a month-long, open-participation ink practice at Erie Labor Temple built around repetition, experimentation, failure, and visible process. Artists work throughout October, contribute weekly evidence to the REGISTER, and selected work culminates in THE BLACK REGISTER exhibition at UNION on November 5.

Mix pigment, paste, pressure, and pattern into 6–8 original decorative papers and leave with a process you can repeat at home.

Produce 8–12 original paste papers while learning how pigment, paste, pressure, viscosity, timing, and tools control the result.

Trade paint for coffee and build an image from sepia washes, blooms, stains, rings, and tide lines.

INK SHIFT 2026 is a month-long, open-participation ink practice at Erie Labor Temple built around repetition, experimentation, failure, and visible process. Artists work throughout October, contribute weekly evidence to the REGISTER, and selected work culminates in THE BLACK REGISTER exhibition at UNION on November 5.

Build a Secret Belgian / crisscross journal from the structure out, with deeper attention to woven sewing, tension, and board relationships.

Paint with squid ink and learn to control smoke-gray washes, blue-black depth, blooms, stains, and razor edges.

INK SHIFT 2026 is a month-long, open-participation ink practice at Erie Labor Temple built around repetition, experimentation, failure, and visible process. Artists work throughout October, contribute weekly evidence to the REGISTER, and selected work culminates in THE BLACK REGISTER exhibition at UNION on November 5.

A contextualized workshop on handmade figures, meaning, protection, story and representation. Stitch and assemble a symbolic figure while examining the histories, meanings, and misrepresentations attached to the form.

Build a flat-opening Secret Belgian journal with a visible woven spine in a guided Family Matinee designed for newer binders.

INK SHIFT 2026 is a month-long, open-participation ink practice at Erie Labor Temple built around repetition, experimentation, failure, and visible process. Artists work throughout October, contribute weekly evidence to the REGISTER, and selected work culminates in THE BLACK REGISTER exhibition at UNION on November 5.

Build a symbolic chicken-foot charm through careful material work, cultural context, and responsible folk-craft practice.

INK SHIFT 2026 is a month-long, open-participation ink practice at Erie Labor Temple built around repetition, experimentation, failure, and visible process. Artists work throughout October, contribute weekly evidence to the REGISTER, and selected work culminates in THE BLACK REGISTER exhibition at UNION on November 5.

Make a book before pages became pages: join genuine papyrus into a working scroll and discover the continuous reading surface.