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01.22 2026
Dream Here Now 1/23/2026
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01.15 2026
Amethyst Gate Jan 15th!
https://amethystgate.com/
Amethyst Gate returns with an evening of live performance featuring Will O Washuu, Nicholas DeBoer, Brenda Iijima, Alex Smith, and Elizabeth Kirwin. Plus — an open mic for anyone who wants to join in. Performances can be spoken, sounded, read, improvised, or hard to define. If you’ve been looking for a low-pressure place to try something out, this is it. 🔮 Next Amethyst Gate — Thursday, January 15, 2025 Doors 6:30 · Performances 7–10 PM 📍 Space 1026 · Philadelphia 🕯 Free + open to all 🔗 More info & details: amethystgate.com
12.05 2025
White-line Woodblock Workshop with Wavy Lines Press
White-line woodblock prints are vibrant, multi-color images crafted from a single wooden block. This printmaking technique was pioneered by artists in the 1900s in Provincetown, inspired by the Japanese woodblock printing tradition. It enables the creation of beautiful, multi-color prints by hand, simplifying the process by eliminating the need for a press or complicated registration methods.
Join us at Space1026 on 12/9 for a workshop with Dre Grigoropol and Candy Lombardi from Wavy Lines Press (www.wavylinespress.com), where you can create your own woodblock art! Participants will have the opportunity to learn traditional design, carving, and printing techniques, leaving with unique prints and their own woodblocks, work with Eastern and Western papers, along with newfound skills and a deeper appreciation for the craft.
Seats are limited, so be sure to secure your spot! Suggested donations of $15 and up will be collected at the door to cover the workshop cost. All materials will be provided; however, if you’d like to use special watercolors for your design, feel free to bring them along. After the workshop, we will screen Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson, a documentary exploring the work of early 1900s white-line woodblock artist Edith Lake Wilkinson!
White-line Woodblock Workshop
Date: 12/09/2025
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Place: Space1026 844 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Cost: Recommended donation of $15 and up to cover the cost, at the door.
Limited Seats. Register at https://www.store1026.com/
Film Screening: Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson
Time: 8:30 PM
Cost Free
Many seats are available!
11.04 2025
Amethyst Gate 11/21
Poets, projections, and live sound return — Amethyst Gate opens again for an evening of performance and experiment. Featuring Massimo Elijah, Anne-Adele Wight, Joel Chartkoff, and visual artist Liz Krick, plus you!
Our mic is open for anyone with something to share — poems, sounds, stories, or the unexpected. Come for the language, stay for the electricity that happens when strangers and friends fill a room with creative noise.
🔮 Next Amethyst Gate —
Friday, November 21, 2025
Doors 6:30 · Performances 7–10 PM
📍 Space 1026 Philadelphia PA
🕯 Free + open to all
10.17 2025
Amethyst Gate Literary Art Series 10/23/2025
Performers
Elizabeth Guthrie
Chris McCreary
@chris___mccreary
https://linktr.ee/Chris___McCreary
Marshall James Kavanaugh
www.marshalljameskavanaugh.com
Sloopygoop
@sloopy_goop
https://sloopygoop.bandcamp.com
You! (open mic)
Space 1026
844 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
gallery@space1026.com
07.24 2025
☁️🌞Space Camp 2025🌞☁️
We are excited to announce that we will be hosting Space Camp during August 15-17 2025 at Space1026!
Space Camp 2025
We have lined up ten workshops designed to guide exploration and creativity in a low-pressure environment, using the tools and skills available at Space 1026. Come and ponder the clouds, wheatpaste a mural, or build the papier-mâché sculpture you want to see in the world. Perhaps you would prefer to sew your dance-worthy booty shorts, with your name on the tush? We have that! Get intimate with some glue and glitter through hands-on collage, or design and print your first 8-page zine, or try screen printing with ferrous paste onto naturally dyed canvas. There’s even cyanotype printing and block printing on the menu. Space Camp is a great way to get in the door and explore new art-making techniques alongside new friends. And it’s a great way to get to know Space itself!
Organized Cloud Watching
Perfect for anyone seeking a fresh perspective. No prior meditation or cloud watching experience needed. Participants are encouraged to bring a cushion for accessibility and comfort.
PRINT & REPEAT W/ JACKIE
Friday, August 15, 2025
10 AM-12 PM
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to design and carve your own motif on a block to create a repeating all-over pattern. Explore how repeat patterns work through tiling and rotating, along with the balance of positive and negative space.
You’ll leave with a hand-carved block (yours to keep!), a collection of prints showcasing your custom pattern, and the foundational skills to keep printing at home.
Solid as a Rock! Natural Dye and Iron Paste Screenprinting
w/Caresh
Friday, August 15, 2025
1-4 PM
Dive into the curious cosmos of natural dyes! The natural world around us is overflowing with plant life just waiting to be transformed into new hues and patterns. Join us for a workshop where you’ll learn the technique of printing with iron paste (yes, iron!) and pattern-making with your own handmade silkscreen onto naturally dyed canvas. Watch the earth colors transform as the iron paste interacts, creating your own unique tones and transitions.
This workshop will equip you with everything needed to continue this creative journey: your very own custom-printed bag, a blank bag for future practice, the handmade silkscreen you created, a tried-and-true recipe for iron paste, and a collection of natural dye recipes to explore.Workshops require no experience or particular skill, and all materials are included with the registration fee.
Backyard Cyanotypes
Create a unique print that has been kissed by the sun! In this workshop you will get to experiment with cyanotype, a photography process from 100 years ago that’s still popular today! Participants will draw on the acetate with graffiti markers.
Space Camp Mural Sessions: Wheatpaste & Stencil Collage
Larry is the curator/ organizer of The PatchUp Mural Sessions, a year long mural project with its gallery debut this October at Space1026.
Sew Your Own Booty Shorts
w/ The Vaudevillains
Saturday, August 16, 2025
1-3 PM
Get ready to shake it out on the dance floor in some fresh booty shorts! In this workshop, mummers from the Vaudevillains New Years Brigade will lead you through sewing booty- or bike-length spandex shorts. This workshop pairs well with Sew Your Own Scrappliqué.
All materials provided, no sewing experience necessary.
Hands-On Collage
w/ Frankie
Saturday, August 16, 2025
3-5 PM
Indulge yourself in our supply of unread magazines, interesting product packaging, and colorful print scraps to create a unique collage! We supply the scraps (and stickers, glitter, paints, and canvas), and no prior experience is necessary. We will create unique pieces of art together.
Papier-mâché 101
w/ TK
Sunday, August 17, 2025
10 AM-1 PM
Get hands-on with paper mache, with emphasis on building a solid base for your sculpture. Design, construct and decorate your papier-mache creation! All materials provided, all experience levels welcomed.
All materials provided, no sewing experience necessary.
Zines!
w/ Olivia Fredricks
Sunday, August 17, 2025
10 AM-1 PM
What’s a “zine”??? Come find out! We will learn to create simple 8-page, single-sheet zines! We will print them in single color on the Space 1026 Risograph, a unique process that produces a high volume of vibrant prints.
Sew Your Own: Scrappliqué!
w/ The Vaudevillains New Years Brigade
Sunday, August 17, 2025
1-3 PM
Turn trash into fashion with the best in the game – the Vaudevillains New Years Brigade! Each year, these mummers march down Broad Street in glittering costumes they sew themselves. Now, they invite you to use their sewing machines and scrap pile to create your own treasures. With Scrappliqué, you will make a sewn-together collage of scraps that are ready to adorn your jean jacket, backback, booty shorts, or work uniform. This workshop pairs well with the Sew Your Own: Booty Shorts!