​Intro to Archiving as Ritual: Your Soft Yearbook

​Come gather around the table to close out the year together. Bring fragments, photos, and notes, and we’ll begin shaping them into a handmade draft of a creative yearbook.

​What has carried you, and what are you ready to release? The aches and uncertainties, the gifts and pleasures, and everything quiet, fun, and ordinary in between. There’s room here for your multiple realities and for the incorporeal.

​We’ll open with a welcome and a short grounding practice, then share a few ideas for gathering, selecting, and arranging what you’ve kept, along with simple ways to bind it. The rest of the afternoon is slow, hands-on making a few pages, with warm drinks and light bites passed around. Choose your papers, arrange your pages in whatever order feels good, and bind (no-sew) them when you’re ready. Nothing has to be finished. We’ll close with optional sharing.

​You’ll take home a no-sew bound draft of your yearbook with room to keep it growing at your own pace. This afternoon is a first taste of a slower, multi-week course to come next year.

​Details:

• ​When: Sunday, December 13, 3:00 to 5:30 p.m.

• ​Where: Say When, Los Angeles

• ​Price: $60 per person. $50 early-bird price (expires Nov. 15, up to 5 spots)

• ​Ages: 18 and older

​This is for people who are:

• ​Closing out the year and want to do it with intention

• ​Carrying a year that was heavy, tender, ordinary, or all of it

• ​No experience necessary, but must have basic knowledge of using a digital design tool

​What to bring:

• ​photo prints of different sizes that can fit 5" x 8" (I will print some photos for you ahead of time)

• ​diary pages, notes

• ​ephemera

• ​laptop or tablet (for designing some pages)

​What’s provided:

​Paper, cardstock, vellum, matte photo paper, plus 2-prong or 3-hole paper fasteners or a spiral coil for binding. Light bites and warm non-alcoholic drinks.

​There will be limited access to a couple of inkjet color printers. Further instructions will be sent to confirmed participants.

​About Stepfanie:

​Stepfanie (she/her) documents, weaves, and invites memories through different media and methods: walks, zines, prints, audio/sound, and asking a lot of questions. Online: shapelessclouds.com, @shapelessclouds.x

​Cancellations and refunds

• ​Through November 29: full refund, minus non-refundable processing fees.

• ​After November 29: spots aren’t refundable, but you’re welcome to pass yours to a friend. Just let me know their name.

• ​If the gathering is cancelled: if fewer than 5 people have registered by November 20, or if I need to cancel for any reason, you’ll receive a full refund.

• ​Illness or emergency: reach out, and I’ll do my best to work something out.

​Accessibility

​Please review Say When's Accessibility Statement.