Classes & Workshops
Classes are ticketed events - when you click Enroll, you will be directed to sign in or create a Sparkle account, which will add your email to the class roster.
Orchids! Discussion and Potting Workshop
Maybe you fell in love with your first Phalaenopsis a while back and, like some of us, have encountered via YouTube growers of more “exotic” orchids: cattleyas, oncidiums, cycnodes, and others. Challenge your grower’s hand with something new!
Join us for 60 to 90 minutes discussing and potting a selection of lovely exotics. We’ll talk about origins, care needs, and how we might accommodate them in our homes.
Orchids, pots, and medium will be provided. Depending on enrollment, attendees will go home with 2-3 plants. Varieties may include cycnodes, oncicium, cattleya, and phalaenopsis, but specifics will depend on nursery stock.
There will also be books, of course!
$50
You'll be asked to register with our website, which will allow us to record your enrollment.
Please register by Friday, October 24. Minimum enrollment for this event is 10.
Sparklers: One-Hour Workshop with Jeff Bens
FINDING YOUR AUTHENTIC VOICE: Writing from the Emotional World of the Protagonist
In this one hour workshop, for writers of all genres and styles, we'll explore how to locate and write from our work's authentic, compelling voice. Voice arises naturally from the emotional world of our protagonist. We don't need to force it or even think it up.
We'll look at examples of voice from novels, short stories and a screenplay, then we'll practice the technique with our own work in progress or from a prompt, taking away a felt, intuitive approach to language, cadence, rhythm and structure that tells our stories, imagined or real, with earned momentum and genuine depth.
Thursday October 2 at 6pm
$10
You'll be asked to register with our website, which will allow us to record your enrollment.
Jeff W. Bens is author of the novels The Mighty Oak and Albert, Himself. Jeff's short fiction and essays are published widely. He teaches at Manhatanville University.
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
October 2, 2025 at 6pm
Sparklers: Poetry with Juan Pablo Mobili and Rebecca Watkins
Articulate What You Notice: Consider "Paying Attention" as a Poet's Superpower
In this workshop for poets at any level, we will reflect on what we write about, what we don't write about, and how we develop the freedom to write outside our comfort zones. Everyone will write a new poem.
$10 (please contact Donna at the store if you would like to request a fee waiver - no one will be turned away)
