May 10 – 11
Ready to learn something new—or take your skills to the next level?
Now in its fifth year, our beloved Workshop Experience Weekend is back! With more than 19 hands-on workshops, classes, and open gardens, this two-day festival is your chance to explore, create, and connect.
The workshops held during the Workshop Experience Weekend include the following:
- The Art of Bonsai with Matthew Puntigam
- Storytelling: Creative Writing with Ashley Mayne
- Pasta Is a Year-Round Sport with Dan Pelosi
- Blacksmithing: Forging Hearts with Marsha Trattner
- Fleece to Yarn – Introduction to Fiber Milling & Drop Spinning with Margot Becker
- At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen – Book Event with Amy Chaplin & Tamar Adler
- Mushroom Foraging with John Wheeler
- Storytelling: Exploring the Mother with Sarah Katan
- “What a Wonderful World” One Day Choir with Kenter Davies
- Learn to Knit with Lizz Hill Wiker
- Mother’s Day Sunday Brunch Workshop with David Wurth
- Botanical Bundle Dyeing with Hannah Ross
- Pizza Fundamentals: Techniques & Tools for Home Pizzaiolo with Rafi Bildner
- Paper Play with Jen Dieringer
- Woven Woolen Coasters with Margot Becker
- Learn to Bird with Ben Nickley
- Garden of Margaret Roach Tour + Plant Sale by Broken Arrow Nursery
- Garden of Peter Bevacqua & Stephen King Tour + “Ask the Arborist” Booth by Green Cross
Book Event with Amy Chaplin & Tamar Adler
with David Wurth
Many of the workshops have a Mother’s Day theme so BRING MOM! The Hillsdale Workshop Alliance curates and promotes experiential learning in creative fields in and around Hillsdale, NY through our website TheWorkshopExperience.org. Whether the instructors are local experts, or visiting makers/instructors, the goal is high quality workshops presented in beautiful settings that can be enjoyed by local audiences and visitors alike.
The Hillsdale Workshop Alliance includes Margaret Roach (garden columnist for The New York Times), Matthew White (owner of Hillsdale General Store and HGS Home Chef), Paul Ricciardi (co-director of the Ancram Center for the Arts), Lewis Cleale (owner of Nobletown Fiber Works), Jim and Pam Carden (owners of Taconic Ridge Farm), Aubrey Lynch (Dean of Faculty and Student Affairs at American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School), and Jenny Elliot and Luke Franco (owners of Tiny Hearts Farm).