Looky Here

*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-11:50)
2026-07-25 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-08-01 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-08-08 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-08-15 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-08-22 10:30 - 11:50, 2026-08-29 10:30 - 11:50 (America/New_York)
*Morning Shift: Community Open Writing Time (Saturdays from 10:30-11:50)
Want to write but having trouble getting started? Or tired of writing alone into the void? Join us for a drop-in writing space, open to all and free (donations to Looky Here for letting us use the space are encouraged). We will say hello to each other, share a prompt or brief piece to get us going, but mostly we will just write together. This is not a workshopping group or an open mic, come with your notebook or laptop and get ready to get some words on the page in good company.
FREE!
* Participates in Card to Culture

*Open Studio Sundays (1-4 p.m., drop-ins welcome!)
2026-07-26 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-08-02 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-08-09 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-08-16 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-08-23 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-08-30 13:00 - 16:00
CRAFT
MEND
SEW
DRAW
WRITE
use the space from 1:00-4:00 p.m.
drop-ins welcome!
Bring any project you like. We will set you up with a large table. You can use our sewing machines, glue guns, and whatever other resources we have! $10 – free for members

Playwriting/Performance Workshop: Playing Utopia with Jeremy Geragotelis (six weeks, 7/26-8/30, 6-8pm, $150)
2026-07-26 18:00 - 20:00
Playing Utopia: Future Livenesses and Political Possibility
Time-based art is particularly well suited to teach its audience that other ways to live, to survive, to revolt are possible. It’s hard to deny a future when it’s right there in front of you. We will spend this workshop writing new pieces of theater and performance that imagine a more livable life for more people. How can a play or performance be a how-to guide in not just imagining but enacting(!) utopia?
We’ll read excerpts from playwrights, poets, and theorists: B. Brecht, J. S. Drury, M. Blitzstein, S. Treadwell, C. Churchill, T. Hearne, Sophocles, A. Washburn, F. Jameson, J. E. Muñoz.
This six-week workshop is for anyone looking to experiment in playwriting and performance-writing—no previous experience in these forms is necessary. Participants will have time to both write and share their work. The class will end with some form of culminating performance!

Writing on Writing: A Metafiction Working Group with Lena Rubin - Session 2 (July 29th & August 5th, 6:00-9:00pm, $150)
2026-07-29 18:00 - 21:00
In this experimental working group, we will study and play with the technique of metafiction —tentatively defined here as “writing on writing.” As we engage with metafictional texts such as Anna Moschovakis’ Eleanor, or The Rejection of the Progress of Love, Renee Gladman’s My Lesbian Novel, and Zia Anger’s My First Film, we will embark on a delirious and cerebral metatextual journey that transcends the boundaries between fiction and autobiography, author and protagonist. Participants will come away with an increased understanding of metafiction as radical technique, as well as inspiration to apply it to their own art-making in the service of more capaciousness, experimentation, and play.
A note on scheduling: The group will meet during two separate sessions this summer. Each session will consist of two three-hour meetings. Diﬀerent material will be covered during each session (though themes and approach will remain continuous), so you are welcome to join us for either or both sessions.

Lena Rubin is a writer, artist, and teacher based in Florence, MA. Lena’s work has been supported by the Outer Cape Artists in Residence Consortium, recognized with a nomination to the Best New Poets anthology in 2024, and published in Little Mirror, Second Factory, Afternoon Visitor, and elsewhere. Lena will complete an MFA in Prose Writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as of May 2026. More at lenarubin.tumblr.com.

*Figure Drawing (7/30) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-07-30 18:00 - 20:00
BYO materials! Easel and drawing horses provided. Figure Drawing at Looky Here is an uninstructed drawing session with a nude model. $15 per session, running 6-8pm on every other Thursday evening.
*Participates in Card to Culture

*Figure Drawing (8/13) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-08-13 18:00 - 20:00

*Figure Drawing (8/27) (every other Thursday 6:00-8:00 $15 – free for members)
2026-08-27 18:00 - 20:00
