867 programs. Things to sign up for across Berks County, with dates, prices and where to register.
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Starts Wed, Oct 28, 7:00 PM · $45 per person
Paint a Sasquatch scene on a 16x20 canvas with step by step guidance from artist Brandalyn. This is a Wednesday evening session, so plan on a relaxed two hours at the easel with everything you need…
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Starts Thu, Oct 29, 10:30 AM · Free
Tinker Tots is a building and making session for young children at Boyertown Community Library. Kids get plenty of blocks, building toys and other things to tinker with, so they can stack, sort and…
Run by Boyertown Community Library · Boyertown
Thu, Oct 29 to Thu, Nov 12 · Member: $130.05 / Non-Member: $153.00
In this sewing class at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, students make a Japanese cross-back apron, a slip-on style that works well for cooking, crafting or giving as a gift. The project is set up to…
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Fri, Oct 30 to Fri, Nov 13 · Member: $122.40 / Non-Member: $144.00
Learn the language of color through a series of exercises, paintings and drawings using acrylic paint and colored pencils. You will look at why some color combinations feel restful while others feel…
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Starts Fri, Oct 30, 6:00 PM · $77.00
This Maker Date is a one evening painting workshop with a Halloween twist. You set up and paint a spooky seasonal still life while working on composition, lighting and color mixing. Instructor Amy…
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Starts Fri, Oct 30, 6:00 PM · $96.00
This one evening raku workshop at GoggleWorks is built around clay and fire. You glaze a pair of pre-made bud vases, watch a wheel throwing demonstration, and then see your pieces fired in a raku…
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Starts Fri, Oct 30, 6:00 PM · $96.00
This evening workshop at GoggleWorks pairs metalwork with a shared meal. You shape and finish a copper trinket dish, learning how to prepare the surface, apply enamel, and fire the piece in a kiln.…
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Starts Fri, Oct 30, 6:00 PM · $100.00
Spend a Friday evening at the torch with a partner. In this one session workshop at GoggleWorks, you and your date learn to use torches and hand tools to melt and shape glass, and you see how heat…
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Starts Fri, Oct 30, 6:00 PM · $96.00
This one evening fused glass workshop at GoggleWorks is set up as a date night. An instructor walks you through choosing a mold and picking your colors, then you build a glass plate, platter, or bowl…
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Starts Fri, Oct 30, 6:00 PM · $105.00
This one evening workshop at GoggleWorks pairs you and a guest for a first look at the hot glass studio. With guidance from professional glassblowers, each person makes a tumbler or a stemless wine…
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Starts Fri, Oct 30, 6:00 PM · $71.00
This is a Maker Date evening at GoggleWorks, where you and your date each make a SolarFast tote bag. You will use sunlight, photographic methods and playful experimental techniques to build color and…
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Starts Fri, Oct 30, 6:00 PM · $110.00
Spend a Friday evening in the GoggleWorks Woodworking Studio making a whiskey smoker. You turn the smoker on the lathe to fit a cocktail glass you bring from home, then use the hardware that goes…
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Starts Fri, Oct 30, 7:00 PM · $45 per person
Bring your book club and paint a 16x20 canvas you make your own. Brandalyn leads the step by step painting, and you choose the book titles and colors so your finished canvas fits your group. It runs…
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Starts Sat, Oct 31, 11:00 AM · Free
Reading Public Library hosts an afternoon of movies and snacks at the Main Library. Families and visitors of all ages settle in to watch a film together, and the group makes themed snacks to enjoy…
Run by Reading Public Library · Reading
Starts Sun, Nov 1, 9:00 AM · Member: $157.25 / Non-Member: $185.00
This one day woodturning workshop at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts focuses on making hollow form vases. You work at the lathe and practice the techniques used to shape and hollow these pieces, with…
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Starts Sun, Nov 1, 1:00 PM · Free · Register by Oct 26
This presentation looks at how people lit their homes, workplaces and public rooms in early America. Light mattered for household chores, skilled trades, writing and reading, and even the work of the…
Run by Spring Twp Parks & Recreation · Sinking Spring
Starts Sun, Nov 1, 1:00 PM · Member: $44.20 / Non-Member: $52.00
Children and their grown-ups work side by side to build a pinch pot turkey out of clay. In this family workshop with instructor Karen Adam, you learn basic pinch pot and handbuilding techniques, then…
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Starts Sun, Nov 1, 1:00 PM · Free · Register by Oct 29
This Halloween themed nature walk brings families out to Shiloh Hills Park with Naturalist Kathy Grim. Children and grown ups learn about local wildlife, meet wildlife puppets, and make colorful art…
Run by Spring Twp Parks & Recreation · Sinking Spring
Starts Sun, Nov 1, 2:00 PM
The Conrad Weiser Homestead hosts a fall lecture on the German Regiment. A speaker presents the history of the unit, and you come to listen and learn. The talk is geared to adults, and families are…
Run by Conrad Weiser Homestead · Womelsdorf
Sun, Nov 1 to Sun, Nov 15 · Member: $81.60 / Non-Member: $96.00
This drawing class at GoggleWorks is open to all skill levels. Students explore what charcoal, pencil, and Sharpie can each do and build drawing skill and confidence through scribbling, drawing, and…
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Starts Mon, Nov 2, 10:00 AM · $115 ($105 members)
This drawing class at the Yocum Institute for Arts Education welcomes all styles and all levels of skill. Beginners get instruction in the basics, while students with more experience work on…
Run by Yocum Institute for Arts Education · West Lawn
Mon, Nov 2 to Mon, Nov 9 · Member: $89.25 / Non-Member: $105.00
Stitching on Paper is a two session class at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts where you use needle and thread to add color and texture to paper. You work on vintage photos, postcards, book pages and…
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Mon, Nov 2 to Mon, Nov 30 · Member: $242.25 / Non-Member: $285.00
This jewelry class at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts focuses on loop and loop chain. You learn to fuse fine silver wire into solid loops, then form those loops into several kinds of links used in…
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Starts Mon, Nov 2, 6:30 PM · $135 ($125 members)
This drawing class at Yocum Institute for Arts Education is open to adults of any skill level and any style of drawing. You work with a range of drawing media and papers over the course of the class.…
Run by Yocum Institute for Arts Education · West Lawn
Starts Tue, Nov 3, 10:30 AM · Free
The Reading Public Library teams up with a nature resource specialist for a guided walk on the Squirrel Run Trail at Blue Marsh Lake. Walkers look at the changing colors of fall and talk about the…
Run by Reading Public Library · Reading
Starts Tue, Nov 3, 10:30 AM
Alvernia University's Seniors College offers this session on artificial intelligence and the human mind. Professor Emeritus Spencer S. Stober, Ed.D., leads a look at AI as more than a tool…
Run by Alvernia University · Reading
Starts Tue, Nov 3, 4:00 PM · $75 ($65 members)
Art That Glows is a hands on art class for young children at the Yocum Institute for Arts Education. As the days get shorter, students make projects built around light and shine, from glowing…
Run by Yocum Institute for Arts Education · West Lawn
Tue, Nov 3 to Tue, Dec 1 · Member: $204.00 / Non-Member: $240.00
This class covers the basics of digital photography for adults, with attention to both how your camera works and why different techniques get the results they do. Sessions build toward more confident…
Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading
Starts Wed, Nov 4, 10:30 AM · Free
Storytime meets on Wednesday mornings at the Wernersville Public Library. The session starts at 10:30 and runs about an hour. It is a series, so families can come back week after week. The library…
Run by Wernersville Public Library · Wernersville
Wed, Nov 4 to Fri, Nov 6 · Member: $114.75 / Non-Member: $135.00
This two-part evening workshop at GoggleWorks pairs hot glass with candle making. On the first night you work in the hot shop to shape your own glass vessel and learn how glassblowing works. On the…
Run by GoggleWorks Center for the Arts · Reading
Wed, Nov 4 to Wed, Nov 18 · Member: $122.40 / Non-Member: $144.00
This workshop at GoggleWorks looks at how to make portraits of people, including strangers. Instructor Isa Brito, a street-portrait photographer based in New York, covers ways to get the picture you…
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Wed, Nov 4 to Wed, Nov 11 · Member: $89.25 / Non-Member: $105.00
This workshop at GoggleWorks walks you through making a throw pillow cover from start to finish. On the first evening you work in the Printmaking Studio, where you pick from a set of designs and…
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Starts Wed, Nov 4, 7:00 PM · $45 per person
Paint a sunset coast scene on a 16x20 canvas in a guided evening class at Painting with a Twist in Exeter Township. Studio artists lead the painting step by step, so no experience is needed. Paints…
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Starts Thu, Nov 5, 10:00 AM
Spend a morning at The Museum with Reading Public Museum educators for special tours and hands-on projects that the whole family can take part in. This session carries the theme Inventors and…
Run by Reading Public Museum · Reading
Starts Thu, Nov 5, 6:00 PM · Member: $68.00 / Non-Member: $80.00
This single evening workshop at GoggleWorks walks you through making your own ceramic chip and dip set. You shape the piece using basic handbuilding methods, so no wheel work and no prior clay…
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Starts Thu, Nov 5, 7:00 PM · $60 ($50 members)
Food Creations is a ceramics class where kids make food art out of clay, just for looking at and not for eating. Students hand-build playful ceramic versions of pizza, hamburgers, cupcakes and other…
Run by Yocum Institute for Arts Education · West Lawn
Starts Sat, Nov 7 · $30 ($20 members)
This visual art class at the Yocum Institute for Arts Education invites young artists to explore the season of thankfulness. Taking inspiration from the book The Giving Tree, students talk about…
Run by Yocum Institute for Arts Education · West Lawn
Starts Sat, Nov 7, 12:00 AM · Member: $68.00 / Non-Member: $80.00
This single session workshop at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts introduces the plasma cutter and the ways it can be used. You learn how to work with the tool safely, then put that practice to use by…
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Sat, Nov 7 to Sat, Nov 21 · Member: $173.40 / Non-Member: $204.00
In this sewing class at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, students build a crossbody bag from start to finish. You work through the steps of putting in a zipper, sewing a lining, and attaching an…
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Sat, Nov 7 to Mon, Nov 9 · Member: $505.75 / Non-Member: $595.00
Over three full days in the Woodworking Studio at GoggleWorks, you build a wooden side table from start to finish. The work centers on the classic mortise and tenon joint, and the instructor covers…
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Sat, Nov 7 to Sat, Nov 28 · Member: $163.20 / Non-Member: $192.00
Make a short film over four weeks at GoggleWorks. The group moves through the process step by step, from catching an idea to shaping it into a story and filming it. Sessions cover lighting, sound…
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Starts Sat, Nov 7, 10:00 AM · Free · Register by Nov 4
Stone tools are among the earliest tools people made. Stones such as flint, quartz and obsidian were used to build, garden, clean animal hides, make arrowheads and much more. An educator from…
Run by Spring Twp Parks & Recreation · Sinking Spring
Starts Sat, Nov 7, 1:00 PM · Free · Register by Oct 30
This history program invites you to sit in on a conversation with John Adams, the second President of the United States. He is presented as an imperfect, burdened, but ever-striving man, and the talk…
Run by Spring Twp Parks & Recreation · Sinking Spring
Starts Sat, Nov 7, 1:00 PM · Member: $83.30 / Non-Member: $98.00
This single session workshop at GoggleWorks introduces you to working with hot glass. You gather molten glass from the furnace, add color, and shape it into a pumpkin with guidance from studio…
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Starts Sat, Nov 7, 1:00 PM · Free
Certified dog trainer Lauren Huha leads this class on reading your dog like a book. The session runs about an hour and is a chance to learn from a trainer and ask your own questions about what your…
Run by Exeter Community Library · Reading
Starts Sat, Nov 7, 3:00 PM · Member: $68.00 / Non-Member: $80.00
In this single-session workshop at GoggleWorks, you make a sterling silver ring from start to finish. You twist and braid silver wire, then shape, solder, and finish the piece. Along the way you…
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Starts Sat, Nov 7, 5:00 PM · Member: $51.00 / Non-Member: $60.00
Paint Your Pet is a single evening workshop at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts where you paint a small portrait of your pet on canvas. The instructor guides the group step by step, so the session…
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Sat, Nov 7 to Sun, Nov 8 · Member: $123.25 / Non-Member: $145.00
In this two session class at GoggleWorks, you make a fused glass cookie tray while learning the basics of working with warm glass. You cut and arrange glass, then the pieces are fused and shaped into…
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Starts Sat, Nov 7, 7:00 PM · $45 per person
Paint a 16x20 canvas with step by step guidance while trivia rounds run through the evening. The class is led by instructor Brandalyn, and it runs on Saturday evenings. Paint, sip, relax and have fun…
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Sun, Nov 8 to Sun, Nov 29 · Member: $193.80 / Non-Member: $228.00
Precious metal clay handles like clay but fires into fine silver. In this class at GoggleWorks, you work with the material from start to finish: shaping it, adding texture, and firing it to make…
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