Stained-Glass Artist · Class
Public Glass
A nonprofit community studio where you learn to make window decor and jewelry from colored glass.
San Francisco, CA
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Fire Performer · Workshop
Temple of Poi
The Wielding Fire class walks you from poi basics to safely spinning live fire yourself.
San Francisco, CA
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Stonemason · Class
The Crucible
Pick up a hammer and chisel, and carve your own sculpture from raw stone; all tools provided.
Oakland, CA
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Stained-Glass Artist
Human AuthorshipCut glass and lead and light, joined by hand into a window that paints the floor in color.
Fire Performer
Among HumansReal flames, real danger, one person turning risk into something a crowd cannot look away from.
Stonemason
Body & PresenceCut once, cut right. The stone will still be standing when everyone alive is gone.
Muralist
Among HumansOne person turning a blank wall into the thing a whole neighborhood looks up at.
Fishmonger
Body & PresenceThe person who knows the boats, the tides, and which fish to talk you out of today.
Potter
Human AuthorshipA wheel, some mud, a teacher's hands over yours. Two hours where your phone doesn't matter.
Glassblower
Human AuthorshipA breath, held inside molten glass, kept forever.
Chocolatier
Human AuthorshipBitter bean, human patience, and a shine you only get if a person got the temperature exactly right.
Tour Guide
Among HumansA city has a thousand doors. They know which ones open.
Cheesemaker
Human AuthorshipMilk, salt, time, and a person who knows exactly when to stop waiting.
Live Musician
Among HumansA small room, an unamplified voice, forty strangers holding still.
Small-Farm Grower
Human AuthorshipThe person whose hands were on your tomato this morning.
Dance Teacher
Among HumansThey count you in until your body remembers what your head forgot.
Sushi Chef
Human AuthorshipA lifetime learning to cut a fish, so that ten seconds on your tongue are perfect.
Line Cook
Human AuthorshipA hot kitchen, twelve tickets, a plate that tastes like a place.
Letterpress Printer
Human AuthorshipInk, metal, and pressure. A page you can feel with your fingertips, made by a person.
Bladesmith
Human AuthorshipFire, hammer, and a person who can feel, through the steel, the moment it is ready.
Carpenter
Body & PresenceThe corners you trust with your home.
Florist
Human AuthorshipSomeone who translates what you couldn't say into stems and color.
Stevedore
Body & PresenceThe strong back and sure feet at the water's edge who move the world's cargo one honest load at a time.
Welder
Body & PresenceA steady hand joins two pieces of steel into one, and makes it hold.
Confectioner
Human AuthorshipBoiled sugar caught at exactly the right heartbeat, pulled and shaped into small, bright happiness.
Illustrator
Human AuthorshipGive a story to an illustrator and they hand back a world you can see.
Goldsmith
Human AuthorshipA goldsmith warms a small piece of metal until it will do what the hand imagines.
Knitter
Human AuthorshipTwo sticks, a length of wool, and a pair of hands that turn winter into something you can wrap around a shoulder.
Saddler
Body & PresenceA saddler builds by hand the one thing that has to fit both horse and rider perfectly.
Roofer
Body & PresenceHigh up where few want to be, a roofer keeps the rain off everyone below.
Juggler
Among HumansOne person, a fistful of objects, and gravity turned into a game everyone stops to watch.
Gilder
Human AuthorshipBeating light into a surface, one impossibly thin leaf of gold laid down by breath and a soft brush.
Saxophonist
Among HumansOne breath through brass, and a whole room feels the note bend.
Drummer
Among HumansThe heartbeat everyone feels but few could name, kept alive by two hands and two feet.
Chaplain
Trust & JudgmentWhen the day turns hard, a chaplain walks in with no agenda but you, and stays.
Tofu maker
Human AuthorshipA person coaxes soybeans, water, and time into something silken that carries whatever kindness you cook into it.
The Sign Painter
Human AuthorshipA brush, a steady hand, and letters that could only have come from one person.
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