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--- ✨🍃 SEASON WRAP-UP & COMMUNITY POTLUCK 🍃✨ ---

🌱 Food Access & Education Program: October

📍 Hosted at the Community Garden, Located at 1060 Pleasant Street, Athol
📆 Sat, Oct 11, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

As the growing season winds down, let’s come together to celebrate, reflect, and prepare for the colder months ahead. ☃️

Whether you planted your first seed or harvested a bumper crop, all are welcome! 🌈😄

What to Expect:
🌿 Garden clean-up & winter prep
🌻 Reflect on what grew well (and what didn’t!)
📚 Share resources, tips, and gardening wisdom
🍲 Community potluck & recipe swap – bring a dish or just bring your appetite!

What to Bring:
❓ Questions & ideas
🪴 Gardening tools (if you have them)
🍽️ A dish to share or a favorite recipe
✨ A spirit of community and collaboration

🚀 Let’s wrap up the season together and plant seeds for what’s next! 👇
https://app.getoccasion.com/p/n/cK9j2HgB/v5

Funder: Congressional Special Project Fund, Economic Development Initiative, Housing & Urban Development

#launchspace_orange #makerspace #CommunityGarden #FoodAccess #PotluckParty #GardenEducation

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--- ✨🍃 SEASON WRAP-UP & COMMUNITY POTLUCK 🍃✨ --- 🌱 Food Access & Education Program: October 📍 Hosted at the Community Garden, Located at 1060 Pleasant Street, Athol 📆 Sat, Oct 11, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM As the growing season winds down, let’s come together to celebrate, reflect, and prepare for the colder months ahead. ☃️ Whether you planted your first seed or harvested a bumper crop, all are welcome! 🌈😄 What to Expect: 🌿 Garden clean-up & winter prep 🌻 Reflect on what grew well (and what didn’t!) 📚 Share resources, tips, and gardening wisdom 🍲 Community potluck & recipe swap – bring a dish or just bring your appetite! What to Bring: ❓ Questions & ideas 🪴 Gardening tools (if you have them) 🍽️ A dish to share or a favorite recipe ✨ A spirit of community and collaboration 🚀 Let’s wrap up the season together and plant seeds for what’s next! 👇 https://app.getoccasion.com/p/n/cK9j2HgB/v5 Funder: Congressional Special Project Fund, Economic Development Initiative, Housing & Urban Development #launchspace_orange #makerspace #CommunityGarden #FoodAccess #PotluckParty #GardenEducation

--- ✨🚀 CREATIVE SECTOR PATHWAY PROGRAM 🚀✨ ---

📣 Now recruiting for Fall 2025! 🍂

The LaunchSpace CSPP program is a free initiative designed to empower and cultivate autonomy in youth ages 13-24. 💪

It`s split into two parts, one for younger tinkerers and another for older creatives:

🔎 The Creative Sector DISCOVER Program provides hands-on education in creative sector skills and entrepreneurship for our younger Creative Sector teens ages 13-15 who are interested in pursuing the unique intersection of art, technology, and entrepreneurship. 💫

✅ DISCOVER Application 👇
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2XTMbY974_STCo1Mtk60B78O-hR4W99BPeOz1c8XiJt9VQg/viewform

🔨 The Creative Sector ENGAGE Program is designed to provide real-world, tool, technique, and machine training, workforce development, and apprenticeships to people ages 16-24. It`s divided into two distinct pieces: Training and Exploration, and Apprenticeship/Internship placement. Engage takes place over two semesters.

✅ ENGAGE Application 👇
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdfmqk5uBK_kPoucsQ18eL-COrSE4idqdNsncwEGlyKKX-V2A/viewform

CSPP is funded by United Way of North Central MA, the MA Community Empowerment & Reinvestment Program, the North Central MA Community Foundation, Levitate, and individual donors like you. 💖

#launchspace_orange #makerspace #CreativeSector #YouthEmpowerment #ArtAndTechnology #HandsOnLearning #CreativePathways #SkillDevelopment

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--- ✨🚀 CREATIVE SECTOR PATHWAY PROGRAM 🚀✨ --- 📣 Now recruiting for Fall 2025! 🍂 The LaunchSpace CSPP program is a free initiative designed to empower and cultivate autonomy in youth ages 13-24. 💪 It's split into two parts, one for younger tinkerers and another for older creatives: 🔎 The Creative Sector DISCOVER Program provides hands-on education in creative sector skills and entrepreneurship for our younger Creative Sector teens ages 13-15 who are interested in pursuing the unique intersection of art, technology, and entrepreneurship. 💫 ✅ DISCOVER Application 👇 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2XTMbY974_STCo1Mtk60B78O-hR4W99BPeOz1c8XiJt9VQg/viewform 🔨 The Creative Sector ENGAGE Program is designed to provide real-world, tool, technique, and machine training, workforce development, and apprenticeships to people ages 16-24. It's divided into two distinct pieces: Training and Exploration, and Apprenticeship/Internship placement. Engage takes place over two semesters. ✅ ENGAGE Application 👇 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdfmqk5uBK_kPoucsQ18eL-COrSE4idqdNsncwEGlyKKX-V2A/viewform CSPP is funded by United Way of North Central MA, the MA Community Empowerment & Reinvestment Program, the North Central MA Community Foundation, Levitate, and individual donors like you. 💖 #launchspace_orange #makerspace #CreativeSector #YouthEmpowerment #ArtAndTechnology #HandsOnLearning #CreativePathways #SkillDevelopment
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What the Community is Saying

I had my mind BLOWN this winter. In Orange of all places. I’d been hearing about Launchspace, a makerspace in the OIC building ( the old mattress factory for anyone else that’s been here for eons) but hadn’t gone over to check it out. I ran into an old friend Brianna Drohen, one of the founders, at the Garlic and Arts festival last fall and she inspired me to take a look. After realizing that our own library in Warwick had a couple free passes, I decided to take advantage of the free opportunity to have a look. WOW!!!! That was my immediate response when I walked in, and my enthusiasm and amazement has not retreated one inch since. After my original shock at the size and breadth of the facility I was given a tour to familiarize myself with the various stations and rooms. The list is almost overwhelming. It’s like a playground for creatives of all types. There are sewing machines, both table top and industrial, embroidery and sergers. There is a leather working station with wonderful tools for all kinds of sculptural as well as utilitarian uses. There is stained glass and ceramics, both hand building and wheel work. with kilns and glazes. There is silk screen printing and laser etching and cutting and 3D printers. You can make jewelry and there is a metal shop with lots of equipment.and finally… the woodshop. ah the woodshop.

After my 20$ woodshop orientation fee which pays for the very knowledgeable shop steward to familiarize me with all the machines and make sure you aren’t going to cut your body parts off. I was ready to get started. The stewards were very helpful and patient with my questions and helped me to not get into bad habits. After many uses of the library pass, and half a dozen or more cutting boards, I decided it was time to make the commitment and join as a member for the modest 60$ monthly charge. Now I’ve made 16 cutting/serving/bread boards, a few spindles and a Bowl i turned from a cherry burl from my backyard. I’ve sewn a few bags for the boards and look forward to making some pottery and probably a leather bound book. The possibilities are only restricted by my imagination. If you have any interest at all in making art or craft or just useful things for around the house, I cant overemphasize how helpful the staff and the other members are for reaching that goal. The Pass is free so the investment is just time to go over and try your hand at some stained glass or pottery or just about anything else you can think of to make. There are two passes so you can even bring a buddy. Happy making!

“I think it is one of the largest and one of the most creative Maker Spaces that I have experienced. My work in the Creative Economy has brought me in touch with many maker spaces around the country, and few of them have the kind of dedicated space that LaunchSpace has to different media (i.e., wood, metal, glass, paper, ceramics, etc.), and few of them have the breadth of programming that LaunchSpace has.

I’ve also been impressed that LaunchSpace has been so strategic and deliberate in creating the space and making it available to the arts and creative community. In other words, the leadership was sure to secure funding for the space and had an organizational foundation in place before it officially opened and became operational. Too often, maker spaces rush to open their doors without going through the due diligence that LaunchSpace did.”

Michael, Northampton MA

“I joined LaunchSpace to do a couple of clay workshops and to take advantage of the beautiful sewing area. It has been swell meeting people there, and the stewards are great!

This is a remarkable venue for so many different crafts. It’s amazing that a little community like Orange can provide such rich experiences for the community.”

Elsa, Orange MA

“The funniest things that happen to me at Launch involve finding something in someone else’s studio that is exactly what I need to complete a project – the “cross-pollination” is so exciting! CA finds a power strip at a warehouse and realizes that I need one so brings it in. I have weaving looms that Zander can use, Erica lets my “under-age” granddaughter join a clay hand-building class, Laura sands down some rough pounding blocks for me..these events are so much fun!”

Sharon, Shutesbury MA

“Because of LaunchSpace, I’m starting to believe I can do so much more with my life. I look at the world differently – I see things and wonder how they are made and why they are made that way. For years I had resigned myself to thinking most things were out of my reach. Now I feel so happy because I see there’s a lot I am able to do. Whenever I hit a roadblock, I have confidence that I can find a way to adapt. I am discovering how to create tools that work for me.”

Xander, Belchertown MA

“I think that the Launchspace is a wonderful community asset. As the name implies, it is a jumping-off place for artistic and business endeavors for youth and people of all ages.”

Betsy, New Salem MA

“LaunchSpace means community. It is a place of learning, connecting, and putting that knowledge into practice. You don’t have to be an expert at your craft to find value in LaunchSpace and that’s what I think is the best part about it! Someone at any stage of their maker journey can start and work in the space.”

Sarah, Springfield MA

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