GATHERINGS
Join us for one of our upcoming community events in The Parlor

Disability Dialogue: An Peer Support Space for Anyone Experiencing Chronic Illness or Disability
Disability Dialogues are a casual, conversational gathering in which a facilitator gently guides a group discussion about the disabled experience. This includes sharing lived experience around disability, resource sharing and peer-supported problem solving, grieving the body, navigating an ableist world, and much more. Discussion topics are decided by the attendees curiosity and interest, and whatever comes up during the 1.5 hour span.
Masks are required (unless your disability prevents it,) and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
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About the Facilitator:
AJ Hawkins (she/they) is an artist and advocate. She has beed disabled for over a decade, experiencing both chronic illness and physical disability. In that time, AJ has lived with invisible and visible disabilities, and navigated the landscape between active, able-bodied thriving and housebound, bedbound surviving, and currently dwells somewhere in-between.

The Craft: Make Things Make Friends
Make things and make friends—bring your own project or make something with our supplies. The Craft is a creative social gathering open to everyone, while especially welcoming those with alternative aesthetics who don’t see themselves reflected in other crafting spaces.
The Parlor has a modest-but-growing collection of tools and supplies, including a button press, hole-punches, jewelry-making pliers, collage papers, markers and pens available for free. Crafters can access our bulk bar after shop hours for accessibly-priced ribbons, studs, spikes, charms, and safety pins.
AJ will be available to help or support crafters as desired, and crafters may come and go as they please.
Masks encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
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About the Facilitator:
AJ Hawkins (she/they) is the Founder and Creative Director of KALMA. She is fine artist and a graduate of the 3D4M sculpture program at the University of Washington. Before launching KALMA, she worked in custom fabrication—creating everything from high-end haunted house props to 27’ tall unicorns. They are also a lifelong certified Stubborn Crafter™️ and know that if there’s a will—there’s a way.

C.A.R.E. : Club for Abolitionist Research and Education
C.A.R.E. (Club for Abolitionist Reseach + Education) is a peer learning group with the goal to build resilient members in community that can address interpersonal violence without use of the state. We keep us safe.
Each session will include a facilitated group discussion about a preselected essay, zine, talk, or other educational resource which is encouraged to be explored before the gathering. These resources will create a foundation of community-held knowledge around transformative justice principles in preparation for working through the Creative Interventions Toolkit.
Masks are encouraged and will be provided.
Facilitator Bio:
Eamon (they/them) is a regular person, who cares deeply about building more compassionate, connected communities.


The Craft: Make Things Make Friends
Make things and make friends—bring your own project or make something with our supplies. The Craft is a creative social gathering open to everyone, while especially welcoming those with alternative aesthetics who don’t see themselves reflected in other crafting spaces.
The Parlor has a modest-but-growing collection of tools and supplies, including a button press, hole-punches, jewelry-making pliers, collage papers, markers and pens available for free. Crafters can access our bulk bar after shop hours for accessibly-priced ribbons, studs, spikes, charms, and safety pins.
AJ will be available to help or support crafters as desired, and crafters may come and go as they please.
Masks encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
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About the Facilitator:
AJ Hawkins (she/they) is the Founder and Creative Director of KALMA. She is fine artist and a graduate of the 3D4M sculpture program at the University of Washington. Before launching KALMA, she worked in custom fabrication—creating everything from high-end haunted house props to 27’ tall unicorns. They are also a lifelong certified Stubborn Crafter™️ and know that if there’s a will—there’s a way.

Queer + Trans Mourning Coffee in the Evening : A Grief Centered Gathering
This is our usual Queer and Trans Mourning Coffee - a grief-centered gathering for queer + trans folks, but held in the evening! Enjoy a warm cup of coffee (decaf?) or tea, and gather to share (verbally or energetically) in a space made for griefs of all kinds.
Masks encouraged and provided. This gathering is for attendees age 18+.
For accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
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About the Facilitator:
Jen Hauser (they/them) is a threshold tender and mortality awareness advocate. Jen is a weaver—creating connections and building structures that draw previously distant parts together. They care deeply about making community-centered deathcare more accessible by supporting people’s autonomy, and developing resources that help them navigate death. Jen has been a volunteer with Jefferson County Hospice, and End of Life Washington, and has past experience in crisis intervention. They support others in their relationship to death through ritual, including end-of-life and funeral planning, and Living Funeral Ceremonies. They offer death doula and intend to offer bereavement services in the future.

Theory Dialogue: Pt. 1 on Queer Theory
As we navigate through life, our values and ethics shape our understanding of strategic theories. Although we are all different, many of us share the same goal of striving for a more accessible world. Let's come together once a month to dissect theories as a group as we work towards our shared goal.
In June, we are continuing to expound on the topic of Queer Theory. Attendees are encouraged to explore a Resource List Eden has curated on the topic in advance of the gathering.
Masks encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
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About the Facilitator:
Eden (she/they) Eden Blooms is a Sephardic person of color living in the Pacific Northwest who is deeply passionate about connecting communities to the land we reside on. As an Ethnobotanist and Public Health Practitioner, Eden offers community learning opportunities rooted in the One Health model - emphasizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health.

Port Townsend Pride Event
Come visit our table at the local Port Townsend Pride event down at Pope Marine Park :)

Disability Dialogue: An Peer Support Space for Anyone Experiencing Chronic Illness or Disability
Disability Dialogues are a casual, conversational gathering in which a facilitator gently guides a group discussion about the disabled experience. This includes sharing lived experience around disability, resource sharing and peer-supported problem solving, grieving the body, navigating an ableist world, and much more. Discussion topics are decided by the attendees curiosity and interest, and whatever comes up during the 1.5 hour span.
Masks are required (unless your disability prevents it,) and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
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About the Facilitator:
AJ Hawkins (she/they) is an artist and advocate. She has beed disabled for over a decade, experiencing both chronic illness and physical disability. In that time, AJ has lived with invisible and visible disabilities, and navigated the landscape between active, able-bodied thriving and housebound, bedbound surviving, and currently dwells somewhere in-between.

Mourning Coffee in the Evening
A grief-centered gathering held monthly in The Parlor. Enjoy a warm cup of coffee or tea, and hold space for griefs of all kinds.
Masks encouraged and provided. Because of the peer-support structure of this gathering, attendees must be 18 years or older. Bring anything that helps you feel more comfortable.
For more information about accessibility, please see our Visit Us page.
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Death Dialogue: An Open Discussion for Anyone Experiencing Mortality
Death Dialogues are a casual, conversational gathering in which a facilitator gently guides a group discussion about all things death. This includes not only bodily death, but all kinds of endings and transitions—break ups, lost items, housing loss, the death of the world as we know it, and much more. Discussion topics are decided by the attendees curiosity and interest, and whatever comes up during the 1.5 hour span.
Masks are encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
Jen Hauser (they/them) is a threshold tender and mortality awareness advocate. Jen is a weaver—creating connections and building structures that draw previously distant parts together. They care deeply about making community-centered deathcare more accessible by supporting people’s autonomy, and developing resources that help them navigate death. They support others in their relationship to death through ritual, including end-of-life and funeral planning, and Living Funeral Ceremonies. They intend to offer death doula and bereavement services in the future.

The Craft
Make things and make friends—bring your own project or make something with our supplies. The Craft is a creative social gathering open to everyone, while especially welcoming those with alternative aesthetics who don’t see themselves reflected in other crafting spaces.
The Parlor has a modest-but-growing collection of tools and supplies, including a button press, hole-punches, jewelry-making pliers, collage papers, markers and pens available for free. Crafters can access our bulk bar after shop hours for accessibly-priced ribbons, studs, spikes, charms, and safety pins.
AJ will be available to help or support crafters as desired, and crafters may come and go as they please.
Masks encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
AJ Hawkins (she/they) is the Founder and Creative Director of KALMA. She is fine artist and a graduate of the 3D4M sculpture program at the University of Washington. Before launching KALMA, she worked in custom fabrication—creating everything from high-end haunted house props to 27’ tall unicorns. They are also a lifelong certified Stubborn Crafter™️ and know that if there’s a will—there’s a way.

Theory Dialogue: Mutual Aid Pt. 2
As we navigate through life, our values and ethics shape our understanding of strategic theories. Although we are all different, many of us share the same goal of striving for a more accessible world. Let's come together once a month to dissect theories as a group as we work towards our shared goal.
In May, we are continuing to expound on the topic of Mutual Aid. Attendees are encouraged to explore a Resource List Eden has curated on the topic in advance of the gathering.
Masks encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
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About the Facilitator:
Eden (she/they) Eden Blooms is a Sephardic person of color living in the Pacific Northwest who is deeply passionate about connecting communities to the land we reside on. As an Ethnobotanist and Public Health Practitioner, Eden offers community learning opportunities rooted in the One Health model - emphasizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health.

Disability Dialogue: An Peer Support Space for Anyone Experiencing Chronic Illness or Disability
Disability Dialogues are a casual, conversational gathering in which a facilitator gently guides a group discussion about the disabled experience. This includes sharing lived experience around disability, resource sharing and peer-supported problem solving, grieving the body, navigating an ableist world, and much more. Discussion topics are decided by the attendees curiosity and interest, and whatever comes up during the 1.5 hour span.
Masks are required (unless your disability prevents it,) and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
AJ Hawkins (she/they) is an artist and advocate. She has beed disabled for over a decade, experiencing both chronic illness and physical disability. In that time, AJ has lived with invisible and visible disabilities, and navigated the landscape between active, able-bodied thriving and housebound, bedbound surviving, and currently dwells somewhere in-between.

Mourning Coffee
A grief-centered gathering held monthly in The Parlor. Enjoy a warm cup of coffee or tea, and hold space for griefs of all kinds.
Masks encouraged and provided. Because of the peer-support structure of this gathering, attendees must be 18 years or older. Bring anything that helps you feel more comfortable.
For more information about accessibility, please see our Visit Us page.
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Death Dialogue: An Open Discussion for Anyone Experiencing Mortality
Death Dialogues are a casual, conversational gathering in which a facilitator gently guides a group discussion about all things death. This includes not only bodily death, but all kinds of endings and transitions—break ups, lost items, housing loss, the death of the world as we know it, and much more. Discussion topics are decided by the attendees curiosity and interest, and whatever comes up during the 1.5 hour span.
Masks are encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
Jen Hauser (they/them) is a threshold tender and mortality awareness advocate. Whether in the willow fields alongside Woven Thresholds, or the wider community, Jen is a weaver—creating connections and building structures that draw previously distant parts together. They care deeply about making community-centered deathcare more accessible by supporting people’s autonomy, and developing resources that help them navigate death. Jen is a volunteer with Jefferson County Hospice, and End of Life Washington, and has past experience in crisis intervention. They support others in their relationship to death through ritual, including end-of-life and funeral planning, and Living Funeral Ceremonies. They intend to offer death doula and bereavement services in the future.

The Craft
Make things and make friends—bring your own project or make something with our supplies. The Craft is a creative social gathering open to everyone, while especially welcoming those with alternative aesthetics who don’t see themselves reflected in other crafting spaces.
The Parlor has a modest-but-growing collection of tools and supplies, including a button press, hole-punches, jewelry-making pliers, collage papers, markers and pens available for free. Crafters can access our bulk bar after shop hours for accessibly-priced ribbons, studs, spikes, charms, and safety pins.
AJ will be available to help or support crafters as desired, and crafters may come and go as they please.
Masks encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
AJ Hawkins (she/they) is the Founder and Creative Director of KALMA. She is fine artist and a graduate of the 3D4M sculpture program at the University of Washington. Before launching KALMA, she worked in custom fabrication—creating everything from high-end haunted house props to 27’ tall unicorns. They are also a lifelong certified Stubborn Crafter™️ and know that if there’s a will—there’s a way.

Queer + Trans Mourning Coffee
A closed grief-centered gathering for queer + trans folks held monthly on Saturday mornings in The Parlor. Enjoy a warm cup of coffee or tea, and hold space for griefs of all kinds.
Masks encouraged and provided. This gathering is for attendees age 18+.
For accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
Jen Hauser (they/them) is a threshold tender and mortality awareness advocate. Whether in the willow fields alongside Woven Thresholds, or the wider community, Jen is a weaver—creating connections and building structures that draw previously distant parts together. They care deeply about making community-centered deathcare more accessible by supporting people’s autonomy, and developing resources that help them navigate death. Jen is a volunteer with Jefferson County Hospice, and End of Life Washington, and has past experience in crisis intervention. They support others in their relationship to death through ritual, including end-of-life and funeral planning, and Living Funeral Ceremonies. They intend to offer death doula and bereavement services in the future.

Theory Dialogue: Mutual Aid Pt. 1
As we navigate through life, our values and ethics shape our understanding of strategic theories. Although we are all different, many of us share the same goal of striving for a more accessible world. Let's come together once a month to dissect theories as a group as we work towards our shared goal.
In April, we are continuing to expound on the topic of Mutual Aid. Attendees are encouraged to explore a Resource List Eden has curated on the topic in advance of the gathering.
Masks encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
Eden (she/they) Eden Blooms is a Sephardic person of color living in the Pacific Northwest who is deeply passionate about connecting communities to the land we reside on. As an Ethnobotanist and Public Health Practitioner, Eden offers community learning opportunities rooted in the One Health model - emphasizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health.

Disability Dialogue: An Peer Support Space for Anyone Experiencing Chronic Illness or Disability
Disability Dialogues are a casual, conversational gathering in which a facilitator gently guides a group discussion about the disabled experience. This includes sharing lived experience around disability, resource sharing and peer-supported problem solving, grieving the body, navigating an ableist world, and much more. Discussion topics are decided by the attendees curiosity and interest, and whatever comes up during the 1.5 hour span.
Masks are required (unless your disability prevents it,) and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
AJ Hawkins (she/they) is an artist and advocate. She has beed disabled for over a decade, experiencing both chronic illness and physical disability. In that time, AJ has lived with invisible and visible disabilities, and navigated the landscape between active, able-bodied thriving and housebound, bedbound surviving, and currently dwells somewhere in-between.

Mourning Coffee
A grief-centered gathering held monthly in The Parlor. Enjoy a warm cup of coffee or tea, and hold space for griefs of all kinds.
Masks encouraged and provided. Because of the peer-support structure of this gathering, attendees must be 18 years or older. Bring anything that helps you feel more comfortable.
For more information about accessibility, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦

Death Dialogue: An Open Discussion for Anyone Experiencing Mortality
Death Dialogues are a casual, conversational gathering in which a facilitator gently guides a group discussion about all things death. This includes not only bodily death, but all kinds of endings and transitions—break ups, lost items, housing loss, the death of the world as we know it, and much more. Discussion topics are decided by the attendees curiosity and interest, and whatever comes up during the 1.5 hour span.
Masks are encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
Jen Hauser (they/them) is a threshold tender and mortality awareness advocate. Whether in the willow fields alongside Woven Thresholds, or the wider community, Jen is a weaver—creating connections and building structures that draw previously distant parts together. They care deeply about making community-centered deathcare more accessible by supporting people’s autonomy, and developing resources that help them navigate death. Jen is a volunteer with Jefferson County Hospice, and End of Life Washington, and has past experience in crisis intervention. They support others in their relationship to death through ritual, including end-of-life and funeral planning, and Living Funeral Ceremonies. They intend to offer death doula and bereavement services in the future.

The Craft
Make things and make friends—bring your own project or make something with our supplies. The Craft is a creative social gathering open to everyone, while especially welcoming those with alternative aesthetics who don’t see themselves reflected in other crafting spaces.
The Parlor has a modest-but-growing collection of tools and supplies, including a button press, hole-punches, jewelry-making pliers, collage papers, markers and pens available for free. Crafters can access our bulk bar after shop hours for accessibly-priced ribbons, studs, spikes, charms, and safety pins.
AJ will be available to help or support crafters as desired, and crafters may come and go as they please.
Masks encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
AJ Hawkins (she/they) is the Founder and Creative Director of KALMA. She is fine artist and a graduate of the 3D4M sculpture program at the University of Washington. Before launching KALMA, she worked in custom fabrication—creating everything from high-end haunted house props to 27’ tall unicorns. They are also a lifelong certified Stubborn Crafter™️ and know that if there’s a will—there’s a way.

Theory Dialogue : Prison Abolition Pt. 2
As we navigate through life, our values and ethics shape our understanding of strategic theories. Although we are all different, many of us share the same goal of striving for a more accessible world. Let's come together once a month to dissect theories as a group as we work towards our shared goal.
In March, we are continuing to expound on the topic of Prison Abolition. Attendees are encouraged to explore a Resource List Eden has curated on the topic in advance of the gathering.
Masks encouraged and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
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About the Facilitator:
Eden (she/they) Eden Blooms is a Sephardic person of color living in the Pacific Northwest who is deeply passionate about connecting communities to the land we reside on. As an Ethnobotanist and Public Health Practitioner, Eden offers community learning opportunities rooted in the One Health model - emphasizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health.

Queer + Trans Mourning Coffee
A closed grief-centered gathering for queer + trans folks held monthly on Saturday mornings in The Parlor. Enjoy a warm cup of coffee or tea, and hold space for griefs of all kinds.
Masks encouraged and provided. This gathering is for attendees age 18+.
For accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
Jen Hauser (they/them) is a threshold tender and mortality awareness advocate. Whether in the willow fields alongside Woven Thresholds, or the wider community, Jen is a weaver—creating connections and building structures that draw previously distant parts together. They care deeply about making community-centered deathcare more accessible by supporting people’s autonomy, and developing resources that help them navigate death. Jen is a volunteer with Jefferson County Hospice, and End of Life Washington, and has past experience in crisis intervention. They support others in their relationship to death through ritual, including end-of-life and funeral planning, and Living Funeral Ceremonies. They intend to offer death doula and bereavement services in the future.

Disability Dialogue: An Peer Support Space for Anyone Experiencing Chronic Illness or Disability
Disability Dialogues are a casual, conversational gathering in which a facilitator gently guides a group discussion about the disabled experience. This includes sharing lived experience around disability, resource sharing and peer-supported problem solving, grieving the body, navigating an ableist world, and much more. Discussion topics are decided by the attendees curiosity and interest, and whatever comes up during the 1.5 hour span.
Entrance will close at 5:40, but guests may leave when they like.
Masks are required (unless your disability prevents it,) and provided.
For more accessibility information, please see our Visit Us page.
✦✦✦
About the Facilitator:
AJ Hawkins (she/they) is an artist and advocate. She has beed disabled for over a decade, experiencing both chronic illness and physical disability. In that time, AJ has lived with invisible and visible disabilities, and navigated the landscape between active, able-bodied thriving and housebound, bedbound surviving, and currently dwells somewhere in-between.

Death Dialogue: An Open Discussion for Anyone Experiencing Mortality
Death Dialogues are a casual, conversational gathering in which a facilitator gently guides a group discussion about all things death.

The Craft
The Craft is a creative social gathering open to everyone, while especially welcoming those with alternative aesthetics.


Theory Dialogue: Prison Abolition (Copy)
Theory Dialogues are group learning and discussion gatherings where participants do independent research on a monthly strategic theory topic, and gathering to report and reflect together on how we build a more accessible world.
February + March’s topic is Abolition.


Queer + Trans Mourning Coffee
A closed grief-centered gathering for queer + trans folks held monthly on Saturday mornings.

Disability Dialogue: An Peer Support Space for Anyone Experiencing Chronic Illness or Disability
Disability Dialogues are a casual, conversational gathering in which a facilitator gently guides a group discussion about the disabled experience.