Workshops — March April

Upcoming Events & Workshops

Grad App Working Group

11am–2pm
Saturday, September 6

Facilitated by Somi Jun

This working group provides a structured and supportive space for anyone preparing an application for graduate school, including Masters, PhD, and credentialing programs. Participants will organize key deadlines, develop personalized timelines, and workshop personal statements, ultimately leaving the workshop with a renewed sense of direction and confidence.
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Max: 8 people
$60
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Somi Jun is a writer and educator from Los Angeles. They received their BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and MFA in Creative Writing from UC Irvine. They have been teaching essay-writing with a focus on college applications since 2016.

Fire Cider Skill Share

11am–12:15pm
Saturday, September 13

Facilitated by Lucha Zamora

Prepare and take home a jar of fire cider in time to infuse for the holidays! Lucha Zamora will facilitate this skill share, guiding participants in the preparation of fire cider, an immunity-boosting herbal remedy. This skill share is also a great way to ground oneself in time for the colder months.

Bring your own pickling jar or add one on for $10. All other materials are included and will be provided on the day of the activity.

Max: 8 people
$30
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Lucha Zamora is an artist, queer homemaker, and self-taught herbalist. They have been making natural medicines with herbs and plants since 2020. Zamora’s artwork, centering queer and BIPOC perspectives of Los Angeles, has been supported by REACH LA and March April Studio.

Natural Dye Bath

11am–1pm
Saturday, September 27

Facilitated by Lucha Zamora

Bring new life to old textiles in March April's communal natural dye bath. Each $20 ticket allows you to bring up to three small articles of fabric, such as T-shirts, hand towels, bandanas, etc. (whatever fits in our dye bags). Come by anytime between 11am and 1pm to drop off your materials! Then schedule a time to pick up.

Colors will be announced on our Instagram a week beforehand.

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Past Events & Workshops

How to Bead! Jewelry-Making for Kids

9:30am–12pm
August 7 or 8 (independent sessions)

Taught by Alice Stearn and Maj Roshandel

For children ages 6 and up.

A beading class for ages 6+ with Alice Stearn and Maj Roshandel. Students will learn basic beading patterns to create lanyards, bag charms, and bracelets. A beading project can be completed each class and students can take home what they created.

Max: 6 people
$60

Alice Stearn is a recent graduate of California State University, Los Angeles where she earned a degree in Child Development. She has worked in education for seven years. Most recently, Alice has worked as a specialist for developmentally delayed infants and toddlers.

Maj Roshandel is an artist with 10 years of experience as a babysitter, summer camp counselor, and facilitator.

Introduction to InDesign and Zines

Wednesdays, 7:00pm–9:30pm
July 16, 23, and 30

Taught by Soryn Mouton

For all levels of experience.

Learn Adobe InDesign by creating your own zine! This 3-week workshop covers a brief history of zines, the basics of InDesign, and how to produce a small zine to take home. In the process, students will practice InDesign, a versatile tool for editorial layouts, deck design, book design, and more.

All workshop participants will receive one Creative Day Pass per week to access the studio outside of class, time to deepen their knowledge and practice their craft.

Max: 8 people
$215

Soryn Mouton is an artist and designer who works across various media including drawing, painting, type design, and editorial design. She got her BFA from Cooper Union and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. See Soryn’s past work at soryn.net.

Pride Print & Sip

Friday, June 20 from 7:00–10:00pm

Taught by Bhavani Srinivas

Celebrate pride by printing your very own bandana! Learn how to print vibrant patterns with handcarved wood and brass blocks sourced from India!

Print your design while mingling with other queer creatives and sipping on a free natural wine.
All tools and materials are provided
$35

Bhavani Srinivas is an artist and designer based in Los Angeles. Bhavani earned their BA in Art Practice from Princeton University. She learned printmaking through an apprenticeship at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and was an artist in resident at Zygote Press in Cleveland.

Introduction to DJing

Wednesdays, 7:00pm–9:30pm
June 4, 11, and 18

Taught by hearthealer

For all levels of experience.

Learn to DJ for beginners! We'll cover a brief history of DJing, basic music theory, and the essentials of DJ controllers & software. Class sessions will include hands-on instruction on how to select, beat-match, blend, and transition tracks; structure a mix; and have fun DJing at home or out at a club.

Music will be club/rave-centric, but there will be space to bring your own tracks as well.

This is a safe and welcoming space for everyone who loves music <3.
Max: 9 people
$245*

Hearthealer is a DJ, producer, and writer known for narrative world-building, big emotion, and unruly genre blends. They’ve performed their high energy club sets internationally, in venues such as OIL (Shenzhen), Creamcake (Berlin), System (Shanghai), Final (Taipei), Cakeshop (Seoul), Loopy (Hangzhou), Orbitware (Bali), and more. NEMATOCYST, Hearthealer’s hybrid collaboration with dancer Jas Lin, has toured Asia/Europe and opened the 2024 3HD Festival in Berlin. On the ambient side, Hearthealer is known for their unique “storytelling sets,” where they use a midi controller to live-perform an original short story within a DJ set.

*Five the spots in this workshop are market rate, while the remaining four are offered at a significant discount for those facing financial difficulty. Choose the option that is right for you.

Poetry: (Mis)translation

Friday, May 23, 7pm–9pm

Taught by Somi Jun

This stand-alone workshop is adapted from March April’s Poetry as Experience course, taught earlier this year.

This particular session is interested in the poetry generated by incomplete, broken, or failed translations. During this workshop, we will think about how failures in communication are central to many artists’ practices.

We will ask: What is each writer attempting to translate onto the page? Where and how do they acknowledge the impossibility of complete understanding, accuracy, and/or continuity of meaning? How do these breaks in meaning-making inform the shape and substance of the poem?

Reading list: Robin Coste Lewis, Solmaz Sharif, Anne Carson, Jhumpa Lahiri

Participants will be given reading packets in advance and will also have the chance to (re)read during class. Each session will end with a writing exercise.
Max: 8 people

Somi Jun was born in Korea and raised in Los Angeles, where they currently reside. They founded March April Studio, which facilitates art, writing, and co-working at sliding scale rates. From Jun’s kitchen table, they co-founded Corners cutoff, a translingual art press which designs, produces, and distributes printed matter in southern California. Jun’s writing has been supported by Tin House and the MFA Programs in Writing at UC Irvine.

Why March April? March April is the season of growth, facilitated by surprising changes in the weather. One day, sunshine. The next, pouring rain. It’s the variation, sudden turns in fate, and good, deep soil that make growth possible.