Make your own hardback book! We'll fold signatures, sew text blocks, create covers, and case in the text blocks. These take extra time and attention, but they're worth it. 

Open Studio: Bindery

Work side-by-side with other bookbinders on a project of your choosing. Bookbinding tools and some materials available.

OPEN STUDIOS

Our Open Studio sessions offer you dedicated time and space to work on your book arts projects. You get to choose what you’re going to work on during each two-hour block, and you can help yourself to a small assortment of snacks, coffee, tea, and sparkle water.

These sessions are non-instructional time, meaning you work independently but in community with others.

Sign up for a single session or a whole bunch!

Be the spookiest skull on the block this season with this light-up mechanical calavera. You will build one of your own using a kit of pre-cut paper pieces and circuitry components. Enjoy a little play with both paper engineering AND electrons this Halloween!

This class includes a kit that provides pre-cut paper pieces and various circuitry components. Kit fee is included in the price of the class.

Learn bookbinding skills, techniques, and vocabulary in this beginning bookbinding workshop.

We'll talk about paper and bookbinding tools and make a few simple book structures, which will allow participants to get a decent start on their bookbinding journey.

Note: This workshop is for beginners, and is a prerequisite for our more elaborate book structure workshops.

Come on over to 840 Custer for Hive Happy Hour! We're building community through letter-writing. Sit and write a letter to an old friend, write a few postcards to new friends, get those thank you notes written, write a letter to the editor of a newspaper... whatever you'd like. 

Each Hive Happy Hour features great conversation, a glass of wine or seltzer,  a nibble of something, and community. We'll have some stationary and notecards you can use, or bring your own. 

$10 includes one glass of wine or seltzer, awesome conversation, and however many letters you would like to write.

Though Hive Happy Hours are from 4-6 pm, you can come in and out, but an RSVP is necessary.

Eat Their Words is a food-focused book club featuring literature and memoirs written by chefs, foodies, and other food lovers, where the content of the book is curated into a culinary experience by various guest chefs and restauranteurs.

Each month, we will read a book and discuss it during an evening event where the book is brought to life through a custom food experience or special meal, curated and produced by Hive’s ETW Coordinator, Chef Toni Salazar Camphouse. Food, drinks, and thoughtful conversations are included in your ticket price, and copies of the books can be purchased through our page at Bookshop.

Eat Their Words is presented in partnership with various phenomenal culinary collaborators, depending on what we’re reading and eating.

Please note that if cost is a barrier to entry, you can use the promo code "ETW 2026" at check out for $10 off. 

FAQs

Should I bring anything to the dinner to share? Is this a potluck situation? Nope! Just bring your copy of the book if you want, and be ready to eat a great meal!

What if I run out of time to finish the book? Am I still able to attend? YES! Even if you haven't finished the book, you'll have a great time at Eat Their Words! Though there *might* be spoilers....

Can I bring a friend? Yes! The more the merrier! Each person must have their own ticket, though, because Eat Their Words is basically like we're a bunch of people getting together at a restaurant for dinner and drinks---your ticket pays for your curated meal as well as the conversation and fun.

In this three-hour introduction to all things Gelli Plate Printing you’ll go through the exploratory process of inking, printing, and layering to make your own unique pieces, which you can use for covers or endpages or appreciate just as they are. 

All experience levels welcome and encouraged.

Join us for a book talk with Evanston's warm and insightful Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark as she introduces us to her revolutionary new book, Medicine for All People: Science and Ancient Wisdom for Revolutionary Healing.  Geeta's book will be available for purchase after the talk.

Hive's Salon Series programing is free, but space is limited, so registration is required. 

Everyone who attends this talk gets $5 off Joanne Jacobson's class on Thursday 11/19, Body Language: Writing Our Bodies. Use discount code Geeta2026 on checkout.

Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark—integrative medicine physician, thought leader, and activist—describes a profound reimagining of what medicine can be: a vision where ancestral wisdom, scientific evidence, and a commitment to equity come together in service of healing. She reveals how extractive food and health care systems have co-opted our awareness of our natural, deep intelligence and connectedness—contributing to the disproportionate burden of chronic disease in communities that have been historically excluded from resources and power. These conditions are not simply the result of individual choices, but of structural forces that shape access to nourishment, safety, and care. In response, Medicine for All People guides readers back to medicines that are both ancient and urgently relevant: culturally rooted foods, nature-based and gratitude practices that regulate the nervous system, dance and embodied movement that supports neuroplasticity and joy, and meaningful connection that restores a sense of belonging. Integrating these powerful, freely available medicines into our daily lives creates a path for individuals and communities to move toward sustainable health and radical social change.