CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

BASIC ELECTRICAL WIRING: A Hands-On Workshop for Beginners, with Toni DiNoto
Six hours of instruction over two days:
Tuesday, July 30, 6-9 pm
Thursday, Aug 1, 6-9 pm

Workshop registration is now closed, but please email to be placed on waitlist or to hear about next electrical workshop.

Does opening up the electrical fuse box cause you anxiety? Would you like to take your electrical skills past changing lightbulbs? Toni DiNoto—SUNY Delhi electrical instructor and 25-year veteran electrician—is offering an introductory two-session basic electrical workshop. Her goal is to teach community members the basics of electricity, code compliance, and safe electrical procedure, and offer a hands-on workshop.

DiNoto will discuss basic theory, code, and use of testers to insure safe installations. Participants will work off project boards and install wires to energize a single pole switch and light plus a receptacle. If you barely understood that last sentence, this is the workshop for you!

Tools and supplies will be provided, or bring your own: wire strippers, lineman, screwdriver, box cutter.

All participants will be required to bring safety glasses and two electrical testers; specs provided upon registration; all available for purchase at Dubbens down the street for about $30 total.

This two-session workshop is offered to community members (ages 18+) for $85 plus the required safety glasses and testers noted above. Class size is limited; register online at the link below to save your spot. If the price of the workshop is a barrier for you to attend, please email us at info@bushelcollective.org and we will work it out.

Workshop registration is now closed, but please email to be placed on waitlist or to hear about next electrical workshop.

* You will be required to sign this waiver upon arrival to the first class.
** Participants are also responsible for bringing safety glasses and two electrical testers (available at Dubben’s or other hardware stores for about $30. Details will be shared with registrants in advance of the workshop.)

TONI DINOTO is a SUNY Delhi alumni with an associate degree in electrical construction. She has worked as an electrician for over 25 years and has taught at SUNY Delhi’s Electrical Program as an IST for the past 15+ years. 

June – September 2024

Over the course of eight workshops, participants will be invited to engage in the ancient craft of handweaving as a practice in embodiment — as a way to participate and respond to life, to our environment, to pay attention, engage our senses and connect in community.

We will use the loom, playing with its many forms, as a site of exploration. A site that allows us to consider our relationship to place through the materials we weave that come from the lands we inhabit, to our ancestral lands and textile traditions, as well as to our plant, animal, elemental, and spirit kin that also weave in many forms. It also allows us to consider our relationship to both time and deep-time through rhythm, repetition, pattern, and structure.

The overarching inquiry and exploration of the workshop series is – What is a weaving? What is a Loom? This will be explored conceptually, technically, historically, and poetically, each week through making a variety of looms and also weaving on frame, table top, and floor looms that will be set up for different classes. We will be using a variety of materials from locally-sourced raw wool and yarn, to clay, fabric, rope, wire, foraged plant material, and other unusual weaving materials.

Each workshop will explore a different type of loom and a variety of materials, building upon each week and creating a continuous narrative through the series. We encourage participants to attend all 8 workshops or as many as you are able to. Workshops are completely FREE for the public thanks to a community arts grant from Roxbury Arts Group*; you must register ahead of time for each week.

Workshops will take place every other Saturday from June-September 2024, 2-5pm at Bushel Collective in Delhi, New York.

Dates are: June 15, June 29, July 13, July 27, Aug 10, Aug 24, Sept 14, and Sept 28 (this Saturday will be 10am-1pm).

SEED TO SUPPER Gardening Series
Tuesdays in April and May (see dates below)
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Please consult our Events page for updates to individual sessions.

A six session gardening class led by Carla Crim that will teach participants about soil health, pollinator protection, and climate-smart growing. Free to attend. To Register: contact Carla Crim, ceh27@cronell.edu or call the CCE office at 607-865-6531

NYS Seed to Supper (S2S) is a comprehensive beginning gardening experience focused on low-budget strategies with community development and relationship building at its core – relationships among community program partners and between program participants. Over the course of six free sessions S2S gives novice gardeners the tools they need to connect with others in community, grow in confidence, and successfully grow a portion of their own food on a limited budget. All participants receive a free guide book (in English or in Spanish), free seeds and starts, and even some gardening supplies.

Week 1: Garden Planning Essentials
April 16, 6-7:30pm

Week 2: Soil building, composting, and mulching
April 23, 6-7:30pm

Week 3: Planting your garden
April 30, 6-7:30pm

Week 4: Caring for your growing garden
May 7, 6-7:30pm

Week 5: Field trip to Birdsong Farm*
May 14, 6-7pm

Week 6: Seedling distribution & celebration*
May 21, 6-7pm

*off-site at Birdsong Farm, 38480 State Highway 10, Delhi

Carla Crim is the horticulture educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension and also oversees the gardens at Birdsong Farm.

Moving Towards Liberation through the Body: a workshop led by Ali Shockey

Three Sessions:
Wednesdays, 6:30-8:15
Feb 7, 14, 21

Artist and soma practitioner Ali Shockley will lead this 3-session workshop to introduce core principles of Somatic Trauma Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and related modalities, and to consider along with participants the ways these and other healing modalities might help move us in the direction of collective liberation.

Throughout the sessions, as we work with our individual and collective somas, we will devise practices that call upon our own bodies to help us process—and invite in the transformation of—intergenerational, sociopolitical, and structural trauma. Beginning with the individual soma by practicing modalities of self-care, we will move into exploring the collective soma by practicing methods of collective care. 

During a time of immense global upheaval, imperialistic violence, separatism, and anthropocentric crisis, it feels vital to be creating space where we can learn to reconnect with our bodies and practice intentional communal care. Learning and practicing these methods will support us as we are challenged to adapt to the inevitable changing conditions of planet earth, and as we move through and begin to live more reciprocally in a world that we want to cohabitate. There will be space for participants to offer their voices, share ideas, and for all of us to show up authentically as ourselves in a supportive environment. Ideally, the workshop will transition to an ongoing monthly communal co-learning space for interested community members to continue the exploration of sharing somatic healing methodologies and practice facilitation that will move us closer to collective liberation.

The three sessions will build on each other, but it is not necessary to attend them all. Please do rsvp before the first session you plan to attend, using the form below. 

Cost: $10-$15 (sliding scale) per session; no one turned away for lack of funds.

Ali Shockey is an interdisciplinary artist and soma practitioner working with embodied movement, performative processing, and crafting communal spaces for creative world visioning, inside out transformation, and mobilizing around socio-political action. They attended Oberlin College where they received their BA in studio art and thereafter moved to New York City where they taught art through forest education in public green spaces throughout the city. They have been facilitating workshops in the arts and somatic experiencing since 2016. Having attended graduate school for clinical social work at Silberman School for Social Work, they left the metropolitan area and discovered the beautiful landscape of the Catskill mountains. Ali is eager to get to know the local community in Delhi, contribute their practice, and learn from others in a reciprocal exchange of resources and care. 

RSVP Form:

Name *

Email *

How did you find out about this workshop? *

Do you have experience with somatic practice? (No experience is expected or necessary; this question is just to aid in preparation) *

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Fall 2023 College Essay Writing Workshop with Dr. Iris Cushing

Four Thursdays: October 5, 12, 19, 26
4:30-6:00pm

Optional orientation session for parents/caregivers and prospective students:
Thursday, Sept. 28, 4:30-5:30pm

Registration Required