COMMUNITY EVENTS
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COMMUNITY EVENTS ◈
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see what’s next with Fortuna Major & our community
Yet Another Queer Winter Market
Yet Another Queer Pop-Up Market is the premiere queer pop-up market in western Massachusetts! Co-hosted by 50 Arrow Gallery and Eastworks, this winter market will feature 60+ creatives with unique offerings on December 13th, 2025.
Book Launch From The Cosmic Crossroads of Impossibilities
Get your first edition copy of this tome for creative Black women that captures 20+ years of sketching, drawing, and illustration combined with disruptive, insightful essays that kindle Self-Liberation from within.
Bookish Friends Networking
Join fellow writers, editors, illustrators, booksellers, and reviewers for a cozy online networking night! Bookish Friends & Networking is a virtual space to make meaningful connections, share your work, and uplift others in the literary community. Build lasting creative partnerships from anywhere—come meet your next collaborator or reader!
Creative Collage Workshop With Jules Jones at Launch Space
Jules Jones is a queer disabled artist living and working in Franklin County, MA. Jones’s “collage paintings” are maximalist mixed media works that reflect their process of repurposing old artworks into collage material. Join Jules in a creative collage art class at Launch Space in Orange, Massachusetts on November 22nd, 2025. All experience levels welcome.
Agballa Creatives Presents: Creating in Kapwa A Monthly Co-Creative Gathering
Agballa Creatives presents Creating in Kapwa: a monthly co-creation gathering for women/femme/non-binary artists, writers, visionaries, makers, entrepreneurs of culture/color.
Fortuna Collage Club Session #11
Want to cultivate creative communities? Every other Thursday you can join Collage Club on Zoom. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
Fortuna Collage Club Session #10
Want to cultivate creative communities? Every other Thursday you can join Collage Club on Zoom. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
Fortuna Collage Club Session #9
Want to cultivate creative communities? Every other Thursday you can join Collage Club on Zoom. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
Read & Resist Fest At Interlink Publishing
Interlink Publishing—Northampton’s Palestinian-owned book publisher—will be hosting the second annual Read + Resist Fest on Saturday, September 20th, from 10am to 4pm at 46 Crosby Street, Northampton, MA. This outdoor social justice festival will include a book sale, QTBIPOC vendors, children’s activities, teach-ins, workshops, screen printing, performances, music, food and more. It is free to the public and open to all ages. Masks are required.
Fortuna Collage Club RETURNS: Session #8
Want to cultivate creative communities? Every other Thursday you can join Collage Club on Zoom. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
Fortuna Collage Club Session #7
Let’s cultivate creative communities! Every other Thursday you can join Lachlan Thompson, the editor of Fortuna Major Press, on Zoom for Collage Club. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
The Dreamweavers Art Group Session #5
During Pride Month 2023, The Dreamweavers Project hosted an art-based peer support group for queer, trans, and Two Spirit survivors of sexual assault & relationship violence. For 8 weeks, survivors met weekly at Survivor Arts Collective to make art, read tarot, and support each other.
Fortuna Major Creative Co. proudly announces that this support group will return for 5 weeks on ZOOM in July 2025.
Fortuna Collage Club Session #6
Let’s cultivate creative communities! Every other Thursday you can join Lachlan Thompson, the editor of Fortuna Major Press, on Zoom for Collage Club. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
The Dreamweavers Art Group 2025 Session #4
During Pride Month 2023, The Dreamweavers Project hosted an art-based peer support group for queer, trans, and Two Spirit survivors of sexual assault & relationship violence. For 8 weeks, survivors met weekly at Survivor Arts Collective to make art, read tarot, and support each other.
Fortuna Major Creative Co. proudly announces that this support group will return for 5 weeks on ZOOM in July 2025.
Bookish Friends & Networking Disabled Community Gathering
Are you an author, illustrator, editor, bookseller, reviewer, or other part of the bookish creative constellation? Are you looking to make meaningful connections and uplift each other’s work? Then Bookish Friends & Networking is for you!
The Dreamweavers Art Group 2025 Session #3
During Pride Month 2023, The Dreamweavers Project hosted an art-based peer support group for queer, trans, and Two Spirit survivors of sexual assault & relationship violence. For 8 weeks, survivors met weekly at Survivor Arts Collective to make art, read tarot, and support each other.
Fortuna Major Creative Co. proudly announces that this support group will return for 5 weeks on ZOOM in July 2025.
Fortuna Collage Club Session #5
Let’s cultivate creative communities! Every other Thursday you can join Lachlan Thompson, the editor of Fortuna Major Press, on Zoom for Collage Club. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
The Dreamweavers Art Group 2025 Session #2
During Pride Month 2023, The Dreamweavers Project hosted an art-based peer support group for queer, trans, and Two Spirit survivors of sexual assault & relationship violence. For 8 weeks, survivors met weekly at Survivor Arts Collective to make art, read tarot, and support each other.
Fortuna Major Creative Co. proudly announces that this support group will return for 5 weeks on ZOOM in July 2025.
The Dreamweavers Art Group 2025 Session #1
During Pride Month 2023, The Dreamweavers Project hosted an art-based peer support group for queer, trans, and Two Spirit survivors of sexual assault & relationship violence. For 8 weeks, survivors met weekly at Survivor Arts Collective to make art, read tarot, and support each other.
Fortuna Major Creative Co. proudly announces that this support group will return for 5 weeks on ZOOM in July 2025.
Fortuna Collage Club Session #4
Let’s cultivate creative communities! Every other Thursday you can join Lachlan Thompson, the editor of Fortuna Major Press, on Zoom for Collage Club. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
Fortuna Collage Club Session #3
Let’s cultivate creative communities! Every other Thursday you can join Lachlan Thompson, the editor of Fortuna Major Press, on Zoom for Collage Club. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
Bookish Friends & Networking PRIDE GATHERING
Are you an author, illustrator, editor, bookseller, reviewer, or other part of the bookish creative constellation? Are you looking to make meaningful connections and uplift each other’s work? Then Bookish Friends & Networking is for you!
Revolution Library Reading Series: Elsa Dorlin
Let’s make political education more accessible one book at a time! SATURDAY MORNINGS you can join Fortuna Major Press on Instagram live to read leftist political theory written primarily by BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, and disabled authors. This is a place to connect and learn alongside people dreaming of more just, liberated futures.
Fortuna Collage Club
Let’s cultivate creative communities! Every other Thursday you can join Lachlan Thompson, the editor of Fortuna Major Press, on Zoom for Collage Club. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
Revolution Library Reading Series: Elsa Dorlin
Let’s make political education more accessible one book at a time! SATURDAY MORNINGS you can join Fortuna Major Press on Instagram live to read leftist political theory written primarily by BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, and disabled authors. This is a place to connect and learn alongside people dreaming of more just, liberated futures.
Revolution Library Reading Series: Elsa Dorlin
Let’s make political education more accessible one book at a time! SATURDAY MORNINGS you can join Fortuna Major Press on Instagram live to read leftist political theory written primarily by BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, and disabled authors. This is a place to connect and learn alongside people dreaming of more just, liberated futures.
Fortuna Collage Club
Let’s cultivate creative communities! Every other Thursday you can join Lachlan Thompson, the editor of Fortuna Major Press, on Zoom for Collage Club. We’ll spend our time talking and making art together. This is a space to connect with creatives across mediums and develop your craft in a supportive community.
Revolution Library Reading Series: Elsa Dorlin
Let’s make political education more accessible one book at a time! SATURDAY MORNINGS you can join Fortuna Major Press on Instagram live to read leftist political theory written primarily by BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, and disabled authors. This is a place to connect and learn alongside people dreaming of more just, liberated futures.