Wayzgoose 2025

Springhouse announces their 3rd Annual Wayzgoose Printing Festival, What Do You Stand For?, hosted through their print shop, Sourced Press. The festival will be held at Springhouse on Saturday, November 8th, and is made possible in part with support from grants Springhouse received from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Mid Atlantic Arts.

The Wayzgoose celebration is a printer’s tradition from the 16th century, celebrating the transition from printing by sunlight to candlelight. This year, we celebrate the connection between our community print shop and Ireland. Inspired by a transformative visit to the National Print Museum of Ireland, our community came together to create a print shop that celebrates the rich heritage of printmaking while fostering creativity and connection. Today, our community print shop continues to inspire—offering a weekly open studio and immersive opportunities for teens and adults, and is also a place where we publish books and cards that spread the message that life is a gift and it is our responsibility to take care of it.

At the 3rd Annual Wayzgoose Printing Festival we will celebrate the ways the print shop empowers us to use our voices through the printed word to stand up for what we believe in.It will include a letterpress and poetry printmaking workshop from 12-4pm and a community printing project from 4-5:30pm where participants will have the opportunity to print what they stand for through various mediums. These workshops will be followed by an Irish meal from 6-7pm and a concert from 7-830pm with the Irish band Mist on the Mountain.

You may also like the following events from Springhouse:

• This month, 31st October, 12:30 pm, October Community Meal: Dia de los muertos Celebration! in Pilot

Also check out other Festivals in Pilot, Music events in Pilot, Entertainment events in Pilot.