Foundry Festival

Date: Saturday, February 15, 2025 - Saturday, February 22, 2025‍

Time: Various‍

Location: The Foundry, 101 Rogers St., Cambridge

JSB will have a free, open origami table in the main community hall from 1-3pm on Tuesday, February 18th. Learn how to make origami daruma or lotus flowers, both traditional Japanese symbols of resilience. No registration required and open to all ages.

From their website:

Join us at The Foundry in East Cambridge from Saturday, February 15 to Saturday, February 22 for our third annual Foundry Festival! Immerse yourself in a week of free public programming and create connections with diverse communities. All ages and skill levels are welcome to participate in as many activities as you are excited about. This is a great chance to engage the family over the February school break!

This year's festival theme is Resilience. Resilience to us is celebrating how our stories, cultures, and communities continue to thrive. It is not just the act of survival, but creating strong communities that take care of each other. Many of our communities have been consistently forced to practice resilience due to systemic oppression. This year we want to take the time to uplift the ways in which we band together to not only survive but to create moments together where we can truly live. We invite you to our weeklong festival that celebrates who we are, who we want to be, and a vision for a future where resiliency can be a word that is not only a response to hardship but the way we interact with the world around us. This year we welcome you to cook with us, create with us, dance with us, and continue to grow together.