Flemington DIY

Flemington Acoustic Players
2025-03-18 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Calling all Hunterdon County pop/rock/folk stars! Are you looking for a place to practice your acoustic guitar skills, and maybe do some singing too?
Our merry band of music makers is open to players of all abilities! This gathering however is for Acoustic players ONLY; i.e guitars, ukuleles, mandolins & banjos. A drummer and/or an acoustic/electric bassist would be welcomed though to help us all stay in time.
Chords and lyrics to the songs will be projected on a screen so there’s no need for you to bring a music stand or tablet. We will be selecting tunes from a song book that includes a wide variety of rock/pop/folk classics.
Come and have fun with us as we play and sing along to some of everyone’s favorite tunes!
Suggested donation of $3-5www.flemingtondiy.org/acoustic/

United We Create
2025-03-19 18:00 - 20:30
Youth are facing demonstrable challenges these days and mental health is a focus of many parents and caregivers. Join us for an evening of learning about youth mental health and give your children the tools they can use in their daily lives to express themselves, find grounding, and more. We will explore the topic of youth mental health and kids will have an opportunity to participate in hands-on art activities as well as virtual reality programs.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/united-we-create-tickets-1256784408999?aff=oddtdtcreator
Presented by: United Way Hunterdon County, Ellie Mental Health & Flemington DIY.

Open Hours
2025-03-20 11:30 - 18:00, 2025-03-25 11:30 - 18:00, 2025-03-27 11:30 - 18:00, 2025-04-01 12:30 - 18:00, 2025-04-03 11:30 - 16:00
Visit the space, see our current art shows, hang out, and learn how to get involved!

Monthly Open Bluegrass Jam
2025-03-20 19:00 - 21:00
Bring your instrument, a couple of tunes, some friends and your own refreshments. All players welcome – Beginner to pro!
Freewill basket to support DIY $5 suggested Open to all ages –strictly no alcohol
Questions? Contact Ed: rvrecband@gmail.com / ejjank@gmail.com

Live Music
2025-03-21 18:00 - 22:00
ABANDONED FEST
Endless midnight (post hardcore)Stential (post hardcore)J3THEGREATEST (hardcore rap)Pern (metal)Killkxnny (alternative rap)Dragsholm (death metal)Killaether (death rap)
Doors @ 5:00, Music @ 6:00All Ages No Drugs/No Alcohol

Fiber Series: Natural Dyeing
2025-03-23 10:00 - 13:00
In this immersive workshop, explore how to transform flowers, food waste, and other organic materials into stunning, eco-friendly dyes. Discover a variety of dyeing techniques, and create your own one-of-a-kind, naturally dyed piece to take home and cherish. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned artist, this workshop will inspire you to connect with nature and textile art in a whole new way. $95 per person – Limit to 15 people. REGISTER

Queer Skillshare Workshop
2025-03-23 14:00 - 17:00
VentureOutNJ will be partnering with the FlemingtonQTs for a skillshare workshop on March 23rd at 2pm at FlemingtonDIY! If you’re interested in sharing a skill, RSVP via the applicable chat which can be found through VentureOutNJ.com and tell us about it in the chat.
We expect most people to just come and enjoy the activities and conversation. Light refreshments will be provided

Hunterdon Fiber Artist Meeting
2025-03-24 18:00 - 20:00
Looking to meet other fiber artists in the Hunterdon county area? Think about coming to Hunterdon Fiber Artists meet up to socialize and connect with others doing the fiber art craft that they love.
All are welcome. Just bring your craft be it knitting, crocheting, spinning, etc., and be prepared to meet lots of fun and interesting people! We even have mini educational talks on requested topics!
Our FB group is Hunterdon Fiber Artists https://www.facebook.com/groups/1101970274078722
Our Ravelry group is https://www.ravelry.com/groups/hunterdon-fiber-artists?s=tab
Every other Monday at DIY; $3-5 suggested donation.

Print Club
2025-03-24 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-03-31 18:00 - 21:00
Flemington DIY Print Club is a weekly open studio held from 6-9PM every Monday, $15-30 per printer. It provides an opportunity for local artists and community members new to arts processes to utilize shared printmaking facilities. Print Club provides a platform for artists to network, build community, and work collaboratively.
No experience? No problem! Our vounteers will guide you through the process from start to finish!
Learn more: https://www.flemingtondiy.org/printclub/

Poetry Open Mic
2025-03-26 19:30 - 21:30
Community members of all levels are invited to read their poetry and listen to the work of others. If you’re looking for a welcoming group of emerging and established poets and beatniks, this is for you!
Show up and sign up. No pre-registration to participate. Donations for the space encouraged at the door. All ages but please be aware that mature and sometimes sensitive topics are explored and mentioned at this event.

Songwriters Mike Berman along with Andrew Dunn & Todd Dennison
2025-03-27 19:00 - 22:00
An evening of Singers, Songwriters, and StorytellersThursday, March 27thDoors open at 7 PM; Music starts at 7:30 PM$15 at the door (Cool Cat Cardholders are welcome to use your cards)
California based Mike Berman (https://mikebermanmusic.com) writes and performs original songs rooted in the folk and California folk rock traditions. Mike’s album Ghosts, arriving in April, 2025, contains eight original tracks addressing themes such as growing up amidst gun violence, lost relationships, the dangers of looking back, and the redemption and mercy that love and music can bring to your soul. Produced by Ed Tree and with performances by Mike and outstanding Los Angeles musicians, Ghosts is a sonically and thematically rich addition to Mike’s musical library. Performances in California and in the Northeast (including the Cape May Singer-Songwriter Festival) are coming in 2025.
Mike’s first album Where I’m From, released in January 2023, received excellent reviews and was featured on dozens of folk radio programs across the USA and beyond. Mike is a veteran musician, having performed in the 80’s with the Hudson River Sloop Singers (associated with Pete Seeger) as well as in his duo The Rusty Lock String Band, including festival gigs at the New Jersey Folk Festival and the Raritan River Festival. After a long layoff to raise a family and build a career as a university administrator and information technology expert, he has dived head-first in songwriting in the last few years. His songwriting his developed through workshops and master classes with the likes of Richard Thompson, Tom Paxton, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, Guy Davis, Ellis Paul, Laurie McAllister, Gretchen Peters, Michael McNevin, and many other accomplished songwriters and performers.
Andrew Dunn (https://andrewdunnsongwriter.weebly.com) is a songwriter from Jersey, where talent seems to grow in the fertile soil. His poignant wit and infectious melodies are staples of his canon of memorable story songs drawn from everyday theater of life moments.
A favorite on the NJ folk scene, Andrew has been repeatedly featured on the legendary stages of The Folk Project and Godfrey Daniels. He has opened for folk icon, Judy Collins and shared songwriting nights with veteran songwriters Tice, Bill Hall, and former Melanie sideman, Ron Heacock. In 2018, Andrew was a finalist in the prestigious Kerrville Grassy Hill Songwriter’s Competition. He was also a finalist in the Great American Song Contest. The music, like his point of view, is full of space and completely irresistible. His songs have been called “rare…with a gravity akin to James Taylor.” Dunn’s latest CD, House Above the Factory, reintroduces his momentum as an artist and places an Americana shine on his unique panorama of everyday experiences.
He is accompanied this evening by guitarist, bassist, accompanist, and arranger, Todd Dennison (https://www.toddsguitarsings.com). With influences like James Taylor and Kenny Rankin, Todd’s approach to playing guitar, bridges folk and jazz with running bass lines and melodic chordal voicings. When accompanying a vocalist, Todd creates a musical conversation, a dialogue, between singer and guitar.

QTs Trans Day of Visibility
2025-03-29 18:00 - 21:00
Panel of transgender & nonbinary community members sharing their experiences
Collective art project – contribute to our zine of support for queer and transgender youth
Print your own tshirt with DIY’s Print Club

Presented by Flemington QTs. Flemington QTs is a community, advocacy, and mutual aid group for the LGBTQIA+ community in Flemington, Hunterdon County, and beyond. For more information about events and advocacy, please follow us on instagram @flemingtonqts or join our private Facebook group, Flemington Q-Ts.

Rising Stars Talent Showcase (and DIY fundraiser!)
2025-03-30 14:00 - 17:00
Our bi-annual Rising Stars Youth Showcase provides a unique opportunity for youngperformers to shine in our judgment free space! Come light up our stage!
We welcome all levels from beginners to seasoned performers!
Here’s how to join us:– All performers must register ahead of time. Sorry, no walk ins.– Send a brief sample video of your talent to talentshowdiy@gmail.comanytime between March 1 st and the submission deadline of Wed., March 26th.– Performances can be solo, in small groups or with an adult family member.– The submission is not an audition, but rather helps us diversify the program for theevening.– Microphones and a piano are available on site for those who will need it.
Admission:$10 – adults/$5 – kidsFree for ages 5 and youngerNo charge, of course, for our performers
*Tickets will be available @ www.flemingtondiy.org/talent/ starting March 15 or at the door.*
Refreshments will be available for purchase with 100% of the proceeds going towardsfuture programming at DIY. Invite your family, friends and neighbors to what promises to be another fantastic event!

Music Together Spring Classes
2025-03-31 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-04-01 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-04-04 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-04-05 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-04-07 09:30 - 11:30

Monthly Food Drive
2025-04-01 17:30 - 19:00
Did you know that Flemington has six Little Food Pantries (LFPs)? LFPs are small food pantries that allow community members in need to have open access to food, water, and hygiene items. These pantries depend on the support of donations from people like you! Come together with your community for a monthly food drive to stock four of the pantries. This drive will support the LFPs located at 10 New Jersey Avenue, Flemington DIY (26 Stangl Road), Flemington Presbyterian (10 East Main Street), and Echelon Studio’s Personal Hygiene Pantry (27 Fulper Road).
Recommended donations:

Water bottles
Dry goods like box mixes, rice, oatmeal, etc.
Granola and protein bars (without chocolate)
Coffee and tea
Crackers
Ramen and pot noodles
Instant soup packets
Hygiene products (esp. menstrual hygiene products)
Individual drink mix packets
Shelf-stable milk
Packaged or canned tuna and chicken
Canned goods and can openers
Peanut butter and jelly

Please no expired items, open packages, or frozen/refrigerated items.
Want to get involved? Sign up here to volunteer! https://forms.gle/GY3tUPUXRWeBSLAz8Questions? Contact Jae at flemingtonqts@gmail.com.

CANCELLED DIYxRLC: First Fridays Screenprinting for Homeschoolers
2025-04-04 12:00 - 14:00
Calling all homeschoolers!Flemington DIY and Raritan Learning Cooperative are collaborating to offer a monthly print club for kids ages 12-18, on select first Friday of every month
Bring a design and a t-shirt or anything you want to print on. You’ll get to learn the process of screenprinting, create your own screen, and print posters and shirts!
In collaboration with Raritan Learning Cooperative (RLC)MORE INFO: https://www.flemingtondiy.org/first-fridays

Art for Footprints Of Uganda
2025-04-04 17:00 - 19:00
Art for Footprints Of Uganda

Art show and fundraiser for nonprofit “Footprints Of Uganda” with 50% of proceeds going toward building a well in Uganda
Opening April 4, 5-7pm and on display thru April
Local artist OurNaturalState will be showcasing his new series about joy and what joy looks like, commemorating the joy the tribes would feel in Uganda when “Footprints Of Uganda” get their new well water, installed.
The opening reception will feature food, music, 1,000 balloons , friends, family, and more!

OurNaturalState is a mixed medium artist that uses his art to help people become more aware of themselves, through art. This self taught artist has mixed the bridge of self-discovery and using art to dive deeper into who he really is. Through his wild characters he helps get stuck feelings,unstuck with abstract art. From radical acceptance as in “whatever lands on the paper is meant to be on the paper”. As well as body mapping techniques, where he feels the entire body and paints it onto the canvas. His only mission is to help as many people, become more aware of themselves, and bring them back to their natural selves.
Footprints of Uganda is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering rural communities in Uganda through sustainable development initiatives. We focus on providing access to clean water, education, and community support programs that create lasting change. From building wells to sponsoring children’s education and fostering local sports teams, we are committed to making a meaningful impact. Every donation and partnership helps us leave a footprint of hope and opportunity in the lives of those who need it most.

Fiber Series: Mending
2025-04-05 15:00 - 17:00
Join us for this hands-on workshop, exploring mending fabric and the implications this slow and thoughtful process can have on our approach to living. You bring items to mend. We will supply mending tools and share basic stitches and techniques to mend various items. $5-$15 sliding scale per person. REGISTER

Live Music
2025-04-05 18:30 - 22:00
Homie Fest
A Killer Ostrich(grind/sludge/hc)Dedex(math rock/emo)Caiatus(death/thrash/doom metal)Spoon of Ukobach(prog/death metal)Combat Evolved(thrash/hc/djent)Ookazi(noise rock)
Doors @ 6:00, Music @ 6:30$10All AgesNo Drugs/No Alcohol

Open Jazz Jams
2025-04-06 13:00 - 17:00
Open Jazz Jams are held he first Sunday of every month.
The sessions will provide an opportunity for musicians to play with an experienced band. From 1-2 PM the hosting musicians for the week will play. Other musicians will be invited to sit in and play between 2-5 PM (typically a minimum of 2 songs each, circumstances permitting). With the exception of drum kit and piano, all musicians should bring their own equipment (instruments, amps, drum sticks, microphones, etc.). The sessions will focus primarily on jazz standards and other jazz tunes contained in Hal Leonard Real Books volumes 1 through 3. Newcomers will be coached through the process.
A $3 to $5 donation to Flemington DIY will be required from each musician that plays at the session. Visitors that just want to listen to the music are also welcome to attend for all or any part of the 1-5 PM sessions free of charge.
For questions about the sessions, or to be added to the monthly text notification list for last minute cancellations or reschedules, please email njjazzjam@gmail.com

Music Together Spring 2025 Evening Classes
2025-04-07 16:30 - 17:30
