The Hive at the Claremont Colleges

Take an unconventional medium, painters tape, and use our walls to create massive murals here at the Hive. Whether you want to try complicated patterns like the event cover photo or just want to make a smiley face, we'll have the tape and wall space for you. Bring a friend! This mini-workshop is being led […]

All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper. — Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop…” If you say, I quit or I sentence you or I refuse, you have acted. These are speech acts: speech that, as it is uttered, acts on and in the world. […]

Have you ever wondered what you could do with a weed? Join us on a short walkabout at the Bernard Biological Field Station to harvest horehound weeds and make candy out of these medicinal invasive species. Learn about place and human colonization through the lens of a small plant, and make creative sweet treats out […]

The food industry produces food as drugs, advertises food as drugs and turns pleasure into control. The advertising industry uses addictive technology as a business model, while the pharma industry earns billions from deadly addiction. Are we in a new state of addictive culture? Prepare to have intimate and imaginative conversations and produce texts and […]

All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper. — Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop…” If you say, I quit or I sentence you or I refuse, you have acted. These are speech acts: speech that, as it is uttered, acts on and in the world. […]

The food industry produces food as drugs, advertises food as drugs and turns pleasure into control. The advertising industry uses addictive technology as a business model, while the pharma industry earns billions from deadly addiction. Are we in a new state of addictive culture? Prepare to have intimate and imaginative conversations and produce texts and […]

All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper. — Martin Luther King, Jr., “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop…” If you say, I quit or I sentence you or I refuse, you have acted. These are speech acts: speech that, as it is uttered, acts on and in the world. […]

What does your hand sound like to a pencil… water bottle… steering wheel? How does a space express itself aurally? Does what you physically interact with have its own sensory experience? Join us for a workshop where you will have the opportunity to make your own instruments using alternative mic’ing and sound recording techniques. In […]

How would you design a skateboard? What if you couldn’t use wheels? Come learn about the process of designing solutions for problems both tangible and abstract. With sticky notes, markers, and group discussion, let’s practice getting to the root of a problem and creating innovative solutions. Alumni Product Managers from Intuit will be hosting this […]

Everyone and their mother has a podcast these days. Maybe you’ve even thought of making your own. Come try for yourself in a low-stakes, collaborative environment! Join us for a series of three workshops exploring the podcast creation process and the technical and interpersonal skills it requires. Each workshop will introduce technical skills (using a […]