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What Is Make Time


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What Is Make Time


What is Make Time

Make Time is a monthly gathering with a mission: create space for you to be wholly present and dedicate time to YOUR own projects that matter most.

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Why


Why


How To Make Time

Make Time is a full-day retreat allowing you to leave the distractions of daily life behind, and focus intentional time toward the endeavors that make you shine. Make Time is a space where individuals can get quiet, experience a new view, press the reset button, and carve out precious time for what matters most. 

Make Time is not a workshop or a class. Make Time holds the space for you to  be present in a way that is meaningful for you and your self-directed projects. We provide the beautiful, distraction-free location. You provide yourself, your supplies, and your project. (Be it a Ph.D. dissertation, a nap, a book to read, or an album to write.) Make Time is your permission slip to dive deeply into your own work and your own world.

EVERYONE deserves the opportunity to create space for exploration and retreat, and cost shouldn't be a barrier. Make Time is supported through your sliding-scale donations.

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When


When


When & Where

Make Time arrives the second Sunday of every month from 10am - 4pm*. Summer Make Time is always on the farm. Our winter home is the Arts + Literature Lab in Madison. Bring your project supplies & a potluck dish to pass. You can always find the most up-to-date "event" details on the Make Time Facebook page.

*Full day too much? Come or go around 12:30 when we dine!



 

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Connect


Connect


Stay Connected

Visit the Make Time Facebook page for photos, inspiration, and event invitations.

 
 

Subscribe to the Make Time Newsletter to receive reminders of upcoming Make Time events.

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News


News


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Start Your Own

I would LOVE to see a network of Make Time Gatherings spring up across the country (or the GLOBE)! If the Make Time idea resonates with you, if you wish you had a Make Time hosted near you, or if you have a space to host a Make Time and want to get started please drop me a note. It would be great to work together to bring Make Time to more people.

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Photos


Photos


Photos

December Make Time. This is how we made time today. Plus cake and fruit tart and cookies. It was a good day for making light, making time, and making pie (charts). And also drawing rib cages, knitting, reading, resume writing, novel noveling, and game creating! #maketimewi
We came. We saw. We exhaled. We made time. Thanks to all the humans who came out for the first winter session of #MakeTimeWI hosted at @artlitlab . There was knitting (always), cataloging (way to go @squareleaf ), playlist making, studying, and so so much more. Join us the Second Sunday of the Month, every month!
I can’t think of a more appropriate quote for right now and always.  Just one little sentence slipped in the middle of “The Ensemble” by @AjaGabel (@riverheadbooks) like a quiet secret waiting to be stumbled upon. It is everything that is Make Time, and everything that surrounds us. This is why we hold time monthly at #MakeTimeWI, to press the pause button and breathe and re-orient - because somehow we’ve engineered a world where that is so hard to do. It is hard to do in the day-to-day, and the big picture. It’s the air we breathe and the water we swim. ... And yet, as I prepare to press pause on daily life to travel south to visit my Grandma who is experiencing her age, it’s like there is no other option than to make time and make space to go spend time with her, and my parents. When we know it’s time to make time - we can and we do. #365Quote #Afiercepractice #Littlesecretquotes
A brisk but productive and fun Make Time today! We had beautiful, warm sun for an hour - then it got gray. Either way there was knitting, writing, drawing, letter reading, and donuts. #maketimewi
When was the last time you left your phone in a basket at the door for the day? Thank you @maketimefarm for the lovely ritual and monthly community you’ve built. (Come one, come all, bring food!) #introvertsunite #amwriting #writingspace #creativespace #maketimewi
Make Time tomorrow! Sit, think, ponder, do, make, eat frittata, meet the chickens. Link in bio. #maketimewi
Meditating with chickens, writing in the lean-to, napping (lots of it!), drawing, writing, sign making and lots more at September Make Time! Thanks to all the full-hearted souls who so wholly showed up for themselves on Sunday. (So nice to finally meet you in person @herspiral !) Glorious weather, delicious potluck, and a well-worded cake from @thecatertot really sealed the deal. See you on Sunday October 14 for more #maketimewi at the farm.
This picnic table is calling your name! Come on down to the farm for Make Time this Sunday! Hangout with chickens and make time for you and your best work. Link in profile. #maketimewi #itstoppedraining
Well, I hope thistle bring a warm-hearted smile for you today! I took myself and Charlie for a stroll at Harper’s Prairie Park today. I ogled three varieties of goldenrod, watched a monarch lay eggs on milkweed, and felt all the feelings brought on by a horizon full of big bluestem. This is the abundance of August. Make time for it. #prairie #maketimewi #thingsarericherwhenyouknowtheirname #protectpollinators #afiercepractice
A quick hello from the Instagram reprieve to share some snaps from today’s super fun and super hot Make Time! You can see the name tag prompt, some sweet little notebooks from our morning prompt, and the amazing answers to that name tag prompt. (Julia’s is my favorite!) Thanks to everyone who came out. Mark your calendars for our next Make Time on September 9. (P.S. It’s always the second Sunday of the month.) #maketimewi #weatesherbert #workingoutside #allyouneedisscraps
Do you need quiet time and space (and permission) for your big or little project - or just a day away from ‘regular life’? August Make Time is next Sunday, August 12 - come on down to the farm for a day of YOU! Here’s a little sneak preview of our morning creative prompt project! Want more info? Link in profile. #MakeTimeWI #afiercepractice #yourtimeisvaluable #permissionslip #theslowartofbecoming #dayatthefarm #thechickensfinallystartedlayingeggs
👋 Hi (& Bye!), it’s Vanessa here. Just like the monarch caterpillar growing rapidly in the Tupperware on my kitchen counter and the goldenrods by the west fence post and the #prairie and the chickens that are about ready to start laying and the little zinnia seeds I planted way too late in the season...I feel like I am in a growth spurt. The kind of growing that fattens you up and squeezes you out of your skin and then you find yourself instinctively zipping yourself into a quiet place in order to make something new out of everything that you are. I am feeling that energetic swirl of ideas and becoming and growth. I feel it in my bones and blood and brain. And with it comes a new practice, one of stepping away from social media. A radio silence of sorts - as a way to help me focus my energy and stay true to myself. This is a practice to both lasso my energy for me, but also to avoid those sideways glances of oh-maybe-I-should-be-doing-this-or-that-because-everyone-else-is-doing-it that distract me from staying true to my best and most authentic work. I have creating to dive into, deeply - and I could not be more excited. I know I’ll be back, and I know things will look different, but I don’t yet know exactly how. I can’t wait to see what becomes of it, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed you’ll still be around to find out too. I’ll still be writing long form on the #TinyLetter (link in profile), so maybe I’ll see you there for some deep dives. And, OF COURSE the farm is still open for #MakeTimeWI the second Sunday of each month. Here’s to embracing the silence. Here’s to making the good work. Here’s to listening to that inner voice. Here’s to trusting every inch of the practice. Here’s to holding on through the messy middle. #afiercepractice #slowartofbecoming #theslowartofbecoming #365quote #lettering #quotes #monarch #vonnegut #becoming #radiosilence #themessymiddle #justdeletingtheappforalittlewhile
An absolutely perfect day for Make Time on this fine Sunday! We opened with a little foraging and mandala making. I did a good job of being phone free all day, except for a few snaps of our morning creative activity. The day was full of sunshine and guitar playing, song writing, java learning, journal writing, hammock resting, nap taking, product branding, knitting, and grant writing. Next Make Time is August 12! See you then! . . . #maketimewi #farmdays #creativeretreat #continuouspractice #optoutside #forageforfun #sundaynaps #sunshine #beloit #janesville #wisconsin
Perfect timing for July Make Time! Super cool that Make Time is in the Summer issue of Mingle (by @stampington & Company). 🎉 🎉 🎉 I’m excited to share the story of how we gather each month to prioritize our selves and our work (and naps!), and I’m even more excited I get to see you all tomorrow. Want to come to Make Time? The link is in my profile, or DM me. I’d ♥️ to see your face. ✏️ ✏️ ✏️ Also, special thanks to @pmacott for the nudge to submit the #maketimewi story. Thanks Peggy!
Want to be present here? You can! It’s Make Time on Sunday, your chance to be present with your creative self, creative work, self care, or even just a nap! Link in profile. #maketimewi #afiercepractice #maketimeforyourself
First, all of the credit for this goes to @thecatertot who was kind enough to share her thoughts on packing for international travel while at #maketimewi today - and I just COULD NOT get this image or thought out of my mind. (Thank you Cate!) It makes for a really good creative prompt right now. And, I feel like it captures the weird zone of anxiety that I am just starting to recognize I am stewing in. I acclimated to a very specific feeling kind of anxiety in my life, and I finally learned how to recognize it and interact with it for what it was. We became friends, co-conspirators of sorts. But, this new thing - it is full of worry and fear and it feels different than what I am used to. I am sure that with some good help and shining some good light on it I can better integrate what it’s trying to teach me - but for now I’ll just worry about chipper shredders, ticks, stairs, electric netting fences, tooth loss, and floods. 👍 . #junejournal #afiercepractice #365quoteonvacation #anxietyisaces