Location: Central Library, 201 E. Market St, Charlottesville, VA
The How-To Festival is FREE and open to everyone. Bring the family and tell your friends! There’s something for all ages—drop-in to workshops inside and outside the building on a range of topics from 18th Century textile spinning, navigating AI, cooking demos, book making, woodworking and wittling, music, movement, crafts, and more. Don’t forget to visit with the friendly llamas from Lower Sherwood Farm, too!
New to the Festival this year: master the squat with The Strength Initiative, use theater practices to inspire and create floral arrangements with Giardino Foresta flower farm, level up your scrabble game with the Cville Scrabble Club, learn the health benefits of floating with AquaFloat, and much more.
Also join Free Comic Book Day, pick up a free comic book while supplies last!
10:00 Outside
- STILLNESS IN THE FLOW OF PARENTING/ Kindred
- AMBULANCE+CPR+STOP THE BLEED/ CARS Rescue Squad
- TAKE-APART TOOLS DEMO/ Cville Tool Library
- SUPPORT YOUR LIBRARY/ Friends of JMRL
- RENT AN E-BIKE/ Cville E-Bike Lending Library
- ACCESS LIBRARY SERVICES/ JMRL Bookmobile
- MAKE YOUR OWN ROPE+KNOTS/ Living Earth VA
- LLAMAS!/ Lower Sherwood Farm
- CO-EXIST WITH BLACKBEARS/ Virginia Master Naturalists
10:00 Inside
- DIY AIR PURIFIER/ Clean Air Cville
- MAKE A SPRING WREATH/ Foster Art
- THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE OF FOREST/ Giardino Foresta
- BECOME A CITIZEN/ Literacy Volunteers
- ENERGY RELEASE AND BALANCE/ Tracy Moore
- REPAIR PAPER+SEW SMALL BOOKS/ Calico Book Studio
- PRACTICAL Al TOOLS/ Cville Al Explorers
- PLANT-BASED COOKING DEMOS/ Cville Veg Ed
- SHARE SEEDS/ Gordon Seed Library
- TEXTILE SPINNING WHEEL/ Louisa County Historical Society
- 3D PRINTING/ Proto Cville
- RANKED CHOICE VOTING/ Sally Hudson
- BOOK ARTS/ Virginia Center for the Book
11:00 Outside
- QIGONG/ Mindful Tai Ji
- WOODWORKING/ Woodworking with Children
- AMBULANCE+CPR+STOP THE BLEED/ CARS Rescue Squad
- TAKE-APART TOOLS DEMO/ Cville Tool Library
- SUPPORT YOUR LIBRARY/ Friends of JMRL
- RENT AN E-BIKE/ Cville E-Bike Lending Library
- ACCESS LIBRARY SERVICES/ JMRL Bookmobile
- LLAMAS!/ Lower Sherwood Farm
- CO-EXIST WITH BLACKBEARS/ Virginia Master Naturalists
11:00 Inside
- MEET THE ROBOTS/ Blue Ridge Boost
- LEVEL UP YOUR SCRABBLE GAME/ Cville Scrabble Club
- PAINT HAPPY TREES/ Heather Pehnec
- ACCESS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION/ PATH
- REPAIR PAPER+SEW SMALL BOOKS/ Calico Book Studio
- PRACTICAL Al TOOLS/ Cville Al Explorers
- PLANT-BASED COOKING DEMOS/ Cville Veg Ed
- SHARE SEEDS/ Gordon Seed Library
- TEXTILE SPINNING WHEEL/ Louisa County Historical Societ
- 3D PRINTING/ Proto Cville
- RANKED CHOICE VOTING/ Sally Hudson
- BOOK ARTS/ Virginia Center for the Book
12:00 Outside
- MASTER THE SQUAT/ The Strength Initiative
- WOODWORKING/ Woodworking with Children
- AMBULANCE+CPR+STOP THE BLEED/ CARS Rescue Squad
- TAKE-APART TOOLS DEMO/ Cville Tool Library
- SUPPORT YOUR LIBRARY/ Friends of JMRL
- RENT AN E-BIKE/ Cville E-Bike Lending Library
- ACCESS LIBRARY SERVICES/ JMRL Bookmobile
- LLAMAS!/ Lower Sherwood Farm
- CO-EXIST WITH BLACKBEARS/ Virginia Master Naturalists
12:00 Inside
- LEVEL UP YOUR SCRABBLE GAME/ Cville Scrabble Club
- CREATE CUSTOM CHARACTERS IN HERO FORGE/ Dylan Padilla
- CIVIC PARTICIPATION/ Virginia Organizing
- BUILD WEBSITES WITH PYTHON/ Taj
- FLOATING BENEFITS/ AquaFloat
- REPAIR PAPER+SEW SMALL BOOKS/ Calico Book Studio PRACTICAL Al TOOLS/ Cville Al Explorers
- PLANT-BASED COOKING DEMOS/ Cville Veg Ed
- SHARE SEEDS/ Gordon Seed Library
- TEXTILE SPINNING WHEEL/ Louisa County Historical Society
- 3D PRINTING/ Proto Cville
- RANKED CHOICE VOTING/ Sally Hudson
- BOOK ARTS/ Virginia Center for the Book