2025 Renegade Retreat
In May 2025, 67 members of the Renegade Bindery discord server met up in North Bend, WA, for a sold out second Renegade Retreat.
“The workshops were excellent and well conducted by the instructors! Already started using the new skills I have learned or freshened up!”
“I just loved getting to meet everyone and hang out SO MUCH.”
Activities
Linocut workshop
Endband workshop
“Mini skills” triple workshop with foil quill, graphite edges, stenciling and cover overlays
Making Renegade “Passports” for people to stamp with their bindery logos
Tiny book workshop
Powerpoint night
Collage fanzines
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![A hand holding a book that's about half the width of their thumb]()
Tiny Book workshop, thumb for scale
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![Shark wrapping paper with a bunch of colorful paper boats on it where people have written their favorite ships such as Klance, The Grinch/Tony The Tiger, and Anakin/Consequences]()
The Ship Wall
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![An image of green foliage and trees]()
Nature Walk
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![Three shelves of handmade books]()
Just some of the books in the Renegade Library
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![A woman lying next to a splatter of spilled sauce so that it looks like blood, while a Renegade member stands over her with a knife and a staffer pretends to be shocked. In the background is another staffer with the mop bucket looking incredibly bore]()
.....and a murder scene, staged with the retreat center staff after a sauce spill
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Nipping Presses of the Region Assemble!
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![The storyteller, in a plum colored velvet jacket and with a giant pipe. The pipe is blowing bubbles.]()
Time to read some bedtime stories from AO3's most exciting tags
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![A rooster on the roof]()
He will not be invited back in 2027
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The Round Robin books! This year we did the collection of bredlik poems.
“Linocut workshop was so empowering to learn to use a new tool. I can definitely see myself doing more with that on my own now that I've done it once.” - Ember
“vibes were impeccable (except for the rooster)”
“Time of mah fucking life. Gonna remember this.”
“I spent so much time in the library and idk if it was enough 😂 Sooooo many books to look at and examine and fondle.” - Duranbinding
“The library was fantastic, I could not stop telling people about it after!”
“material swap was amazing, everyone was so generous with the materials (and what a bonus during the Round Robin!)”
