Since 2012, The Cooperage Project has been a vibrant hub where people of all ages, incomes, and abilities can meet, learn, seek resources, and have fun together. Our programs are offered in the general areas of Food, Youth, and Arts + Culture. Initially, the bulk of our programming revolved around concerts and dances, workshops, farmers’ markets, youth programs, theater productions, and open mic nights.

Since March 2020, we have embraced our role as a responsive community hub and currently emphasize building a robust sustainable food system, providing innovative and relevant youth programs, and continuing to host a variety of arts and cultural events such as musical performances and entertainment each month. We strive to develop new programs that create spaces of belonging for marginalized and underserved groups in our community.

The Cooperage Project lives beyond our physical walls of The Cooperage building (and also now the Stoneworks Youth Center building) in the ideas and relationships we’ve built through over a decade of collaboration with municipal government, school districts, libraries, nonprofits, businesses, and community members. We are proud to say that nearly every program or event we provide is created with one or more partners, 

We are committed to creating opportunities that will bring our community together and work to offer a variety of events so that there is something of interest for everyone. The Cooperage Project’s offerings emerge from the interplay of meeting ever-evolving community needs and envisioning a thriving local culture where everyone belongs.