Celebrate National Card and Letter Writing Month at Albertine Press by writing notes to loved ones with the local community! All participants will get to choose from a collection of letterpressed informal note cards and coordinating envelopes to use to write their letters. Pens and stamps will be provided, as well as letter-writing prompts, envelope addressing tips, lettering examples, and more. This event will be led by Jessica Alpert, Co-Founder of
Rococo Punch and Christine Koh, Host and Producer of
Edit Your Life.
All ages, all skill levels. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a ticket-paying adult.
Jessica Alpert is a producer and media entrepreneur. She started her work in audio storytelling as a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador where she collected the oral histories of the country’s 60-family Jewish community. Later she received her M.A. in Latin American and Jewish history at Indiana University-Bloomington. She then spent eight years at WBUR, a Boston NPR affiliate where she worked in news, first local and then as part of the team that launched the two hour national midday NPR news magazine, Here & Now. She later worked as managing producer of podcasts at the station, leading the teams behind Modern Love: The Podcast (with The New York Times), Last Seen (with The Boston Globe), Circle Round, Endless Thread, Edge of Fame (The Washington Post) and more. In 2019, she co-founded Rococo Punch, an audio content creation company that specializes in premium audio storytelling for a wide range of audiences, including the original series “Inconceivable Truth,” “The Turning,” “Welcome to Provincetown,” and “Queen of Hearts.” In 2023, Rococo Punch launched RPLabs, a vertical dedicated to audio innovation within education with clients in healthcare, tech, and higher education. She lives near Boston with her husband, twin son and daughter, and three cats.
Christine Koh is a music and brain scientist turned multimedia creative. She spent a decade in academia, during which time she earned prestigious fellowships from the National Institutes of Health to fund her Ph.D. research at Queen’s University and joint-appointment postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Christine was about to become a professor when she decided to hang up her academic spurs in favor of more flexible and independent ventures. Since 2006, Christine has built an award-winning creative portfolio as an author, podcaster, speaker, designer, and mission-driven creative director. You can find her work at her website, and connect via Substack, Bluesky, Instagram, and Facebook.
This listing is for an in-person workshop and will take place at Albertine Press, 1309 Cambridge Street in Cambridge (Inman Square). Please review our below workshop policies. Purchase of a spot in any workshop constitutes acceptance of these policies.
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