Upcoming Events
Check out the FAQs for the Guns to Gardens events. Compensation rates may vary, see event links for specifics.
If you’d like to host an event with Mike Martin and RAWtools, Shane Claiborne and RAWTools Philly, OR BOTH please fill out this form. We will do our best to create an event within your budget, that integrates the voices of people who have been impacted by gun violence, along with other musicians or artists. We will also send you the details of what is required to bring the blacksmithing equipment and do a LIVE demonstration, transforming a gun into a garden tool in your community.
Below is a list of RAWtools events hosted by our affiliates, and at the bottom of the page you’ll find a handy map with even more events hosted by Guns to Gardens Networks across the country.
RAWtools Colorado/National
- March 6-8 – Mennonite Men’s Retreat – Camp Friedenswald, MI. Info/register
- March 15th – 10am to Noon – Guns to Gardens Safe Surrender Event – Details here – Denver, CO
- May 9th – 10am to Noon – Guns to Gardens Safe Surrender Event – Most Precious Blood Catholic Church – Denver, CO
RAWtools Philly
- Information coming soon!
RAWtools South
- March 13-15 – Peace Building Conference of the United Methodist Church Southeastern Judicatory, Lake Junaluska, NC
- March 28 – Guns to Gardens Safe Disposal Event, 1250 S. Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA. 30605, Details here
- April 18 – 10:00am to 1:00pm – Guns to Gardens Safe Disposal Event, Dallas, TX, Details here
- April 25 – Demonstration at Fire on the Mountain Blacksmithing Festival, Spruce Pine NC More info
- May 2 – Guns to Gardens Safe Disposal Event, Shepherdstown, WV. Details to come
- May 4-8 – ARW 2026 – Arts, Recreation & Worship Conference, Montreat, NC. Scotty will be teaching folks how to make brass split crosses in the afternoon workshops. Details Here.
- May 30 – Guns to Gardens Safe Disposal Event, Myers Park Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC, Details to Come
- June 13 – Guns to Gardens Safe Disposal Event, Umstead Park United Church of Christ, Raleigh, NC, Details to Come
- June 27 – Guns to Gardens Safe Disposal Event , First Baptist Church, Asheville, NC, Details to Come
- September 15-18 – James Attwood Institute, Demonstrations & Hands on Learning, Parkville MO (near Kansas City) More info here.
- September 26 – Guns to Gardens Safe Disposal Event, Columbia SC, Details to come.
RAWtools Buffalo
- June 20 – noon to 2pm – Blacksmithing demo – forging gun parts into garden tools or works of art at the Scarsdale Friends Meeting in Scarsdale, NY
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August 15 – 10:00am to noon – Yaupon Place, Union Presbyterian Seminary Richmond, VA. See flyer here.
