At the Morse Institute demo yesterday, someone who was part of the Gather events came by. She asked if I knew about this Handwork thing. She said it was a bit like Gather and a lot of the same folks are involved. But this is national.
She said that if you have a group with events you can publicize them on their calendar, like the Gather system. But it requires a vetting interview of some sort before you can access their calendar.
Not just for NELG--all our other orgs that we are with might be interested in this. Weavers, embroiderers, etc.
https://www.handwork2026.org/
But everything I know about it I read from their site, so I don't have any other insights on it yet.