Kick off the holiday season with an evening of creativity, community, light refreshments, and cheer at the Seaport Museum’s annual Wayzgoose—a 500-year-old printers’ tradition marking the change of seasons.

All evening long, you are invited to step into the Bowne & Co., Printing Office at 207 Water Street to roll up your sleeves and make your own impressions. Using historical printing presses and movable type from the Seaport Museum’s working collection, you’ll pull your own festive, holiday-themed keepsakes. Next door, at Bowne & Co., Stationers at 211 Water Street, get a head start on holiday shopping and enjoy a special discount on the gift emporium’s delightful selection of holiday gifts, cards, and more paper goods.

The A.A. Thomson & Co., warehouse at 213 Water Street remains open through 8:30pm. Explore two exhibitions celebrating Lower Manhattan’s printing legacy, including one of the last opportunities to see The Promise of Liberty: Words That Shaped a Nation before it closes November 29. Discover how early American printers shaped public discourse and helped establish freedom of the press through historic typefaces, compelling broadsides, and a working printing press. For a special treat, join members of the curatorial working group for a type-focused guided tour of Maritime City at 7:45pm.