Welcome to the 2025 APA Daredevil Wayzgoose!

Come to the

APA 2025 Daredevil Wayzgoose

hosted in

Rochester, New York

June 5-8, 2025

In 1829, Sam Patch, the first American Daredevil to jump Niagara Falls, unsuccessfully jumped the roaring Upper Falls in Rochester.  In honor of that spirit of adventure, we invite APA members to come to the 2025 APA Daredevil Wayzgoose in Rochester, New York.

Ranked #9 on U.S. News & World Reports’ list of the Best Places to Live for Quality of Life in the U.S. in 2023-2024. Rochester has one of the most lively letterpress scenes in the country, including: Flower City Arts Center’s huge book arts program; Virgin Wood Type manufacturing; Dry Inc. letterpress supplies and print shop; Type High Letterpress shop, classes and sales; the fabled RIT Cary Library/makerspace letterpress lab; plus several other commercial letterpress shops and studios. You will be able to visit nearly all of these during the goose, plus Buffalo’s Western New York Book Arts Center, and Syracuse’s Boxcar Press are just a short drive away.

We’re going to have a wonderful inky time, and hope you will join us!


Wayzgoose Locations around Rochester

[Includes Links to each location’s website]

Flower City Arts Center

713 Monroe Avenue
Rochester, New York

Rochester Public Library

Bausch & Lomb Public Library Building
115 South Avenue
Rochester, New York

Cary Graphics Arts Collection

Wallace Memorial Library
90 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, New York

The Little Theatre

240 East Avenue
Rochester, New York

Wyndham Rochester Downtown

70 State Street
Rochester, New York

Type High Letterpress

215 Tremont Street, Suite 121
Rochester, New York

The weekend will be full of engaging presentations, workshops, demonstrations, tours, a field trip and wonderful fellowship with our community of letterpress enthusiasts, practitioners, and typographic nuts.


REGISTRATION

The REGISTRATION FORM is now active.
Please sign up as soon as possible to ease the planning committee’s tasks.


WORKSHOPS

Follow THIS LINK to learn about the additional workshops
being offered in conjunction with this year’s Wayzgoose.


AREA EXHIBITS

Poster Exhibit
Posters by Kiva Stimac will be on display in the Firehouse Gallery
at The Flower City Arts Center for the month of June.

Night Circus: Guild of Book Workers Triennial Traveling Exhibition.
May 15 to August 8, 2025, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection
CLICK HERE for more information.


Continental BREAKFAST

Continental Breakfasts will be provided Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Friday’s Continental Breakfast will be served at The Bausch & Lomb Public Library Building.
Saturday’s Continental Breakfast will be served at The Flower City Arts Center.
Sunday’s Continental Breakfast will be served at Type High Letterpress
Coffee, tea, muffins, danish, yogurt and fruit will be provided and doughnuts on Sunday.


WAYZGOOSE SCHEDULE

The basic SCHEDULE OF EVENTS for the Wayzgoose,
the details about workshops, presenters, etc. will be updated as they are finalized.


HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS

Register early! The special deal we negotiated with the Wyndham Rochester Downtown Hotel (the event hotel) expires on March 1, 2025. The rooms can only be booked by calling the phone number on the hotel accommodations page.

The deal expires March 1st, so early registration is strongly encouraged.


TRAVEL TIPS

Rochester is an easy city to navigate. You can get anywhere in 20 minutes, and even during rush hour traffic moves along. Cabs, Lyft, Uber and RTS Bus services are available to and from the airport, and to get around town. We’re facilitating car-pooling to offsite events. WhatsApp will be used to communicate during the wayzgoose using the community Daredevil Goose 2025.

If you are traveling from out of state,
please fly into Rochester International Airport (ROC).


WAYZGOOSE KEEPSAKES

Attendees are encouraged to print a special keepsake for the Wayzgoose. Please print at least 100. You can deliver them at check in or mail ahead of time to be distributed at the Wayzgoose. Keepsake prints do not count as a bundle item, so do not count towards the minimum participation requirement.

If you are mailing your Keepsake, please mail them no later than May 20th to:

Geri McCormick
171 Valley Road
Rochester, New York 14618-2509


CONTACT US

CLICK HERE to send your questions, concerns, observations, etc.
directly to the 2025 Wayzgoose Planning Committee Members.