Maker Media Division, O'Reilly Media, Inc. webmaster@makezine.com 2010-03-12T21:51:53Z tag:webmaster@makezine.com,2006:/events Metropolitan Women's Expo will be held in Des Moines, Iowa at the Iowa Events Center Hy-Vee Hall C on October 23-24, 2010. This new and exciting expo is all about women and their lifestyles. This new event will be very diverse with stage presentations and exhibitors with a variety of products including health, fitness, fashion, beauty, home, entertaining, children, careers, finance and more. It&#146;s all about women! Saturday, October 23, 2010 <strong>Des Moines, IA</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1695 2010-03-12T17:55:30Z 2010-03-12T21:51:53Z CDMShows A quilt festival called the Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival is coming to Loveland, CO, August 20-22, 2010. The show will feature the complete collection of the 2010 Hoffman/Sulky Challenge. Over 10 guilds in the Colorado area will help make this show fantastic this year! The RMQF will be held at The Ranch and will feature quilting and sewing workshops and classes, quilt appraisals, stage demos, door prizes and quilt displays. Many well-known teachers and many trendy quilt shops and sewing stores from Colorado will be there! Show details for those interested in attending can visit www.rmqf.net. Friday, August 20, 2010 <strong>Loveland, CO</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1694 2010-03-12T17:50:58Z 2010-03-12T21:42:28Z CDMShows A sewing and quilting expo is coming to Sharonville OH June 24-26, 2010, at the Sharonville Convention Center. The Original Creative Festival will feature quilting and sewing workshops and classes, fashion shows, quilt appraisals, a charity sewing for Newborns In Need, stage demos, door prizes and quilt displays. Well known industry icons Amy Barickman, Peggy Sagers, Cynthia Guffey, Kathy Kansier, Nancy Begin, Susan Leslie Lumsden, Pam Damour, Irena Bluhm, Barb Callahan, Londa Rohlfing and more will be there. Show details for those interested in attending can visit www.cdmshows.com. Thursday, June 24, 2010 <strong>Sharonville, OH</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1693 2010-03-12T17:40:25Z 2010-03-12T21:01:10Z CDMShows A sewing and quilting expo is coming to Springfield MO April 8-10, 2010. The Round Bobbin Quilting & Sewing Expo to be held at the Springfield Expo Center will feature quilting and sewing workshops and classes, fashion shows, quilt appraisals, stage demos, door prizes and quilt displays. Many well-known teachers and many trendy quilt shops and sewing stores in Missouri will be there! Show details for those interested in attending can visit www.roundbobbin.com. Thursday, April 08, 2010 <strong>Springfield, MO</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1692 2010-03-12T17:36:06Z 2010-03-12T20:56:03Z CDMShows Draw Audio Workshop. Students will learn the basics of soldering while putting together a fun toy that lets you make music while you draw! RSVP to 614-868-LABS(5227) or via email at shawn@lifelonglabs.com Drawdio is an electronic pencil that lets you make music while you draw! It&#146;s a great project for beginners: An easy soldering kit with instant gratification. Essentially, its a very simple musical synthesizer that uses the conductive properties of pencil graphite to create different sounds. The result is a fun toy that lets you draw musical instruments on any piece of paper. The Drawdio kit was designed in collaboration by Jay Silver and Limor Fried Tuesday, March 23, 2010 <strong>Columbus, OH</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1691 2010-03-11T19:52:14Z 2010-03-11T20:09:32Z ArduinoFun The Rockland Robotics Club is part of the Rockland PC Users Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping local people and organizations learn about and use computers and technology. Friday, March 12, 2010 <strong>Nanuet, NY</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1690 2010-03-11T03:06:53Z 2010-03-11T20:08:04Z Mike Donovan The crafty girls of The Handmade Revolution will be selling their locally made, eco-friendly handmade wonders in The Yellow House on B Street in San Diego's kitschy Golden Hill neighborhood. Featuring one-of-a-kind jewelry & clothing designs, art, scrumptious desserts and live music. A shopping experience like no other! Saturday, April 24, 2010 <strong>San Diego, CA</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1689 2010-03-10T22:04:19Z 2010-03-10T23:09:20Z thehandmaderevolution *The Black Rock Arts Foundation(BRAF)*, in partnership with the *San Francisco Department of the Environment* is seeking artists to develop another public art project for ScrapEdenSF, an ongoing program pairing artists with community groups to create artworks that are designed to inspire and motivate residents to recycle and compost more effectively. *BRAF* is currently requesting proposals from San Francisco Bay Area artists for the Composting Contraption. com&#8901;post [k&#594;mp&#594;st] is a combination of various decaying organic substances that are being decomposed largely through aerobic decomposition into a rich black soil. con&#8901;trap&#8901;tion [kuhn-trap-shuhn] - a mechanical contrivance; gadget; device. Imagine inventor Rube Goldberg meeting up with biodynamic farming pioneer Rudolf Steiner. The Composting Contraption will be a human-powered, interactive, kinetic artwork designed to inspire, motivate and educate San Francisco residents to increase the practice of composting at home and to take better advantage of the City&#146;s green bin organics collection programs serving the residential, commercial, and institutional sectors. This new work of art will travel to local festivals, street fairs, farmers markets and schools to increase awareness of composting (and recycling to some extent) and change the composting behavior of San Francisco artists and residents to divert recoverable resources from being disposed of as solid waste, in keeping with the City&#146;s zero waste goals. The artist is not expected to bring the contraption all around town, but will work with a local community group to train them on its use so they can tour it around in an educational campaign. Materials used for this new mobile sculpture MUST primarily be made of reclaimed, recycled or reused materials diverted from local landfills. This artwork must educate the public about the process of composting in a dynamic and whimsical way, while referencing the variety of ways that the public can (and now by SF law MUST) participate in composting, from backyard to curbside pickup. After selection, artists will be contracted to provide: * A public art piece delivered on time. * A signed commitment to work towards the ScrapEdenSF goals. * A plan for involving the community group in the creation and implementation of the project. Monday, March 15, 2010 <strong>San Francisco, CA</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1688 2010-03-10T20:56:09Z 2010-03-10T20:55:46Z MattMets ShopBot is bringing its annual Jamboree back to Durham this spring. The ShopBot Jamboree celebrates industrial design and digital fabrication by demonstrating how CNC machines can be used to make everything from cabinets and furniture to signs, molds, toys, do-it-yourself projects and much more. There will be presentations on the specific applications of digital fabrication and seminars on entrepreneurship and business development in a slow economy. The Jamboree will kick off the inaugural Maker Faire NC, which takes place at the same location on Sunday April 25 and celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. Friday, April 23, 2010 <strong>Durham, NC</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1687 2010-03-10T20:49:30Z 2010-03-10T20:49:07Z MattMets Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new --be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine-- over the course of a single day. The seven teams will unveil their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum on April 17th. Seven on Seven Participants include, on the technology side, Ayah Bdeir (artist and programmer), Jeff Hammerbacher (Accel Ventures/ Facebook), David Karp (founder of Tumblr), Andrew Kortina (of Bitly/Venmo), Hilary Mason (of betaworks), Matt Mullenweg (founder of Wordpress), and Joshua Schachter (currently at Google, formerly at Yahoo, and founder of delicious), and on the art side, Tauba Auerbach, Cao Fei, Aaron Koblin, Monica Narula, Marc Andre Robinson, Evan Roth and Ryan Trecartin. Saturday, April 17, 2010 <strong>New York, NY</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1686 2010-03-10T20:44:24Z 2010-03-10T20:44:01Z MattMets On Thursday 25 March 2010, people in hundreds of cities around the world will come together offline to rally around the important cause of Education by hosting local events to have fun and create awareness. Twestival&#153; (or Twitter Festival) uses social media for social good. All of the local events are organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all ticket sales and donations go direct to projects. If you would like to get involved, please Register your City, Register your School, or Volunteer and we will get in touch. Organizers will be given a handbook and invitation to our collaboration workspace. Follow @twestival for updates. Thursday, March 25, 2010 <strong>San Francisco, CA</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1685 2010-03-10T20:39:16Z 2010-03-10T20:38:53Z MattMets Dear friends and participants of Prix Ars Electronica! Prix Ars Electronica 2010 is considering several requests of artists and submitters and has extended the deadline for the online registration until March 17, 2010. EXTENDED Submission Deadline: March 17, 2010 (date of postmark) Details about the Online Submission: prixars.aec.at Categories: Computer Animation/Film/VFX, Digital Musics, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art, Digital Communities, u19 - freestyle computing, [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant If you have further questions or need support please contact: info@prixars.aec.at Wednesday, March 17, 2010 <strong>Linz</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1684 2010-03-10T20:34:35Z 2010-03-10T20:34:20Z MattMets Handmade Music: Minneapolis is a monthly gathering in Minneapolis at the Hack Factory with a mission to make noise. It is a venue for people to share what they make with others in the community and abroad. Currently the night is the last Thursday of every month at The Hack Factory. See the Calendar for more info on the future. Open to the public. Thursday, March 25, 2010 <strong>Minneapolis, MN</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1683 2010-03-10T15:56:06Z 2010-03-10T17:02:04Z stuckie27 Digital media plays a vital role in our modern lives. We use this media to make purchases, keep records, listen to music, store photographs, and much more. Digital media is an integral part of our everyday lives, and we often take it for granted. Passive/Agressive will focus on the magnetic stripe card, commonly known as the gift or credit card. It will use interfaces to display the information on these cards, and also re-interpret the data into new visual and audio output. Guests will be able to use their own personal ca. There will also be stationary works, which will consist of mixed media paintings, and an educational works will focus on awareness of shared information and strategies to control and protect the flow of information. Monday, April 19, 2010 <strong>Lafayette, IN</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1682 2010-03-09T23:07:29Z 2010-03-09T23:18:18Z Zoesdare You are invited to the opening of a collaborative exhibition of glass and photography. Designed to provide insight into the art and science of glass, this show juxtaposes sensitive photography with delicate and magical glass painting, sculpture and jewellery. Salvador Schwieters Tim D Frances Hanson Fiona Rennie-Schwieters Isla Osborne Friday, March 26, 2010 <strong>Manurewa, Auckland</strong> tag:makezine.com,2006:event.1681 2010-03-09T21:44:33Z 2010-03-09T21:44:10Z Laura Cochrane