Community News
The fifth annual Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire is happening this Saturday, June 8 from 10-5 pm. We have a new location this year, at the Morris Lawrence building on the Washtenaw Community College campus. As usual, it's free to attend.
New this year is our speaker series! You can find out about the speakers, location, and what to expect on our blog.
We've got a great range of Makers lined up this year, from student presentations to inventors and local researcher-artists. Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community.
Register to attend: http://ann-arbor-mini-maker-faire-2013.eventbrite.com/
This year's A2Geeks annual meeting will be held on May 16 at 5:30 pm at SPARKCentral (330 East Liberty, Ann Arbor, 48104). A2geeks' third annual meeting is a gathering-of-the-geeks - inventors and innovators, makers and hackers, students and grandparents, town and gown. We'll introduce the board for 2013-2014, and give an overview of our activities. Anyone running a local geek meetup or usergroup is welcome to give a brief shout out.
This will also be the kickoff of the A2Geeks Civic Applications Contest, which brings together local units of government with citizen innovation to build new applications for civic participation.
All are welcome to join-in and geek-out - come nosh and shmooz with A2geeks!
RSVP: http://a2geeks2013-estw.eventbrite.com/
Once agian, our LSA students and members of the community managed to throw two great parties at FestiFools and FoolMoon. Since 2006 WonderFool Productions, led by Mark Tucker and powered by a group of (mostly) non-art majors and community volounteers, has been serving up some Italian flavored foolishness to Ann Arbor with music, lights, and giant politically incorrect puppets. This year went off without a hitch, and much fun was had by all. Rather than try and explain the joy of foolishness, I will just post some pictures and video from the recent events!
The full gallery. . .
. . .and, some raw video from FoolMoon.
Enjoy!
From ORCI Press Release:
What: Penny Stamps College of Art and Design Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Massimo Banzi
When: Thursday, April 11, 5:10 p.m.
Where: Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor
Cost: Free
