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October 19, 2014 East Bay Mini Makers Faire
First, the details:
When: Sunday, October 19, 2014, 10 am to 5pm
Where: Park Day School, 360 42nd Street, Oakland, CA and Studio One Art Center, 365 45th Street, Oakland, CA 94609. Faire entrance is at corner of 42nd & Opal. (Please see Attend page for more info.)
To contact The Makers Faire, please write: info (AT) ebmakerfaire (DOT) com.
What and why: A Maker Faire is about celebrating learning and doing – not the finished and perfect end product. It’s a place to show projects, share what we’re learning with others, and celebrate the fun and freedom of being an amateur.
About East Bay Mini Maker Faire
Featuring both established and emerging local “makers,” the East Bay Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration featuring rockets and robots, digital fabrication, DIY science and technology, urban farming and sustainability, alternative energy, bicycles, unique hand-made crafts, music and local food, and educational workshops and installations..
The East Bay Mini Maker Faire follows the “big” Maker Faire model of celebrating invention, creativity, and resourcefulness, but is smaller in scale (170+ makers vs. 900 makers; 5,000+ people on one day vs. 65,000) and will showcase the wonders of Alameda and Contra Costa counties and beyond!
The East Bay Mini Maker Faire is fortunate to have Park Day School as its host and sponsor. Park Day School has just expanded its campus to 4 beautiful acres snuggled behind Oakland Technical High School in the Temescal district, and is opening its doors of this secret wonder to the greater East Bay for the Mini Maker Faire. The Faire also utilizes the wonderful and adjacent facilities of Studio One Art Center, Oakland’s only city-run building and program dedicated to studio arts instruction in a wide range of media for persons of all ages.
Follow the development of the East Bay Mini Maker Faire on Twitter @ebmakerfaire, as well as on its Facebook fan page.
Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning.
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.
The original Maker Faire event was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2013 celebrated its eighth annual show with some 900 makers and 120,000 people in attendance. World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has grown in three years to 500+ makers and 55,000 attendees. Detroit, Kansas City, Newcastle (UK), Rome, and Tokyo are the home of “featured” 2013 Maker Faires (200+ makers), and community-driven, independently organized Mini Maker Faires are now being produced around the United States and the world—including right here in the East Bay
Come join NIMBY at the Faire!
2013
Makers Faire, San Mateo!!! Don’t miss it!!
May 18th & 19th 2013
Come join us for a weekend of fun, exploring and all around interesting things to do.
Find more info at the Maker Faire website
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