#makinguncovered

:: Thought Menu #11 - Making Uncovered!! ::

:: 6-7pm Saturday, September 13, 2014 ::

@ Six Brixton. 6 Somerleyton Road SW9 8ND @

:: www.thoughtmenu.com ::

:: 007 :: The Last Days of Summer 2014 ::

Hello Everyone!

:: STOP PRESS! ::

We are delighted to announce (somewhat at the last minute) that we have partnered with Makerhood.com again, and will be running a Thought Menu as part of their Making Uncovered festival this weekend.

We had a great time last year, and this year looks like it will be better than ever!

:: WHERE!? ::

Thought Menu #11 - Making Uncovered!! will be held from 6-7pm  on Saturday September 13th

Six Brixton. 6 Somerleyton Road SW9 8ND.

The full conference, ‘Making Uncovered’, runs from 11am with various demonstrations and workshops running throughout the day. Thought Menu #11 begins at 6pm sharp. There will be live music and a party afterwards from 7pm. Come have a drink, we certainly had a few last year!

Book your free ticket here :: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-uncovered-2014-tickets-12498111187

If you’d like to come along (for all or part of the day) please do register as it really helps the Makerhood team :)

:: OUR SPEAKERS ::

Meg Jayanth - How to Ruin Videogames

@betterthemask

Meg Jayanth is a freelance writer and game-maker living in London. Her work includes the recently released 80 Days: a steampunk, anti-colonial, interactive retelling of Jules Verne's classic, for iOS; and Samsara, a richly fantastical tale of dream walking and courtly intrigue set in 18th Century Bengal.

Selina Nwulu  - 'What Makes a Poem'

@selinanwulu

Selina Nwulu is writer, poet and educationalist, often inspired by global justice, protest and politics.  Part of the writer’s collective, Malika’s Kitchen, she has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights’ (Institute of Commonwealth Studies et al. 2013), Home and Exile (Emma Press Forthcoming), Bad Brains (Antlers press 2013), New Left Project and The Guardian. She has performed at a number of festivals - most recently the WOW festival at the Southbank Centre and Leefest, and has toured nationally and internationally. Her first collection is due to be published by Burning Eye in Spring 2015.

Maya Bonkowski -'The Story of the KittenGroomer'

Maya is the Tech Visionary at maker-space Machines Room. She is a maker, hacker and coder: here’s the blog about the programme she developed. The KittenGroomer has been to a number of cryptofests, Raspberry Jams and the like, and has generally been well received. A number of seminars for journalists have been held and there are now KittenGroomer-equipped journalists out there. What is KittenGroomer, you ask? Come along to find out!

Mike Vanis -

@techwillsaveus @mikevanis

Mike is an interaction designer, technologist and sporadic climber. He is Head of Kit Design at Technology Will Save Us and will be talking to us about what they do.

http://www.techwillsaveus.com/

Sign up here // http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-uncovered-2014-tickets-12498111187 :: (free!)

#TTM11 is the hashtag for the event.

:: THOUGHT MENU CRUMBS ::

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