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On Saturday 23rd March, Farset Labs are having our first ever Bring and Buy Sale! It’s a great chance to pass on those things you can’t bring yourself to get rid of, or to grab something exciting for a bit of a bargain.

It’s also an opportunity for any creative types who’d like to grab a spot to showcase their talents to a different audience – baking, art, whatever you can create you can sell (though let’s try to keep it legal!)

Members and non-members will be buying and selling things in the event space all morning. Table spots are free for members or non-members, so if you’d like a spot to sell your things sign yourself up on the Eventbrite page. Entry to the event will be free, though donations are always welcome of course, so just turn up between 10:00 – 13:00 and see how many things you can buy and manage to transport home.

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As part of Creativity Month, we have invited the _maker collective up from Dublin to walk attendees through how to build a fuzz distortion pedal from start to finish on Saturday the 30th of March. The workshops are aimed at beginners to D.I.Y. electronics and we cover all the essential skills that you will allow you to create your own electronic instruments and effects for you to take home and love!

These classes are normally priced at £60 for normal tickets and £50 for concessions (seniors, students), however, thanks to support from the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure under their Creativity Month programme, we’re able to subsidise this down to £45 / £35 per person, the concession price includes Farset Labs members, and refreshments will be provided at the event.

Guitarists are encouraged to bring their instruments and a small amp if they have them to play / test with.

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This is going to sound old hat, but here at Farset, we’re all about cultivating an environment where the next generation of technologists can come into their own, but as the old saying goes, to teach is to learn twice.

That’s why we are always encouraging not only peer-teaching within the space and at Farset events, but also try and encourage our members to take part in STEM outreach to local schools.

As such, we’ve been internally working on a semi-regularly-updated wiki of the STEM events that need help in Northern Ireland, and hopefully, people will step up to the plate and give their time and energy to the next generation of technologists.

And before you say “That’s the teachers job”, just think back to your own teachers. Did they really know about the latest and greatest technologies going on?

• Did your IT teacher show you how to deploy RoR services on cloud based LAMP stacks?
• Did your technology teacher show you how to put an accelerometer and... ...

Farset Labs is playing host to the Weavers Court CoderDojo, kicking things off with a ‘soft launch’ next Thursday the 21st from 17:30-20:00. With mentors (and kids) hopefully coming from all over the park and from the community of Sandy Row, we think that this will be a great addition to our growing outreach activities.

We’ll be running the Dojo on the First and Third Thursday’s of the month (we know this makes for a strange end-of-May, but it’s the lesser of two evils…)

CoderDojo is a movement orientated around running free not-for-profit coding clubs and regular sessions for young people.

At a CoderDojo, young people learn how to code, develop websites, apps, programs, games and more. Dojos are set up, run by and taught at by volunteers. In addition to learning to code, members meet like minded... ...

It’s time to get out of the space and relax for a change.

Farset Labs in association with the Department of Culture, Arts, and Leisure’s “Culture Month” are inviting makers, breakers, designers, fashionistas, hackers, painters, sculptors, teachers, and any other kind of practical creative to just ‘hang out’, and encourage serendipity.

Stuck in a creative rut? There’s nothing better than bouncing your ideas off someone else from a completely different field.

Looking for a new project? The best ideas come at the interfaces between fields.

Just want a drink? They’ve got them too.

Also, if any organisations wish to support this cause by throwing some money behind the bar, give us a shout on events@farsetlabs.org.uk and we’ll give you plenty of PR consideration!

FAQs

I don’t think I’m the right kinda person to go to this…

That’s not actually a question, but if you’ve made it this far, you probably are!

But I won’t know anyone! Is this another one of those horrible networking events?

No, no agenda, just talk to people, say “Hello, I’m X, what do you make?” and -BOOM-… new friend city.

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