Events (July 2019)
06-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Crazy Materials Golf
Bring your A-game and your love of materials to our ultimate Festival of Stuff Saturday Extravaganza. This year we’re taking our love of mini golf as the starting point for a whole host of great making and materials related activities. We are also building a special mini golf course, where holes will pose all manner of material challenges in true Institute of Making style. Our events are free and open to all.
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04-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Afternoon - Body Embroidery Masterclass
Using two or three simple stitches, embroiderer and artist Sally Hewett will show you how to make a unique nipple or pair of lips with thread, embroidery hoops, felt padding and other materials resulting in a sculptural body embroidery piece.
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04-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Kintsugi Masterclass
This masterclass, led by Iku Nishikawa, is a beginners guide to kintsugi: the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with precious metal powders such as gold, silver, brass or platinum.
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04-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Morning - Body Embroidery Masterclass
Using two or three simple stitches, embroiderer and artist Sally Hewett will show you how to make a unique nipple or pair of lips with thread, embroidery hoops, felt padding and other materials resulting in a sculptural body embroidery piece.
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03-7-19
Festival of Stuff talk: Plastic Fantastic with Mark Miodownik
Join our Festival of Stuff evening talk by Institute of Making Director Mark Miodownik to reinvigorate your relationship with plastics, and explore the materiality of the plastics with demos and samples from our wondrous Materials Library.
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03-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Afternoon - Circuitry & Headlight Building Masterclass
Dead batteries are not as dead as they seem. With a little voltage booster circuit and soldering equipment, we can turn them back into something useful and build a small, punk, super-bright headlight that will squeeze the last juice out of all the dead cells you have lying around at home.
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03-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Afternoon - Enamelling Masterclass
Explore the process of enamelling and its historical context with artist and metal worker, Helen Carnac, who will teach the basic principles and methods of fusing vitreous enamel, also known as porcelain enamel, to metal.
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03-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Midday - Circuitry & Headlight Building Masterclass
Dead batteries are not as dead as they seem. With a little voltage booster circuit and soldering equipment, we can turn them back into something useful and build a small, punk, super-bright headlight that will squeeze the last juice out of all the dead cells you have lying around at home.
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03-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Morning - Circuitry & Headlight Building Masterclass
Dead batteries are not as dead as they seem. With a little voltage booster circuit and soldering equipment, we can turn them back into something useful and build a small, punk, super-bright headlight that will squeeze the last juice out of all the dead cells you have lying around at home.
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03-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Morning - Enamelling Masterclass
Explore the process of enamelling and its historical context with artist and metal worker, Helen Carnac, who will teach the basic principles and methods of fusing vitreous enamel, also known as porcelain enamel, to metal.
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02-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Afternoon - Circuitry & Synth Building Masterclass
Make music from digital logic with Jakub Zalesak! Design a Printed Circuit Board, learn how to solder, explore the niche world of logic synthesisers, and consider the nature of sound and electricity.
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02-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Afternoon - Papermaking Masterclass
Join book artist and papermaker Mandy Brannan to discover the creative possibilities of combining two papermaking techniques; traditional style Japanese papermaking and recycled papermaking.
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02-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Afternoon - Flint-Knapping Masterclass
In this Masterclass, visitors can learn to make prehistoric stone tools such as hand-axes, scrapers and possibly arrowheads from brittle flint with master flint-knapper, primitive technologist and archaeologist Karl Lee.
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02-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Morning - Circuitry & Synth Building Masterclass
Make music from digital logic with Jakub Zalesak! Design a Printed Circuit Board, learn how to solder, explore the niche world of logic synthesisers, and consider the nature of sound and electricity.
More
02-7-19
Festival of Stuff: Morning - Papermaking Masterclass
Join book artist and papermaker Mandy Brannan to discover the creative possibilities of combining two papermaking techniques; traditional style Japanese papermaking and recycled papermaking.
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