Project Society is empowering makers, DIYers, crafters, artisans, tinkerers, etc... to come together and create and build crafting businesses. We are organizing meetups for individuals to demonstrate or instruct on how they craft, and people will be able to purchase the materials before or after to make that item. Or, crafters and makers can just come and mingle and make their own items. Host: Want to invite some friends or learn about something in particular? You can let us know, we'll find a …

Scrapbooking, card making, rubber stamping and other paper crafts. I invite you to join me if you love to craft (or just need a new hobby) and would like to learn new techniques to create beautiful, handmade things. No experience necessary! I'll have regular classes, workshops and get-togethers to satisfy your creative craving. I look forward to helping you unleash your CREATIVITY at my next meetup!

The Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a world-wide event that helps a community explore creativity and re-use through a clothing swap and series of DIY craft and sewing workshops. Erin Scholl and Jennifer Alexander are the local coordinators of this amazing and inspirational event and every year Swap-O-Rama-Rama gathers for the ultimate celebration of creativity at Maker Faire in San Mateo in May. This group is a way to keep it going year round, bringing people who are interested in sharing and learning ideas …

New to the art festival/ flea market idea and looking for tips or booth mates? Or maybe you're a street fair veteran who is open to mentoring? This group is open to makers, crafters, and artists from every walk of life who are looking to meet other creatives, share their crafts and potentially find a business associate, coach, or apprentice along the way. Ideally we'll have "meetups" at local festivals, fairs, and flea markets; open up a pop-up shop or two; and potentially find a co-op studio to …

This group is for people interested in collaborating on fun and eduational polymer clay projects. We are about: learning by crafting, creating open educational content, youtube, using polymer clay millefiori as visualizing tool , claymation, making tutorials, video editing. See examples on openclay.org We meet at the Open Fine Art Gallery in Berkeley openfineartgallery.net

BiblioForge is a studio in Oakland that hosts book arts workshops and classes given by talented teachers in a variety of disciplines. Some traditional crafts as well as modern DIY and book arts disciplines. These will include bookbinding, mail art, calligraphy, lettering, paper crafts, lino and woodblock printmaking, maybe even letterpress printing. We'll also have history of the book classes where we visit rare book rooms and we'll feature out of town teachers with special subjects designed to …

TechShop is a membership-based workshop that provides members with access to tools and equipment, instruction, and a community of creative and supportive people so they can build the things they have always wanted to make. We'll be hosting a variety of informal groups to talk about and show off what they've been up to in all sorts of areas; Arduino, crafts, lasers, models, furniture, green tech..  whatever folks get up to at TechShop.  This Meetup Group is to let you, the Makers, know what's hap …

Make:SF is an opportunity to get started in the Maker community. You can meet local makers, learn some new skills and grow from there. The goals are to: - Meet other local Makers - Share ideas, skills, and local resources - Gain new skills through mini-workshops - Hear guest speakers who are tackling large projects - Create collaborations between engineers, makers, craft folks, artists, etc. - Get opinions or advice on project execution

Some years ago, this started out as a scrapbook group but what it has become is much more than that.  We are a collective group of ARTISTIC CRAFTERS working on various projects.  We are not the typical crafting group that you see in crafting stores on a Friday night.  We are ecclectic and diverse, have a great time exploring our creativity, and  some of us actually do work on scrapbooks.  We also participate in activities and excursions outside of our craftrooms, and food is an important element …

Shanon Dean and Rebecca Miller are the original duo behind the 30 Something Dames. We’re just a couple of young crafty, thrifty and adventurous ladies.  Shanon puts “Suzy Homemaker” to shame and Rebecca is often referred to as “Becky Crocker”. Shanon has also started an Urban Homestead with her husband and they have 20 laying chickens, rabbits, and goats, muscovy ducks, and quail. There are 34 fruit trees, veggie gardens galore and composting bins going up around the 1/3 acre. We’re crazy abou …

Founded in 2011, our group now has over 150 members, and this is SOME of what they do: making collaborative sculpture, making music, crafting, making video and film, making art in the environment, dancing, contact improvisation dancing, creating dances, being a bodyworker, creating collages, creating 3D illustration, writing plays, writing poetry, writing screenplays, cooking, making ceramics, , knitting , painting, drawing, tinkering, being silly, playing, making music, making rhythm, drumming, …

Are you a home brewer that wants to meet other home brewers? Or, would you like to learn how to brew your own beer? This group's for you! The San Francisco Homebrewers Guild was established to serve as an organizing force for the local homebrewer community. Our goal is to encourage the art and craft of homebrewing and to bring local brewers together. Join us for monthly events including homebrew shares, brew days, commercial and home brewery tours, meet-the-brewer parties, style classes by pro b …

Meet other Bay Area people interested in the Needle Arts. Make new friends and have FUN! You may bring any craft to work on.  While most of us Cross Stitch it is always fun to see other forms of needlework. We meet one Saturday a month from 1:00 PM - 5:00 pm. We stitch, eat, and talk - it is a nice way to get away from all that bogs us down in life & share our passion with others. Or to ?@itch about life.  Working on a project is not a requirement of attending. There is a $ 2.50 fee for meeting …

Acting is an ancient and elemental part of storytelling in the world. It involves harnessing one's mind and body to present the images of a story to another. Our goal is to nurture the craft of acting and its' participants, while broadening awareness of its contributions to the world. All skill levels welcome.

What in olden times was a sewing circle has turned into a vibrant online community--BurdaStyle, SewWeekly, blogs... But recently I've noticed local sewists reaching out to each other to connect in more personal ways. Let's start our own sewing circle, have a swap meet, go to the Alameda flea market, share inspiration and techniques, or oogle fabrics at Britex! This is a San Francisco Bay Area meetup for all people looking to meet up with other sewers. Learn more about who we are and what we'd li …

The Origaminizers is a visionary collective that sees the world through a lens of folded space. Join us to discuss, create and invent outside of the grid, the cube, and matrix. We build anything with the music of the spheres, using point's, peaks and valleys. Our world is modular, organic, recyclable and always in motion. Are you a mechanical engineer with exotic linkages? ...an architect with non-Cartesian constraints? ...an artist with kinetic visions? ...a biologist with a knack for steering …

Bay Area Vendors & Artists (Teach, Sell & People Connection) plus business connection. Since alot of us are being layoff, been stuck on umeployement, got your last check and don't know what to do. Don't panic or stress out. There another mean of making money. If you just looking to make extra cash or a steady income or to start a small business and don't have the money for it. Well you are lucky today. Please read on. We are looking for Artists, Vendors, start-up business owner, crafty artists, …

We will be building things together. So get your dream hats on and your crafty paws ready to make the greatest thing ever! We'll use power tools and raw materials to make awesome creations.

Join with other creative souls to do some beading! These are free fun social events so you can make space and time for your creative spirit and be a part of a creative community! Beading gatherings can happen in the Bead Inspirations classroom when there are not classes scheduled. Check our calendar for the latest information. Bring your own tools, rent them from Bead Inspirations for $1/tool, or borrow tools for free with a $20 minimum purchase. Bring your own materials, or buy what you need t …

Calling all knitters -- from accomplished knitters to people who'd like to learn. We meet every Monday at 7 PM at the San Francisco Shambhala Meditation Center. We start with a few minutes of meditation and then get down to knitting, teaching and learning. We have a lending library of needles and patterns, and there's lots of yarn that's been donated by our members. We're working to create a safe, warm and compassionate environment where knitting can manifest as an expression of caring for other …

We're a group of working and stay at home moms who enjoy play time with our kids as well as having a social mom connection.  Our group welcomes all types of families and caters to both the stay at home mom with weekday events and those of us with more of a weekend availability.  Our events are family friendly and dads are ALWAYS welcomed! To give you a sense of what are group does we typically have a mixture of Park play dates Baby in home playdates (under 1yr crowd) Toddler playdates Craft ev …

Café Aquarius is hosting, after restaurant hours, an Astrology Center where anyone interested in Astrology and other metaphysical disciplines can come for our various events. You not only learn about new models of the world, but also about yourself and the energies you're working with in your life. Events • Metaphysical Night - we have 6 readers, each of whom practice a different metaphysical tool: Vedic Astrology, Tarot, Handwriting Analysis, Numerological Astrology, Hand Analysis, and Destiny …

This is a group for anyone who has ever been curious about how to make a book. Whether you're a writer who wants to bind your own books, an artist who wants to create unique pieces, a photographer wanting to create an anthology of your work, a crafter who wants to learn new skills. Based out of the San Francisco Center for the book, this group will also be a resource for Bay Area materials, workshops, events, exhibition and fairs.

Fuel your passion and take your creativity to the next level, learn how to develop a signature style, start a career in photography, network with successful photographers, learn valuable business and life skills, be inspired and mentored by world class photographer - Scott Robert Lim. For more lighting, posing & inspirational photography tips go to our school link - http://www.scottrobertworkshop.com Check out Scott Robert Lim's award winning images - http://scottrobertgallery.com/ Scott …

Ever have one of those days where you just feel like you're trudging through? Where everything feels "off" and you'd be happy just to crawl back in bed and try again tomorrow? These days happen to all of us and they're the Universe's way of telling us to take a break. Think about it: we are constantly moving about in high gear.... Between our jobs, the kids, the carpool, the spouse, the house and everything else that falls in between, there's very little time left to just "be". But it's extrem …

My hope for this group is to provide a space where soulful creative women can come together to connect , share , be creative and make new friends. Whatever your spiritual path is, whatever you like to create..this will be a space committed to positivity and growth, open minds and hearts,  and honoring our diversity..hopefully we can learn from and inspire and support each other on our paths..Some meetings will be for sharing and getting to know one another, others will focus more on creative pro …

Scout Masters is about developing and recognizing new skills & experiences, from the useful to the unusual. We're modeled after the Boy / Girl Scouts, providing merit badges for each new skill you master. Scout Master goals: 1. Help each other develop new skills ("you know, like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills..." *) 2. Reward creation, learning, & discovery with merit badges 3. Enjoy maximum fun! No experience with boy or girl scouts required:  You just need an …

Want to learn the art, the craft, and the business of professional writing? This is your group! Want to sip tea and discuss 19th Century literature -- this is not your group. We are all about the art, the craft, and the business of being a professional writer. If your goal is to get published, or continue being published, THIS is the group for you. We work hard, laugh hard, and are hugely passionate about being published authors, screenwriters, poets, and playwrights. Join us!