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

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 …

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 …

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 …

We just celebrated our 100th meetup soooo...JUMP RIGHT IN AND DON"T BE SHY!! Life is short, lets enjoy each others company as women. SWAG is a women's social group based primarily in Vacaville and Fairfield while encompassing other areas of Solano County. We enjoy a variety of activities like wine tasting, book nights, lunches and dinners, hiking, doggie park dates with our fur babies, dancing, comedy nights, movies, craft nights, game nights, manis/pedis and any other fun activities we can thin …

Meet other women in your community for friendship! Gather with women in your local area who share the same goals and interests as you. Participate in Brunch Meetings, Watch Movies, Do Recipe Exchange, Go Shopping, Go To Dinner & Dancing, various Arts & Crafts including stamping, scrapbooking, card making, etc.. The possibilities are endless? This group will have something for everyone!!

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, …

We are a group of beer and wine lovers who enjoy meeting new grapes, trying wines we're unfamiliar with, comparing varietal wines produced in different growing regions, sampling interesting craft and import beers, etc. We typically meet on Thursday evenings at Wicked Wines in Healdsburg for a themed tasting (usually blind) and have now started a game night on Tuesday evenings where we can sip beers or wines of interest while playing old favorites or learning to play new games. Group choice; we h …

Pique assiette is an old French folk art, where one takes broken china and anything else that's interesting to look at and turns it into something creative and amazingly beautiful! We get together on Sat. afternoons to laugh, drink, do therapy and, oh, mosaics.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Meet friendly, outgoing parents with their babies/tot(s) to socialize and have fun! Participate in activities in Solano County to share experiences, find advice, give support and make new friends. Typical age range for this group is newborn to 6 years with a handful of school aged children.  Everyone is welcome to every event unless specified.  Husbands too! This Mom's Group includes playdates at: Parks, homes, malls, stroller strides, local events, crafts, themed events, baby sign language, p …

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 …

Come on out and spend a fun, relaxed evening with other gay men who knit, crochet, and do various needlcrafts. There are lots of groups for women, here's our chance to bring out projects and swap tips, stitches and stash over a nosh and a beverage together, just us guys....

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 …

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 …

Chimera Arts & Make Space is a growing community of creative people in Sonoma County interested in art, making, and creative pursuits of all shapes and sizes. We meet regularly to talk about what we're interested, work on projects and share their knowledge. If you're a self-described maker in Sonoma County or the North Bay, you've found your new home!

The Professional Videographers of the North Bay is the ONLY networking and mutual support organization exclusively serving the needs of video professionals in Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties. We come together once a month to share our work, improve our craft, and just generally to have a good time. We usually meet on the second Thursday of the month at a location in Sonoma County, usually Petaluma. We have three categories of membership: Production Members (those earning income from video produ …

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!

This workshop utilize painting as a tool for unblocking creative potential, self-discovery and spiritual exploration. You will learn how to use the method of self-inquiry to help you with your creative blocks, doubts and lack of inspiration. Join us if you want to learn how to enjoy the process of creating, if you want to find your own creative expression and experience personal transformation. No art experience is necessary.

Instead of hiring someone to faux paint for you, learn to do it yourself. All you need is paint, the object you would like to transform and your imagination. The rewards are endless. Don't throw out something no longer in style, recreate it. Save from dumping into the landfills, save your money. I will teach you to paint an old lamp, a piece of furniture, update your kitchen or bathroom cabinets, etc.

A collective of residents in the general Gerstle Park area of San Rafael who are interested in connecting as a community through potlucks, gatherings, events in the Park (yoga, tai chi, meetups), share skills & resources (tools, books, garden beds, or the simple last minute egg you don't have on hand for a recipe). We are about creating a strong community and embracing all ages, genders, races, relationship statuses, faiths, beliefs and economic brackets. Let's celebrate our awesome community to …

Energy Workers, Healers, Seekers of Ancient Knowledge, Witches, Pagans, all Practitioners of the Craft, and Magickally inclined, we would like to invite and meet anyone interested. We welcome all levels. Practitioners of the Craft will be coming together to practice and speak of spiritual mysteries, traditions, and secrets for people who travel the path of nature based religions to meet, socialize and network within. At Eye of Newt we would like to present a unbiased place for the community …

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.

Our events are for all us singles who want to GET OUT and have some FUN! Not that we don't love our couple friends too, but they always have to leave early (or can't come at all) because of the kids, the house, etc.  This group is for those of us who have more free time and want to make some new friends while having some FUN! There are more of us single people in the bay area than you think, so leave all your friends who are couples at home and come out to have some FUN with us!  We're your peop …