Many changes are happening in the Wiccan and Pagan communities these days. Years ago, Covens were the main way to be involved with a few Solitary Practitioners to be found. As the Craft has "come out of the broom closet" more information is available than ever before. What does not seem to be there is the sense of Spiritual Community we had all those years ago. We have many wonderful social outlets these days. They serve a tremendous purpose and it is a blessing they exist. However, as times evo …

Don't let the word Artist scare you. If you do creative work, you are an artist. You don't have to be the BEST or a professional at it, just enjoy doing it. And enjoy showing others and maybe teaching or learning from others. I want us to have a place to meet with other local fiber artists, weavers and spinners like me, but also braiders, knitters, crocheters, rug hookers and what have you. We will take a  couple of hours a month out of our busy lives to spend time on our crafts, while chatting …

Welcome! To those who practice, are curious about,or who would like to study and/or learn more about practicing Magick(solitary and coven practitioners)! Here, we will: Provide you with a safe, secure,& knowledgeable environment in which to learn, experiment, and practice. Get together on esbats and sabbats. Host magick, spellcrafting, spellcasting, psychic reading,&tarot reading classes. If you would like to join my coven, The Owls of Westwood, please text, email or call me personally(815)3822 …

This group is for ladies who are 20-something to 30ish and would like to get together and have some fun! Perhaps you are sick of the monotony of your daily life and would like to get out of the house and hang out with a group of ladies in a more stimulating and creative setting.  Some things we have done in the past:  Boxing class, Game night, brunch, Pumpkin carving for Halloween, tea party, wine tasting, cookie exchange, Morton Arboretum, dinner & drinks, Progressive Dinner, Pinterest Party, C …

First and foremost: We are not a critique group. We are not a workshop group. We are a group of writers who get together to...just write. This is a group that meets to WRITE, to socialize, and to offer encouragement and inspiration to others as we practice our craft. We're focused on the process, not the product.  Writing can be a solitary activity...but it doesn't have to be. This is a group where the focus is actually on DOING the work as opposed to critiquing already finished works. I found s …

The Chicago Rebel Craft League is a meetup group organized to inspire women who love arts and crafts of all kinds and have different interests and passions to get together to create, share, talk and learn about art... If you'd like to get together to craft, get inspired, and learn from others with a DIY aesthetic, then this group is for you! We will have open studio time where you can just come, hang out, create and have fun, and more specific classes where we will do projects together. Ideall …

Mom's & Tot's Who Rock Dundee and surrounding areas is a play group where Mothers can hang out while their kids are having fun! Whether it be through special weekly play dates, out and about adventures, Birthdays, theme days, movie days, holidays, Mom's night out, music days, arts and crafts days & cupcake days...etc.  We have a variety of different age kids, although it seems like the toddler (3-5) range is dominant.  We try to schedule 2 meet ups a week.  One meetup is typically a play date at …

Simply A Scrappin Escape are weekend Scrapbook, Cardmaking and Crafting Retreats. Do you love to have a place to scrapbook, make new friends, share laughs, win prizes, receive great goodies, and enjoy lots of great food? Then this is your kind of event! Leave everything at home behind and escape for the weekend. Or, bring the hubby to watch the kids while you create and make it a family vacation. You only unpack once and repack on Sunday! We offer free daily make and takes, a special limited edi …

Workshop 88 is a hackerspace (also know as a makerspace) located in Chicago’s western suburbs. Focused on science, technology, mechanics, culture and the digital arts we offer a space were people with diverse backgrounds can socialize, collaborate and learn. Through shared resources, knowledge and ideas we strive to create a space that promotes community and learning. Workshop 88 is located in 481 N Main St. Rear Building Unit B, in downtown Glen Ellyn, IL. If you are interested in learning mor …

Within Every Woman is a Goddess! Come and join us on our journey to Invoke the Inner Goddess We will join together in sacred space to honor ourselves and empower the Divine Feminine in each of us.  All women are invited from all walks of life; we do not follow any particular belief system other than the fact that every woman is a Goddess. We will work with the Goddess archetypes mined from the myths of societies across the globe and across the millennium and will use meditation, …

Are you an indie girl wandering the cold streets of Chicago? If so, you've come to the right place. We want together a group of music loving, bike riding, artistically inclined, pseudo weird girls to have fun! For me this group was born out of the desire to escape mainstream culture, how many times have I stood around in a group of women and felt like wow I just don't relate to you: no, I don't care if the Cubs won last night, not really interested in what sorority you were in, and NO I didn't …

The crafty beavers are a group of women who are crafting for a cause. Once a month learn how to make fun, eco friendly arts and crafts and take home your crafty keepsake. Network and get to know your newly made friends. Join us as we discuss causes and organizations that tear at our hearts strings and donate not just money and tangibles, but time. Interested? For $20 per person each month we can get items together for the crafts (trying to keep it under $5 per person for a craft) and have plenty …

Registration is OPEN for 2013-14 year! Cornerstone is a private Christ-centered cooperative group designed to offer enrichment classes for Preschool-8th grades homeschooling families. Ephesians 2:19-22 "So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the Cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy …

If you love to scrapbook, card making, stamping, or any kind of paper crafting this is the group for you! We get together and have a blast scraping, teach each other techniques, share each others creativeness and even attend some scrapping events, fairs, and retreats. Also to form new friendships with people who share our love of scrapping in common. Membership dues are $3.00 per year.

This group is for women in their 20s and early 30s in Oak Park and its surrounding areas who want to get out of the house and have fun! I hope to create an awesome community of women for you to connect with, become friends with, and pretty much just have a good time. We plan many of our meetups in Oak Park and Forest Park such as dining out, movies, festivals, book discussions, wine tasting, hiking, arts and crafts, and many more. We also plan meetups in Chicago and other areas. All relationship …

Elevating the craft of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) through a real, face-to-face community in Chicago.  Let's get together and talk about everything from HATEOAS and REST to OAuth, and HTTP Response Codes and have a great time while we're at it!

Craft Bar :: a monthly craft meetup in Chicago. Join us the first Friday of every month for a fun, relaxed get-together where crafters of every sort can enjoy drinks and snacks from the cash bar and, of course, make crafts! Take part in one of our guided activities where all materials and instruction will be provided, or bring along your own project. craftbarchicago.com

Chicago's Ember.js group is committed to creating a robust community built around the philosophy of building beautifully crafted web applications with the help of ember.js.  Meetups should be fun and engaging to promote a wealth of knowledge among your peers, we will always keep this as a core concept.  Naturally we will also never let the coolers run low on beer.

We are a group of people of all ages and all levels of experiences, knowledge who are willing to share them with everyone. We meet of the first Wednesday of the month at Lutheran Church of the Ascension, Willow Road and Sunset Ridge in Northbrook, Illinois

Calling all crafter/home & home based businesses. Collie Rescue of Greater Illinois, Inc., hold fundraisers throughout the year and we need participants. People who are passionate about their craft or business and who want to give back and help CRGI continue it's work of rescuing purebred and nearly purebred collies from neglect, abandonment and abuse. So, if you have a craft and/or business that participates in fundraising craft/vendor fairs and you love dogs, then we want to meet up with you.

This Meet up is part of a group that currently meets in an art gallery in West Chicago. There are currently anywhere between 4 to 7 knitters that are not meet up members that meet every Thursday.  I started this meet up group to make this already running knitting group available to more people.  I am very passionate about knitting and crochet.  I have taught knitting and crochet for around 15 years. Bring your own project. There is plenty of help with both knitting and crochet available. If ther …

Come tinker on, prototype and share your interactive, wearable and environmental projects.

Do you reminisce of times spent with family during Indian festivals and yearn to share similar experiences with your kids? And as much as you enjoy the great  culture and people of the United States, does your heart still yearn for the fun and festivities of India? We are a couple of Indian mothers who feel that way and are looking forward to building a network of friends with similar cultural interests, for ourselves and our kids. So lets get together for play-dates, crafts and activities for …

This group is dedicated to putting on arts and crafts fairs for fantasy, dark, science-fiction, tribal, and other sub-culture art.

Fun to just get together and make things out of paper... get caught up on scrapbooking... meet new friends... catch up with old friends... Do you love scrapbooking and card making like I do? Then join this fun group to make beautiful & lovely things out of paper: greeting cards, scrapbook pages, Project Life scrapbook pages, Home Decorating Things, holiday ornaments. Can you think of something else you'd like to try? Let me know. I can't wait to meet you! We discover and try to learn all kinds …

Calling all Crafters! This is a club for you to do whatever craft your working on. It could be cards, scrapbooking, jewelry or whatever you would like to work on that time. Try to meet once a month and if time allow we can try to meet more. Looking forward to meeting fellow crafters.

Let's enjoy cultural events together. we will go to concerts of classical music, world music, Jazz; modern dance; regional theaters; summer art fairs; gallery openings and out door concerts. I may also organize craft parties for pottery and fabric dyeing.

Tori Joy's Smiles is an organization that sends fun, supportive, cheerful mail to kids who are going through difficult situations. We'll meet on a regular basis to share our crafting supplies and make cards together, as well as brainstorm more ways to help Tori Joy's Smiles grow and send smiles to more kids. You can also join us on Facebook!