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We bring you news of a festive gathering of all creatures great and small within the creative and digital sectors at the Kin Festive Social with Binary Festival, Sound City & the Whitechapel Centre.

Constellations will be our convivial hosts and this time, top of the bill will be exciting news from Binary Festival, due to premier in Liverpool Spring 2016.

Catch up on Ignite Liverpool with the Live Stream recorded on the 4th November at Leaf Cafe Bar on Bold Street Liverpool. 

If you have never caught it before then Ignite Liverpool provides a stage for people to get up and present their passions in short 5 minute presentations. 

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The UK's largest Open Source & Open Culture event is taking place in Liverpool on 31st Oct. & 1st Nov. and they want your involvement. 

Whether you have been before or not, Oggcamp is open to you, because it is the participants that make it happen in this community orientated geek celebration of open source and open culture. 

Presented in Barcamp style, so bring your own talks or just listen to others. Pus a full hacking and hardware section of stalls and stands. Previous speakers include Stephen Fry and the whole event is FREE

Tuesday, 13 October 2015 09:43

Hacking Children’s Health at Alder Hey

TheNorth West Coast Academic Science network is looking for coders, geeks and anyone else interested to participate in a unique event, “Hacking Children’s Health” at the Institute in the Park, the brand new centre for research, education and innovation at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

Tuesday, 13 October 2015 09:23

Launch of Open Government manifesto

england codeHot on the heels of the start of the Code for Liverpool project, Involve the charity and think tank behind public participation ideas in the UK have alunched an Open Governemnet Manifesto. 

Saturday, 10 October 2015 09:19

Call out for Liverpool Civic Coding projects

OSDC citizens participationAcross the world we have seen the rise of Civic Coding projects.  What are these you ask - Well, they are a group of individuals with a variety of skills from coding, design, and user experience who come together and identify a problem that could be solved through the use of a digital solution for the betterment of society. 

These groups meet up, examine a problems and then apply themselves to solve the problem. Simply, these can be anything from looking at giving people accurate information on Bus Timetabling to helping people report fly tiping in their area.   

Wednesday, 07 October 2015 09:15

Wearables and E-textiles Hack day

5926037286 6ddda6aab3 oWould you like to attend a wearables and e-textiles, exploring how combining fabric and computers can make for interesting projects?

Want a belt that vibrates to lead you to free food? Or a suit which glows different colours based on your heart rate? How about a jacket sleeve that lights up when you're pointing North?

Head along to this Hack day and you can learn how to do just that (or at least make a start on it...).

thinking digitalThinking Digital Manchester has a fund for emerging talent so that they can get their hands on Free Tickets to attend the premier digital event - I think in the UK -  It’s called the Emerging Talent Fund.

The Emerging Talent Fund was first run in at TDC in Newcastle earlier in May and it proved to be a big hit.

Don't delay deadline looming.

Friday, 02 October 2015 12:02

More Workshops from FACTLab

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There are more workshops to come from Thiago and Rademes, the two Brazillian Techno artists who have been based at FACT Liverpool for the last 6 months or so. These are free, fun and informative so do check them out.

 

 

 

Friday, 02 October 2015 11:46

Nesta and Tech City

tech nationNesta has partnered up with Tech City, the London based organisation to promote the Tech Britain survey. So this year it's even more important that local businesses, start-ups and any digital adverturists to complete it so that we get a good measure of all of the Digital sector across the whole of the UK not just London. 

 

Thursday, 01 October 2015 15:31

Creative digital - pop up office

fact at jellyYes, it's a pop up office - a one day affair with a group of strangers who also happen to work in the digital/creating sector. 

Jelly Liverpool as it's known is a concept that has been shipped in from New York where Jelly's have been taking place since the noughties. The concept is to give those people who work alone on a contract or freelance basis the opportunity to meet up, share expereinces, contacts and generally have a productive day. 

 

Ignite Liverpool have put a call out for Inspiring speakers to take part in the 4th November event at Leaf Cafe. If you have never come across it before then it's an event of 14 speakers who stand up and present for five minutes at a time on a subject of their choice. 

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From the sonic art archive

Kaffe Matthews -

August Rain In New York Doorways

Click to listen and for a free download

  

 

Recorded Live at Leaf Cafe on 4th May

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