It will be at the Art and Design Academy  -  meeting around 6:30pm for a 7pm start.  

Come along to work on your own projects, or just to see what is going on in general be it playing with digital fabrication, hacking electronics, constructing art exhibits and just general creative geekery.

You can find directions and more info over at http://makernight.co.uk and http://doesliverpool.com/.

Hope to see you tomorrow.  

How? Why? DIY! has been involved in organising this event in conjunction with Writing on the Wall so please if you get the time do come down and support it.

Copyright & Piracy in the Digital Age – Are we all criminals? 

A subject which is close to many of our hearts and is a real highlight from the Writing on the Wall Festival, the issues of Copyright and Piracy are now ever present in todays society as most of the population own, have listened to or watched a pirated version of a TV programme, Movie or album. You can’t use  youtube without possibily violating someone elses copyright so we have all become criminals for mere consumption of material… well that can’t be right. A proposed Government bill on Digital Copyright only saw the light of day for a week before being thrown into the long grass of politics.

This event can only help us to understand the issues behind this subject area so come along on the 3rd May.

In keeping with Rathole Radio itself the line up is eclectic but carefully selected, with an emphasis on local talent this time. We have:

The Corinthians – A Liverpool rap group who’ve christened their unique style “Scouse dub hop”. Blending elements of dub and reggae with the skills of some great MCs. They’ve supported Sugar Hill Gang, Ugly Duckling and the Jungle Brothers to name just a few, they know how to put on a show.

P’Chenga – Expanding on the reggae vibe these guys fuse ska and rock with energy and feeling. They also bring a live brass section to the party and their infectious grooves will get you moving your feet.

20lb Sounds – Making their third appearance at the roadshow are local rockers 20lb Sounds. No hint of bias in the fact that lead singer Dan Lynch also presents Rathole Radio *ahem*. On a serious note though these guys have been gigging around Liverpool a lot in the last year and building up a reputation for great melodies.

Thom Morecroft – Thom is a singer-songwriter who’s originally from Shrewsbury but now studies in Liverpool. The power and purity of his voice have to be heard to be believed and Dan is not the only one to notice it. Thom was recently featured at length on BBC Radio Merseyside’s Folkscene program and the future looks very bright.

Join us at LEAF On Bold St, Friday May 11th @ 8pm – ENTRY IS FREE but donations are always appreciated.

You can also get a free EP show casing all of the artists here – ratholeradio.org/sampler

For a physical copy of the free EP, an interview or anything else please contact Dan Lynch: show@ratholeradio.org

To the uninitiated Social Media Cafe is a fun and informative evening where we discuss Social Media and digital practices, we normally have three presentations and then a chance to ask questions.

This one is focusing on audio platforms and we have three great speakers lined up with some extras jumping in and giving short talks about audio projects and platforms.

The details
Date: 19^th April
Time: 6.00-11pm
Venue: Static Gallery, (Static Trading), Roscoe Lane off Berry Street, Liverpool, L1 

Cost: Free but please book
Refreshments: Pay Bar

You can find out more about the evening on http://www.socialmediacafe.wordpress.com

Please consider Donating  to How Why DIY

How Why DIY

How? Why? DIY! has incorporated as a Community Interest Company to promote the benefits of technology to the residents Liverpool and network creative technologists in the area.

How Why DIY CIC – a bit of a mouthful now with the CIC on the end but as we have been doing a great deal of work and plan to do more it was only fair to incorporate. We have incorporated to or aim to.

• run events that promote community focus for creative technologists and offer workshops to the wider community.

The Community will benefit from educational, networking and cultural events whose aim is to promote the understanding of and highlight the benefits of technology. We will do this by running  the How Why DIY network and subsequently events that explore issues relating to digital technology and access to new skills.

This will benefit the community by giving them access to a network of like minded technologists to access knowledge sharing, skills development and creative technology skills and equipment. Events will raise awareness of contemporary issues and encourage engagement with digital technologies by providing  pathways for further exploration and learning (both formal and informal).

The establishment of new groups will stimulate the development of progressive ideas – so join up and progress those ideas.

Please consider donating to How? Why? DIY! CIC

We have had some great feedback from participants and speakers at Social Media Cafe, so it looks like we will be continuing with this form of Digital Salon very soon. Remember other digital salons are available.

Here is the Ustream video but if you care to wait a couple of weeks the individual videos will be available soon on the Social media cafe website.

Video: Social Media cafe Liverpool

We will be looking to have Social media Cafe’s every two month for now and then build from there. And we are looking for suggestions for talks along with sponsorship of the event. Find out more here.

If your visiting here and liking what you see then why not join up.

We are a community interest company whose aim is to make these digital focussed events happen.

Well it’s back and returning to it’s roots at Static Gallery on Roscoe Street and it wants to hear from you – the evening format is normally a series of presenters talk about a specific topics for 20-30mins from 6-9pm, drinks are normally available form the Bar.

SMC are taking a poll to find out the issues that you think are important to find out about (take that poll here) but as a starter they are hoping to look at a variety of issues and have a panel discussion at the end of the presentations.

You can book for Social Media Cafe Liverpool on their made over website – wordpress of course.

Adrian McEwen – What is the point of Liverpool

Ross Dalziel – Open Source City

John McKerrell – Welcome and introduction (60MB MP4)

Dr Peter Hagerty – Virtual Spaces (100MB plus Mov file)

Garry Haywood – Can we Crowd Source Growth (100MB MP4)

Tim W – Can we Crowd sourcing Historical maps (100MB MP4)

Chris Hough – WordPress Plugins

Sorry we didn’t make it down to Day 2 as I had a bad cold.

The team will be gathering at the Contemporary Urban Centre and your invited. Teams of participants from a variety of disciplines will develop new tools for enhancing our engagement with sound using digital technologies. We’ll put you into teams with the day culminating in said teams presenting their projects to a panel of judges. It’s free so come along and have a go.

Brought to you by Open Labs who support Jelly Liverpool, Does Liverpool and Ignite Liverpool – clearly they really love this kind of activity.

Book up for Soundlab http://soundlab.eventbrite.com/

If you’re not familiar with the Bar Camp concept they are participant led unconferences where the talks and discussions that take place are set by the people attending – anyone can and is encouraged to run a session on any topic they want so the whole event is driven by the conversations and interactions of the people attending.