[ELECTRON] Building for the Electron Club Open Day - Update May 28th 2009

[dan glass]

*Dear Electron Club,*

*Hope you are well. Below is the update on the organising for the Electron
Open Day. Things are moving nicely and the programme is taking shape (some
of the rooms may change around though).
*

*Call out for help and dates of next meeting are below. Please do not
hesitate to get in contact with Simon, Bob, myself, others. All help much
appreciated.
*

*Have a great weekend and look forward to seeing you soon,*

*best, dan*

*Tel: 07717811747
*

*Update: *

2pm: Glasgow FabLabs (facilitator required)
3pm: Community Media and Citizens Journalism (dan to facilitate)
4pm: Technology, Social Justice and the Environment (Simon to facilitate)

*CALL OUTS!:*

   - Groups and individuals involved in the Electron Club please bring
   displays and presentations for the stalls in the front foyer. All welcome!
   - Helpers needed with food
   - Helpers needed with tea and coffee
   - Helpers needed to MC the raffle
   - More raffle prizes needed
   - Volunteers required to help in general with the day. To meet at 11am on
   Saturday 13th June at The Electron Club
   - Any more donations for the internet please contact Simon (nearly half
   way there to having fast broadband internet for the Electron for nearly two
   years!

*Action Points*

   - Bob to make signs to advertise the Open Day for the Electron Club
   windows
   - Simon to make a final version of the Press release and send to relevant
   press. All to send any relevant press contacts and lists to send info to, to
   Simon
   - Bob to contact Sunny Govan and Science festival
   - Bob to organise cardboard pearce and mad lab kits
   - dan to put programme together
   - Simon to buy raffle tickets
   - dan to speak with the Social Centre crew about organising events on the
   street and CCA side entrance to bring in interest.

*Next Meetings: Electron Club 7pm: 1st June and 8th June*


http://www.electronclub.org

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Electron Club Open Day
2pm-8pm Saturday 13th June 2009
Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD

For more info see: http://www.electronclub.org
Contact: openday at electronclub.org

The Electron Club is a voluntary run space where people interested in things
like free open source software, circuit bending, hardware hacking, computer
recycling, streaming, audio and video editing, green technologies, and
amateur radio can meet, use equipment, and share and disseminate their
skills and ideas. The space supports both individuals developing their own
projects and a number of group projects, all of which are not-for-profit
initiatives with a community, educational or environmental aspect to them.

Now in our third year, the Electron Club Open Days are an opportunity to see
and try out a range of things that people do, as well as having the
opportunity to meet others with similar interests, make, chat, discuss and
enjoy.
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Electron Club Main Room: TESLA SOUL - Electron Club Makers Fair and
homebaking 2pm - 5pm*

Stalls and demos by electronic makers, designers and artists. An opportunity
to see and play with some of the projects created by Electron Club members
and related groups - a theremin menagerie and mini synthesizer kits from
Clockworkrobot, 3D paper engineering, circuit bending, micro FM radio, DIY
wind power technology, creative computer trash recycling, 101 things to do
with a dead keyboard, video-into-audio transformations by Ben Rush, members
of 'Inspector Tapehead' demonstrating their "Tapehead Inspector", a custom
built instrument for making music from old magnetic tape, and much more.
Plus some of the excellent home-baking that has been hallmark of all our
Open Days. Come and do a bit of soldering or have a cup of tea and chat with
the people who make things.

*
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*5pm - 6.30pm Sit down, eat, meet and relax in the Main Electron Room*

*CCA Back Corridor: TAPE-WIRE-HEAD-SCREEN - music, film and sound arts 2pm -
7pm*

The Electron Club includes many people working in music, film and
experimental arts. For the Open Day we will be showing a preview of films
from Document, the UK's leading human rights film festival, with works
ranging from front-line reportage to cinematic explorations of what it is to
be human, along with films made at the Electron Club by the Digital
Desperados, a film-group for young black and Asian women. Indoors, we'll
have a live performance of Alvin Lucier's legendary "Music on A Long Thin
Wire" by members of 'Obscure Desire of the Bourgeoisie' and
'BuffalobuffalobuffaloBuffalobuffalo'. Outdoors, artist Lucie Potter will
invite people on a specially planned sound walk with micro radio broadcasts
around the Garnethill area.

*Electron Club Meeting Room: THE LIFE OF SOCIAL THINGS - socially-engaged
technology forum*

A series of discussions about different ways in which society and technology
come together.
*
2pm: Glasgow FabLabs*

FabLabs are small scale fabrication and construction workshops that provide
computerised production technologies on an artisanal scale making them
available to communities and independent makers and designers. From
inner-city Boston to remote Indian villages, FabLabs
have become a worldwide network of community technology centres. Glasgow
FabLabs is a project aiming to bring such a centre to Glasgow. This forum
will present the ideas behind the Glasgow FabLabs project and explore the
benefits of community-access technology.
*
3pm: Community Media and Citizens Journalism
*
The internet has offered a platform for communities and groups outside of
the mainstream media to have a voice and share knowledge. Whilst there are
many notable examples of such activity, the tools to create such a
democratized media space are still often out of people's reach.
This forum will look at some practical examples of community media coming
from Glasgow, present some current projects looking to make ordinary
people's voices more prominent and explore the relationships between the
grass-roots and mainstream media.
*
4pm: Technology, Social Justice and the Environment*

How can we use technology for the greater common good? Whilst the advance of
technology promotes the promise of a better world, that promise has often
been compromised or undermined in how we make use of such advances. Certain
technological developments have contributed to environmental and social
problems on a scale arguably never seen before. Technology, however, has
also been used to tackle such issues as climate change and social injustice.
This forum will share and explore some practical examples being used in
Scotland today, from noise monitoring devices to participatory video and
community mapping projects.
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Electron Main Room: RAFFLE - broadband fundraiser*

This year we are raising funds to improve our network facilities at the
Electron Club and we will be doing a raffle with prizes including a group
voucher to go paintballing.

*6pm - 7pm: CCA Cinema: Document - International Human Rights Documentary
Film Festival and Digital Desperadoes
*

www.docfilmfest.org.uk

Document is the UK's only festival dedicated to international human
rights. We screen films from both established & emerging documentary
filmmakers which help us more closely understand the world around us. From
front-line reportage to cinematic explorations of what it is to be human, we
screen films and host discussions which challenge, engage and bring new
perspectives to the festival and it's audience.

Document understands human rights in its broadest sense, and screens a
diverse range of documentary films both old and new, from home and abroad
addressing issues such as:

Immigration & asylum, racism, miscarriages of justice, eviction, poverty,
social exclusion, war and conflict, workers/unemployed rights,
self-determination, mental health & social care, young people, women, human
trafficking, indigenous cultures, environmental exploitation & disaster,
global policies versus local effects…

We have been running an annual festival in Glasgow since 2003 and have been
members of the Electron Club since 2007. As part of Electron Club Open Day
we will preview some work from our next festival - Document 7 which will
take place at the CCA from 21st-25th Oct 2009. Please come along!
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