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  • The Love Machine [reprise] by jasmine lynea

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join us for a Nextfab x Leeway AiR culminating event, The Love Machine by jasmine lyneaThe Love Machine is a project by jasmine lynea (ATR '24, ACG '20) the selected 2024 Leeway x NextFab Art + Technology Artist-in-Residence.Inspired by jasmine lynea's sci-fi fantasy short film, The Love Machine, where a teenage scientist and influencer builds a time machine in his basement to help break intergenerational trauma. The Love Machine acts as a tangible sequel to the film. The machine is no longer hidden in the basement; it’s the world we call home. It radiates Black memory, joy, love, and wonder,

  • Transforming our Realities | A Collage Workshop

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join Leeway x NextFab Art and Technology Artist-in-Residence, jasmine lynea for a collage workshop featuring artist Yannick LoweryIn this workshop, participants are encouraged to reimagine and transform their realities with love at the core. What does love look like in your community- at home, on the street, in church, at the corner store?In this Collage Workshop featuring artist Yannick Lowery, we will encourage participants to explore love as a revolutionary force through visual storytelling. Participants will create a collage using personal images, magazine clippings, and drawings that represent love, healing, and joy that can help reimagine the communities they call

  • The Power of Painting for a Fossil-Free Philly

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    What does Philadelphia's climate future look like? Help "Paint the Future" at this family-friendly evening of art and activism!What does Philadelphia's climate future look like? Mural Arts' Climate Justice Initiative (CJI) invites you to help "Paint the Future" at this family-friendly evening of art and activism!Mural Arts is currently painting a 400-foot-long mural that illustrates the past, present, and future of climate change and climate justice in Lenapehoking (the homelands of the Indigenous Lenape people, including Philadelphia and the Delaware River watershed). On July 13, you can help us paint this mural! (Children are welcome to attend, but must be

  • Kickstart your NextFab-ulous Idea: A Happy Hour with Kickstarter

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join us on Tuesday, June 6th for a Happy Hour with Kickstarter!Join us on Tuesday, June 6th for a Happy Hour with Kickstarter! Laura Feinstein is Kickstarter's Design and Tech Editor and North American Outreach Lead, working to mentor, inspire, and help promote the ideas and projects of both emerging and established creators. She will review past projects she's seen from successful hardware and electrical engineers and provide a mini-workshop where she'll review best practices. During her session, she'll leave ample time for Q&A. Following Laura's presentation, Scott Keely will give a brief introduction to patents. Scott is a patent

  • ShopBot Camp at NextFab

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Learn and network with fellow CNC and ShopBot fabricators and enthusists!Join us for a free informal gathering of CNC and ShopBot enthusiasts for a day of presentations and a show and tell. Learn from folks beyond the NextFab community and share what you are or want to be making on the ShopBot!Although each ShopBot Camp is unique, they almost always include a couple of presentations by ShopBot luminaries on topics like what’s new at ShopBot, or to share cool projects they had either worked on themselves or heard about in the CNC community. The heart of the gatherings though is

  • Make Your Own Wooden Frame and Photo Workshop

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Make Your Own Wooden Frame and Photo in this two-day, hands-on workshop at NextFab!

  • Make Your Own Wooden Frame and Photo Workshop

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Make Your Own Wooden Frame and Photo in this two-day, hands-on workshop at NextFab!

  • NextFab Wilmington Holiday Gift & Art Market

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Shop local and handmade at the NextFab Wilmington Holiday Gift & Art Market! Join us for a special Wilmington Holiday Gift & Art Market as part of the Wilmington Art Loop, happening December 2nd from 4:00 pm - 7:30 pm at NextFab Wilmington. Showcasing NextFab member handmade crafts, furniture, products, and more for sale, guests will have the opportunity to shop a wide selection of unique, handmade holiday gifts while viewing the NextFab spaces. Light refreshments will be available in the 2nd-floor lounge area.

  • Miracle on American Street Art & Gift Market

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    NextFab and Olde Kensington Boutique have once again partnered to bring you the second annual Miracle on North American Street Holiday Gift Market! Explore the work of over 70 local artists and makers while enjoying delicious food from local vendors. Tour the beautiful NextFab facilities and meet the makers in the actual studio spaces they use to produce the fantastic work available for purchase and watch live demonstrations. Stop by our make-your-own ornament booth for a chance a chance to create your own unique and one-of-a-kind Christmas ornament! There will be live music featuring OKB First Friday favorite, Gypsymother as

  • Maker Mingle at NextFab

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Meet the makers behind the NextFab Gift Guide and be the first to check out our Holiday Gift Guide!Join us for a special Second Thursday event for our Maker Mingle! As a pre-launch to our NextFab Holiday Gift Guide and Miracle on American Street Gift Market, get a chance to meet the makers behind the products you'll see, and network with other creative professionals about your business and products. In the NextFab Gallery, we will be showcasing our most recent graduates of the Artisan Accelerator and welcoming a special Ray's Reusables Pop-Up in our spaces! Ray's Reusables owner Ray Daly

  • Second Thursday at NextFab: “La Sombrilla” Art Installation & Gallery Talk

    NextFab 1800 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join us in the NextFab Gallery, for the installation of “La Sombrilla,” a self-sustaining environmental sculpture.Join us in the NextFab Gallery, for the installation of “La Sombrilla,” a self-sustaining environmental sculpture that responds to the context of climate change in one of the largest immigrant communities in the city. Multidisciplinary artists Jose Ortiz Pagan, Omar Buenaventura, and Maria Dumlao will discuss the barriers faced by many migrant communities in owning homes, and how their installation begins to open the doors to those conversations.Their installation "La Sombrilla," an installation originally unveiled while it was 100° in Southeast Philadelphia, during an event