Saturday, May 11th. 10am-5pm

Learn about and do a little Culture Hacking with Jim McCarthy (TEDxMilwaukee 2013 speaker) and Tim Bailen.

"A culture is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that both describes and shapes a group. Culture, like technology, can be fruitfully hacked to make it more useful. Good culture hacking promotes freedom, extends openness, and embodies rationality and design elegance.

 

Walking in to a designed culture versus an unintentional culture is like the difference between walking into the Taj Mahal versus stumbling into a dark, damp cave that might have an angry bear in the back.

 

Our goals for this day are: to be generous and welcoming in our designed culture and to do some culture hacking with you; to turn on to each other and to turn you onto some ideas that have been developed over the last few decades. We will run some new culture "code" together. We will make and invest in new friends. We will connect with those who value connection. We will use our skill and experience to make sure that our common time together is an unusually rewarding and enlightening experience."

 

 

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Noon - 4:00pm, folks! Join us!!

Don't miss a chance to see the Beehive Design Collective's Picture-Lecture: True Cost of Coal  
Thursday Evening April 25th 7PM-9PM

The Beehive Design Collective is a non-profit art activist collective with International members based out of Machia Maine, dedicated to making anti-copyright illustrations for use as educational tools. Our mission is to “cross-pollinate the grassroots.” They are internationally reknown for their unique community-building projects and activism.  http://beehivecollective.org

Journey with the Bee's innovative picture-lectures using art as a tool for popular analysis, education and organizing. After three years of in-depth interviews and analysis, artists and illustrators spent more than a year creating this massive masterpiece. Come see a giant, portable mural deconstructing the history of resource extraction in Appalachia. This graphic reflects the complex struggles for land, livelihood, and self-determination while honoring the tremendous history of organized resistance and the courage of communities living in the crosshairs of Corporate Interest.

Discuss the parallels connecting the upcoming open pit mine proposed for northern Wisconsin.  They'll strive to provoke discussion, raise hard questions, and share hopeful stories about the small-scale changes and actions we can undertake to build a better world.

“There’s something about illustration that teaches more than words…” - student at Garfield High School, Seattle, WA

With a gigantic portable mural teeming with intricate images of plants and animals from the most bio-diverse temperate forest on the planet, the Bees will share (and seek) stories of how coal mining and Mountaintop Removal affect communities and ecosystems throughout Appalachia and beyond. This graphic also looks to the future, raising questions about resistance, regeneration, and remediation while celebrating stories of struggle from mountain communities.

 

 Coast In Bikes is located in the Gallery Space at Bucketworks offering bicycle rentals, repair services, used bicycle sales, bicycle part and accessory sales and bicycle tours. 

Tristan Klein and Carolyn Weber are the co-owners of Coast In bikes and also are the owners of Third Coast Inn; a hostel seeking to open in Walkers Point area. Between the both of founders, an accumulated sixteen years of bicycle industry experience in repair, tourism and rentals.

At first, Coast In will be offering used bicycles and as they grow, looking to expand into bicycles that the area is seeking and renting/selling cargo bicycles. Coast In also will be offering a selection of bicycle rentals and tours to vistors and locals in Milwaukee.

Open Hours:

Saturday 11 to 6p

Sunday 9 to 3p

Tuesday to Friday 4p and 8p

About Brew City Boxes

Brew City Boxes was created by Chris Gross. Chris was in the transportation industry for over ten years traveling all over the United States and Canada. Moving is wasteful in many ways; the time it takes to get all the boxes, the money you spend by buying more than you need and the waste of resources to make a box that is used once in its lifecycle. Brew City Boxes is a way to make all these easier for you and less wasteful.

We provide new homeowners, renters or anyone that is moving an earth friendly and cost effective way to move. We currently serve Southeastern Wisconsin counties of Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha, Jefferson and Walworth.

Moving? Know someone who is? Be sure to check out Chris's Brew City Boxes for a tidier, pleasanter, more sustainable way to move!

The folks over at Victory Garden Initiative ran a campaign to plant fruit and nut trees in public spaces in various places around the city and Walker's Point was one of the winning neighborhoods! This video was produced in collaboration with Core/El Centro and edited by members of Bucketworks including Bucketworks Director Tim Syth and David Zarate of Car Care Kiosk.

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Angry Young Men

 "Mixed Tape" is the latest version of the live action puppet-comedy-variety show Full Frontal Pϋppetry.  One part Japanese Bunraku, one part Vaudeville, and one part Splatter Film, the "Full Frontal Pϋppetry" series is a combination of sketch comedy, musical numbers, political satire, video premieres, and inspired puppet mayhem. 

"Mixed Tape" brings brand new bits and classic hits as AYM Ltd's puppet cast of monsters, robots, zombies and 'others' infect Soulstice Theatre once again with their puppet hilarity. 

AYM Ltd is excited to have Shayne Steliga as their Special Musical Guest for this round of FFP.  Shayne is a Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist and Actor who is currently finishing a new album.  Shayne will be joined by fellow musicians Tom Koehn (guitar), Mike Johnston (guitar), and Frank Pace (drums) who will be performing tracks from his upcoming album as well as joining in the puppet hijinks!

Kid-friendly (but not necessarily kid-safe) the show is rated PG-13, for Puppet Gore and an adolescent sense of humor.

March 1st & 2nd, 8th & 9th - Monday March 4th: Industry Night! Pay-What-You-Can
Doors open at 7:00PM, shows start at 7:30PM
Tickets available at the Door $10 
Soulstice Theatre, 3770 S Pennsylvania Ave.

Milwaukee Makerspace

Milwaukee Makerspace is now open at 2555 S. Lenox St. in Bay View. With 16,000 square feet of space, they're ready to welcome anyone in the Milwaukee area who wants to make something. With a full wood shop, metal shop, electronics lab, welding area, two laser cutters, and plans for a darkroom, silk screening and textiles area, this is where making will happen. And Milwaukee Makerspace is also a new member of the Space Federation, along with Bucketworks, and 50 other makerspaces/hackerspace around the world.

Roaring 20's

Richard Allen of the photography unit is planning his next big group photoshoot for Mid-April. The theme for this private event will be The Roaring 20's. A portion of the money raised will again be donated to charity, this time The Ronald McDonald House. This will be the third event hosted at Bucketworks. The first 2 events, Pink for October II and Toys for Tots Pin-Up Shoot, raised over $2200 for charitable causes.

Fruity, Nutty Affair

Join Wisconsin Foodie's Kyle Cherek, the rustic ensemble The BriarPickers, and Victory Garden Initiative for an evening of Fruity Nutty fun at the Turner Hall Ballroom in Milwaukee from 7-midnight on February 16, 2013! Proceeds will support the planting of 150 Fruit & Nut Trees in 5 Milwaukee Neighborhoods! Sample tapas from great local caterers, bid on exciting food adventure auction items, rub shoulders with some wacky Fruity Nutty characters care of the Milwaukee Public Theater, then dance the night away in support of the Fruity Nutty Campaign!

Tickets: $50 (early bird rate: $45 until 1/31/13) A limited number of volunteer tickets are available for $25! Email if you're interested in volunteering to help out at the event. Purchase tickets today!

Bucketworks February Events

Aerial Silks - Meetup
Tuesdays, 4:15pm - 6:15pm 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Thursdays, 4:15pm - 6:15pm & 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Fridays, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Contact info@milwaukeecommunitycircus.org to register or for further information. 

SCA Sparring Group - Gallery
Warmup Yoga, Drills, Sparring
Thursdays, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

2/9 - Basement LAN - Commons
12:00pm - 12:00am

2/10 - Ruby 201 - Commons 
10:00am - 6:00pm

2/18 - Ruby Users Group - Commons
7:00pm - 9:00pm

2/19 - WordPress Meetup - Commons
7:00pm - 9:00pm

2/21 - Web414 - Commons
7:00pm - 9:00pm

2/27 - Members Meeting
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Community Events

2/8 - interACT - Plankinton Arcade at Grand Ave
7:00pm - 10:00pm

2/8 - "Made in Milwaukee" (FluxDesign) Viewing Party - Mikey's
9:00pm - 11:00pm

2/9 - Idle No More Milwaukee Potluck/Community Discussion - All Peoples Urban Greenhouse Project
2:00pm - 4:30pm

2/13 - Ex Fabula Story Slam "It's a Date" - Stonefly Brewing Company
7:30pm - 11:30pm

2/14 - 3/3 - Fawlty Towers - Carte Blanche Studios
8:00pm - 9:30pm

2/25 - Remarkable Milwaukee: Honoring Conrad Schmitt Studios and Gruenke Family - Historic Milwaukee Inc.
5:00pm - 8:30pm 


Worth Supporting

Optimist Theatre's Free Shakespeare in the Park Kickstarter

From will.i.am's Scream & Shout video featuring Britney Spears to Robbie Williams' Take the Crown campaign sculptures, to 3D printed Stradivarius demo'ed by the Royal Academy of Music's Simon Hewitt Jones, there's no denying 3D Printing is everywhere these days.

Bucketworks has recently added a donated Lulzbot AO-100 3D Printer which will be managed by Jesse DePinto and 3D Creations LLC. Jesse recently published a review of this printer, which you can read here.