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Made In New Haven

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MakeHaven Main Space

The main makerspace and connected shops. This is located at 770 Chapel Street. Registered participants should ring the MakeHaven labeled doorbell. They will be directed down a long hallway, and down a set of stairs to our basement workshop.

Are you working on developing a product and think New Haven is a great place to do it?  Find out how you can participate in the Made in New Haven campaign, a City initiative to unite, celebrate and promote local manufacturers and makers.  Campaign Manager Elinor Slomba will present how creative entrepreneurs are using the Made in New Haven branding kit to market their products, and collaborate with others in the ecosystem.

 

 

Dressmaker Sewing Machine in beige case is an oldie goodie. It can sew light to medium heavy fabric.

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Soy Candle Making Class

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MakeHaven Main Space

The main makerspace and connected shops. This is located at 770 Chapel Street. Registered participants should ring the MakeHaven labeled doorbell. They will be directed down a long hallway, and down a set of stairs to our basement workshop.

 CANCELLED - TO BE RESCHEDULED

Lead by Kanita Mote of VOVO Organics

This course will be a basic soy candle making class, perfect for beginners and intermediate candlemakers. We will go over the basics of candle making and make our very own 8 oz. soy candles!

VR Meetup and New Haven Hackathon Warmup Event

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MakeHaven Main Space

The main makerspace and connected shops. This is located at 770 Chapel Street. Registered participants should ring the MakeHaven labeled doorbell. They will be directed down a long hallway, and down a set of stairs to our basement workshop.

 

This is an opportunity to preview the equipment and software that will be available at the New Haven Hackathon.

 



This meetup will:

  • Start a conversation about how Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality both offer unprecedented ways to represent, and understand, data.
  • Expose potential hackathon participants to the technology which they can explore in preparation for the event.

Open to all. Light food and drink will be available.

 

Getting Started as An Entrepreneur, Q and A with Richard Guha

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MakeHaven Main Space

The main makerspace and connected shops. This is located at 770 Chapel Street. Registered participants should ring the MakeHaven labeled doorbell. They will be directed down a long hallway, and down a set of stairs to our basement workshop.


Are you interested in starting a business but not sure how to get started? Do you want to grow your small business into something bigger?

Richard Guha will give an introduction to resources that are available in Connecticut for entrepreneur as well as give advice on going from inventor to staring your business. We will have time for questions and answers.

 

About Richard Guha

Introduction To Woodcut Printing

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MakeHaven Main Space

The main makerspace and connected shops. This is located at 770 Chapel Street. Registered participants should ring the MakeHaven labeled doorbell. They will be directed down a long hallway, and down a set of stairs to our basement workshop.

Introduction to Woodcut

Woodcut is a type of printmaking process. The art of printmaking involves the creation of a "master" printing block, from which multiple prints can then be made. The creation of a woodcut block is a very satisfying and tactile process, where hand tools are used to carve out the image that will be printed.

In this introductory workshop, students will learn how to:

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We have your favorite characters returning and three new stars entering the cast.

  • Colin Bunting is an engineer and designer. He has built lots of drones, can bend a laser cutter or 3d printer to his will and has entrepreneurship in his blood.
  • Catherine Cazes-Wiley is a hat designer and crafter. She is from France but has taken to her new home in the USA by volunteering to teaching marketable crafting skills people with disabilities, exiting homelessness or who are settling refugees.
  • Lior Trestman is an advocate for making a better community. If he is not volunteering at the bike coop or working on his startup he is at MakeHaven in the woodshop showing people safe tool use or teaching techniques.

MakeHaven: Tool Tag Sale

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MakeHaven Main Space

The main makerspace and connected shops. This is located at 770 Chapel Street. Registered participants should ring the MakeHaven labeled doorbell. They will be directed down a long hallway, and down a set of stairs to our basement workshop.

MakeHaven has a number of great tools we just cant keep anymore. As a fundraiser we are selling these used tools starting at 10am Saturday August 20th.



We will have the extra tools available tag sale style starting at 10am, (9:45 for members). Prices will be as marked, and reduced as the event goes on to keep things moving.  At some point what is left will be "pick your own price". At 4pm we take anything that is left to the scrap metal yard.

All proceeds will support MakeHaven, the purchase of tools, supplies and programming.

 

Skill Share Class - Sweet & Savory Pie

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MakeHaven Main Space

The main makerspace and connected shops. This is located at 770 Chapel Street. Registered participants should ring the MakeHaven labeled doorbell. They will be directed down a long hallway, and down a set of stairs to our basement workshop.

Slow Food Shoreline's Cook.Eat.Share Skillshare program is a monthly cooking class where attendees learn a new cooking skill or technique from members of the community, like you, who want to share their cooking knowledge.

For the month of August, community members Tambira Armmand will share her secrets to making sweet and savory pies. During the 90 minute hands on class, she will teach the attendees the steps of making pie dough from scratch. She'll also show you how to add flavorful fillings to make a sweet or savory pie.