Cape Town Mini Maker Faire

[dadecoza]

Cape Town Maker Faire brings together families and individuals to celebrate the Do- It-Yourself (DIY) mindset and showcase all kinds of incredible projects. At Maker Faire, you’ll find arts and crafts, science and engineering, food and music, fire and water but what makes this event special is that all these interesting projects and smart, creative people belong together. They are actively and openly creating a maker culture.

The City of Cape Town, being the World Design Capital 2014 and one of the base of a lot of Afrika Burn, is the ideal choice for celebrating the Movement Maker in South Africa.

In its simplest form, Maker Faire creates conversations with Makers. It is a show-and-tell format for people of all ages that brings out the “kid” in all of us. Maker Faire is a community-based learning event that inspires everyone to become a maker and connect to people and projects in their local community. Yet, Maker Faire is a “fair” which should be fun and engaging.

Maker Faire offers the opportunity for us to see ourselves as more than consumers; we are productive; we are creative. Everyone is a maker and our world is what we make it.

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Anyone plan on going?

 

[Pilgrim]

https://makerfairecapetown.wordpress.com/about/

Anyone plan on going?

Looks cool.

Any more info on when that cable laying ship visit is? I wonder what time on Friday is the tour will be.

 

[SlinkyMike]

I know the people involved in bringing Maker over to SA, good folks and they know what they are doing.

Definitely worth supporting both this and the greater Open Design festival.

All local initiative and very deserving of support, I'd love to see this get HUGE.