A summer of workshops at How Why DIY
It looks like we will be delivering over 30 workshops this summer to keep the young people of Liverpool digitally stimulated. We are working once again with Merseyside Play Action Council to bring our own workshops to the youth centres across the city. So young people will be paining with light, becoming citizen reporters , creating horrific toys (always popular) building websites many many more exciting activities that they will...
Open Source City….a call out
Late last year the members of How Why DIY wanted to create an event called Open Source City “Open Source City was originally a weekend micro-festival of open source sound & media practice for the 2008 Liverpool City of Culture Programme organised by SoundNetwork and folly” We tried and we failed to get it off the ground mainly we felt after examining the remnants of grant application forms that we had got bogged down...
Digital inclusion workshops for young people start to get scary
Franken Toys Franken Toys Franken Toys When we were invited by MPAC (Merseyside Play Action Council) to deliver some digital inclusion workshops for young people for them we thought YES we can do this and so we did but when we invited a new workshop leader on board to get involved we never realised the horrific results that the young people would be delivering. Back in February the workshop leaders at How Why DIY were all smiles...
Ignite Liverpool seeks presenters for next it’s August event.
Ignite Liverpool now in it’s 4th Year is looking for people who are passionate and enthusiastic about something? Could be about anything at all? Literally, anything! And if you care so much are you willing to stand up for just five minutes and tell a few people about it? Right then, perhaps you can help… Ignite Liverpool is looking for speakers to talk (about anything) for its next event in August. Ignite Liverpool is an...
Winning bid to deliver event for Digital Freelancers in Liverpool
How Why DIY are pleased to announce that we have won the contract to deliver Jelly Liverpool the easy going networking event for Digital Freelance workers in Liverpool until the end of the year. In April Open Labs at LJMU had to advertise for agents to deliver Jelly Liverpool once more after the previous delivery contract had run out. The idea of Jelly Liverpool is to provide chairs and tables, wireless internet and coffee but more...