<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Dear Electron Club,</font></font></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Hope you are well. Below is the update on the organising for the Electron Open Day. Things are moving nicely and the programme is taking shape (some of the rooms may change around though).<br>
</font></font></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Call out for help and dates of next meeting are below. Please do not hesitate to get in contact with Simon, Bob, myself, others. All help much appreciated.<br>
</font></font></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Have a great weekend and look forward to seeing you soon,</font></font></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">best, dan</font></font></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Tel: 07717811747<br>
</font></font></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Update:
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">2pm:
Glasgow FabLabs (facilitator required)<br>3pm: Community Media and
Citizens Journalism (dan to facilitate)<br>4pm: Technology, Social
Justice and the Environment (Simon to facilitate)</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">CALL
OUTS!:</font></font></b></p>
<ul><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Groups
and individuals involved in the Electron Club please bring displays
and presentations for the stalls in the front foyer. All welcome!</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Helpers
needed with food</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Helpers
needed with tea and coffee</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Helpers
needed to MC the raffle</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">More
raffle prizes needed</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Volunteers
required to help in general with the day. To meet at 11am on Saturday
13<sup>th</sup> June at The Electron Club</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Any
more donations for the internet please contact Simon (nearly half way
there to having fast broadband internet for the Electron for nearly
two years!</font></font></li></ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Action
Points</font></font></b></p>
<ul><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Bob
to make signs to advertise the Open Day for the Electron Club windows</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Simon
to make a final version of the Press release and send to relevant
press. All to send any relevant press contacts and lists to send info
to, to Simon</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Bob
to contact Sunny Govan and Science festival</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Bob
to organise cardboard pearce and mad lab kits</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">dan
to put programme together</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Simon
to buy raffle tickets</font></font></li><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">dan
to speak with the Social Centre crew about organising events on the
street and CCA side entrance to bring in interest.</font></font></li></ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Next
Meetings: Electron Club 7pm: 1<sup>st</sup> June and 8<sup>th</sup>
June</font></font></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><br><a href="http://www.electronclub.org/" target="_blank">http://www.electronclub.org</a></font></font></p>
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START ***<br><br>Electron Club Open Day<br>2pm-8pm Saturday 13th June
2009<br>Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350 Sauchiehall Street,
Glasgow, G2 3JD<br><br>For more info see:
<a href="http://www.electronclub.org/" target="_blank">http://www.electronclub.org</a><br>Contact:
<a href="mailto:openday@electronclub.org" target="_blank">openday@electronclub.org</a><br><br>The
Electron Club is a voluntary run space where people interested in
things like free open source software, circuit bending, hardware
hacking, computer recycling, streaming, audio and video editing,
green technologies, and amateur radio can meet, use equipment, and
share and disseminate their skills and ideas. The space supports both
individuals developing their own projects and a number of group
projects, all of which are not-for-profit initiatives with a
community, educational or environmental aspect to them.<br><br>Now in
our third year, the Electron Club Open Days are an opportunity to see
and try out a range of things that people do, as well as having the
opportunity to meet others with similar interests, make, chat,
discuss and enjoy.<br><b><br>Electron Club Main Room: TESLA
SOUL - Electron Club Makers Fair and homebaking 2pm - 5pm</b><br><br>Stalls and
demos by electronic makers, designers and artists. An opportunity to
see and play with some of the projects created by Electron Club
members and related groups - a theremin menagerie and mini
synthesizer kits from Clockworkrobot, 3D paper engineering, circuit
bending, micro FM radio, DIY wind power technology, creative computer
trash recycling, 101 things to do with a dead keyboard,
video-into-audio transformations by Ben Rush, members of 'Inspector
Tapehead' demonstrating their "Tapehead Inspector", a
custom built instrument for making music from old magnetic tape, and
much more. Plus some of the excellent home-baking that has been
hallmark of all our Open Days. Come and do a bit of soldering or have
a cup of tea and chat with the people who make things.</font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><br></b></p><b>5pm - 6.30pm Sit down, eat, meet and relax in the Main Electron Room</b>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><b>CCA
Back Corridor: TAPE-WIRE-HEAD-SCREEN - music, film and sound
arts 2pm - 7pm</b><br><br>The Electron Club includes many people working in music,
film and experimental arts. For the Open Day we will be showing a
preview of films from Document, the UK's leading human rights film
festival, with works ranging from front-line reportage to cinematic
explorations of what it is to be human, along with films made at the
Electron Club by the Digital Desperados, a film-group for young black
and Asian women. Indoors, we'll have a live performance of Alvin
Lucier's legendary "Music on A Long Thin Wire" by members
of 'Obscure Desire of the Bourgeoisie' and
'BuffalobuffalobuffaloBuffalobuffalo'. Outdoors, artist Lucie Potter
will invite people on a specially planned sound walk with micro radio
broadcasts around the Garnethill area.</font></font><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><b>Electron
Club Meeting Room: THE LIFE OF SOCIAL THINGS - socially-engaged
technology forum</b><br><br>A series of discussions about different ways
in which society and technology come together.<br><b><br>2pm: Glasgow
FabLabs</b></font></font><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">FabLabs
are small scale fabrication and construction workshops that provide
computerised production technologies on an artisanal scale making
them available to communities and independent makers and designers.
>From inner-city Boston to remote Indian villages, FabLabs<br>have
become a worldwide network of community technology centres. Glasgow
FabLabs is a project aiming to bring such a centre to Glasgow. This
forum will present the ideas behind the Glasgow FabLabs project and
explore the benefits of community-access technology.<br><b><br>3pm:
Community Media and Citizens Journalism<br></b><br>The internet has
offered a platform for communities and groups outside of the
mainstream media to have a voice and share knowledge. Whilst there
are many notable examples of such activity, the tools to create such
a democratized media space are still often out of people's
reach.<br>This forum will look at some practical examples of
community media coming from Glasgow, present some current projects
looking to make ordinary people's voices more prominent and explore
the relationships between the grass-roots and mainstream media.<br><b><br>4pm:
Technology, Social Justice and the Environment</b><br><br>How can we use
technology for the greater common good? Whilst the advance of
technology promotes the promise of a better world, that promise has
often been compromised or undermined in how we make use of such
advances. Certain technological developments have contributed
to environmental and social problems on a scale arguably never
seen before. Technology, however, has also been used to tackle
such issues as climate change and social injustice. This forum will
share and explore some practical examples being used in Scotland
today, from noise monitoring devices to participatory video and
community mapping projects.<br><b><br>Electron Main Room: RAFFLE -
broadband fundraiser</b><br><br>This year we are raising funds to improve
our network facilities at the Electron Club and we will be doing a
raffle with prizes including a group voucher to go paintballing.</font></font><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">6pm - 7pm:
CCA Cinema</font></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">: Document
- International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival and Digital Desperadoes<br></font></font></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><a href="http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk" target="_blank">www.docfilmfest.org.uk</a> <br></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Document
is the UK's only festival dedicated to international human rights. We
screen films from both established & emerging documentary
filmmakers which help us more closely understand the world around us.
>From front-line reportage to cinematic explorations of what it is to
be human, we screen films and host discussions which challenge,
engage and bring new perspectives to the festival and it's audience.</font></font> <br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Document
understands human rights in its broadest sense, and screens a diverse
range of documentary films both old and new, from home and abroad
addressing issues such as:</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Immigration
& asylum, racism, miscarriages of justice, eviction, poverty,
social exclusion, war and conflict, workers/unemployed rights,
self-determination, mental health & social care, young people,
women, human trafficking, indigenous cultures, environmental
exploitation & disaster, global policies versus local effects…</font></font> <br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">We
have been running an annual festival in Glasgow since 2003 and have
been members of the Electron Club since 2007. As part of Electron
Club Open Day we will preview some work from our next festival -
Document 7 which will take place at the CCA from 21st-25th Oct
2009. Please come along!<br></font></font></p><br><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
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