Issue 20 | August 08 | Physical Wiki Weekend

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We've been staring at those breakers for a long time now. And it's time for a change. The weekend of August 23 & 24th, it's time to put the bucket back together again.

We will provide the drywall, the tape, the mud, the paint, and the stuff that needs to be moved, but we need your people power. Volunteer for Physical Wiki Weekend and help us put the space back together again. We didn't think it would come to this, but it has. We can't wait any longer. 

We're dividing the work into 4 teams: floor strippers (protective gloves and masks provided), drywallers (must have experience, please!), ceiling tilers, and painters. There are four 3 hour volunteer blocks:

Saturday, August 23
10:00am - 1:00pm
1:00pm - 4:00pm

Sunday, August 24
10:00am - 1:00pm
1:00pm - 4:00pm

If you would like to volunteer for one of these blocks, send an email to jenn@bucketworks.org. And please specify which team you would like to join.

We've got a full schedule going into September, and October will be a big month around here with events like the Milwaukee Spotlight Student Film Festival, Barcampmke3, the Bucketworks Grand Opening, a member movie night, and a haunted house. If you'd like to volunteer for the planning committee for the Grand Opening or the Haunted House, please send an email to octoberfundraiser@bucketworks.org.

This Week's Bayshore Summer Movie Night is The Sound of Music. Be there at dusk and bring the family!

What's going on around here?

Web414 Meeting Thursday, August 14 7:00pm Romke de Haan will be giving a presentation on working with Flash, Flex and AIR, developing version two of the program FlossyFX for the world famous DJ duo Flosstradamous. The Web414 group consists of amateurs and professionals interested in building and improving the web today and in the future. We are a diverse group including designers, programmers, p­ublishers, and entrepreneurs - all with a common interest in creating the new web.

(image via tapps)

Physical Wiki Weekend Saturday, August 23 & Saturday August 24 10:00am - 4:00pm After more than two months with half our building uninhabitable, we need your help to take matters into our own hands. Teams will run in two 3 hour blocks: 10:00am - 1:00pm and 1:00pm - 4:00pm There will be three teams: Drywallers (must have experience installing drywall, please!), Ceiling Tilers, Painters. All materials will be provided. We just need your hands.

Urban Scrawl Saturday, August 23 6:00 - 9:00pm one-night only art exhibition dedicated to street art and public murals documented in and around the city of Milwaukee. This unique event will feature photography by the Milwaukee Guerilla Artists and will include live on-site graffiti demos by local professional artists specializing in this medium. The show will be curated and presented by the Why Not Gallery, an online space dedicated to the exploration of alternative and non- traditional art forms.

Professional Member Potluck Sunday, August 24 6:00pm  Professional Members are the people who use Bucketworks almost every day, to make our art, our businesses, and our success. We're the core. And so we're hosting a regular monthly event so we can meet each other, share our visions and missions, and also learn about the changes planned for the environment, what to expect, and how to use it. Click on the link above and RSVP!

Actor's Craft Acting Technique Class begins September 9 at 7:00pm the Audition Technique Class begins September 23 at 4:45pm Actor's Craft will focus on you, as an individual actor.  Classes will help pinpoint what makes you unique, and empower you with tools to make dynamic choices and create multi-dimensional characters. By actively applying these techniques, you will develop self-confidence and maximize your edge as a ­professional actor in a tough industry.

Super cool:

"Actor's Craft student, Daniel Brown, traveled to New York for the week-long International Model and Talent Association competition for the week ending July 26th and came home a winner!  Daniel writes, "I went out there feeling like a million bucks, especially with my monologues that I had chosen and with the great guidance and wisdom of Maureen Cashin Bolog.  On the final day is the big awards ball with dinner and then the presentation of the Team awards, Actors and Models of the year, and Scholarships by select schools and agency. I won a $10,000 talent-based scholarship to attend the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts.  It was based on my monologues that I did in my competition and my callback. If I hadn't worked with Maureen Cashin Bolog on those pieces I'm most certain that I wouldn't have gotten the scholarship or the callback. I also got honorable mention for all my competitions and 2nd runner-up for the 'I'm ready for my Close up' competition." Daniel studied Acting Technique with Maureen at Bucketworks this past year.  He leaves for New York at the end of August to make full use of his $10,000 scholarship! Congratulations Daniel Brown."

Spreenkler September Meeting Wednesday, September 10, 5:30pm Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett joins the Spreenkler group to talk about how he relies on creativity to get things done. He'll also talk about initiatives to help organizations get started and keep growing in the Milwaukee region. Spreenkler is comprised of Milwaukee’s creative, marketing and technical professionals and entrepreneurs. We gather each month to share experiences, best-practices and new ideas and utilize the collective knowledge of the group to move those ideas forward.

Web414 September Meeting Thursday, September 11 7:00pm Dan Knauss will discuss his experiences using Joomla, an open source CMS, as well as thoughts on how it compares to Drupal, and other content management systems. It's also less than a month from BarCampMilwaukee3! So we need to finalize all the details... The Web414 group consists of amateurs and professionals interested in building and improving the web today and in the future. We are a ­diverse group including designers, programmers, publishers, and entrepreneurs - all with a common interest in creating the new web.

Milwaukee Spotlight Student Film Festival Screenings October 11 from 12:00 - 4:00pm and October 12 from 4:00 - 8:00pm Milwaukee Spotlight is the first and only organization dedicated solely to helping youth in Wisconsin, and beyond, express their visions and their voices through film and to showcase their accomplishments in an annual festival.

Barcampmilwaukee3 Saturday, October 4 10:00am to Sunday October 5 5:00pm You just know you're ready to start planning BarCampMilwaukee3, or as the hipsters are calling it, BarcampMK3. Well, sit tight, little lady. We've got a date, and a location. We're taking a little bit of time to come to terms with the awesomeness of the Milwaukee Tech Community, but rest assured, once we do, the sky is the limit.

The Membership Link - click it!

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Other points of interest:

Doubt Opening Night Friday, September 12 8:00pm Set in the St. Nicholas Church School in The Bronx during the fall of 1964, Father Flynn asks the audience in the opening line of this play, "What do you do when you're not sure?"

Faythe Levine & Kim Kisiolek sent out an announcement that the Art vs Craft application page is LIVE! Now everybody send them an email and ask them to have it at Bucketworks ;)

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(photo via VideoVillian)

­The barcampmilwaukee (also known as BCMK3) site had a little makeover this weekend by the bcmk3 web team: tapps, VideoVillian, ashedryden, matthiasx, Jason "plural", Justin Bosar, tronathan, Ryan "narkalant", and Jordan "blissdev".

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