Tuesday Talk: Spin (Yarn) to Win
By Konstantinos on Under yarn, spining yarn
We have an exciting, maybe dizzying, Tuesday Talk next week! Members Kate C. and Kostas P. are joining forces to bring us some wooly, warm, comfy goodness in spinning demos and group class. There will be spinning wheel, e-wheel, and drop spindle demos with a group class on 3D printed Turkish drop spindles. All skill levels welcome, just don’t drop your roving!
Tuesday Talk 11/8/22
By Konstantinos on Under Tuesday Talks, bikes
Greetings Hivemind! Our Tuesday talk this month is from the lovely folks at Queen City Bikes and MoBo Bicycle Co-op! Here's some more info about our guests.
Join us for "All the Buzz about Bike Repairs" to learn about essential roadside repairs and the mechanical principles behind them!
Our presenters are Fraser Cunningham of MoBo Bicycle Co-op, Kathy Cunningham of Queen City Bike, and Vincent Wilson, who donates his knowledge and time to both organizations.
All three are frequent volunteers at the "Pop-up Bike Shop" series—free bike repairs that MoBo and QCB host all over the city (along with support from Tri-State Trails and Cincy RedBike). All three have been riding and tinkering with bikes since their youth, and share a common goal of empowering more people to ride and enjoy the freedom and low-cost/low-impact mobility that bikes make possible!
Fraser is a retired mechanical engineer from GE Aviation, with a passion for understanding how things work—and how to make them better! Kathy is a retired bioscientist and consultant who also applied her knowledge to endurance athlete coaching for several years. And Vincent is a software engineer who deeply values self-education and versatility, with a knack for dreaming up playful inventions and hacks in his workshop.
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Tuesday Talk 9/13/22
By Konstantinos on Under Tuesday Talks, chocolate
This month we have a sweet pretty sweet Tuesday Talk speaker! Paul Picton is a Hive13 member and an expert chocolate maker. His talk this month will be about how to make chocolate on a small scale so make sure to come hungry!
More about Paul:
Paul Picton is a mechanical engineer who changed careers in 2013 to become a chocolate maker. Along with his wife, Marlene, and their son, Ben, they own and operate the Maverick Chocolate Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Maverick Chocolate has two stores: the original in Findlay Market – opened in 2014 and the flagship store in Rookwood Commons – opened in 2018. Their chocolate has received numerous national and international awards including six Good Food Awards. Maverick Chocolate employs 12 people.
Paul previously was the Sales Director for MTU Aero Engines – a division of Mercedes Benz. Paul spent seven years at Delta Airlines and three years in GE Aircraft Engines
Paul mentors numerous food-based entrepreneurs in Cincinnati. He is active in his neighborhood community of Newport, Kentucky. Paul is originally from Canada and immigrated to the USA in 1996.
Check out Maverick Chocolate at their Findlay Market location and Rookwood locations.
New Event: Keeb Collective
By Konstantinos on Under keeb collective, mechanical keyboards, new event
Mechanical keyboards are an excellent way to customize your workspace. Do you need a loud key to feel really accomplished with your typing? What about a soft click so you don't bother your neighbor? Mechanical keyboards can be adjusted in many aspects to make typing and gaming more engaging and comfortable. This has spawned a community of fans, including some of our members!
We will be hosting a mechanical keyboard meetup on September 17th from 1-3pm for all enthusiasts to come and share their keyboards and love for the hobby. Guests are welcome.
Tuesday Talk 8/9/22
By Konstantinos on Under Tuesday Talks, fiber arts, metal working
Greetings, Hivemind! Our Tuesday Talk this month will be Karen Anderson. Not only is she involved with Hive13, she's a Weavers Guild member and Bombshell! Learn more about her below:
Karen Anderson loves making things! Especially yarny things. She has been a member of the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati since 2004 where she knits, embroiders, dyes, spins, weaves, crochets, braids, and lucets. She is a new member of the Bombshells of Cincinnati and the current lead for Cincinnati Nature Center's Earth Expression art installation. Back in 1999, she graduated from the Theatre School at DePaul University with a BFA in Lighting Design and loved working in the scene shop. More recently she enjoyed a 10 week Intro to Blacksmithing and Steel Fabrication at Blue Hell Studio and is VERY excited to play with metal.
On her upcoming project: The Bombshells of Cincinnati is an art collective that yarn bombs throughout Cincinnati. I'm a very new member of this awesome group of artists and this will be the third project I've worked on. This is the second year that the Cincinnati Nature Center has a grants supported project through ArtsWave. The Bombshells were made aware of this opportunity, I designed the installation, collaborated with a few other Bombshells for some editing of the vision, applied, interviewed and we were selected. We've been holding work sessions at the Weavers Guild, which has a room large enough to work on 2 of our arches at once, there will be a couple of work sessions at my house in Springdale to pull everything together, and we will install in mid to late August. There will be two program-related opportunities once we have installed. One to teach weaving and simple macrame to guests at the Nature Center so they may add their art to the installation. And another one to do a community indigo dye vat.
And YOU can be involved with the installation! Stay tuned for an installation date but Karen also needs butterflies, flowers & leaves knit or crocheted in cotton for the installation and maintenance. Curious about the Bombshells? Ask Karen to find out more!
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Check out the Cincinnati Nature Center on Instagram and their website
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