The Northside Festival is happening in Brooklyn over the next eight days with the best of NYC music, art, film and entrepreneurship.
Shapeways will be present over Thursday and Friday with 3D Printing inspiration in the Media Makers Collective alongside Pond5, Manhattan Edit, Squarespace, AutoDesk, Videoart.Net and Bosco. If you are in NYC you may be able to grab a free badge to the Northside Festival Entrepreneurship from NYCEDC...
Shapeways will be presenting in the Media Makers Space at 3pm on Friday as well as part of a panel discussion Make Things Not War at 9:45am - 10:30am @ Northside Warehouse (Innovation Stage) (149 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211) with Anand Giridharadas of the New York Times, Ayah Bdeir of Littlebits, Nora Abousteit of Kllabora and a mystery representative from MakeBot....
The rise of America, and of the West, was inextricably bound to the rise of making -- of lightbulbs, trains, cars, planes, even blue jeans. Then, somewhere down the line, the West stopped making. Now a wave of entrepreneurs is trying to bring making back -- not in a hundred factories, but in a million garages. They believe that DIY making can save our economies and our souls, and that it can make us smarter and happier and more connected to our fellow beings.
Look forward to seeing you there.