Dive into all things fashion in this immersive experience, led by renowned fashion designer Temores Demores: founder of Art School and Creative Director of House of Voya. Combine the artistry of non-binary fashion design with the digital world, in this hands-on journey into creativity.

You’ll get to: 

• Use sustainable practices to transform pre-loved garments and materials into personal fashion statements reflecting your individual style

• Take to the streets of Stockport to photograph your creations and curate them into fashion magazine-style layouts

• Nurture your creative instincts and learn some valuable digital skills on this unforgettable day of fashion, innovation, and community building

What you’ll learn:

• Sustainable fashion practices and upcycling techniques

• Composition, framing and creative techniques for fashion photography

• Outdoor photography skills, capturing subjects in diverse environments

• Digital design proficiency, including video editing

Who’s this for?

• Ages 18 and over

• Anyone who wants to dive into creativity head first! This is a beginner level workshop: whether you’re an aspiring fashion designer, photographer enthusiast or into sustainable fashion, this workshop is for you

What you need to bring:

• One piece of old clothing you’re happy to customise

• A personal phone or photo-taking device for individual photography

• Where possible, please create a ClipChamp profile ahead of the workshop: https://clipchamp.com/en/

• A laptop that can connect to the internet for digital design activities

• Any piece of research or inspirational content, e.g. magazines, song lyrics or items that spark your imagination (optional)

Cost
Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, we may be able to provide a bursary. Please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional Information

• Light refreshments will be provided

Location: The Archive Room at Profolk Bank Chambers, Stockport, SK1 1AR (map)

About the Facilitator

Temores Barratt is a Central Saint Martins alumna and multi-disciplinary artist pushing the boundaries of art, design, music and film, constantly challenging notions of creativity and educating on how art can be utilised to enrich our lives. As co-founder of critically acclaimed fashion brand 'Art School', she spearheaded a groundbreaking new movement in Non-Binary design by creating extravagant catwalk shows for London Fashion Week, which uplifted the queer experience to be understood by the modern world.

She was asked to design a Barbie for the September 2019 edition of British Vogue (guest-edited by Megan Markle), where she created the "non-binary" Barbie. She won the Fashion Fighter award at the 2019 Gay Times Honour for  her ongoing work uplifting trans- and queer people's voices through fashion. 

Alongside her design passions, she is a musician and filmmaker working on communicating the struggles of surviving in the modern world, the transgender experience, and exploring emotion and human politics. As the visionary founder of House of Voya, art-collective and fashion house, she continues to focus on uplifting marginalised voices and re-defining the intersection of art and fashion.

Instagram: @houseofvoya

Join us for this introductory workshop, which will introduce you to all the many tools within Inkscape. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to create your own designs, as well as receive pointers for producing files for cutting.

Inkscape is a free piece of software for creating vector graphics. It can be used to create illustrations and documents, as well as files for use with laser cutters and home cutting machines, like Cricut.

What you’ll learn

• How to get to grips with Inkscape, a free alternative to programs like Adobe Illustrator

• How to create your own designs for producing items with laser cutters or home cutting machines

• How to get started with vector graphics

Who’s this for

People aged 18+

What you need to bring

Please bring a laptop with Inkscape installed (from https://inkscape.org/)  

Cost

Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional information

Light refreshments will be provided.

Location

Stockport Museum 30 Market Place, Stockport,  SK1 1ES (map here)

About the Facilitator

We are Girl and Not Girl, a voluntary organisation based in Manchester, UK that runs semi-regular events for people who want to meet others who work or have an interest in tech, science, maths and general geekery.

https://girlandnotgirlmcr.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/girl_andnotgirl
https://scicomm.xyz/@girlandnotgirlmcr

Event image by Milad Moosavi via the Inkscape Screen Contest 2023 (license)

Join us at this workshop, a fundamental exploration of addressable LED technology, using strips of lights that can be coded and programmed to create different lighting sequences.

Participants will engage in hands-on, basic Arduino skills to control the colours of individual LED lights. 

Join us for this fun and unique workshop and unlock the possibilities of addressable LEDs.

What you’ll learn

• Coding

• RGB colour mixing

• Control protocols for WS2812 and APA102

Who’s this for?
This workshop is for anyone 10+ (under 18s MUST be accompanied by an adult throughout the duration of the workshop) with an interest in electronics, light installations, physical computing, or programming.

What you need

• A laptop that can connect to the internet

• Please download www.arduino.cc before the workshop. If you struggle to download it please arrive 15mins earlier and we will be able to help you

Cost
Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, we may be able to provide a bursary. Please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional Information

• Light refreshments will be provided

Venue: Community Room, Stockport Museum, 30 Market Pl, Stockport SK1 1ES (map here)

About the facilitator
Chris Ball is a Manchester-based freelance creative technologist. He works to facilitate the use of technology within the arts, and has completed projects with both local and international artists requiring skills in electronics, programming, interaction, design and fabrication.

@ChrisBallProjects (insta)

Do you constantly think about the future? Join us for a discussion about a topic no one knows anything about! Nobody is an expert in the future, but we’re going there anyway.

Each week we’ll explore a topic, such as gardening, and imagine how it will take place in the future. We aren’t particularly interested in future forecasting but rather in expanding our capacity to imagine the world otherwise. We will discuss our findings in great detail and after each session, the creative team will conceptualise our imaginings.

Each week we will welcome a guest speaker, a world builder, with a different set of creative digital skills who will support us on our journey.

Get a fresh perspective on:

• Learning in public: we’ll be figuring things out together in real-time!

• We are Citizens first: you don’t need to come to this session with particular knowledge of skills so it doesn’t matter if you work in tech or not

• Imagining bleak is easy - we’re going to stay optimistic in these sessions and see possibilities where others may not

• This is all fun! We are using our imagination and playing with the ideas we come up with together

This week we’ll focus on…

Around the World in 192 Days: Observing a single route to understand the dynamic nature of time passing.

Who’s this for?

• Anyone who wants to imagine the world in new and interesting ways…and to have fun with it!

• Anyone aged 18 and above

What you need to bring

Yourself and your imagination.

Cost

Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional Information

• Light refreshments will be provided

• At the end of the series we will share images of the artefacts created

You might be interested in

This workshop is part of a series of six - check out the others here:

1. Whatever Next: High Res Clothes Peg

2. Whatever Next: Cheeky Futures

3. Whatever Next: Digital to Digitalis

4. Whatever Next: Future Fan Club

5. Whatever Next: Wildlife Photographer of the Ear

Location

Stockport Museum 30 Market Place, Stockport,  SK1 1ES (map here)

About the Facilitator

Ben has a strong background in design that brings people together - ‘seeking to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator’ -  with a focus in public space, informal urbanism, and environmentalism/ sustainability.

He’s started several design studios with a community focus, including Standard Practice (2018) and OH OK (2016), producing work like the award-winning community-designed pub Pilcrow - now Sadler’s Cat. 

Do you constantly think about the future? Join us for a discussion about a topic no one knows anything about! Nobody is an expert in the future, but we’re going there anyway.

Each week we’ll explore a topic, such as gardening, and imagine how it will take place in the future. We aren’t particularly interested in future forecasting but rather in expanding our capacity to imagine the world otherwise. We will discuss our findings in great detail and after each session, the creative team will conceptualise our imaginings.

Each week we will welcome a guest speaker, a world builder, with a different set of creative digital skills who will support us on our journey.

Get a fresh perspective on:

• Learning in public: we’ll be figuring things out together in real-time!

• We are Citizens first: you don’t need to come to this session with particular knowledge of skills so it doesn’t matter if you work in tech or not

• Imagining bleak is easy - we’re going to stay optimistic in these sessions and see possibilities where others may not

• This is all fun! We are using our imagination and playing with the ideas we come up with together

This week we’ll focus on…

Future Fan Club: How to embrace the future with open arms and a cup of tea.

Who’s this for?

• Anyone who wants to imagine the world in new and interesting ways…and to have fun with it!

• Anyone aged 18 and above

What you need to bring

Yourself and your imagination.

Cost

Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional Information

• Light refreshments will be provided

• At the end of the series we will share images of the artefacts created

You might be interested in

This workshop is part of a series of six - check out the others here:

1. Whatever Next: High Res Clothes Peg

2. Whatever Next: Cheeky Futures

3. Whatever Next: Digital to Digitalis

4. Whatever Next: Around the World in 192 Days

5. Whatever Next: Wildlife Photographer of the Ear

About the Facilitator

Ben has a strong background in design that brings people together - ‘seeking to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator’ -  with a focus in public space, informal urbanism, and environmentalism/ sustainability.

He’s started several design studios with a community focus, including Standard Practice (2018) and OH OK (2016), producing work like the award-winning community-designed pub Pilcrow - now Sadler’s Cat. 

1. Whatever Next: High Res Clothes Peg

2. Whatever Next: Cheeky Futures

3. Whatever Next: Digital to Digitalis

4. Whatever Next: Around the World in 192 Days

5. Whatever Next: Wildlife Photographer of the Ear

Location

Stockport Central Library Wellington Road South Stockport SK1 3RS United Kingdom (map here)

About the Facilitator

Ben has a strong background in design that brings people together - ‘seeking to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator’ -  with a focus in public space, informal urbanism, and environmentalism/ sustainability.

He’s started several design studios with a community focus, including Standard Practice (2018) and OH OK (2016), producing work like the award-winning community-designed pub Pilcrow - now Sadler’s Cat. 

Join us for some digi family fun at Make Stuff’s Family Day. Make Stuff will be taking over Stockport Central Library with a whole heap of activities, experiments, and have-a-go experiences!

Follow the BOOM and come along to feel 1000 watts of bass power though your fingers with Noisy Toys, watch some dancing alien Oobleck (corn flour), make laser-blaster sounds with a slinky, find out how sound waves work, and discover amazing sounds hidden in everyday objects. 

Plus! Play a mechanical violin, connect your friends to an electrical circuit to find out how squeaky their noses are, and make a Robot Chicken or Auto-Strummer using upcycled computer guts.

And! making, crafting, coding, and much much more!

Warning! Mild peril and deviant audio!

With over 10 activities to choose from, this promises to be an absolutely fantastic day out.

Who’s it for?

Everyone! Come alone, with a friend, or bring your whole family.  

A lot of the activities, like stop motion, prop-making and Tinkercad will be most enjoyable for children aged 7 and above. Younger children can get hands-on at our Create Station, as well enjoy the sound experiments from afar or with help. 

Quiet Hour

Make Stuff Family Edition will be holding a quiet hour for visitors who'd like to enjoy the activities in a less crowded environment. Activities that are sound-based will also be reduced to ensure the comfort of participants. 

This will take place between 10am - 11am, and attendance will be capped at 40 visitors, excluding the Make Stuff team of 15 people. 

To sign up for quiet hour, please make sure you book a 'Quiet Hour' Ticket at check-out. One ticket is valid for one person. Those under 18 must be accompanied by a trusted adult.  All visitors (including care-givers) will require a ticket. 

Quiet hour ticket holders are welcome to stay past 11, but please note that general visitors will arrive at 11am and the venue will likely start getting busy at this point onwards.

What you need to bring / what you need to know

• No experience necessary, just roll up and get involved!

• Each activity will take 15-20 minutes 

Cost

Tickets cost £5 per family. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional information

Light refreshments will be provided.

Location

Stockport Central Library Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK1 3RS (map here)

Photos by Paris Spiliotopoulos

Are you ready to start creating professional-looking designs?

Canva is a free online design tool that you can use to create stunning social media graphics, presentations, marketing materials, and more. 

This workshop will give you a basic understanding of Canva and show you how to create your own unique designs. You will leave this workshop with the confidence to use Canva for your personal and professional projects.

What you'll learn 

In this introductory workshop, you will learn the basics of Canva (app and website), including how to:

• Set up your free Canva account

• Choose the best template for your project 

• Add and style text

• Upload, place and edit images 

• Download and share your designs 

Who’s this for?

• This workshop is ideal for those who would like to create posters, leaflets, presentations or graphics for use on social media

• Canva is perfect for design beginners as well as those with more experience

• 18+

What you need to bring

• You will need to bring a laptop that can connect to the internet for this session

Cost

Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional Information

Light refreshments will be provided.

Location

Merseyway Innovation Centre 21-23 Merseyway, Stockport, SK1 1PN (map here) 

About the facilitator
Claire Worthington is a web developer and digital skills tutor from Stockport in Greater Manchester.

She is the founding director of Village Web Company CIC, a social enterprise that builds websites and teaches people how to do things online. Village Web Company offers student work placements through local high schools and colleges and delivers activities that develop digital skills and confidence to those in her community.

Claire is a tutor at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Sheffield specialising in web development and has been working in digital since 2013.

In her spare time Claire runs a small charity called S.P.A.C.E. (SPACE Stockport) which supports families who have children with ADHD.

Website: www.villagewebcompany.co.uk
Facebook: https://facebook.com/villagewebco
Instagram: @villagewebco
Twitter: @villagewebco
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@villagewebco

Do you constantly think about the future? Join us for a discussion about a topic no one knows anything about! Nobody is an expert in the future, but we’re going there anyway.

Each week we’ll explore a topic, such as gardening, and imagine how it will take place in the future. We aren’t particularly interested in future forecasting but rather in expanding our capacity to imagine the world otherwise. We will discuss our findings in great detail and after each session, the creative team will conceptualise our imaginings.

Each week we will welcome a guest speaker, a world builder, with a different set of creative digital skills who will support us on our journey.

Get a fresh perspective on:

• Learning in public: we’ll be figuring things out together in real-time!

• We are Citizens first: you don’t need to come to this session with particular knowledge of skills so it doesn’t matter if you work in tech or not

• Imagining bleak is easy - we’re going to stay optimistic in these sessions and see possibilities where others may not

• This is all fun! We are using our imagination and playing with the ideas we come up with together

This week we’ll focus on…

Digital to Digitalis and the stuff between Digital patterns in nature.

Who’s this for?

• Anyone who wants to imagine the world in new and interesting ways…and to have fun with it!

• Anyone aged 18 and above

What you need to bring

Yourself and your imagination.

Cost

Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional Information

• Light refreshments will be provided

• At the end of the series we will share images of the artefacts created

You might be interested in

This workshop is part of a series of six - check out the others here:

1. Whatever Next: High Res Clothes Peg

2. Whatever Next: Cheeky Futures

3. Whatever Next: Future Fan Club

1. Whatever Next: Around the World in 192 Days

2. Whatever Next: Wildlife Photographer of the Ear

Location

Stockport Central Library Wellington Road South Stockport SK1 3RS United Kingdom (map here)

About the Facilitator

Ben has a strong background in design that brings people together - ‘seeking to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator’ -  with a focus in public space, informal urbanism, and environmentalism/ sustainability.

He’s started several design studios with a community focus, including Standard Practice (2018) and OH OK (2016), producing work like the award-winning community-designed pub Pilcrow - now Sadler’s Cat. 

Do you constantly think about the future? Join us for a discussion about a topic no one knows anything about! Nobody is an expert in the future, but we’re going there anyway.

Each week we’ll explore a topic, such as gardening, and imagine how it will take place in the future. We aren’t particularly interested in future forecasting but rather in expanding our capacity to imagine the world otherwise. We will discuss our findings in great detail and after each session, the creative team will conceptualise our imaginings.

Each week we will welcome a guest speaker, a world builder, with a different set of creative digital skills who will support us on our journey.

Get a fresh perspective on:

• Learning in public: we’ll be figuring things out together in real-time!

• We are Citizens first: you don’t need to come to this session with particular knowledge of skills so it doesn’t matter if you work in tech or not

• Imagining bleak is easy - we’re going to stay optimistic in these sessions and see possibilities where others may not

• This is all fun! We are using our imagination and playing with the ideas we come up with together

This week we’ll focus on…

Cheeky Futures: Blind forecasting enables a riskier, bolder outlook… or so they claim.

Who’s this for?

• Anyone who wants to imagine the world in new and interesting ways…and to have fun with it!

• Anyone aged 18 and above

What you need to bring

Yourself and your imagination.

Cost

Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional Information

• Light refreshments will be provided

• At the end of the series we will share images of the artefacts created

You might be interested in

This workshop is part of a series of six - check out the others here:

1. Whatever Next: High Res Clothes Peg

2. Whatever Next: Digital to Digitalis

3. Whatever Next: Future Fan Club

4. Whatever Next: Around the World in 192 Days

5. Whatever Next: Wildlife Photographer of the Ear

Location

Stockport Central Library Wellington Road South Stockport SK1 3RS United Kingdom (map here)

About the Facilitator

Ben has a strong background in design that brings people together - ‘seeking to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator’ -  with a focus in public space, informal urbanism, and environmentalism/ sustainability.

He’s started several design studios with a community focus, including Standard Practice (2018) and OH OK (2016), producing work like the award-winning community-designed pub Pilcrow - now Sadler’s Cat. 

Express.js is a web application framework for Node.js. It is designed to help developers build web applications and APIs (Application Programming Interface) more efficiently. In the context of web development, an API is a set of rules and definitions that allows one software application to interact with another.  In this workshop, you’ll use Express to create a simple web app that provides users with motivational (or de-motivational!) quotes.

Express is the industry–standard for creating web applications, and understanding the fundamentals is your first step towards expanding your web development skills beyond the web page.

What you’ll learn

• Setting up an Express application

• Routing and handling different types of requests

• Understanding REST principles

• Creating API endpoints to perform CRUD operations

• Working with JSON data

Who’s this for? 

• All Stockport residents aged 18 and above are welcome!

• You’ll need fundamental knowledge of JavaScript, and Node.js (we also have an Intro to Node.js workshop if you don’t have this), as well as of using a text editor such as Visual Studio Code

• You also need to have admin access to install software on your machine

What you need to bring 
You’ll require access to a laptop/desktop that can connect to the internet. The workshop cannot be completed on a mobile or tablet.

Cost
The course costs £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, we may be able to provide a bursary. Please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional information

• All participants will gain access to an online learning community and free ongoing support network, including CV and job application support, mentoring, and work experience opportunities

• All participants will receive a digital certificate of completion 

Location
This workshop will take place online. A joining link will be shared via email a few days before the workshop.

About the facilitator
Claire Wicher heads up Education and Skills at Make Stuff, with a passion for making digital skills accessible to all and supporting people into digital careers. She has a strong background in grassroots technology events across Greater Manchester. She is a Trustee and Chief Emoji Officer for Django Girls, a global charity dedicated to curating positive first experiences with code for women and non-binary people.

Join us for an evening of coding katas & pizza. Hone your programming skills by solving coding challenges, then work in pairs to perfect your code! 

What you’ll learn

• Learn what coding katas are and how you can use them to build your programming skills

• Build collaboration skills by learning how to identify and debug coding errors with a partner

• Develop refactoring skills to make your code clean and super efficient

Who’s this for? 

• All Stockport residents aged 18 and above are welcome!

• Fundamental JavaScript knowledge is required to participate

What you need to bring 

• You’ll require access to a laptop that can connect to the internet. The workshop cannot be completed on a mobile or tablet

• If you need to borrow a laptop for the session, please let us know in the sign-up form so we can arrange one for you 

Cost
The course costs £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, we may be able to provide a bursary. Please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional information

• This event will include refreshments and a hot meal

• All participants will gain access to an online learning community and free ongoing support network, including CV and job application support, mentoring, and work experience opportunities

• All participants will receive a digital certificate of completion 

• Financial support is available for transport and childcare costs if needed (please mention if you need this when registering)

• You will need to commit to attending all sessions - this is because places are limited, and we are often over-subscribed.

Location
 Profolk Bank Chambers, Bank Chambers, Stockport, SK1 1AR (map here)

About the facilitator
Martin Rue learned to code when he was pretty young, which led to a love of creating things. I He likes little details, finding deeper understanding, and MateMate.

He loves language learning so much that he quit his job to build Yakk, an app to help people learn languages. He speaks Esperanto, and is slowly learning 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇮🇱.

This is what he's doing now.

Do you constantly think about the future? Join us for a discussion about a topic no one knows anything about! Nobody is an expert in the future, but we’re going there anyway.

Each week we’ll explore a topic, such as gardening, and imagine how it will take place in the future. We aren’t particularly interested in future forecasting but rather in expanding our capacity to imagine the world otherwise. We will discuss our findings in great detail and after each session, the creative team will conceptualise our imaginings.

Each week we will welcome a guest speaker, a world builder, with a different set of creative digital skills who will support us on our journey.

Get a fresh perspective on:

• Learning in public: we’ll be figuring things out together in real-time!

• We are Citizens first: you don’t need to come to this session with particular knowledge of skills so it doesn’t matter if you work in tech or not

• Imagining bleak is easy - we’re going to stay optimistic in these sessions and see possibilities where others may not

• This is all fun! We are using our imagination and playing with the ideas we come up with together

This week we’ll focus on…

High Res Clothes Peg: Is the pursuit of higher resolution a waste of everyone's time and money and should the tech giants be hung out to dry?

Who’s this for?

• Anyone who wants to imagine the world in new and interesting ways…and to have fun with it!

• Anyone aged 18 and above

What you need to bring
Yourself and your imagination.

Cost
Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional Information

• Light refreshments will be provided

• At the end of the series we will share images of the artefacts created

Location
Stockport Museum 30 Market Place, Stockport,  SK1 1ES (map here)

You might also be interested in
This workshop is part of a series of six - check out the others here:

1. Whatever Next: Cheeky Futures

2. Whatever Next: Digital to Digitalis

3. Whatever Next: Future Fan Club

4. Whatever Next: Around the World in 192 Days

5. Whatever Next: Wildlife Photographer of the Ear

About the Facilitator

Ben has a strong background in design that brings people together - ‘seeking to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator’ -  with a focus in public space, informal urbanism, and environmentalism/ sustainability.

He’s started several design studios with a community focus, including Standard Practice (2018) and OH OK (2016), producing work like the award-winning community-designed pub Pilcrow - now Sadler’s Cat. 

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a web browser, allowing us to use JavaScript to build backend applications.

In this workshop, you’ll use Node.js to build a server, which is a computer program that listens to requests from clients (like web browsers) and sends back responses (like web pages and their content). Learning Node.js is your first step towards transitioning from a front-end to full-stack developer. 

What you’ll learn

• Installing Node.js & configuring your development environment

• Overview of built-in modules

• Write a simple server using the HTTP module

• Handling HTTP requests and sending responses

• Understanding request and response objects

Want to learn Express.js as well? Check out our Intro to Express.js workshop here.

Who’s this for? 

• All Stockport residents aged 18 and above are welcome!

• You’ll need fundamental knowledge of using HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create web pages, as well as of using a text editor such as Visual Studio Code 

• You also need to have admin access to install software on your machine

What you need to bring 
You’ll require access to a laptop/desktop that can connect to the internet. The workshop cannot be completed on a mobile or tablet

Cost
The course costs £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, we may be able to provide a bursary. Please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional information

• All participants will gain access to an online learning community and free ongoing support network, including CV and job application support, mentoring, and work experience opportunities

• All participants will receive a digital certificate of completion 

Location
This workshop will take place online. A joining link will be shared via email a few days before the workshop.

About the facilitator
Claire Wicher heads up Education and Skills at Make Stuff, with a passion for making digital skills accessible to all and supporting people into digital careers. She has a strong background in grassroots technology events across Greater Manchester. She is a Trustee and Chief Emoji Officer for Django Girls, a global charity dedicated to curating positive first experiences with code for women and non-binary people.

Meet the Meetups will introduce you to Greater Manchester’s exciting tech meetup ecosystem - from gatherings for JavaScript enthusiasts to socials for total beginners and meetups for women in tech and coders for good. Hear from friendly meetup organisers and discover ways to get further involved in the tech community.

What you’ll learn

• More about the range of tech meetups in Greater Manchester and how to access them

• How meetups can help you build your skills and network

Who’s this for? 

All Stockport residents aged 18 and above are welcome!

What you need to bring

You’ll require access to a laptop/desktop and a stable internet connection.

Cost
Join us for free!

Location
This event will take place online. A joining link will be shared via email a few days before the event.

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Have you ever wanted to try 3D modelling and make your ideas come to life?

What you’ll learn:

• Use Fusion 360 to 3D model a fidget bolt keyring

• Use rendering tools to adjust colours and backgrounds to make it look realistic

• Use animating tools to explore new perspectives of your design

At the end of the workshop, you will receive your own Keyring to take home.

Who’s this for?

• People aged 10 and up.

• Participants aged 17 and below will need to be accompanied by a parent or another trusted adult throughout the workshop

What you need to bring:

• Please bring your own laptop and mouse if you have one

• Please download Fusion 360 Personal Use on to your laptop before attending the workshop. Link: https://www.autodesk.co.uk/products/fusion-360/personal-form

• Software used for this workshop will need a free account set up
  

Cost
Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, we may be able to provide a bursary. Please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional Information

• Light refreshments will be provided

Location

Merseyway Workshop, Merseyway, #Unit 6, Stockport, England, SK1 1PP (map here)

About the Facilitator

Jamie-Lee is a creator, facilitator, and educator who aims to make learning experiences more inclusive for different minds, using playful and creative thinking as a vehicle. They utilise their neurodiversity to create new and innovative ways of learning about different topics, ourselves, and the people around us. 

Social Media: 

Website: https://www.wainmandesign.co.uk/
Instagram:@wainman_design

Join us for some digi family fun at Make Stuff’s Family Day. Make Stuff will be taking over Stockport Central Library with a whole heap of activities, experiments, and have-a-go experiences!

Follow the BOOM and come along to feel 1000 watts of bass power though your fingers with Noisy Toys, watch some dancing alien Oobleck (corn flour), make laser-blaster sounds with a slinky, find out how sound waves work, and discover amazing sounds hidden in everyday objects. 

Plus! Play a mechanical violin, connect your friends to an electrical circuit to find out how squeaky their noses are, and make a Robot Chicken or Auto-Strummer using upcycled computer guts.

And! making, crafting, coding, and much much more!

Warning! Mild peril and deviant audio!

With over 10 activities to choose from, this promises to be an absolutely fantastic day out.

Who’s it for?

Everyone! Come alone, with a friend, or bring your whole family - we’ll have activities for all ages. 

What you need to bring / what you need to know

• No experience necessary, just roll up and get involved!

• Each activity will take 15-20 minutes 

Cost

Tickets cost £5 per family. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional information

Light refreshments will be provided.

Location

Stockport Central Library Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK1 3RS (map here)

About the Workshop

Solitary bees are different from honey and bumble bees as they do not belong to a hive. They work individually and burrow in holes. Although solitary bees are the most efficient pollinators, they are also the most endangered due to deforestation.

If you want to learn more about solitary bees and also learn how to create a sustainable 3D printed beehouse, then you can join Jamie-Lee for a step-by-step design workshop.

What you’ll learn:

• What solitary bees are and why they are important

• How to use Fusion 360 to model and personalise your design

• How to use Fusion 360 to render your designs in a realistic setting

Who’s this for?

• This workshop is intended for individuals who are interested in delving into the world of 3D

• 18+

What you need to bring

• Please bring your own laptop and a mouse

• Please download a free version of Fusion 360 before you arrive: https://www.autodesk.co.uk/products/fusion-360/personal-form

Cost

Tickets cost £3. After the event, you can choose to be refunded or donate your ticket to MadLab CIC to support future community-led events. Refunds will be processed within seven working days. If you cannot afford a ticket, we may be able to provide a bursary. Please email makestuff@madlab.org.uk with your name and postcode, and we will be in touch.

Additional Information

• Light refreshments will be provided

Location

Merseyway Workshop, Merseyway, #Unit 6, Stockport, England, SK1 1PP (map here)

About the Facilitator

Jamie-Lee is a creator, facilitator, and educator who aims to make learning experiences more inclusive for different minds, using playful and creative thinking as a vehicle. They utilise their neurodiversity to create new and innovative ways of learning about different topics, ourselves, and the people around us.

Jamie-Lee has a studio at Islington Mill where they develop their practice and host workshops. Their passion for 3D printing and CAD/CAM allows them to create sustainable, unique and playful experiences for public engagement.

Social Media:

Website: https://www.wainmandesign.co.uk/

Instagram: @wainman_design