Free Coworking Day

‪Calling all freelancers, coders, bloggers, and more! Have you been waiting for a chance to try out 3rd Ward's coworking space?  Now's your chance to get out of your apartment or coffee shop. As part of Worldwide JELLYWEEK 2012, anyone can work one day for FREE in our coworking space from Monday January 16th - January 31st

To claim your free day just stop by on the day you'd like to work.  Simply check in with our front desk manager and ask for your free day of coworking. 

Taking a test-drive of our coworking space has never been easier. Collaborate with other coworkers, spend a day working on our fully-loaded iMac Workstations, check out our beautiful shared and private desk spaces, and get to know the 3rd Ward community. Hope to see you soon.

RSVP : http://www.3rdward.com/rsvp

JELLYWEEK 2012 is the brainchild of Anni Roolf, a coworker based in Germany who is passionate about worldwide collaboration. This month, coworkers around the world will partake in Jellies (casual coworking events) to celebrate and promote the ideas, collaboration, and inspiration born through the magic of working together.

January 8 @ Moviehouse : Below The Metal, Skin & Encounter

January 8 // 3rd Ward

7 pm Doors & Food // 8 pm Films

A remarkable installation and two stunning films that delve into movement and sound in a most haunting way.

Featuring:
Below the Metal, Skin by Ann Robideaux and Alexandra Shilling

In the belly of a machine (ship), a man and woman appear to have grown out of the mechanism, operating its parts in repetition and maneuvering through unwelcoming spaces.  The piece utilizes both site and movement to explore dualities: human and machine, skin and metal, task and pleasure, water and steel as all footage was shot aboard the Tender “Lilac”, a steamship docked on Manhattan’s Pier 40. Through sound and video, we transpose site into a blank space, allowing the audience to relocate to this re-imagined world.
below the metal, skin is a multi-channel installation with three screens and three sound sources, two ambient and one composed of sounds recorded on-location by Australia-based sound artist Camilla Maling.

Choreography: Ann Robideaux and Alexandra Shilling
Brought to Life by: Alberto Denis and Heather Inglis

Videography: Skye MacLeod and Ann Robideaux

Original Sound: Camilla Maling (AUS)

Editing: Alexandra Shilling

Costumes: Elizabeth Dran
Make-Up: Kathryn Shearing

Encounter
Encounter explores the curiosity, fear and mistrust that is so common when faced with something (or someone) unfamiliar, and the constant shift between resistance and acceptance, to finally arrive at a place of humbleness and mutual understanding. The video is in two parts, and originally screened as part of a commissioned piece for dance, video and string quartet in five sections to music by Magnar Am.

Hye Yeon Nam Presents: Touching Anomaly

Friday, January 20, 2012
195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 7-9:30pm
FREE Admission

Skeletons will wave. Guns will shoot silent discomfort. Tongues will move cars. This is the delightful and surprising work of new media artist, Hye Yeon Nam, who combines technology and engineering with her personal history as a Korean immigrant. Touching Anomaly is a collection of interactive installations and video that uses and repurposes cameras, computers, motors and more to explore social interactions and cultural norms.

In Please Smile, five robotic skeleton arms elicits and manipulates human emotions by reacting to your facial expressions. Wonderland simulates the feelings of displacement and disorientation through an alarmingly unusual walk through Times Square. Polite Art is a wall of 480 motorized miniature men that bow when people approach, representing the bewildered and curious reactions that occur when cultures meet.

In Self-Portrait, the artist brings us into a world where simple activities like eating, drinking, and sitting become agonizingly difficult. Kiss Controller gives emotional weight to video game by allowing users to control a racecar by tongue kissing (breath mints will be provided).

Hye Yeon Nam has shown her work all around the world, from Sao Paolo to Copenhagen to Istanbul. Domestically, her work has appeared at Eyebeam, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and in a Times Square screening curated by Isabella Rossellini.

RSVP at www.3rdward.com/rsvp

Kiss Controller from Hye Yeon Nam on Vimeo.

Please Smile from Hye Yeon Nam on Vimeo.

 

January 26 Wind-Up

January 26 Wind-Up
Thursday, January 26, 2012, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Start your new year off right by joining us for our latest edition of Wind-Up!  Whether you are a brand new Member, or you have been with us for years, this is a great opportunity to learn more about your 3rd Ward community and have fun! Plus, empanadas from empanadas ¡dpm!, free beer and entertaining presentations from some of our Members & teachers:

David Karlin : Teacher, Co-working Member
Jake Wright : Unlimited Member
Laura Wasserson : Unlimited Desk Member

RSVP at www.3rdward.com/rsvp

If you are a Member interested in presenting about your work, please contact Membership Services.

Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event

Friday, January 6, 10am-6pm
Saturday, January 7, 10am-5pm
195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY
FREE

Lie-Nielsen makes heirloom-quality woodworking tools that are beloved all around the world. This 2-day event will give you hands-on experience with their hand tools, and will cover topics like sharpening, tool use and care, and joinery techniques.

Learn tips and tricks from the Lie-Nielsen staff, test their full line of tools, and participate in demonstrations with local toolmakers and woodworkers. Demonstrators include Daed Toolworks, M.S. Bickford, Brese Plane, Tools for Working Wood, and Exotic Lumber.

RSVP at www.3rdward.com/rsvp

Watch this video to see what a Lie-Nielsen Hand Tool Event is like: