PLEASANT PRAIRIE MINI MAKER FAIRE CALL FOR MAKERS OPENS TODAY ACCEPTING MAKER APPLICATIONS JULY 13 THROUGH OCTOBER 15
Makers
are everywhere; they include crafters, artists, inventors, musicians,
engineers, science clubs, culinary folks, tinkerers and more. Organizers
of the Pleasant Prairie Mini Maker Faire have opened the Call for
Makers. Makers interested in exhibiting at the Pleasant Prairie Mini
Maker Faire on November 25, 2017 between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. will
find a simple, online application at
www.pleasantprairie.makerfaire.com. The event will be held in the fieldhouse at Pleasant Prairie RecPlex.
Admission
to the Pleasant Prairie Mini Maker Faire on November 25 is free.
Non-commercial makers, those not selling the items they make, may
exhibit free of charge with an accepted application. Commercial makers,
those who wish to sell the products they make while demonstrating, will
be charged a $50 fee with an accepted application. Please submit
applications online at www.pleasantprairie.makerfaire.com through October 15. If you’re a Maker, and you’re excited to share your love of making with others, we can’t wait to meet you!
The
Pleasant Prairie Mini Maker Faire is hosted by the Village of Pleasant
Prairie and is a locally organized and operated event under the license
from Maker Media, Inc. The event is currently seeking sponsors
interested in showing support for the local maker community. For
sponsorship information, please contact our team at [email protected].
Maker
Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly
showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration
of the Maker Movement. It’s a place where people show what they are
making, and share what they are learning. Makers range from tech
enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage
tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire
is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community. The original
Maker Faire event was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2016 celebrated its
eleventh annual show with some 1,300 makers and 150,000 people in
attendance. World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has
grown in five years to 900+ makers and 90,000 attendees. Thirty-two
larger scale Maker Faires occur in cities around the world—Detroit,
Atlanta, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, and Shenzhen to name a few— and
over 150 community-driven, independently organized Mini Maker Faires are
now being produced in the United States and in 34 other countries
around the world.