Pattern club meetup

Where: Pattern Club alpacalab, 2-4 Matilda St (just off the moor, above EE), Sheffield S1 4QD
When: 6:30pm-8:30pm, Tues 17th Feb 2025 (changed date! now moved to THIRD tuesday of the month)
Tickets: Free, just show up and ring the doorbell!
Who: People curious about making strange things with patterns

What: Our monthly Sheffield pattern club meetup. All people interested in the stranger side of patterns welcome! These meetups will be focussed on sharing practice-lead investigations into pattern-making in heritage and contemporary arts, crafts and music. For example if you’re a textile/fibre artist who is curious about creative coding, a coder who wants to be a musician, a musician who is curious about choreography, or a choreographer who wants to integrate braiding into their work, an origami artist who.. well you get the idea! We want to make this a safe, fun and diverse space to share ideas. We actively encourage ‘imposters’ to attend!

The first hour will be an informal meetup from 6:30pm until 7:30pm (maybe with some pancake making+eating), then we’ll have a ‘from-scratch’ session. This is a custom in the live coding community where people make music and/or visuals from code, starting with a blank screen, for nine minutes exactly. The only condition is that everyone has to clap at the end! We’ll broaden this so if you don’t fancy live coding you can make something else from scratch, in nine minutes. Strange ideas very welcome ! We might not have time for everyone to do something and spectators + imposters are welcome anyway..

These meetups are open to all. Attendees are expected to read and respect our code of conduct: https://patternclub.org/code-of-conduct/.

Image by Nik Nenov – Rule 105