Sheffield

Where: Gut Level Sheffield, S1 2PD
When: 6:30pm-9pm (but note the bar will be open from 5-11pm!), Thursday 19th June 2025
Tickets: Free, but please a) register here and b) become a Gut Level member (£2+ per year)
Who: People curious about making strange things with patterns

What: This is the first of a series of pattern club meetups. 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/fiber 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!

This meetup our plan is to focus on ways of integrating making patterns from code into music, including an informal presentation from Leeds-based artist Bundy. Check out his journey so far on insta: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18076621075880808/

 Lucy aka Heavy Lifting will also share some tips on how to learn to make music from code, live and ‘from scratch’.

We will also talk about where to take the meetups next, and leave some time for informal sharing and doing. Feel free to bring textile / craft or other patterny projects to show or quietly get on with. e.g. Alex will bring some Japanese kumihimo braiding disks if you fancy having a go at that!

The meetup is free but please register here. You will also need to be a member of / join gut level – standard membership starts at just £2 per year.

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