I’m excited to share a family-friendly event coming to the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) on September 16th & 17th – the Seattle Mini Maker Faire! Guests are invited to try out amazing hands-on activities, celebrating the brilliant makers in our city!
What: Seattle Mini Maker Faire offers tech enthusiasts, crafters, scientists, garage tinkerers, commercial makers, and inventors of all ages and backgrounds a platform to share their passion projects. Over the course of September 16-17, guests are invited to test the latest inventions, participate in activities and talks that blend art, engineering, science, and technology from more than 130 makers.
Where: Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) – 325 5th Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109
When: Saturday, September 16th & Sunday, September 17th
- 10am – 5pm
Details:
ABOUT MAKER FAIRE
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 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 2015 celebrated its tenth annual show with some 1,200 makers and 145,000 people in attendance. World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has grown in five years to 900+ makers and 90,000 attendees. 23 other larger scale Maker Faires occur in cities around the world—Detroit, Atlanta, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, and Shenzhen to name a few—and over 120 community-driven, independently organized Mini Maker Faires are now being produced around the United States and the world.
This year’s initial lineup includes:
- The Big-Brained Superheroes
- Tiny Houses
- Makerologist Interactive Exhibits
- R2 Builders Club
- Making Muggle Magic
- Luminescent Grand
- Mario the Maker Magician
- The Lumbercade
- VRMakerDome
- Brainfreeze
- School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts
- Elcano Self-Driving Tricycle
Let’s inspire the next generation! See you there! Early bird pricing until September 1st → Buy Tickets Here!
XoXo Portia
*Photos courtesy of Museum of Pop Culture
Disclosure: I was graciously provided complimentary tickets in exchange for this post. The opinions expressed here represent my own, which I take great pride in providing pure honesty…because I’m OBSESSED with sharing the Good!