Category Archives: Events

Come find out what kind of crafty stuff we have laying around the shop. Downstairs we have so much fun stuff: paper, fabric, sequins, feathers, belt buckles, pins, bendy, sparkly, fuzzy things. We thought we ought to have a workshop. We will be there to help you complete a project of your choosing. We’ll be […]

Basic welding — always full, often overbooked. Always fun, messy, and dirty. Sometimes scary, hurty, and cold — or hot — depending on the season. I suspect this class will be a perfect spring class, the kind where you go directly outside to drink beer and brag about your new skills, wearing your face dirt […]

Balloon Animals!!! If you want to learn the basics of sculpting with inflatable latex, or want to develop basic twisting and pinching skills, this is the class for you! If you want to impress those 3-to-10 year olds who’ve been dissin’ you lately, or you who want to appear disarmingly charming to the sexy single-parent […]

Same class different month. Any one of our frighteningly talented and attractive artstars can teach this class. Come take a chance and see who it will be this time. Learn the basics: safety, how to weld, the difference is between the various welders, why you won’t electrocute yourself, welding fashion, and depending on the teacher, […]

Hackett has been slaving over this thing — making his own bolts, turning rebar into jewelry, and more. Learn how to use this miraculous tool yourself; why should Hackett have all the fun? The lathe is set up for metal work but can we switch it out for wood to. Learn how to set it […]

Hey what’s that tool? And what’s that do? How’s that work? This is a free workshop in *what we have.* This is not so much a "how-to" but a "what’s that thing do?" Hackett will take you around the shop and show you the lathe, the cold saw, the chop saw, the bench grinder, the […]

You asked for it, here it is: sewing. We have tons of fabric and several machines. And after our big-ass fabric ceiling project for the Scope festival, we’re pretty much all proficient at sewing (except me), but none as professional as SarahMac. If you are wanting to learn new sewing techniques then visit wunderlabel.co.uk/hang-tags/standard. She’s […]

So- it has been months (has it been months? It seems like it, as least to me, who cares, and maybe to the others that do as well.) since you ungrateful bastards have been blessed with another missive of sweetness and light from me, and oh what those months have contained- amazing events, radical leaps […]

This Saturday at the Madagascar Institute: Networking 101 Scary Dangerous X-mas gifts Event planning: Luau Work on your own shit This has been a busy week so far at the Madagascar Institute. Thanks to Mo and her army of confused men the welding curtain is up and working ( I guess, unless the people who […]

This Thursday at the Madagascar Institute: Printmaking, Part 2 Intro to Networking Welding and Machinery practice session Work on your own stuff Thursday, 12-07-00 from 7-10 pm. Another midweek session, soon to be a regular feature of the Madagascar Institute. As it looks now the shop will be open every Thursday as well as Saturday. […]

This Saturday at the Madagascar Institute: – Other people’s depravity is our shopping value; or; how blue-collar desperation can make for a great machine shop. – Home networking Gowanus style And: – Printmaking 101 Welcome back, me, from the Great American Flyover where the high desert was explored, roller coasters were ridden, and a quest […]

This Sunday at the Madagascar Institute: SEE the new workshop plan ! CUT solid steel with a spark-shooting grinder! PROVE that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts by welding scrap metal into art! COMMIT various felonies by building a rocket launcher! AND various other activities that fit worse than these into […]