Come join the "Boston Meditates" meetup group. Initiated by Boston-based young professionals and students from MIT and Harvard, Boston Meditates is a new movement to spread awareness about the benefits of meditation. We organize and host meditation and breathing workshops, meditation mixers, free meditation experience sessions and more fun activities in the area. Bostonians are known to lead hectic professional and personal lives. The busier one is, the more one has to meditate. Meditation helps …

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EXOTIC PEN PRESENTS - WRITER'S & ILLUSTRATORS! PLEASE JUST COME! Bring sample of your writing or ART just hang with us as we share. Monday's tba! come!! Our last meet up gave us a profound glimpse into talents from our group. Please sign up for our group. We will appreciate your being with us. Come anyway. Don't you LOVE writing? The following was written by former leader, Danny Y. (except for minor edits) Have you ever dreamed of writing your own book or novel someday but never got around to i …

Movement and Creativity are vital to our lives. When we direct our focus to deepening connections to ourselves, each other and life itself, our experience of life becomes fertile, rich, vibrant. Movement: classes, workshops, experiments, performances, curiosity, discovery. Creativity: art, music, process, creation, discussion, experiencing, learning. The body is the physical aspect of the personality and movement is the personality made visible.- Mary Starks Whitehouse http://www.tiffanysankary …

Welcome! If you like meeting new people and being creative this group is for you. The goal of our group will be to provide an opportunity to work on our crafts, to finish projects that have sat waiting for attention for too long, and to learn some new techniques, skills or entirely new crafts with warm friendly people. We will get together to crochet, knit, stamp, and bead, or what ever your portable project is. We will be meeting on at least a monthly basis at a coffee shop in the Arlington, Bu …

Welcome to Food for Thought. We're a dining and discussion group that meets regularly for dinner and interesting in-depth conversation. The group was started to bring together intelligent people who like dining together and having the kinds of discussions they don't get enough of elsewhere. Our dinners are held at low key restaurants that have good food and facilitate good group communication. In addition, we may also go to movies, lectures, or other events that engender thoughtful discussion at …

Social Philosophizers is a social club for those who desire intellectual stimulation as a social enhancer.  It is a club for both singles and non singles, and for anyone who finds intellectual mingling to be one of the best forms of social mingling. The club offers a variety of interesting venues to achieve its mission: Creative conversational formats Philosophical films shown in private function rooms or private homes accompanying lunch or dinner Discussions on works in literature and philosop …

I want to go to Burning Man this year, August 29th to September 5th, 2011. I'm a design student at an art school in Boston. I'm 26 years old and I have cerebral palsy. I use a power wheelchair, and require assistance half the time. This will be my first trip to Burning Man. I would love to assemble a group of people to go. We can pool funds together for an RV and plan for creative projects. Its going to be an absolute experience! All are welcome to join.

Hey everybody! I decided to start this group because I love to go out into the city and draw, in coffee shops, in bars, on the street, and I know there are other people out there who do as well! So let's get together and meet some like-minded people and do some drawing! Anyone who enjoys drawing, whatever skill level, is highly encouraged to join. After all, the only way to get better is to do it. If anyone has suggestions as to what sorts of drawing meetings or locations/areas they'd like meet …

For artists who like to code and coders who love to create, This is a collaborative space for creative coders, designers, and artists to come together to share the latest tips, tricks, and techniques in any area from data visualizations, to generative art, to kinect hacks. Focusing on open tools like Processing, OpenFrameworks, Cinder, Protovis and R.

Embracing the full spectrum from ancient traditions and the occult to cutting edge science, Soul Experiments Meetup gathers those intererested in exploring consciousness, spirituality, energy and the multidimensional nature of ourselves and reality. Let's experiment, play and learn together!  Let's create a safe space to share our experiences. Let's take the "woo" out of "woo woo". :-) Types of Meetups: We will be having several types of meetups. At least once a month there will be a free meetup …

The Exploring Eros meetup is for individuals (and couples!) interested in sharing and learning about love, sexuality, men and women, relationships and the ecstatic.....creating more connection and capacity for enjoyment.  This group will be exploring a wide range of topics both in the personal and the broader social and cultural contexts. All denominations, orientations and lifestyles are welcome. Some of the potential topics to be explored include: Modern Love & Relationships What is Love? T …

SEMU (South End Meet UP) CRAFT (Creative Recreational Artistic Foodie Technical) Wizards group is a chance for professionals, amateurs, patrons and anyone who is involved with or passionate about the Creative Economy (CE)  in the in the Boston area, to talk shop and exchange stories, ideas and information. It is hard enough for professionals in other fields in this economy to ply their trade, but for the pros in CE, it is even more brutal out there. Why be alone? Why not be part of a gang.... or …

Are you creative, love sharing ideas and play well with others? This is the group for you! Here is an opportunity to join in with other passionate individuals to explore the world of ideas, self-expression, creativity and experimentation. Perfect for professional and amateur creatives of all types (performers, graphic artists, writers, singers/songwriters, comedians, musicians, film makers, dancers....you get the idea!) as well as educators/experts/authors, thought leaders, and those of us that …

Revelry parties are for singles* and couples who love to dance, make new friends and have fun, creative experiences. Events will range from warm, casual house parties to larger, themed, multi-media dance events. As the group grows, our more creative events may even include art installations, performance art or other fun interactive opportunities.  Adults of all ages welcome. (some dances will have specific age ranges).  Music will include DJ’s as well as live bands. *Singles will be able to ide …

In this group, we take it slow! Rather than rushing around taking thousands of photos, we learn to stand still, be present and see the beauty of the moment right before our eyes. Then we discover the most astonishing photos are not taken by us, but given to us. Photography offers a path to mindfulness and can be a form of meditation that connects you to the beauty of daily life. In this moment, we feel revitalized, refreshed, and awake! Do you love to just get so into taking photos you loose tra …

If you've ever wanted to learn how to take better photos, but you don't want to get bogged down with all the technical stuff, then you're going to love this. This unique meetup group is for you if: You own a camera (or smart phone with a camera) and you'd really like to use it more, but you're not really sure where to start and what to do. Maybe you've taken a photography workshop before or tried picking up one of those thick, boring books, but you quickly got overwhelmed and overloaded with th …

Cambridge Screenwriters exists to make you into a better screenwriter. Award-winning writer (with multiple production credits) and Emerson College professor Jared M. Gordon runs a MeetUp in which we'll discuss screenwriting practices, answer questions, and workshop your scenes. Whether you've written a dozen screenplays or aspire to, there's a place for you here. Jared also provides more in-depth coverage: http://www.jaredmgordon.net/screenwriting. I plan to conduct regular writers' group worksh …

If you are fed up of hanging around with people who's only idea of fun is computer games, boozing, snoozing or staring mindlessly at a TV for hours on end. If you would like something more productive to do with your free time, something more interesting and more stimulating for your eyes, hands and creative mind. If you just don't have enough art related activities through the day and need to pack in an extra couple of hours outside of school or work. If you'd like to meet like minded individual …

Artisans assemble! The Artisans Network is for those looking to get together discussing ideas and/or seeking help with individual & group projects concerning costumes that are related to gaming, anime, sci-fi, halloween, movies, cartoons, etc... We've started this group because we realize that there's a lot of creative people out there that are building these works of art.  Whenever we pass by or attend conventions (Comic/Gaming) or get togethers (Halloween/Themed Parties) and see the work that …

This group is for those interested in multidisciplinary networking and collaboration. Taking inspiration from The Medici Effect, The Renaissance, and even such creative collaborations as Burning Man...How can the intersection of technology, science, arts, culture, business, philosophy, etc., amplify innovation and create new ways of thinking, behaving, expressing and living? This group will meet to network, discuss and brainstorm ideas, projects and possibilities. Frans Johansson’s The Medici E …

Daytime Players Are you a Stay-at-Home Father or Mother? Student? Retired? Senior? Or, do you otherwise have a few Wednesday morning hours free to pursue your creative interests and have FUN in a theatrical setting with other adults?? We welcome, actors, directors, artists, musicians, writers, and anyone - regardless of experience - who would like to contribute creatively to our cooperative group. JOIN US - let's see what we can do! We look forward to meeting you!!

Welcome to our group! Happiness is not found. It's created. Through research in positive psychology and neuroscience, we now know more than ever about what actually helps us feel content, wholehearted, satisfied and full of purpose. Come learn about this with us! We will venture into all sorts of topics related to happiness like: creativity authenticity play mindfulness connection balance gratitude Everyone is welcome. Join us in exploring what makes for a fulfilling life.

One night, a collection of languages met a group of objects and they decided to share a cigarette over a drink. Complementing objects was easy enough for language, who found its partner so very real and touchable. Objects was mostly quiet, not finding much to say about itself, at least nothing equal to the photographs and poetry and sculpture language seemed so content and able to lavish upon it. When they made love, something was born, but soon enough it was on the lam. We are an artist collect …

Community, Ideas and Information for artists associated with Belmont, Massachusetts

We're a community of artists, designers, engineers, programmers, and hackers interested in working with creative coding platforms like openFrameworks, Cinder, Processing, Unity3D. We enjoy things like real-time graphics rendering, physical computing, robots, projection maps, and interactive art installations. We do this professionally, academically, artistically, or just purely for the joy of making awesome stuff, every day. We meet regularly and casually to share tips, swap ideas and form colla …

This is a group for anyone who makes anything creative with either their computer and/or electronics. Audio, Video, Lighting, Programming, etc. We'll meet monthly and have workshops, lectures, audio and video improv jams, hack sessions, a party to wrap up the evening, and more!

This group is for artists, crafters, and hobbyists who have an Etsy shop, or hope to/plan to open an Etsy shop in the future, based in the greater Boston area.  No specific amount of sales required, suburbs and outskirts of Boston happily welcome!