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DiYVR: Maker Faire Vancouver Call for Makers

Maker Faire is the ultimate celebration of making, crafting, DIYing, tinkering, hacking and sharing. The first-ever Vancouver Maker Faire will be June 25-26, 2011, at the Great Northern Way campus .

The first-ever Vancouver Maker Faire will be June 25-26, 2011, at the Great Northern Way campus.

Being a maker at the faire is like participating in a science faire and trade show wrapped together. Apply today!

Maker Faire is the ultimate celebration of making, crafting, DIYing, tinkering, hacking and sharing.

Put on by the folks at O'Reilly Media – the ones behind Make magazine and CRAFT – the annual Maker Faire held outside San Francisco attracts 90,000 people over a weekend. The Faire is a celebration of making. People show off their creations – be they robots, tech hacks, LED-adorned clothing, crafts of all sorts, arduinos, mechanical art projects... It's like a science fair (but sometimes with fire, or moving sculptures, or knitting), where the participating makers show off their stuff and talk with attendees about how and why they make what they make.

The success of Maker Faire SF has led to other World Maker Faires in Detroit, New York and Ghana. Unending enthusiasm has led O'Reilly to endorse community-organized Mini Maker Faires all over the world, and that leads us right here to Vancouver.

Spearheaded by the Vancouver Hack Space, Maker Faire Vancouver will be anything but mini. Held the weekend of June 25-26 at the Great Northern Way campus, the goal is for it to be HUGE.

And that means lots and lots of local makers, hackers, crafters and tinkerers need to come out to strut their stuff.

The application process is informal (I know this because I wiggled my way onto the organizing committee), so if you're super psyched but feel intimidated because you don't have a fully fleshed-out idea of what you'd like to do yet, that's okay. It's also okay if you can't commit to demonstrating your brilliance for the full two-day event – just indicate your time restrictions in the application. The deadline to apply to be a maker is March 17th, so you have some time but not that much time.

Spots are available for demonstrations and for commercial tables (commercial tables are for vendors who will sell things, like at a craft fair).

Be a part of what's sure to be the first annual Maker Faire Vancouver! In addition to the demos and the vendors, there will be speakers, performers, food and hopefully great weather for the outdoor parts of this family-friendly, geek-friendly, arts-friendly, fun-friendly extravaganza!

PS Early-bird tickets are already available through Eventbrite.