Dear Parents and Teachers, We bring together encouraging parents and enthusiastic Young Writers (ages 7-12) to share stories, exchange ideas, and grow creative writing skills in a fun and informal workshop setting. Our events include guest speakers (artists, writers, photographers, etc.), games, field trips and both one-time workshops and writing workshop series. Of course, we're always looking for new ideas to inspire creative writing within our community. If you have any questions, then please …

Parents, Imagine your teen being in a well-lit room full of aspiring writers, where everyone is talking excitedly and laughing. Some people are reading their stories out loud; others are asking for feedback on their blog posts and college essays. Everyone is working on a special piece for the Annual Teen Writers Anthology. The energy is contagious. Is your teen curious about joining a group of Teen Writers who share their passion for writing? As a parent, would you like to encourage their writin …

The Journal Workshop offers classes in the art of personal journaling, as well as on-going women's journal circles. Journal writing is one of the most powerful and accessible tools we have to heal, expand, and transform our lives.  Each class includes a presentation of carefully-crafted prompts, questions, guided imagery and other explorations designed to help even the most reluctant journal writer to express herself and experience the benefits of personal journaling. You will learn dozens of cr …

Join us for a fascinating evening with author David R. Gillham, author of City of Women, a multi-layered novel that tackles life in World War II Berlin as Sigrid finds herself caught between what is right and what is wrong. Read more about the novel: Whom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved? It is 1943--the height of the Second World War--and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. Sigrid Schroder is, for all intents and purposes, the model German soldier's wife: She …

Sole-2-Soul Vitality Group exists to provide fun, creative, and enlightening events where you can expand your inner and outer vitality with like-minded individuals. Examples of some of our upcoming events include: -Vision Boarding Playshops -Meditation Hikes -Creative Writing Gatherings (both writing and sharing our work) -Dance and Movement events (in conjunction with another group) -Qi gong Clinics -Personal Development Workshops/Speakers -Much, MUCH More! Information will be posted here as I …

Are you a consultant, speaker, or coach who wants to move to your next level? Every mass-level expert has a book. Do you want to be one of them? Or perhaps you have just always wanted to write a book. I've worked with top speakers and experts like Alex Mandossian, Jeff Slayter, Milana Leshinsky, and others. I have a passion for helping aspiring non-fiction authors get their book out! Our meetings are about exploring different tools and techniques for designing, creating, publishing and promoting …

If you've always wanted to get a book published and didn't know how, this meetup group will teach you the steps. · Learn how to pitch your book at a conference · Demystify the query letter and get steps on how to write one · Develop your author platform before you are even published We'll explore traditional publishing and self-publishing, and everything in between, and break down the right publishing steps for you into manageable chunks so you can integrate writing and publishing into your dail …

The “Let’s make a FILM!” group is for volunteer low/no budget filmmakers and just regular people who want to participate in making a short film (usually 10 min or less). So if you want to give it a try for the first time or perhaps you have experience and just want to brush up on your skills, come join us! Interested writers please send in original scripts to be considered for future productions. Also come participate in our occasional LMAF writers groups to create original material for us to p …

CLINE was established to encourage and facilitate the scientific exploration of the intersection of computation, language, information, complexity, and intelligence as they are influenced by, and influence, the process of evolution. Of particular interest to this group is the development of self-evolving systems. The assumption is that apex systems evolve toward greater and greater complexity-handling capacity. Some call this "artificial intelligence," but we have trouble with the term as it: 1 …

I am inspired and awestruck by listening to the first recordings of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes' "Dangerous Old Woman", an on-line series I purchased and downloaded from Sounds True. I would love to share these profound recordings in community with other 'wild women'. This collection is six recordings of an hour each. We can gather, listen, share some cheese, chocolate and wine. From there I have a vision of deciding together where our exploration of reading and story listening takes us, explorin …

We'll discuss different kinds of algorithms. First, we'll try to understand basic algorithms. We'll also discuss simple puzzles and brain teasers. If you are not from mathematical background, you'll find it simple and if you are from computer science, you'll find it interesting. You can also post any algorithms you want to discuss in particular. Learning Practical Applications: We'll try to understand algorithms practical applications. The challenge is not to write complex algorithms but to …

Meet other developers who enjoy the agility and quality in writing automated tests. Come and hear experts demonstrate new tools and techniques. Participate in discussions on how to solve particular challenges. We target developers and expect to span both introductory and advanced subjects, including: Experience exchange, Q&A Web UI testing using Selenium or WatiN Testing embedded software Test Driven Development Behaviour Driven Development When to use stubs and mocks Google Test (C++ testing f …

The Silicon Valley Speechwriters Roundtable is modeled on the long-standing Washington Speechwriters Roundtable. It is a casual alliance of speechwriters who work with organizations located in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area who are interested in professional camaraderie, sharpening skills, sharing resources, and exchanging war stories. The group is open to anyone (no matter where you live) who currently works with Silicon Valley companies, or might like to do so. Our members might …

http://www.moviemakersunite.com/.org MMU Presents : SILICON VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL AND AWARDS  OCT-NOV. , 2012 www.svfilmfestival.org MMU FILM FESTIVAL '09 :  http://www.meetup.com/moviemakersunit...... MMU - PRODUCTION , PITCH AND NETWORKING MEETINGS: Bi Weekly. Bring your script / idea in one page. If you have a script, you will get your film production scheduled immediately. And network with fellow film makers, actors, camera, editors,etc. Current Projects: (Details in the about pages) Am …

This club is intended for those in the Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Cupertino areas who love literary criticism for fiction and creative nonfiction. Each month we'll choose a book to read for the next month. The group will not focus on a single type of literary criticism, but rather on the range of appropriate types. In addition there will be a time during the meeting to express what you took away from reading the book. Depending on the venue for the meeting, we will have different restrictions …

Tell me if any of these sound familiar: “I just wish I had the time — then I’d do my creative thing.” “I want to… but I don’t have the talent. I’m not creative..” “My stuff just isn’t good enough.” “How can I justify spending time creating, when there are so many really important things I have to get done?” “I want to create so badly, so why do I always end up procrastinating?” “I’m a very creative person but unable to find a way to express myself.” “I have lots of huge, long term projects start …

If you can code in C/C++, you can code in any language. Moreover, you can tackle any programming problem you want. No other language can make as powerful a claim. My thinking is that there are other people who would like to learn how to program in C++, and we'd love to be the one to help them, while brushing up on our skills at the same time. Convoluted languages like Java & Ruby dominate the scene, despite being characteristically less efficient, more difficult to scale, and just plain more dif …

Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) transforms lives by helping people build job search skills and find jobs to achieve self-sufficiency. We believe that helping people to find jobs is a way to help people live better lives; our work with people, whether we are providing training to build skills or job search assistance, is linked to increasing employability. At JVS, we can help you with the skills and resources you need to find the right job. For some, the workshops and classes in our calendar can …

This new Meetup will be for all writers and book lovers with various interests, styles, and purposes. Think of it as an "umbrella" group where you can post your own specific book ideas or book club events, as well as interact with authors or book readers, without the cost of paying the Meetup fee and setting up a new Meetup account.

Accounting & Tax Strategies discussions for Small Business Owners and other self-employed U.S. Government Study Concludes: Small Businesses Overpay the IRS by an Average of $11,638 How to pay less tax and take all the deductions we are entitled to and How to not take any deductions we are not entitled to and avoid paying thousands of dollars in tax penalties? We can’t count on our accountant to follow us everywhere keep books for us just like we don’t expecting our dentist to brush our teeth …

This is meetup group for Intuit QuickBooks for Mac. We don't get out of our office in Mountain View, CA very often (we're writing all that code!). But when we do, we'd love to meet you, answer any questions, or just say "hi." If you're a small business owner using a Mac, whether you're a current user or not, please join to find out about our Meetups. And we love our Intuit ProAdvisors, too! Even if you're on QuickBooks for Windows, if you have Mac clients, you may have questions for us. You can …

This group is offered as an exploration of creativity, sound, voice, and music, as tools to deepen our experience of everyday life. We access the sounds in our environment as well as in our own bodies - our breath, voice, silence, and resonance as human beings. We may explore meditation, yoga, singing, art, food, nature, writing, or any other aspects of human expression. Circles are led by a rotating members from a cohort of sound healing practitioners trained at the California Institute of Inte …

This is an experimental subset of the Bay Area Quantified Self Show&Tell meetup group. It's QS in the valley - an eclectic exploration of self-tracking - geotracking, life-logging, DNA sequencing, etc. - to gain more knowledge about yourself.  If you have a self-tracking story to share or want to come and learn and be inspired, join us! Topics include, but are not limited to: • Aging in Place Technology • Behavior change and monitoring • Caregiving of digital patients • Chemical Body Load Counts …

Make movies mainly in Indian languages with like minded movie makers. To start a platform where people can share ideas and collaborate to create movies/shorts of good quality .

Well, let’s just dip our toe shoes into the water, here, and see if there’s any balletomania afoot, for a new meetup now. Amid the epoch of “Black Swan" at the movies, and with the Giants having won the World Series (yes, whipping through 32 fouetté turns is almost as hard as hitting a Lincecum fastball), and now the first book ever published about the entire history of ballet (“Apollo’s Angels,” by Jennifer Homans), and, ta-dah, most important of all, with the world-class San Francisco Ballet …