Calling all practicing graphic designers in the Eastside and Greater Seattle area! Meet other creatives for inspiration and discussions that only creatives understand. It's a non-competitive group organized by a few professional designers who love to collaborate and have a fun time together. Bring your project or portfolio piece for discussion or come and share your challenges as a designer over a cup of coffee!

Welcome to Redmond Roaring Writers! We're a writing/critique group that meets every other Wednesday at the Redmond, WA Panera Bread. This is a drop-in group, meaning that all you need to do is to print out up to 6 pages (double-spaced) of your current work-in-progress. Be sure to check attendance so you know how many to print out (up to 8, we split into groups beyond 8). We critique each piece in turn, aiming for delivering helpful feedback in a supportive environment. Thank you for your interes …

Would you like to earn some money with your writing skills? These days, thanks to the explosive eBook phenomenon, everyone gets published. Did you know Amazon, the worlds largest book seller, now sells more eBooks than printed books? NEW Category: KINDLE SINGLE. Any Topic, 5000 word minimum. Aprox 20 pages. To start with, we'll focus on preparing eBooks for the Kindle book reader, as it is the largest and most profitable market. (No need to purchase a Kindle reader.) You set the sale price of yo …

The Graphic Artists Guild is committed to improving conditions for all graphic artists (including, but not limited to: animators, cartoonists, designers, illustrators, and digital artists) and raising standards for the entire industry. The Seattle Chapter holds monthly workshops from September to June on topics ranging from business-building to technical developments and design challenges. It's a great way to expand your skills and network with other visual creatives.

Want to get creative? Too much work to gather the materials? Don’t want to invest a lot in materials before trying a new craft? Come enjoy a sophisticated craft class for adults. A different craft technique will be presented each week with a different project. ALL materials and tools are included!!! Examples of crafts we’ll do over the next 3 months are: glass etching, marbleizing paper, Mexican metal hole punching, linoleum block printing, etc. Each class will start with a short demo of the cra …

I started TPW in response to my own desire to investigate the opportunities in the world of travel photography and writing. Many people would love to have the job of a travel photography/writer, but very few are willing to "pay the dues" and learn the craft. Every guy with a camera (GWAC to professional photographers) thinks he can spend $5000 on equipment and immediately start raking in the dough as a photographer. The truth is, it's not about the camera. Give a great photographer a hundred do …

The Seattle Area Photoshop User Group (SEAPUG) has a mission to connect, inspire, and inform Photoshop, Lightroom, and Bridge users in the Seattle area. We meet the third Tuesday of the month. Joining our meetup ensures you'll receive invitations to all our events. Invitations are typically sent the first week of the month. Please sign up through Meetup.com to get meeting reminders. You may also want to join the group through the Adobe website: \ Mike Anitas has returned to join Howard as SEAPUG …

Looking to meet up with people interested in something different than you, but sort of the same? Everett Creatives is a meet up for a diverse group of creative professionals who want to network and collaborate to create a sustainable creative community in the Everett area.

OlyMEGA (Olympia Makers, Engineers, Geeks and Artists) is a technology interest group open to all ages and all knowledge levels. The mission of OlyMEGA is to create an open tech community in the Olympia/Thurston County. Members are encouraged to share their knowledge, learn from others, and create from what they learn. We have a shared workshop called a MakerSpace at 311 Capitol Way N., Olympia. We are working on scheduled hours of operation now. Watch for Meetups announced at the space and com …

Au Business Club is a place where business owners and professionals come together and build the community of successful businesses. Our focus is to take the independent business owner and give them with the tools and infrastructure to take their business to the next level, and beyond, while providing them the resources to keep their budgets and focus in line. We provide your the following resources: Team of Consultants and Coaches Training Events and Continuing Education Courses Networking and S …

This is a group of amateur photographers who want to share their knowledge and improve their shooting, post-processing, and printing skills. Our activities include photo critiques, self-imposed shooting assignments, and member presentations or demonstrations on photographic topics. Topics might include things like: Is RAW better than jpeg? What does the histogram tell me? Why shoot to the right? Where can I get good (bird, cityscape, waterfall) shots? So if you would like to have some pho …

Having begun work as an herbal educator back in 1977, I would like to share casual information about herbalism, including growing herbs. We have an on-site research library and a 45,000 square foot botanical garden. My book The Master Book of Herbalism has been selling strong since it came into print in 1984. I have an excellent Master Herbalist Program which attracts top students (including Registered Nurses). I represent a wealth of resources. When teaching at Seattle Central I'm able to show …

Our goal is to create a supportive and encouraging environment where designers can share their work and receive constructive and helpful feedback.

The renaissance is here, and it brought ice-cream! So, here’s the idea: Ideas. Unfiltered, unencumbered, and unapologetically enthusiastic ideas. Ideas that lead to grease-smeared hands, lavender sorbet, things that go bang, clouds of steam, those goggle-marks you see on crazy chemistry geeks, and some guy (or girl) in the background juggling and swinging from a trapeze. We are a collective of intellectual eccentrics, passionate about learning and our various (and yes, I mean various) arts. Wal …

A truly successful fashion editorial stays relevant long after trends change. It remains a piece of art, a cultural record of a given time, a document of emotion, dreams, values, social commentary, and beauty. Seattle Fashion Photography members collaborate to create art through the editorial and fashion photography. However, a photo is useless if it remains unseen. That’s why along with creating breathtaking photography we provide a means for every member to network, develop a portfolio, bui …

This is for anyone who loves stories and has a story to tell. Before TV and even before the printing press people listened to each other tells stories for entertainment. This group hopes to keep the person to person tradition of storytelling alive. Stories for a Thursday Evening begins with a short program by a featured teller after-which the teller answers questions. This is followed by a ten minute intermission with tea and a small snack provided. The evening ends with an hour long open mic. w …

I really enjoy old things made of paper! For beginners, there are: postcards, old photographs, posters, sports and non sports cards, greeting cards, magazines, prints, ads, coupons, brochures, books, calendars, stamps, paper money, maps, newspapers, historical documents and much more! These fascinating items document our history and reveal wondrous things about us as individuals, as a nation, a civilization, and as human beings - in all our diversity and possibilities! And all of this has been i …

We are One Energy and realizing and focusing on this simple yet amazing reality is the pathway to inner and world peace. Let me explain. Life was born with a single cell that multiplied and evolved into the all life on earth. That means we are all inner connected with everything living on earth. Imagine that for a second. We are all inner-connected with all other life that has ever been, and will ever be. If you believe in that simple concept then that is blue print and pathway for love and peac …