Thanks for your interest in the East Bay Mini Maker Faire!

Update:

For more than a decade the staff and families of Park Day School have joyfully put on the East Bay Mini Maker Faire as a true labor of love for our community. But this year, between the dangers of the pandemic and fire season and the corresponding economic impact on so many of our local Makers, the EBMMF is on hold for the time being.

 

Watch for more information to follow as we plan for our next event, perhaps in the Spring of 2022.  Thank you for your support over the years. We can’t wait to welcome our Makers and all our guests back to the Park Day School Campus for the next East Bay Mini Maker Faire!

About the East Bay Mini Maker Faire and Park Day School

Featuring both established and emerging local “makers,” the East Bay Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration featuring rockets and robots, digital fabrication, DIY science and technology, urban farming and sustainability, alternative energy, bicycles, unique hand-made crafts, music and local food, and educational workshops and installations.

 

The East Bay Mini Maker Faire follows the “big” Maker Faire model of celebrating invention, creativity, and resourcefulness, but is smaller in scale (170+ makers  vs. 1200 makers; 6,000+ people on one day vs. 65,000) and will showcase the wonders of Alameda and Contra Costa counties and beyond!  We were one of the first “Mini” Maker Faires when we launched in 2010. Now we’re part of a huge, truly global network of Maker Faires spanning 40+ countries.

 

The East Bay Mini Maker Faire is fortunate to have Park Day School as its host and sponsor.  The in-person event uses Park Day School’s four-acre, “secret garden” campus nestled behind Oakland Technical High School in the Temescal District, as well as the adjacent facilities of Studio One Art Center, Oakland’s only city-run building and program dedicated to studio arts instruction in a wide range of media for persons of all ages.

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What is Maker Faire?

Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these "makers" to show hobbies, experiments, projects.

We call it the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth - a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness.

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