Baltimore DIYFest 2011!

Want to find out about having homing pigeons? There’s a workshop on October 16th!! Check it out here!

Looking to turn a vacant lot into green space in the city? Join us at DIY Fest, we will have a representative from the Baltimore City Mayor’s office discuss the new “Power in Dirt” program that has changed the adopt-a-lot policies and started a water access program. Check out our workshops page for more information and a link to details about the new program.

We updated the Workshops link to give you a sneak peak of some of the workshops taking place at this year’s Fest – check it out!

This year Kidz City is going to be working with DIY Fest to program more activities for children, support for parents, and help facilitate all-ages community building skills. We want your input! Parents and kids: what interests you? What would you or your children like to learn or to share? Workshop presenters: we would like to tag existing DIY workshops that are particularly open to youth interaction to have on the schedule – get in touch (to discuss what that means, as well as to learn/get support on how-to).

We also need volunteers! If you have a skill that you’d like to share with the future generation, we want you! Or, if you want to hang out with youth, we want you too!

For more info contact China at: radkidcare@gmail.com and put DIY FEST in the subject line.

I’d like to personally apologize to anyone who has sent us a tabling or workshop application recently. Apparently Gmail changed the way it was dealing with spam, so our applications were going straight to our spam folder!!! We may have lost a couple applications, so please do not hesitate to resend us your application – just in case.

The problem should be fixed now, so send away!!!

Sorry for the inconvenience…

This year we will be having an urban livestock workshop!  Steve Wollett will be teaching DIY Fest attendees about how legally to raise chickens and rabbits in Baltimore city.  Don’t miss out on this one!

The 5th annual DIY Fest will be taking place on Saturday, September 17th at 2640. Start sending us your suggestions/thoughts/comments/tabling requests/workshop requests!!!

We will have some pumpkins up for grabs for anyone wanting to carve/paint a pumpkin between 3:15-3:45.

The times for this year’s workshops have been finalized. See the workshop section!

We had some technical difficulties, but they’ve all been fixed.

We’ve updated the Workshops section of the site with some of the workshops taking place at this year’s Fest.

There will be more workshops to come!