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>>Volunteer Call-Outs

The 6th edition of Studio XX's feminist cyber art festival: Maid in Cyberspace is but a few short months away. We need all hands on deck to help with web design, publicity and basic organization. If you are interested please attend the volunteer orientation meeting on Wednesday January 8th at 5:00pm. For more information call: 845-7934 or email: miriam@studioxx.org

Montreal's South Asian Women's Community Centre (SAWCC) is looking for a volunteer computer teacher for a series of workshops beginning on January 13th and ending mid-march.
The workshops cover PC basics including; file management, surfing te web and Office applications. Classes are held twice a week and can be scheduled according to the instructors needs.
for More info please call: 845-7934 or email: miriam@studioxx.org

>> 2003 Workshop Schedule:

To register for a 2003 winter workshop please call:845-0289 or email: deborah@studioxx.org.

>> Community Access Program at XX

The Studio is proud to announce the launch of its Community Access Program(CAP). Supported by Industry Canada, the CAP program allows us to offer our i-Mac lab as a workspace free of charge from Monday - Thursday, 10am- 5pm. Come and surf the web, manipulate an image or learn more about making your own web page. As well, we are pleased to offer free intensive intro workshops every other Saturday.(see below)

>> Free Saturday Workshops

Offered free to the public Studio XX's Saturday courses are useful introductions to the world of computers. To register simply call 845-7934 and ask to speak with Deb.

>> Open Access projects

We are currently looking for particpants for our Stamp microcontroller project group. the Stamp is a small microcontroller embeddded on a circuit board. It is used for making programmable circuit projects. By learning to work with the stamp you can learn basic electronics, basic programming and the principles of interactivity. For more information please send an email to miriam@studioxx.org

>> User Groups

STUDIO XX MEMBERS

Are you interested in learning more about image manipulation, free of charge?

New in 2002/2003 Studio XX offers user groups, opportunities for women to share their knowledge with each other,through mediated online forums and monthly on-site meetings.

Studio xx will host a forum a portal from at which group members can post queries and browse for a response.
The forum will be mediated by a knowledgable volunteer who will also provide help and condense archives into categories, as well as conducting on line tutorials via the forum.

Once a month members of the user group are invited to XX to participate in a group learning event where each member is invited to share and explain aspects of her learning process.

If you are a member of XX and interested in becoming involved please send an email to Miriam@studioxx.org
if you are not a member please go to :

http://www.studioxx.org/e/main/member.html

and find out how you can become part of this excellent learning opportunity.

**Look for more user groups in winter of 2003 MAX/msp and interactivity.