Welcome to All Things Baroque. As the name suggests, we celebrate Baroque culture in all its forms - music, art, architecture, theatre, dance as well as food and wine. London was home to men with big hair such as Wren, Westminster boy Purcell and Händel, who, just like the royal family, was a German who became British. We are pretty spoilt for choice as far as Baroque music and art is concerned, although the flamboyant architectural style never took off here in the way it did in continental Eur …

Glug is a regular after-work creative drinks and Notworking event for designers, creatives, clients and friends brought to you by Ian Hambleton and Nick Clement. It’s an eclectic mix of people from all creative walks of life; from advertising and graphic design through to fashion and architecture. Glug started a couple of years ago as a handful of mates talking shop in an East London pub. Two years later and it’s a nationwide (and soon to be international) event with over 3,500 signed-up members …

We, Ravn Systems, started this group to help users of Autonomy's various software products (IDOL, Worksite, Zantaz, Meridio, Verity K2, Ultraseek, etc.) get together and share their experiences and insights with other users. We will scope the interest in organizing informal meetings with users for the purpose of sharing experiences, insights, best practice advice and other bits of information that could be useful to current and prospective users of this software. If you are an Autonomy user …

Our group covers most of the products Adobe offers, focusing on products in the Creative Suite family. Whether your interest is in design, development or eLearning, we have something for you! A free monthly catch up and what’s more, we are going to throw in some training tips for free. Do you want free training? Well join the club The Creative Class Club in London in run by Academy Class the Adobe Authorised Training Centre and is available for both old friends and new friends We do hope you’ll …

Get together to go to galleries, museums and arts events throughout London. Discussions, focus groups, lobbying. Share the joy of the arts with other like-minded folk, exchange your thoughts, impressions and insights as we engage in various museum and gallery collections. London is full of fascinating arts venues which can be more fun to visit with a group - seeing things through other eyes and fresh perspectives.   Some of the proposed meet-ups will offer you the possibility to learn about new …

This group is for anyone interested in walking, living and experiencing the Olympics 2012 and the regeneration of East London. What an exciting time for the UK and moreover an event that will take place and change East London for ever the Olympics 2012. This is a Walking and Exploring Group, I would really love everyone to join this group and experience an event that we will only see once in our lifetime 2012. We will all be meeting at Stratford Stration outside Marks & Spencer at the exciting W …

Fox&Squirrel walks are the brainchild of Jojo and Penelope. With a collective background in various Cultural & Creative Industries Jojo and Penelope are fascinated by the cultural significance of fashion, art, architecture and food. Their everyday terrain involves detecting, observing and analysing fashion, architecture, art and food phenomena and the impact these have on peoples’ lives and on their city. This detailed knowledge prompted the duo to set up the Fox&Squirrel blog through which …

If you’re looking for an informal meet-up to talk about user-centred research, you’ve come to the right place. At The Research Thing you’ll be able to meet others who share your interest to exchange tips, tricks and horror stories. Your evening will be jam-packed with everything from the tools and techniques for bringing users into design, to analysis, deliverables and presentation skills. You can look forward to workshops, activities and talks by those who want to share their experiences. There …

This group is for anyone who deals with content. That’s user experience designers, information architects, web writers and editors, web developers and technologists, marketers, communications pros, community managers, product managers, publishers, entrepreneurs, and content strategists of all stripes. We set up this group to allow professionals from all backgrounds with an interest in content strategy to share ideas and learn from each other in an informal environment. If we’re going to help our …

This group discusses the design and implementation graph databases with a focus on distributed architectures. These databases use graph structures with nodes, edges, and properties to represent and store information. You should join if you need to deliver systems and services for social networking, business intelligence, scientific research, or similar areas requiring fast discovery of higher-order relationships (node to edge graph structures) in large, distributed data.

Calling all Architects, Graphic Designers, Interior Designers, Photographers and anyone who is passionate about Design and lives in London

The Oracle community meetup for all things relating to Oracle and Big Data / Hadoop / NoSQL within an Enterprise environment. For less specific and more general Big Data and Hadoop community discussions please see two excellent London meetups: Big Data London meetup Hadoop User Group UK meetup Also for a perspective on the business value of Big Data try LonData.

Arts and Wine Group has been created to learn about two subjects which go together perfectly: Arts and Wine A&W Group has devised a series of arts- and wine-inspired lectures that will include: Fine art and wine Opera and wine Literature and wine Architecture and wine It is your chance to learn more about the arts and wine and to meet like-minded people in a relaxed and informal – yet stylish – atmosphere. Joie de vivre at its finest! The events are oganised by Jane-Angela Arte - designer, art …

A new meetup group for EAs based in London. The idea is to learn more about what we all do, and hopefully learn from each others' best practice.

The London Windows Azure User Group. Meeting monthly for evenings and weekly for mornings to discuss and consult on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform.

Love life, love home, love living there. This is a sociable group aimed at those who are thinking about carrying out any kind of home improvement, big or small, around London. Come along for a drink & a laugh to share your stories and ideas, ask questions you’ve always wanted to know the answer to, from people who can help you on almost anything home related! Do I need planning permission for my loft conversion? How should I decorate the nursery? Will a downstairs loo add value to my property? …

The Big Data Debate is a meetup group where like-minded professionals can get together and discuss relevant and timely topics in big data. We facilitate discussion by bringing you highly regarded speakers across a range of disciplines and allowing you the chance to become an interactive part of the discussion. Members of this group include a range of professionals working across all areas of big data in and around London. Meetups are held once a month at a central London location and include sp …

This group is for people with a zest for exploration and adventure, both in the outer and inner worlds! Life is a wonderful adventure to be enjoyed:) I believe the greatest lesson we can learn is how to feel good inside ourselves, when we have mastered this we can share this wonderful gift with others. Meetups and events will cover: How to raise your level of consciousness, heal yourself and really increase your quality of life through meditation, lucid dreaming and astral travel. Exploration o …

Architecture begins where engineering ends. (Walter Gropius) Hello fellow architects... This meetup-group is about software-/system-architecture. We will talk about different technologies and different methodologies, discuss current hypes, compare project types, learn from each other's experience, etc. The 'system architect' role is not dead. It is still one of the most important roles in the development of complex software system. When you are building simple applications you might not need a s …

Calling all unemployed Architects . . . are you frustrated, despondent, hopeful, confused and vexed by the current situation faced by yourself and so many other talented, hard working, dedicated professionals in the industry? . . . Well this is the group for you! In the face of such an intractable employment situation and with limited help available, it seems the only option is to help ourselves. This group is provides a space to meet other unemployed Architects, to share our experiences, knowle …

This is a group for software Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) professionals in London, United Kingdom, who are particularly interested in Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS). The user group meetings will cover all aspects of ALM including requirements gathering, performance metrics, all forms of testing, code management, configuration, build and deployment. The group will be of interest to Business Analysts, Requirement Engineers, Developers, Testers, Project Managers, Build Engineers a …

'Vienna 1900 opened new vistas in medicine, art, architecture, art criticism, design, philosophy, economics, and music. It opened a dialogue among biological sciences and psychology, literature, music, and art, and thereby initiated an integration of knowledge that we are still engaged in to this day.' - Eric Kandel This is a group for artists, scientists, designers, psychologists, philosophers or any other creative/intellectual pursuit. If you looking for a group to share your ideas, collaborat …

This is a group for anyone who is practising, studying, or has an interest Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Our aim is to share ideas, experiences and knowledge through organising events like social meetups and professional meetings/presentations.

Style, Design, Beauty Style, Design, Beauty Group (SDB) is created for people who appreciate these things and want to learn more to enhance their living. It is a chance to learn and see more while enjoying the process! The group would be highly suitable for 3 groups of people: - Design, Fashion, Architecture Lovers – who love and appreciate them, not necessarily having special training, but who would like to learn more; - Design, Fashion and Architecture Professionals – specialised lectures and …

The London Urban Photography Network is a collective of working artists, sociologists, lecturers and students primarily from the Visual Sociology department and Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) at Goldsmiths College, University of London. We organise workshops, lectures, seminars and general get togethers for anyone interested in photography and sociology in an urban context.

Free Film Festivals is an award-winning south London community group and our events bring people together to share film events and celebrate their local area. We show films in a range of venues and spaces; both indoors and outdoors. Our programme for 2013 includes: • Camberwell Free Film Festival (14 to 24 March) • New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival (26 April to 5 May) • Herne Hill Free Film Festival (starts 19 April) • Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival (5 to 15 September) Our events …

Type Tasting workshops are sessions in which participants get away from their computers and get their hands dirty – experimenting with type and exploring its expressive qualities. The workshops take participants back to their creative roots through play and exploration. They give experienced designers an imagination refresher and novices an accessible introduction to typography. Challenges are set such as creating letterforms out of sound or expressing type as image. Type safaris are guided walk …

No need to be an architect to join these walks! If you like street level London and like looking at buildings, this is your group! Leisurely walks, in small groups, will take you past (and sometimes inside!) contemporary buildings that you may have never noticed before, or that you have always been curious about. This is not a group for experts, but for people of all walks of life who like looking up from street level. Most of all, this is about enjoying your build environment and perhaps discov …