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 …

ACA is the national professional body representing architects in private practice in the UK. Since 1973 we have been working to further the advancement of architecture and its practice including the development of the ACA form of Building Contract, the  Project Partnering Contract PPC2000 and more recently the appointment document ACA SFA 2010. We organise conferences, seminars and exhibitions for members and non members and work closely with other Trade Associations engaged in the Construction …

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 …

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.

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 …

Welcome to our group! Our Cycle Explorers group is for people who wish to explorer the urban environment that London and the surrounding countryside has to offer. This isn’t just another cycle meet up group, its focus is light exercise through cycling, culture through exploration and fun times through a great bunch of people. The events take us past historic landmarks, abstract art installations and a variety of London architecture and infrastructure which you will see from a fresh and exciting …

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 …

'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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Promoting local excellence for local projects - focused on the Kent Construction scene - networking - collaboration - sharing knowledge - events - opportunities - getting involved and doing something constructive to kick start the construction in Kent. This is for contractors - consultants - clients - developers - specialists, suppliers and manufacturers in both the private and public sectors. Join in and get involved !

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 …

Meet PHP users, developers and recruiters near you! Come to PHP London to exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and open source in general. Anyone interested in PHP is welcome!

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 …

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 …

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 …

Guided walks through central London, starting and ending at a pub. See where authors painters and musicians lived and worked. Wednesday evenings after work. There are no events during the months October to March.

The Sussex Artists Club is a social and business networking group for artists, arts professionals, art lovers, gallerists, critics, arts models and creatives who are based largely in Brighton and the south east of England. The club aims to support the arts locally, offering a social environment for the sharing of ideas, inspiration, information and opportunities in a relaxing environment. We don't get together to draw or make any art. We don't review portfolios or work or any of that. This group …

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.

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 …

We've setup this group to connect with fellow creatives... Anyone who works within the Creative industry should join this group i.e: Creative Directors, Designers (everything from fashion to digital to product to interiors and everything in between), Freelancers, Account Managers, Illustrators, Photographers etc. We will be meeting up monthly, all very casual settings where you can meet fellow like minded people. We will  also be having some great one off events that we will promote through h …

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 …

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

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.

ELEVATOR PITCH Gathering .NET coders, hackers, enthusiasts, evangelists, and experts to meet and discuss about all areas of the Microsoft .NET platform. WHO SHOULD JOIN Fulltime .NET practitioners only (no recruiters please!). BENEFITS Show off your work to peers. Get to know other smart developers. Bounce around ideas and discuss trends. WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND Rather than coming to *watch*, you should join this meetup to *participate*. It's about sharing war stories; comparing tools 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.

At the Coach House  promotes creative living, placing the local environment, people , plants, geography and architecture at the heart of all we do. This is a group  and space for people interested in exploring and learning new skills, experimenting with ideas through creativity in the arts and crafts, sciences and beyond. We meet at the Coach House ones of Brightons best kept secrets.