The Hive

Made @ the Hive: Nerikomi Air-Dry Clay
2019-11-15 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Toolbox — The Hive, 130 E 7th St., Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Make a clay dish or mini pot using the Japanese nerikomi technique! Play around with different colored clay and patterns to build a unique and useful piece.

Made @ the Hive: Cards & Cocoa Study Break
2019-12-13 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Commons — The Hive, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Want to surprise your family and friends with handmade holiday cards? Come to the Hive to brainstorm ideas, collaborate with others, and learn lettering and paper craft techniques, all while sipping on a nice cup of hot cocoa.

Intro to Design Thinking
2019-10-29 19:15 - 20:45 (America/Los_Angeles)
Intro to Design Thinking has been rescheduled to Tuesday, October 29th from 7:15-8:45 p.m. in Studio 2. Thank you.

Need some preparation before Sparkathon? Learn about the design-thinking framework at this crash-course workshop.

How to Start Your Own Business
2019-10-28 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Have dreams of launching your own start-up? Come learn how to start your own business from Shark Tank winner and co-founder of Chirps, Laura D’Asaro!

Made @ the Hive: Shibori Cloth Dyeing
2019-09-27 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Toolbox — The Hive, 130 E 7th St., Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Come learn all about the art and culture behind this historically rich Japanese tie-dye method. Let’s get creative with using different materials and techniques to unfold beautiful and unexpected patterns!

Designing your Personal Brand
2019-09-20 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Discover tips, tricks, and methods for creating your professional brand.

Podcasting Workshop [Series]
2019-02-26 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Already have an idea for a podcast, or don’t know where to start? All are invited to come and explore what makes a great podcast and learn how you can create your own!
Skills covered include interviewing, storytelling, using a mic, editing audio, and publishing pieces. Spaces are limited.
Dates:
February 26, 2019: Creating a podcast
March 12, 2019: Voice Acting Workshop*
March 26, 2019: Audio recording and editing
April 9, 2019: TBD
April 23, 2019: TBD
Spaces are limited!
Sign up for the workshops here:
https://goo.gl/forms/ZPt0PuWPepgXkT4C3
*There will be a separate event and sign up for the Voice Acting Workshop on March 12, 2019. Stay tuned!

BioMap (BioArt) Sample Collection Event
2019-04-16 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Pomona student Iren Coşkun has been hard at work figuring out how to create a bio-art project involving biology, identity, 3D printing and the Hive!
It’s all very cool, so we suggest you get involved – something you can do as simply as by sticking your thumb-print in some agar.
More details from the poster:
“We want to create a world map, a “BioMap,” using fingerprint samples from 5C students to emphasize the importance of our microbiota, the concept of identity, and diversity! We will plant the microorganisms from your fingerprint samples to any location that has shaped your identity on our agar jelly world map. We will then display our BioMap at the Hive. Check out the sample collection dates below and come be a part of this amazing “live” art work!”
Sample collection event at the Hive:
Tuesday, April 16 from 6:30-8pm.
Other sample collection dates on campus:
11:30 am at Frary on 4/11 &
11:30am at Frank on 4/18.
Final art and process talk/exhibition at the Hive – Wednesday, May 1, 6:30-8pm.
See the cover photo (poster) for more details.

PowerPoint Karaoke
2019-04-19 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Drop in to play a fun game of PowerPoint Karaoke and improve your public speaking skills (no singing required, unless you really want to!).

Creative Careers in Human-Centered Design
2019-04-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Learn more about some of the ways professionals are using human-centered design in their careers … and how you can too.
Panelists to be announced starting April 1.

Tools For Generative Thinking
2019-02-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Come explore the science behind creativity and learn tools to enhance your ability to generate great ideas. Get beyond the sameness, get beyond the ordinary, get to something truly new and different. Whether it’s ideas for a new way to solve a complex problem, growing awareness for your cause, raising funds, naming a student club, starting the next big thing … or something else, these tools will help boost your generative thinking. Peppered with real-life stories, this interactive workshop will share tips on how to put these tools into practice. See those ideas fly!
Jo Thorogood is a partner at The Sage Network, a group of ideation and facilitation professionals. Jo has worked with Fortune 100 corporations, small businesses, and start-ups across many different industries–from media to medical, paint to pain meds, sound to soup. She has lived and worked in the UK, Australia, Finland, and the US.

Marketing Design 101
2019-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Figure out how you can get an edge on promoting your club or event. Learn the ins and outs of grid, color, imagery, and font for creating beautiful and effective flyer, poster, and presentation designs with the Claremont Marketing Group.

Lean Startup for Social Impact
2019-02-27 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Put on your entrepreneurial thinking cap and participate in a simulation designed to show how you can apply lean startup principles to maximize social impact. Take on the role of a pair of first-time founders and work in teams to figure out the most efficient and effective ways of leveraging new business models to address a health and education issue in the developing world. Led by Jivika Rajani.
Jivika Rajani is the founder and CEO of Aspir8 (Aspire + Innovate). Active in three transnational time zones and counting, Aspir8 exists to bring social innovation and entrepreneurship education into the mainstream – whether it be at schools and universities, or in more non-traditional, creative environments and corporate settings.

Valentine's Day Card Making
2019-02-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Learn cool card-making techniques and use all kinds of crafty materials to show the important people in your life how much you care about them!

36 Questions To Make Friends With Anyone
2019-01-25 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Come to this workshop to discover 36 questions that will help you make friends with [almost] anyone! Come to have fun, listen well, and maybe make a lifelong friend!
This event is loosely based on this New York times article and psychology research: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/modern-love-to-fall-in-love-with-anyone-do-this.html?ref=oembed
The questions take about 45 minutes to discuss—and they almost always make two people feel better about each other and want to see each other again, according to social psychology researcher Arthur Aron of the Interpersonal Relationships Lab at Stony Brook University in New York, who published his results in “The Experimental Generation of Interpersonal Closeness” in Personality and Social Psychology.

How To Change Your Future In 3 Easy Steps!
2019-01-29 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
A three-part workshop on how you can get the life you want taught by world-renowned mindfulness expert and CGU professor Jeremy Hunter.
See his TED talk for a taste of what to expect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-j6Qfj8udg
This is a multi-part workshop with a limited number of spaces available, so you must sign up for all three Tuesdays evenings. Workshops will be held on 1/29, 2/5, and 2/12, from 7-8:30pm.
1. Enhance Your Power of Attention

2. Arm Yourself Against Attention Hijackers

3. Make Something to Make the Change Stick
RSVP link: https://goo.gl/forms/x74S0Kl7uSPdwapD3

Metalsmithing workshop 2
2018-10-29 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Design and create a silver pendant (one per person), for yourself or a friend. Collaborate with others to learn about the design process, silversmithing, and indulge in your creative side. Spots are extremely limited. Please sign up if you are sure you can make it!
sign up here:
https://goo.gl/forms/gLG7IJucRnQM7qUi1

Creating New Habits
2018-11-13 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
What drives the creation of new habits? Learn a bag of tricks to create new habits in yourself to apply to personal or professional goals.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1990006624394545/

Warp and Weft: Negotiating Cultural Spaces Pop-up Art Exhibition and Workshop
2018-10-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Commons — The Hive, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Dougall Paulson will be hosting a workshop on negotiating culture, identity, and the loom, ending with a tour and reception at the museum.

Product Management Workshop
2018-10-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
This will be an interactive experience designed to let you experience what Product Management is, what it’s like to be a Product Manager and what ypes of companies hire them.

Blue Tape Mural
2018-09-14 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Come learn about the cool things you can do with blue tape! We will be collectively creating this years annual hive blue tape mural that will stay up until the next academic year.

What Drives: Creative Research
2018-04-13 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States

Hive Product Management Workshop
2018-03-27 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver)
Registration limited to 20. Please sign up here:
https://goo.gl/forms/E1tNjusk76vSVNda2
OFO bikes: Love them or hate them??
And, what is product management anyway? A fad? A ticket to big bucks and happiness? Two boring words connected?
This workshop will give you an experience in being a Product Manager. We’ll engage in a real exercise, using product management tools to decide on real life moves and predicting what will happen in a large-scale product test we are all in the middle of: OFO bikes. Learn how product decisions are made and make them.
The workshop will be led by Hive Director Fred Leichter calling upon his years of industry experience as a designer, product manager and manager of product managers. We also have participation from OFO’s product team in SoCal.
Co-sponsored by Pomona Ventures and the Hive.

Intro to Screen Printing
2018-03-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Commons — The Hive, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States

The Interview - Empathetic Listening and Recording
2018-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive at the Claremont Colleges, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Everyone and their mother has a podcast these days. Maybe you’ve even thought of making your own. Come try for yourself in a low-stakes, collaborative environment!
In the first workshop of three, we will provide technical recording knowledge, while exploring the power of listening and being listened to. We will learn how to use microphones and practice recording interviews!
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Join us for a series of three workshops exploring the podcast creation process and the technical and interpersonal skills it requires. Each workshop will introduce technical skills (using a mic, storyboarding, audio software) and their respective real-world corollary (empathetic listening, narrative storytelling, clear communication). These workshops will give you the tools necessary to understand, create, and share the stories around you.
All workshops build towards one final product — a collaborative podcast created by all participants. But you should feel free to come to as many as you like.
Workshop #1: The Interview – Empathetic Listening and Recording Confidence
Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/351241928693275/
Workshop #2: Storyboarding – Creating Compelling Narratives
Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1855143271173562/
Workshop #3: Audio Editing – Make it Sound Good
Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1154271541380505/
These workshops are a collaboration between The Hive and Disco. https://www.discursive.co

Podcasting Workshops
2018-02-22 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive at the Claremont Colleges, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Everyone and their mother has a podcast these days. Maybe you’ve even thought of making your own. Come try for yourself in a low-stakes, collaborative environment!
Join us for a series of three workshops exploring the podcast creation process and the technical and interpersonal skills it requires. Each workshop will introduce technical skills (using a mic, storyboarding, audio software) and their respective real-world corollary (empathetic listening, narrative storytelling, clear communication). These workshops will give you the tools necessary to understand, create, and share the stories around you.
All workshops build towards one final product — a collaborative podcast created by all participants. But you should feel free to come to as many as you like.
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Workshop #1: The Interview – Empathetic Listening and Recording Confidence
In the first workshop, we will provide technical recording knowledge, while exploring the power of listening and being listened to. We will learn how to use microphones and practice recording interviews!
Workshop #2: Storyboarding – Creating Compelling Narratives
In the second of three workshops, we will collaboratively create a podcast “prototype” and delve into different forms of communicating and storytelling. We will listen to the interviews recorded in the first workshop and collaboratively engage with the process of creating a cohesive narrative from them.
Workshop #3: Audio Editing – Make it Sound Good
In the last of the three workshops, we will learn the skills needed to craft crisp, professional sound, turning our initial prototype into a captivating podcast you’d be proud to have your name on.
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These workshops are a collaboration between The Hive and Disco. https://www.discursive.co

Sound Labs Series: 01 Micing
2018-02-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Toolbox — The Hive, 130 E 7th St., Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
For more information go to our facebook: www.facebook.com/pg/Hive5C/events/

Ashoka: Socially Conscious Entrepreneurs
2017-11-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive at the Claremont Colleges, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
At 7pm on Thurs Nov 16th @ The Hive, learn how socially conscious people use empathy and entrepreneurship to solve critical community issues. Join guest speaker, Lorena Garcia Duran, U.S. Director of Ashoka Support Network, in a conversation about how social entrepreneurship addresses both local and global problems. You’ll also get a taste of what it means to be a social entrepreneur and explore design thinking skills you can apply to your own life/business contexts.
Join The Hive and Claremont Lincoln University as we welcome Ashoka. This is a great event for people interested in seeing how entrepreneurship and social impact intersect in an organization!

Action Coding with Nancy Nowacek
2017-11-15 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Hive at the Claremont Colleges, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
On Wednesday, November 15 at 6pm in Studio 2, artist Nancy Nowacek will run a participatory workshop based on her project Action Coding, a research work that asks the question: what if computer coding were an embodied and visible practice? Could coding be performed and learned in dance clubs, at recess, or in gyms if somewhere between sport, hip-hop and sign language? Join her at the Hive to explore different ways of approaching the project of creating scripts, embodying actions, and performing code.
Snacks will be served
