Digital Design Skill Share
2020-09-23 16:30 - 18:00 UTC | Zoom, CA, United States
Learn how to use Adobe’s creative tools — Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects — to create digital ads, awesome resumés, animated gifs, and more. Please ensure that you have access to these digital creative tools before attending the workshop. No experience needed. Please register below.
The subject of each Skill Share:
Illustrator:

September 9th: Illustrating with Illustrator
September 23rd: Social media flyers with illustrator

Illustrator + Photoshop:

Oct 7th: DIY Animated Gifs in Illustrator
Oct 21st: TBD

Photoshop + After Effects:

Nov 4th: TBD
Nov 18th: TBD

Podcast: Made @ Home
2020-10-02 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Join Jason Brown to learn the basics of podcasting and sound production.
RSVP Required!

Generative Thinking with Jo Thorogood
2020-10-06 16:30 - 18:00 UTC | Zoom, CA, United States
Join Jo Thorogood to explore the science behind creativity and learn actionable skills to enhance your ability to generate great ideas in any situation.
RSVP is required! Please RSVP at the bottom of this page.

Visual Thinking Strategies with Dabney Hailey
2020-10-13 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Join Dabney Hailey to hone your skills in listening as a group, discerning unexpected details in art, and sharing out your observations. Come grow your visual thinking skills!
RSVP is required! Please RSVP at the bottom of this page.

Digital Design Skill Share
2020-10-21 16:30 - 18:00 UTC | Zoom, CA, United States
Learn how to use Adobe’s creative tools — Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects — to create digital ads, awesome resumés, animated gifs, and more. Please ensure that you have access to these digital creative tools before attending the workshop. No experience needed. Please register below.
The subject of each Skill Share:
Illustrator:

September 9th: Illustrating with Illustrator
September 23rd: Social media flyers with illustrator

Illustrator + Photoshop:

Oct 21st: DIY Animated Gifs in Illustrator

Photoshop + After Effects:

Nov 4th: TBD
Nov 18th: TBD

Glitch: Sample, Remix and Flow in Photoshop
2020-11-04 16:30 - 18:00 UTC | Zoom, CA, United States
This digital design skill share will be centered around using Photoshop as a creative space to promote calmness, wellness, color, and flow. You may also be inspired by some good music. Come and de-stress and have some fun! If you like the sound of that, join us again for the final Digital Skill Share of the semester on November 18.

Writing Children’s Picture Books
2020-11-05 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA, United States
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein
Are you interested in writing a story for young readers? Come to our pop-up workshop to explore ideas for sharing your knowledge and expertise with a broad audience in ways that are simple, emotionally salient and memorable.
RSVP required. For more information email marcus_rodriguez@pitzer.edu
Thursday, November 5 at 12:30-2:00pm

Creative Careers in Design
2020-11-11 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
How do professionals use human-centered design in their work? Come to our virtual panel to find out! You’ll come away with tools to integrate design into your upcoming careers.
RSVP is required! Please RSVP at the bottom of this page.

Shuffle: Reflect, Celebrate and Create
2020-11-18 16:30 - 18:00 UTC | Zoom, CA, United States
Learn how to use Adobe’s creative tools — Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects — to create digital ads, awesome resumés, animated gifs, and more. Please ensure that you have access to these digital creative tools before attending the workshop. No experience needed. Please register below.
The subject of each Skill Share:
Illustrator:

September 9th: Illustrating with Illustrator
September 23rd: Social media flyers with illustrator

Illustrator + Photoshop:

Oct 21st: DIY Animated Gifs in Illustrator

Photoshop

Nov 4th: Glitch: Sample,Remix and Flow in Photoshop

Illustrator

Nov 18th: Shuffle: Reflect, Celebrate and Create

Hive Hangout
2020-11-22 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Come and listen to good tunes while making and creating! Join us.

36 Questions To Make Friends With Anyone
2021-01-29 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Have you heard of the 36 Questions (that presumably can make you make friends / fall in love with anyone)?
These questions only 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.
Join us in this fun, fast-paced event on Friday January 29! We hope you’ll come away with a deep connection or a new friend.
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/137671038783

Brainstorming About Action: A Sustained Dialogue Skill
2021-02-16 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Join Pomona student Brian Bishop and Rhonda Fitzgerald of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network to build a skill required in structured dialogue-to-action processes: brainstorming about actions to take. We’ll learn how to use brainstorming and structuring to fight racism.
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/137674906351

Made @ Home: No-Sew T-Shirt Alterations
2021-02-18 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Learn how to upgrade a plain old T-shirt with just a pair of scissors and your imagination!
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/138294499571

Hack For Black Lives Design Crash Course
2021-02-19 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
In collaboration with the Hack For Black Lives hackathon, the Hive is running a design crash course centered around social change. Come and gain an experiential overview of the human-centered and design thinking processes! We’ll cultivate empathy, define a problem, form many ideas, and make and test a rough prototype. Hacking can create a product or service in many mediums – and is definitely open to all disciplines. Sign up for the hackathon (including our workshop) here!

Collective Songwriting Across Walls and Borders
2021-02-23 14:30 - 17:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Scripps Professor Martha Gonzalez, Chicana artivista, singer, and scholar, will introduce her artistic and political social justice work through collective songwriting. She will explore her own background as a key member of Quetzal which has helped shape her philosophy and practice of combining art and activism. In conjunction with a FGSS (Scripps) class and The Imperial University, Professor Gonzalez will share the work she has done “inside and outside” of prisons. We will apply methods that are truly collective and that reshape our understanding of what we can do in classrooms (and the world) to learn and enact social justice. Join us and The Imperial University in collective songwriting!
RSVP here !

Creative Careers for Social & Environmental Good
2021-02-26 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
How do professionals use human-centered design to help improve humanity and the environment? Come to our virtual panel to find out! You’ll come away with ideas for careers and tools to integrate design into your life path.
RSVP here!

Empathetic Listening
2021-03-03 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Join Professor Fred Leichter in an Empathetic Listening Workshop, as part of our Alumni Virtual Hangout (AVH) series on Wednesday, March 3, at 5 p.m. PST. We live in a world desperately in need of more and better listeners. Come to this “Ears On” workshop to learn simple tricks and to sharpen your listening skills. Be prepared to listen deeply to another person and be listened to in return!
Open to HMC alumni and current students only.
RSVP here!

Sculpting Earth and Sea: A Studio Visit with Joe Skoby
2021-03-16 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
This semester, we are excited to present to you Part 1 of a Benton Art Museum, Pomona History Department (Professor Arash Khazeni) and Hive collaboration: Art After Hours with Joe Skoby.
Join us for a visit to the studio of Joe Skoby, a Southern California ceramicist inspired by the nature of his native state. Skoby’s ceramics recall his intimate dance with the ocean as a lifelong surfer, a pure form of self-expression that disappears after each wave. Finding inspiration in traditional Japanese craft and the concept of wabi sabi, Skoby’s ceramics embody an aesthetic principle where roughness, imperfections, and impermanence become the birthplace of unique beauty.
This virtual exhibit offers a window into the process of his craft of hand-thrown and carved vessels.
Join Joe Skoby again on Thursday to craft your own unique piece!
RSVP here!

Getting Your Hands Dirty: An Introduction to Clay
2021-03-18 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Create ceramic vessels with La Jolla ceramicist, Joe Skoby. We’ll introduce the basic techniques and skills of hand-building, and explore their possibilities. Come craft your own unique piece of ceramic art!
The material for participation in this workshop is clay. We will reach out to the first 25 registrants to send a block of clay. You can purchase clay at your local art supply store or purchase online. Another option is to use natural clay from outdoors that you can dig up beneath the surface. You only need enough clay to play with and mold into your desired shape.
RSVP here!

Design Your Professional Life
2021-03-24 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Join Eugene Korsunskiy, design engineering professor at Dartmouth College, to learn how to use the mindset of a human-centered designer to envision and create a joyful and meaningful professional path for yourself.
RSVP here!

Made @ Home: Hand-Sewn Plush Eyeballs
2021-03-25 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Learn the fundamentals of hand sewing by creating a pair of wacky, googly-style plush eyeballs!
Materials will be provided by mail.
RSVP here!

Made @ Home: Threaded Jewelry
2021-04-02 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Here’s a de-stressing, colorful workshop where we’ll make a threaded bracelet together step-by-step. Customize it! Come have fun! And leave with the skill to make your own jewelry and a cute new bracelet!
All you need for this workshop is embroidery thread or wool of at least three different colors, and a pair of scissors.
RSVP here!

Crafting Your Story: Step One of Designing Your Portfolio
2021-04-07 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
We’ll craft the story, and ultimately, the direction of the design of your multidisciplinary portfolio. Join Kareem Collie, UX designer at IBM, as we use design research tools, to draw out your personal and professional interests and experiences to inform the creation and design of your portfolio.
RSVP here!

Pop-up Class: Mindfulness & Play
2021-04-15 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
In this pop-up class combining theatre and psychology, we’ll focus on the art of the audition, and how to utilize tools and techniques of mindfulness to inform, enrich, and expand the performance experience.
Please contact Professor Jessie Lee Mills for more details.

Made @ Home: Potato Block Printing
2021-04-15 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Come learn how to utilize the humble potato as a powerful creative tool. This event is B.Y.O.P. – Bring Your Own Potato!
RSVP here!

5C Inclusive Community Building
2021-04-23 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA, United States
Take part in a 2 hour workshop that is focused on mental health and community building at the 5C’s. The workshops are an early step in a larger design process unfolding in the next year. You’ll be leading the way – we’re just here to listen, pose a few guiding questions, and help translate concerns into action.
Please RSVP for only one date: Friday 04.23 or Sunday 04.25

Made @ Home: Rolled Newspaper Basket Weaving
2021-04-29 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Learn how to weave a beautiful basket from recycled household materials and glue! This sustainable storage piece is functional, fascinating, and practically free.
RSVP here!

Student Creativity Grant Expo
2021-05-05 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, CA, United States
Join us in congratulating this year’s creativity grant awardees! Students will share what they’ve created, describing their creative process and the project’s highlights and challenges. It’s a time to celebrate this new grant program that encourages and supports creative growth at the 5Cs.

Open Hive Week
2021-08-23 - 2021-08-27 | The Hive – 130 E 7th Street, Claremont, CA 91711, 130 E. 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
It’s been a long, long, long, long time. And much has changed since the last time our studios were lit up with the laughter of students, hard at work. As we re-launch with residential learning, we cordially invite the Claremont community to come by and acquaint (or re-acquaint) yourselves with our space. There will be creative activities galore. Although RSVPs are not required, strict adherence with COVID mitigation policy is. Welcome back!

Made @ the Hive: Succulent Planting
2021-09-03 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Outdoor Space – The Hive, 130 E 7th St, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Join us for one of our first outdoor activities! De-stress, relax, and make new friends during our succulent planting event. We’ll provide all the materials to get creative and funky with nature during the first week of school.
Registration required!
RSVP at our Eventbrite page!
