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Game Friday

To relax at the end of a busy week, we’ll be reprising our LAN game evenings along with a bit of chilled music and classic console gaming on Friday 5th June.  We’ll kick off at 6pm, but there’s no rush – all are welcome! Entry is free for Farset Members (including corporatesponsor employees) and £3 for non-Members. We’ll plumb […]

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Gamecraft 2015 @ University of Ulster | 9th May

Farset friends, Gamecraft, will be back in Belfast on 9th May, holding a day-long game-jam at University of Ulster Belfast on York Street. There are 15 complimentary Gamecraft tickets available to Farset members. For more information and to claim your ticket, check out the member Discourse group. You can also sign-up for a public Gamecraft […]

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Farset Labs 3rd Birthday Anniversary Celebration – 13th April

Can you believe it has been 3 years since we opened our doors? We’re going to have a bit of a party, and Farset Labs invite you to come and celebrate with us on Monday 13th April – as a thank you for helping us on our way, and to look forward to many more […]

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IET Prestige Lecture on Innovation and Growth | 1 April

The Civil Service, Executive Leadership, and Stormont Politics are not usually areas where innovation and growth are openly discussed, so this year’s IET Prestige Lecture from Dr Malcolm McKibben and Alastair Hamilton (Head of NI Civil Service, and Chief Executive of Invest NI respectively) will certainly be interesting to watch. Titled “Engineering Leadership for Innovation […]

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Raspberry Jam visits Derry~Londonderry | 28th March

Farset Labs & CultureTECH are hosting a Raspberry Jam at the Nerve Centre, Derry-Londonderry on Saturday, March 28th, 1pm-5pm as part of Creativity Month! Raspberry Jam is a rapidly growing global network of user groups that meet every month to support hobbyists, developers, teachers, students, children and families – in fact, anybody that would like […]

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Policy Hack: Hacking our way to better outcomes

We’re happy to announce that we’re playing host to the first Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA) “Policy Hack” day tomorrow morning from 9:30am. So what is a Policy Hack? It’s a way to bring together policy makers from across the community and voluntary sector, activists, trade unionists, academics, business people, civil servants and members […]

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Gathering of Lightning Reborn: “Explain Like I’m 5” | 26th March

After a long hiatus, Farset Labs is back with a new take on our hugely successful  Gathering of Lightning ad-hoc presentation series, once again thanks to support from BCS-Belfast Chapter, with a few changes based on our experiences of running GoL over the past 4 years. While feedback from the events was unanimously positive, it was […]

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Sketchy Individuals | 11th March

Sketchy Individuals is a regular open art free-for-all where anyone can sketch, comic, draw, paint, or put pen/pencil/brush to medium with the company of friendly like-minded people. This month’s evening will be running as part of Creativity NI’s Creativity Month.  Some books and materials will be available for anyone new to take advantage of. Sketchy Individuals runs every 2nd […]

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Astronomy: Jupiter Rising | 7th February

Following our popular astronomy introductions, Farset are happy to host further Belfast-based astronomy for the new-comer. If you have a telescope or binoculars, please do bring them along as this time of year is a great chance to look for objects in the sky. Wear warm clothes, as some of the evening will be spent […]

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Google’s Rupert Whitehead bringing Google Developer Groups to Farset Weds 21st @ 17:30

We’re pleased to announce that next Wednesday 21st Jan, we’re hosting Rupert Whitehead, Developer Relations Regional lead at Google, responsible for the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands, for an evening of discussion and collaboration around Google’s ecosystem of products. Rupert runs the Google Developer Groups, Launchpads, Startup Launch and Google Developer Experts programs in the […]