Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul and surrounding area in Minnesota) Visualization group focuses on creating a community around visually telling stories (most often with computer technology and data). The group arose out of the desire of a handful people that wanted to discuss visualization across sectors, such as non-profits, journalism, museums, academia, arts, and the private sector. We welcome everyone; mostly likely you work with visualization technologies, work closely with people that …

Are you working on an article, book, screenplay, book review, blog, novel, etc. either in your spare time or as part of your job? Are you taking a break at this very moment from a looming deadline? Or, do you find yourself not completing a writing project because there isn't a deadline? Are you trying to journal but don't know how to inspire yourself? Do you get lonely with only your muse for company? If so, I invite you to join the St. Cloud Writers Salon, a group of fellow writers which will m …

Zentangle® is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images, one stroke at a time. Even if you are new to drawing or think you are not artistic, you will enjoy creating Zentangles.  Also, great for the experienced artist to warm up and get creative juices flowing.  The process of creating a Zentangle is a form of "artistic meditation". You can become completely engrossed in making each pattern, deliberately focusing on "one stroke at a time".  The tangles (patterns) can be a …

This is a group for the academically-minded to get out of the lab/office/hospital and meet people from beyond the scope of their departments. Grad/med/law students, post-docs, interns, residents, or those in the early phases of their careers can enjoy getting together and taking a break from the world of peer-reviewed journal articles and coffee-fueled marathon workdays. We’ll start with some good old-fashioned happy hours and hopefully expand to other meetups from there. Looking forward to it!

Twin Cities-area media professionals and students supporting the National Association of Hispanic Journalists

Metaphor is always with us in: what we read and write; what we see in media, film, T.V. and photography; in all forms of the arts, including the art of telling our stories from poetry to cultural fables to personal story, but it is also embedded in psychology and education. Metaphors are powerful and enrich our lives, but they also can have destructive impacts or sell us down the garden path making us think we need things that we don't. This Meetup will look at the art of metaphor. I will bring …

Will journalism be done by you or to you? The UpTake is an independent, nonprofit (501 c 3) online news organization that began its work in 2007 with a few simple ideas: That media should find and tell the truth without fear or favor; that citizens have the tools to report and explain events without relying on news controlled by large corporations; and that it is the duty of citizens to hold power accountable and to make government transparent to the governed. Find us online at www.theuptake.org …