sprout and the stories of our investigations

processing meet-up, march 2 at 730pm

Processing is a programming language “for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions.”

On Tuesday March 2, this processing-focused meet-up will meet at sprout (339R Summer St. Somerville MA) to talk over the possibility of a joint processing project with IxDABoston. The tentative plan is to use processing to create a visualization of [...]

computer graveyard to computer heaven

Our friend, Paul Dworkin, has put in a lot of time and work over the past couple weeks setting up computers at our space. So far, we have 8 refurbished and totally functional computer towers and, as pictured above, a new 2 PC workstation that allows you to switch between two computers on one [...]

Card-Making and Paper-Craft at Diesel

Last night, Sam Christy hosted a paper-craft and card-making session at Diesel Cafe in Davis Square. He designs some pretty amazing 3 dimensional cards for his family members on holidays and birthdays and thought it would be a fun tradition to share before Valentine’s Day.

We brought paper, scissors, glue, exacto knives, cutting mats, pens, [...]

Money! Money! Money!

You’re invited to Money! Money! Money! a sprout spaghetti dinner sprout spaghetti dinners is a dinner theater series seeking to bring people from the Somerville and Cambridge communities together around good food, good music, and good performance. Each month, we’ll find an eclectic group of performers to explore the month’s theme through different lenses. In the tradition of dinners hosted by NYC-based theater [...]

baked brie

Our friends Alex and Ines dropped off a whole bunch of dumpstered produce and Trader Joe’s baked brie. It’s delicious, but way more than we can eat so if you want some, it could be yours too!

pictures and videos from The Social Contexts of Light

The January 2010 sprout spaghetti dinner focused on the theme The Social Contexts of Light. John Bell and Shaunalynn Duffy sandwiched the featured performances with short toy theaer tableaux exploring the nature and history of different types of light. Music was provided by Mike Romanyshyn on bari sax, clarinet, and drums.

First, The Aaatack, [...]

The Social Contexts of Light, a sprout spaghetti dinner on January 20

This Wednesday will be the next spaghetti dinner. Join us for an exploration of light as a means of political, artistic, and cultural expression. As usual, the event will be at 339R Summer St. Somerville MA with dinner at 7:30 and performances at 8. This month, Food Not Bombs will be preparing [...]

pictures and video from The Grind: Out of the Office

December’s theme was The Grind: Out of the Office. Mike Nagle cooked our spaghetti and we saw performances by The Boston Typewriter Orchestra, who are a musical performance group that play typewriters like instruments in the character of white collar office workers.

The Royal Frog Ballet performed a puppet show [...]

Thursday Night is Project Night

Last night, Eric Smith hosted our first Project Night at sprout. This event is open to anyone, whether they have a project to work on, want to get familiar with our space and tools, or want to hang out and help other people with what they’re working on.

Nagle and Kunle were trying to fix [...]

The Grind: Out of the Office on December 16

The next spaghetti dinner will be happening December 16 at 7:30om at 339R Summer St. We will have spaghetti and drinks as usual, and we have a suggested donation of $10 to cover costs for the event. This month, The Grind: Out of the Office will take a look at some issues around work and [...]