Hax
Hackerspace Weekend Festival

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About

Hax is a weekend festival at Skullspace. It is our annual opportunity to celebrate and promote our broad hackerspace community, which includes technologists, musicians, DJs, gamers, crafters, artists and other tinkers. The festival condenses the hackerspace experience into an entire weekend.

We regret that our location, the 2nd floor of 374 Donald is not mobility accessible. There are three flights of stairs up 1.5 stories.

Hax 5.0: May 16 - May 19, 2024

Saturday May 4, 2024

Hax 5.0 Beta. A warm-up for our big festival weekend, this is our late night anti-social and dance party in "beta" mode. The lineup may include new performers and/or established performers trying new things out. Check back for the line-up.

This is a ticketed event. Buy early for the best pricing.

Friday May 17, 2024

Anti-social featuring electronic music, dancing and gaming. A ticketed event, aprox 8pm-4am. Check back for details and ticket link.

Saturday May 18, 2024

Saturday afternoon, 11am-5:45pm:
(free event)

Saturday evening:

6pm-7:30pm A free reception after the talks featuring music to talk over and our Anti-social licensed bar.

8pm-4am, a third anti-social featuring electronic music, dancing and gaming. A ticketed event, check back for details and ticket link.

Sunday May 19, 2024

Chill and open house day
(free event)

noon-4pm

Exhibits and gaming (workshop/lounge/classroom)

Dinner break, 4pm-6:30pm space will be closed. Potentially there will be a group outing to a pub on foot. To be decided spontantouesly at the space

Movie night with Thor, 6:30pm. Featuring two documentaries until 9pm and possibly one bonus movie. In person in the lounge and online at http://skullspace.fullspeed.tv (put that URL in a media player such as VLC).

Volunteer

We welcome volunteers for the smooth running of gaming, exhibits, operations, and several other roles. email mark@parit.ca for daytime matters and events@skullspace.ca for evening artists etc.

Sponsors

Saturday Talks

Aproximetly 11:00am - 5:45pm, 2024-05-18.

All talks will be available in the Skullspace classroom. A select few will also be available to remote participants.

We can still accomodate a few more speakers, reach out to mark@parit.ca . See our call for speakers. Though our main speaker track is on the Saturday afternoon, we could accomodate a talk early on the Friday evening.

Schedule coming soon, known speakers are:

Exhibits

Reach out to Mark Jenkins mark@parit.ca if you have something to exhibit.

Gaming

Table-top gaming sessions with hosts

Return for details. See volunteer.

Video game consoles and setups that will be present

Anti-Socials

Our festival features three of our signature "anti-socials". These ticketed events are electonic music dance-parties with DJs, syths, and other artists. Plus all manner of geeky gaming (video and tabletop).

Parking

There is a lot of commercial and free street parking in the neighbourhood.

Our block of Donald and nearby Hargrave steet are metred on Saturdays daytimes with two hours free.
(pay for two, get four free, or just enjoy your free two, pay after for two more or move to another block).

Notre Dame west of Hargrave has no metres or Saturday/Sunday time limits.

All street parking is free on Sunday.

Organizing committee and schedule

The organizing committee consists of

Upcoming meetings, in person and online at https://meet.google.com/xnp-heog-rub

Remote participation

Our festival is largely in-person, but we have two planned talks that will be available remotely via Google Meet. Check back for schedule and link.

Our Sunday night movie night hosted by Thor at 6:30pm will be available at http://skullspace.fullspeed.tv , put that URL in a media player like VLC.

We regularly hang out in two places online

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About | Schedule | Volunteer | Sponsors | Talks | Exhibits | Gaming | "Anti"-socials | Parking | Organizer meetings | Remote participation | Archives