Late Nights, Toychestra, Drum Machines, Fast Cars and Free Days! That’s how we roll! It’s all about you being behind the wheel of your own customized museum visit. Come late, make and listen to music, learn about the Padrinos Car Club or take a turn on the Mechanical Drum Machine. This weekend is packed full of fun choices. On Friday, May 31st the we/customize gallery and the entire museum is open until midnight! On Saturday, June 1st make some noise with Lexa Walsh, her Remix Station and members of Toychestra as well as Tim Phillips with his Mechanical Drum Machine. But wait, there’s more…On Sunday, June 2nd, the monthly Free First Sunday, we’ll have Padrinos Car Club members and friends sharing their love of cars by featuring two customized hydraulic cars: a 1964 Impala and a 1970 Caprice. Act now(Or act hrough Sunday) and we’ll triple the offer by bringing Oakland artist Shawn HibmaCronan and the 1963 Ford Falcon Deluxe Club Wagon he has been meticulously transforming into a mobile work of art called “Love, Inertia and the Pursuit of the Perfect Stance”, into the mix. This weekend is gearing up to be “Indie 500” legendary. Swing by www.wecustomize.org and stay up to speed! See You There! Oakland Rover
Late Nights, Toychestra, Drum Machines, Fast Cars and Free Days! That’s how we roll! It’s all about you being behind the wheel of your own customized museum visit. Come late, make and listen to music, learn about the Padrinos Car Club or take a turn on the Mechanical Drum Machine. This weekend is packed full of fun choices. On Friday, May 31st the we/customize gallery and the entire museum is open until midnight! On Saturday, June 1st make some noise with Lexa Walsh, her Remix Station and members of Toychestra as well as Tim Phillips with his Mechanical Drum Machine. But wait, there’s more…On Sunday, June 2nd, the monthly Free First Sunday, we’ll have Padrinos Car Club members and friends sharing their love of cars by featuring two customized hydraulic cars: a 1964 Impala and a 1970 Caprice. Act now(Or act Friday through Sunday) and we’ll triple the offer by bringing Oakland artist Shawn HibmaCronan and the 1963 Ford Falcon Deluxe Club Wagon he has been meticulously transforming into a mobile work of art called “Love, Inertia and the Pursuit of the Perfect Stance”, into the mix. This weekend is gearing up to be “Indie 500” legendary. Swing by www.wecustomize.org and stay up to speed! See You There! Oakland Rover
These Are The Breaks… And the theme for this weekend’s we/customize Customizer-in-Residence series, “Design for Re-Use; Making Breakage Beautiful” with Daniela Rosner. What does it mean to make refuse poetic or remnants elegant? Join Daniela as she examines the interplay between technology, handcraft, and the creative communities around them. With guest artists Wendy Renz, Debra Berl, Miwa Ikemiya and Miriam Dym in rotation from the maker community she’ll lead us in a hands-on exploration of what can be done with redundant, discarded or “obsolete” materials. From disentegrating chairs spun into succulent garden beds and e-waste turned into elegant jewelry, Daniela will show how objects can have second and third lives. Make this weekend your big break by bringing in broken things to transform into something alluring and new. We’re in and around the studio Friday, May 17th from 5 pm to 8 pm and again Saturday and Sunday, May 18th and 19th from 1 pm to 4 pm.  —Oakland Rover
Mutant Invasion Mutants have invaded the Oakland Museum. They are here either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under a colonial system, harvest humans for food, steal the planet’s resources, or destroy the planet altogether. Then there’s the Annabel and Elsa, our young Customizers-in-Residence version: hack old plastic dolls and action figures, reassemble them into unrecognizable and altogether fantastic mutants! Join us in this kinda sorta scientific and definitely fun customizing event.  We’re in the we/customize studio Friday, April 12th from 5 pm to 8 pm then again Saturday and Sunday, April 13th and 14th from 1 pm to 4 pm. Who’s side will you be on? —Oakland Rover
Ladies, Gentlemen and Kids of Allllllllll Ages, Please Give It Up For  Tim Phillips and The Mechanical Drum Machine! - kick - thoompf - snare - KAAAAH - stick - tOk! Join English sound artist, musician and inventor Tim Phillips and the ‘CMT creates music’ team when they bring their Mechanical Drum Machine this weekend to our Customizers-in-Residence “We/Customize The Beat” stop in the we/customize studio! clap - chlawk - closed hat - tssss - open hat - shaw! Friday, March 8th 5-8pm and Saturday/Sunday March 9th & 10th 1-4pm Come play, jam, build and talk withthe artists. tom 1 - bihm - tom 2 - bohm - tom 3 - buhm - ride - KEENG - crash - swuhFWOOSH! —Oakland Rover
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