This Friday - Oct. 14th - 6PM to 10PM
2500 Kirkham St, Oakland

We are having a Halloween Open House, and all are invited!

WATCH! As a giant robot moves using the powers of E-Lec-TricitY.... and CUTS! everything in it's path!

MARVEL! As EVIL Professor Kitty SHREDS! another office chair!

COME! To West Oakland! and see some ART in progress!!!

It will be horrifying in the best way.
Hope to see you here!

Because We Can
2500 Kirkham St.
Oakland
510-922-8846

No EatFoodTalkShop this month, instead let's meet in Los Angeles!

We're going to be speaking about digital fabrication at the Revit Technology Conference later this month. So we're going to have the first-ever BWC L.A. meet-up while we're out there. We're very excited about it! If you're in the area for the conference (or the wonderful Dwell on Design show), we'd love to see / meet you.

So no June EatFoodTalkShop, instead it's a L.A. Meet-up. EatFoodTalkShop returns next month!

We'll have details posted to our blog and twitter feed later this month. We'll see you in beautiful Los Angeles! Thanks everyone!

Come visit us in Sunny West Oakland this Thursday for a relaxed evening of talk about architecture, 60's vans and secret doors. Pretty much like every other night around here..... only this time YOU'RE invited!

It's staying light later and later, and getting warmer and warmer! We've completed that project from the last time you were here, and we're now working on more new crazy stuff! Our Maker Faire talk on the secrets of secret doors is slowly coming together and we just got hired to chop bike parts in half and bolt them to a wall. Come see how a bike wheel stays (or does not stay) together after you saw it in half!

What are you working on? We'd like to see and hear about it!

So please drop on by, we'd love to see you. Jeffrey still has not made beer, so while we'll have some it would be awesome if you could bring some too. We'll hang out. Eat some tasty snacks, and talk about the finer points of what we're all working on. Come join our community of designers, artists, big thinkers, and fabricators!

Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words. You have been warned!

Thursday, May 12th 2011

6:30PM - 9:30PMish

2500 Kirkham St

Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 922-8846

Click here for the Google Map.

Hope to see you here!

Lost? Lonely? Want to talk about how great sunny weather is? BWC help and social line: 510-922-8846

It's April, and with things finally warming up, let's get together for food and to talk shop!

Thankful that the rain has let up, the sun is out, and it is warm in Oakland! We're finishing up a fantastic resin-inlayed desk inspired by turn-of-the-century safe locks and a whole mess of fun trade booth elements for Clif Bar's kids line. We also have a handful of office interiors gearing up that look like they're gonna be a lot of fun. And our Maker Faire talk on the secrets of secret doors was accepted! So now we need to hear all your secret door stories and/or dreams.

What are you working on? We'd like to see and hear about it!

So please drop on by, we'd love to see you. Sadly, Jeffrey has been too busy to make beer, so while we'll have some it would be awesome if you could bring some too. We'll hang out. Eat some tasty snacks, and talk about the finer points of what we're all working on. Come join our community of designers, artists, big thinkers, and fabricators!

Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words. You have been warned!

Thursday, April 14th 2011

6:30PM - 9:30PMish

2500 Kirkham St

Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 922-8846

Click here for the Google Map.

Hope to see you here!

Lost? Lonely? Want to debate the finer points of 19th century safe design? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

Wait, it's March already? Indeed, so let's get together for food and talking shop!

You'd think that the fact that we're now officially a Corporation we'd be a little more formal about our events. But then what sort of corporation does what we do? Come see our latest projects, everything from a geek's dream of a TARDIS to a whole subdivision of houses in San Diego. Or just come to hang out with other designers, artists, big thinkers, and fabricators.

To our local friends, we'd love to see you, and to our NYC friends, we'll see you soon!

Catch up with us now, for next week we'll be in NYC bopping about. We'll have food and drink and lots to talk about, so please come by!

Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words. You have been warned!

Thursday, March 10th 2011

6:30PM - 9:30PMish

2500 Kirkham St

Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 922-8846

Click here for the Google Map.

Hope to see you here!

Lost? Lonely? Want to hear more than you'll ever want to know about the TARDIS? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

The weather is warming up, and it's February! So let's have a crab boil and talk shop.

It's our first EatFoodTalkShop of 2011, and we're excited for the new year! We've got lots going on, and would love to catch up with you. We're doing it in style this month with a big crab boil. We'll have some live crab on hand, you should bring one to share, or some other goodies, and we'll break into the pumpkin homebrew.

Come by and see our stunning new meeting lounge & library!

We've been busy redoing our digs, and have turned the downstairs entry space into a cozy and relaxing 'meeting library / lounge' complete with lovely new bookshelf benches. We've also recently redone our website, and are turning ourselves into a corporation so that we can offer up more Architectural services. Lots to show and talk about.

Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words. You have been warned!

Thursday, February 10th 2011

6:30PM - 9:30PM

2500 Kirkham St

Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 922-8846

Click here for the Google Map.

Hope to see you here!

Lost? Lonely? Want someone to go to lunch with? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

OK, so we really, really wanted to do a crab boil for our January EatFoodTalkShop open house. But it's been just too cold in the shop to have much fun standing around, eating food, and talking shop!

But it's a good season this year, and waiting another month won't hurt, so we're postponing EatFoodTalkShop with the hopes that it will be a little warmer next month.

So stay tuned for the second Thursday of February (that's the 10th) when we'll be having a crab boil proper. See you then!

We love the holidays! Well... mostly because of all the parties.

So let's party!

We will be serving up hot cider, tasty pie, and showing off our holiday spirit by giving out a special gift to anyone who stops by!

We've decorated for the season, we have our tree up, and Frank is in a giving mood. He's a little big to be considered an elf, but he's working hard for the holidays anyways and will have little presents for all. So swing by and say hello. We'd love to see you!

Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words. You have been warned!

Thursday, December 9th 2010

6:30PM - 9:30PM

2500 Kirkham St

Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 922-8846

Click here for the Google Map.

Hope to see you here!

Lost? Lonely? Need a killer gift idea? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

Please join us for a happy fall evening

It's time for our regular 2nd-Thursday-of-the-month open house / project salon / OMGBBQWTF called EatFoodTalkShop! This time we're just grateful to be happy, healthy, and with plenty to do!

Please come! We'd love to see you.

Please drop by and help us eat food, drink libations, and share project stories. We'll be showing off some big new exciting projects we're up to. Frank will strut his stuff as well with a few demos.

Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words.

Thursday, November 11th 2010

6:30PM - 9:30PM

Please note that we've moved!

2500 Kirkham St

Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 922-8846

Click here for the Google Map.

Hope to see you there!

Lost? Lonely? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

Please join us for a happy evening birthday celebration: Frank, our trusty CNC machine, is turning five!

It's time for our regular 2nd-Thursday-of-the-month open house / project salon / OMGBBQWTF called EatFoodTalkShop! We're celebrating the fifth birthday of the beloved robot that changed our lives, launched our business, and has made many wonderful things for us all. I don't know what five is in robot years, but he's well deserving of praise for reaching an important milestone. So we're getting him a cake, and letting him blow out the candles (but NOT cut it).

Please come! When was the last time you went to a birthday party for a robot?

Please drop by and help us eat food, drink libations, and share project stories. We'll be showing off some big new exciting projects we're up to. Frank will strut his stuff as well with a few demos.

Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words.

Thursday, October 14th 2010

6:30PM - 9:30PM

Please note that we've moved!

2500 Kirkham St

Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 922-8846

Click here for the Google Map.

Hope to see you there!

Lost? Lonely? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

No EatFoodTalkShop this month, instead let's meet in New York!

We're going to Maker Faire NYC later this month. So we're going to have the first-ever BWC NYC Meet-up while we're out there. We're very excited about it! If you're in the area, we'd love to see / meet you.

So no September EatFoodTalkShop, instead it's a NYC Meet-up. EatFoodTalkShop returns next month!

We'll have details posted to our blog and twitter feed later this month on the NYC Meet-up. We'll see you in New York! Thanks everyone!

Please join us for a night of project sharing, summertime story swapping, beer, and a robot desperate for attention doing tricks for it's human masters! (for now...)

It's time for our regular 2nd-Thursday-of-the-month open house / project salon / OMGBBQWTF called EatFoodTalkShop! We're celebrating the arrival of Jeffrey's Architect licence, the fact that we're in the middle of making a Tiki Bar Reception Desk (huzzah!), and that we're so lucky to be here in this amazing place called the Bay Area.

Now 99% Riot-free!

Please drop by and help us eat food, drink libations, and share project stories. We'll be showing off aforementioned Tiki Bar Reception Desk, the massive caster wheels we just got for a project (way cool!), and fancy renderings of what those wheels are destined for. Frank will strut his stuff as well with a few demos.

We'll have some food and drink, you bring some more and your friends! Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words.

Thursday, July 8th 2010

6:30PM - 9:30PM

Please note that we've moved!

2500 Kirkham St

Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 922-8846

Click here for the Google Map.

Hope to see you there!

Lost? Lonely? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

Please join us for a night of project sharing, summertime story swapping, and some CNC demonstrations!

It's time for our regular 2nd-Thursday-of-the-month open house / project salon / OMGBBQWTF called EatFoodTalkShop! We're going to get these going again from their brief hiatus due to moving. So count on a monthly show-and-tell for Makers! Bring a project, or a story, or just curiosity and questions.

Please drop by and help us eat food, drink libations, and share project stories. We'll be showing off our recently finished projects for Wikipedia and Bookrenter. Frank will strut his stuff as well with a few demos.

We'll have some food and drink, you bring some more and your friends! Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words.

Thursday, July 8th 2010

6:30PM - 9:30PM

Please note that we've moved!

2500 Kirkham St

Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 922-8846

Click here for the Google Map.

Hope to see you there!

Lost? Lonely? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

Please join us for our first open house at our new location. We've got lots to celebrate!

From finally finishing up our big move, to our great new fabrication studio & offices, to Jeffrey's passing his orals for his Architect licence, to this fine hot summer that seems to finally have arrived... Boy we have so much to celebrate we're bursting at the seams!

So please drop by and help us eat food, drink libations, and share project stories. We'll be showing off our recently finished project: our new digs! Frank's got upgrades, our new office rocks, and the fabrication studio is all setup for fast production.

We'll have food and drink, you bring the friends! Kids welcome, but it is a shop and a party. Lots of sharp corners. And they might learn some interesting new words.

Friday, June 18th 2010

6:30PM - 9:30PM

Please note that we've moved!

2500 Kirkham St
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 922-8846
Click here for the Google Map. Hope to see you there! Lost? Lonely? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

Ha! I got your attention with that subject line. For those of you who offered in the past to help us with moving, and for those of you who did not... ; ) All of the boxes and stuff have already been moved. Now it's just painting, cleaning, sorting, disassembling, re-assembling moving wood, cutting stuff down, putting stuff up and general party time. Come join the party! We'll be at the new shop today (Saturday) from 1PM on... And at the old shop from about the same times tomorrow. There will be food! There will be beer! Bring your strong friends! Ware work clothes! New shop: 2500 Kirkham (off Peralta in West Oakland) Old shop: 1722 15th Street (between wood & willow, West Oakland) New shop directions hint: if you are on a dirt road, behind the cement factory... you're in the right place!

Hey! Our first round of moving items is going well. Come by this week to get these last items... There is a prototype "tall" tree stump table. Sold here on our website. We are selling this one for $30 Wall desks. One blonde with black accents, One Black with red accents. Sold here on our website. We are selling these two for $45 each. They flip up like this... This desk table top. Dark brown, exposed plywood edge. Top only. Yours for $10. Size: 63" x 32" Child's chair. $10 3 Peg board sheets - 4' x 8' = $15 Box of more pegboard hooks than you'll ever need = $15 Random art supplies- including paper mache, plaster of paris, brass dowels and more! All free. You come to look means you come to take. 1722 15th Street Oakland see all items on the blog: http://www.becausewecan.org/node/869

Hey everyone! Sorry to say, we are not doing an EatFoodTalkShop this month. Instead we are moving! We have a couple of good spaces lined up, but have not made our final decision yet. Know of a good space? Let us know! www.Becausewecan.org office:(510) 922-8846 us@becausewecan.org Because We Can 1722 15th St. STE. C Oakland, CA 94607

Hey everyone-- We are purging our ever growing supply of wood scraps this weekend. First come first take basis. Everything must go! Well, everything in the designated pile... We have a lot of small pieces of hardwood and small to medium pieces of nice plywoods, including teak, walnut and maple. As well as a lot of smaller pieces of euro-ply (13 ply maple) We will be around from noon to 6 on Saturday And from noon to 6 on Sunday Come and get it! At The Because We Cannery, 1722 15th Street, Suite C Oakland, CA

Hey Y'all! Don't forget to come to Eat Food Talk Shop this Thursday! It's the first one of the year! Hoorah! It's gonna be a great year! We are super busy already, and we'll have a couple cool projects to show off when you come over. We're in the middle of a funky trade show booth, an LED table, a climbing wall, and a bunch of other cool stuff.

So come on over! Bring a project you've been working on to show off. Or just come to talk! Bring friends! Bring snacks! Bring beer! This Thursday Feb 11 6:30PM - 9:30PM At The Because We Cannery, 1722 15th Street, Suite C Oakland, CA Hope to see you there! Lost? Lonely? Not sure what to get us for Valentine's Day? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

Hello all!! Jillian and Jeffrey are at a conference in Arizona this week, so we are going to postpone the monthly EatFoodTalkShop until next month. Please join us again on February 11th to celebrate this new year and say good riddance to the old! We'll pick up again and try to keep to the 2nd Thursday schedule. We thank you all for your continued support in making these meet up nights fun and interesting. Such a diverse group of people show up every month to share new ideas and show off projects. It is really inspiring! And we hope to get even more inspired in 2010! --- The Because We Can team.

Just a reminder that The Big BWC Holiday Party is tomorrow! Starts at 5pm, goes 'till 10!

We've got lots of reasons to party, from our recent DesignSlam win at Autodesk University to lots of great projects completed and happy clients. So drop on by! We'll have food, gifts, and surprises!

The Big BWC Holiday Party!

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Starts at 5 PM, goes until 10 PM

At The Because We Cannery, 1722 15th Street, Suite C Oakland, CA Hope to see you there! Lost? Lonely? Not sure what to get us for christmas? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

This month's EatFoodTalkShop monthly open house has been post-empted by...

The Big BWC Holiday Party!

Grinches flee!!! For there will be holiday beer, holiday cheer, and holiday jeers. Let's ring out this turmoil year of 2009 and celebrate all we've got and how lucky we really all are. All are welcome, so bring your friends & Family. We're bringing ours! (Really! Come meet our Moms and siblings!!)

We've got lots of reasons to party, from our recent DesignSlam win at Autodesk University to lots of great projects completed and happy clients. So drop on by! We'll have food, gifts, and surprises!

Bring some beer! Bring some friends! Bring cake! (because cake is delicious.)

The Big BWC Holiday Party!

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Starts at 5 PM, goes until 10 PM

At The Because We Cannery, 1722 15th Street, Suite C Oakland, CA Hope to see you there! Lost? Lonely? Not sure what to get us for christmas? BWC help line: 510-922-8846

Hey there! Rub your hands together and put your jacket on. It's time to warm your soul at Because We Can! We'll be cooking up some hot cider (with a nip of something special if you're good), and making little BWC keep sakes. Come see what we're making! We're not even sure exactly what it will be! But most likely, you'll get to take one home. Bring some BBQ, snacks or drinks to share. We still have some small prototype pieces for sale, and we have a ton of Trees from our store available for sale! So come on by, bring a friend, bring a project, buy a tree, drink some cider! 6:30PM - 10PM at the Because We Can Studio. http://www.becausewecan.org/ Ponoko http://www.ponoko.com/ will be having an open house as well, and showing off some of their samples. Eat Food Talk Shop 6:30PM - 10PM Nov 12th BBQ, beer, networking and inspiration. BYOB and stuff! at the Because We Can Studio 1722 15th Street Oakland CA 94607 Questions? Lost? Just want to talk? 510-922-8846

Hey there! It's that time again for the Because We Can open house! Whoohoo! We've been busy since the last one, and we have lots of stuff to show off. But the most fun will be going through all our product prototypes that didnt work out! We'll have a pile of stuff to see and a pile of stuff to buy! Think: Ray Guns, Trees & Robots. So come on by, bring a friend, bring a project, buy a mustache, carve a pumpkin! Yes- we will be having a pumpkin carving table. Why? Cause carving pumpkins is awesome. That's why. Bring a pumpkin, leave a pumpkin, take a pumpkin, carve a pumpkin. Im not sure what that means. But it'll be awesome! 6:30PM - 10PM at the Because We Can Studio. Ponoko will be having an open house as well, and showing off some of their samples. Check out the photos from last time here from Magnolia booth Co!: http://picasaweb.google.com/petertower/SF20090910BecauseWeCan Eat Food Talk Shop 6:30PM - 10PM Oct 8th BBQ, beer, networking and inspiration. BYOB and stuff! at the Because We Can Studio 1722 15th Street Oakland CA 94607 Questions? Lost? Just want to talk? We miss you! Why dont you call???!!! 510-922-8846

Hey there! We almost forgot to mention that tonight at Because We Can's EatFoodTalkShop we will be having our first ever Prototype Sale! What does that mean? Well, we make prototype models before we make the final item, many times, to make sure that there are no issues with the design. That said, these items are made of, well, what ever we have around and some of them have issues that were fixed in the final. But they are all still usable and cool. And the best of all, we are selling them for cheap cheap cheap. Like a couple dollars cheap. Check out the original blog post here to see a list of what we are getting rid of. http://www.becausewecan.org/prototype_sale And there will be more than what's seen there. One night only! Cash only! All sales totally awesome! See you tonight!!