Woodworking in America 2016 WoodTalk/MWA Meetup

Popular Woodworking in America 2016 (WIA16) is almost upon us. As we get ready for the seminal woodworking conference, we've teamed up with +Marc Spagnuolo, +Matthew Cremona and +Shannon Rogers of +Wood Talk to setup an opening night meetup at Moerlein Lager House in Cincinnati.

The MWA meetup on opening night of WIA15.

If you've every attended a meetup at WIA, you'll already know how enjoyable an evening of food and drink with fellow woodworkers can be. If you've not yet attended a WIA meetup, or a WIA at all for that matter, you've been missing a wonderful time. Please come join us at Moerlein Lager House on Thursday, 9/15 after WIA registration. Everyone is welcome. We'll be having a much fun as you can without a table saw.

The event is at:
Christian Moerlein Brewing Co.
1621 Moore St.
Cincinnatti, OH 45202

Well be starting at 5:00 pm. It will officially go until 8:00 pm, but keep any eye on social media, as I'm sure that things will continue after, either at Moerlein or elsewhere.

You can see the event detail in Google+ and Facebook

We'll see you in Cincinnati.

Sean Wisniewski

• The Corner Workshop
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Dyami Plotke

• Penultimatewoodshop.com
• @DyamiPlotke
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Modern Woodworkers Association

• @MWA_National
• facebook.com/modernwoodworkers

Join the MWA at WIA

If you’ve heard me talk about WIA or FWWLive or any other woodworking conference on the Modern Woodworkers Association Podcast, you’ve heard me say over and over how the best part of the conferences is the community of fellow woodworkers who you meet and socialize with over the event. Evening is a prime time for this to happen.

We work wood and eat German food (and we're loud).

The Modern Woodworkers Association has setup and is helping promote meetups every night of the conference. All are free to enter (you pay for your own food & drink) and all will be attended by fellow woodworkers.

Thursday:  MWA Meetup at Keystone

Beginning at 7:00 pm, we’ll be hanging out in the upstairs bar room at the Keystone Bar & Grill. It’s a quick walk from the convention center and most of the hotels. Meeting at the Keystone on the opening night of registration has become a tradition for WIA and we hope you’ll join us. Many fellow MWA members, woodworking bloggers and other WIA attendees will be there. If you’re going to to the Roubo Book Release, don’t worry. You can join us at Keystone afterwards. All are welcome.

Friday:  Hofbrauhaus

The Hofbrauhaus excursion on Friday night is another WIA tradition. It’s less organized than the meetups at Keystone, in that we don’t reserve a private room. We just jump on the trolley and head to Hofbrauhaus. It’s a fun night of great beer, great food, great company and loud music. If you’re going to the official WIA Banquet, please join us at Hofbrauhaus afterwards. We usually stay late. If you’re looking to meet us at Hofbrauhaus, there’s no telling exactly where we’ll be, though in past years we’ve started the evening at the outside bar area and then moved to one of the many long tables. Just listen for Tom Iovino and you’ll be sure to find us. All are welcome.

Saturday:  WoodTalk Meetup at Keystone

The WoodTalk guys have setup their own Meetup at the Keystone on Saturday night. It begins at 6:30. Since it was organized by and features Marc, Matt & Shannon, you should expect that this will be the smoothest running event of the weekend. Still, it’s going to be an absolute blast and all should come. I know we’re going to try to represent the MWA there in force.

Afterwards:

Just about every night some folks will stop by the Behle St Cafe before heading back to their rooms. If it’s late, but you’re still looking to hang out with woodworkers, joint us there. All are welcome.

Venue Information

Keystone Bar & Grill

313 Greenup St

Covington, KY

Hofbrauhaus Newport

200 East 3rd St

Newport, KY 41071

Take the SouthBank Shuttle (trolley) to the stop between Monmouth St & Saratoga St (it doesn’t have stop names)

Behle St Cafe

50 East Rivercenter  Blvd

Covington, KY 41011

Across the street from the convention center in the same building as the Embassy Suites





WTO On The MWA At FWWLive

We'd like to thank the fellas over at the Woodtalk Show for helping us spread the word about the Build-Off at Fine Woodworking Live.

Think this idiots can build something?

+Marc Spagnuolo, +Matt Vanderlist and +Shannon Rogers helped spread the word on last week's Woodtalk Show. For that and for all the support they show us and the online community in general we owe them a big thanks. With their help the +Modern Woodworkers Association will dominate the Build-Off.