In December of 2008 Photojournalist Kevin Vandivier founded TGOP and late 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning Photojournalist Skeeter Hagler joined Vandivier to help carry out the goals and vision that brought TGOP into existence. Both photographers bring years of incredible success in the field of photography to TGOP. Hagler began his career professionally in the early 1970's and over the years has won mutiple awards and has been published in many of the top magazines including National Geographi …

Based on White Wolf's World of Darkness roleplaying system, the Austin World of Darkness roleplaying group specializes in the following venues: - Vampire: The Requiem - Vampire: The Masquerade - Werewolf: The Forsaken - Mage: The Awakening - Changeling: The Lost - Geist: The Sin-Eaters ...come join this tightly-knit group of gamers for in-depth gothic horror gaming, available to you both locally and on a global scale! Members are welcome to sit in and observe or join in on the fun! Our games …

Professional Writers of Austin (PWA) is a free, members-only networking group for professional and aspiring writers. Our Mission Develop a supportive and informative community for Austin’s writers, editors, and interactive content creators. Goals Provide opportunities for Austin’s discrete journalistic, literary, and new media content-creating community to meet, share resources and job tips, improve career skills, and form lifelong bonds with like-minded people. Members We represent individuals …

The Pedernales Fire Department Auxiliary's mission is to support our Fire Department and Firefighters with fundraisers and by providing assistance during fires, emergencies and natural disasters. The Board plans and sponsors several fundraising activities during the year. We also publish the Siren, a newsletter about PFS and our District.

Hi there.  Welcome to Weird Austin Writers.  If you’re a writer but your goal is to be an author...this is your place.  Whatever a writer writes is art from the mind.  We're a talented group who like getting and giving feedback for manuscripts. This group is all about helping writers write better and get published. This Group will be doing: 2 Read, Workshop, and Chat meetups per month 1 Brainstorming session to get feedback on pre-manuscript ideas 1 Book Review session, where you talk about b …

The Sisters Tri-ing Health and Fitness Group, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing resources to encourage and support women of color in becoming fit and healthy. Sisters Tri-ing offers support, tools, knowledge and a community of women all striving to improve their fitness. Sisters Tri-ing participants receive detailed training plans to provide guidance needed to successfully train for our athletic events. We provide group training sessions with certified personal trainers where …

About Mindfulness Exercises: The practice of self regulation of the autonomic nervous system. We teach integrated mind-body mental exercises to trigger a natural parasympathetic response in the autonomic nervous system. This response releases powerful neuro-chemicals that regulate the immune system. Regulation of the immune system transforms the human body at the cellular level. This natural transformation affects our view, how we feel, and ultimately our perception of reality, it affects how we …

GameSalad is an online community that empowers everyone to express and share their ideas through games. Our company was founded on the belief that all people should have the tools to make popular games, limited only by the boundaries of their imaginations. GameSalad provides a platform used by creators to rapidly design, publish and distribute original games that have been played by millions of people worldwide. New to GameSalad, join our Meetup community to find other game developers in your ar …

Looking for a community for others on the adventurous road of self-publishing fiction? This group will be whatever you need it to be, looking for beta readers? Please be willing to be one if asked. Need critique (personally this makes me cringe and I won't be asking) then bring your work and get feedback. Having problems with the technical side and need input hopefully all of that can be addressed. Want to have sessions of sit down, shut up and write? Done. I am also hoping to have an active mes …

Are you in the e-Learning industry and looking for a great network of colleagues, a place to share resources, and a way to gain new knowledge on all things e-Learning? Come join the E-Learning Professionals! We will discuss topics on: - Learning Management Systems - Instructional Design - eLearning & mLearning - e-Learning publishing tools - Creating engaging e-Learning programs - much more... (Formerly the E-Learning Council / changed on 04.16.2013)

The intent of this group is to connect with 10 individuals who are dedicated to learning the art of manifesting opportunity and are willing to share your results in a published book. Initially this group may be more or less than 10 and over the next 30 days, the intent is to connect with 10 of you who really want to create change through the concepts being taught in this meetup. Most law of attraction books talk about "how to manifest" and once you learn how to manifest, Level 2 is focusing on M …

Language-Tech Austin is a hub for discussions, keynotes, mixers, and social interaction between Austin's educators, entrepreneurs, designers, developers, marketers, and language learning enthusiasts. We want to explore topics that intersect world languages and technology to uncover new challenges that together we might solve. Also we can share appropriate findings using #lingotech on Twitter to engage with other language advocates around the world. Join. You are a welcome part of our meetup. Ple …

The Finnegans Wake Reading Group of Austin is a monthly get-together to dive into the depths of James Joyce's greatest, weirdest, and most notorious masterpiece. We meet once a month (usually Tuesdays) at the Twin Oaks Library on the corner of Mary and 5th St in South Austin. The process is to take turns reading aloud from the text which allows its musicality to flow forth, then we all discuss our interpretations and the many meanings contained within the selection we've read. We read about 2 …

Meet other parents who loves to share parenting experiences, and support our children to do things such as: study groups, book/toy sharing, fun activities, finding job/internships, and working community service projects. What's New We just started the weekly math practice. Calling for Young Writer and Photographers! If your child like writing in either English, Chinese, Spanish or other languages, and/or like taking photos,  you are invited to join the club. We will soon start a project for Youn …

MoDevAustin is for anyone developing and publishing mobile apps and websites. More than just a meetup group, MoDev is a global community of individuals and companies seeking to stay at the forefront of mobile. Our meetups feature real-world case studies from doers pushing the envelope. We also strive to feature new apps and platforms at every meeting. Be sure to come to our grand opening kickoff party at SXSWi on Monday, March 11th! Cheers!

Serving Others Using Language, or SOUL SLAM...is a group of Austin Writers and Poets and Spoken Word performers who desire to come together and not only write and better their work as a group, but who also hope to better the world around them with their words. The group is open to people of all different backgrounds, beliefs, and levels of experience in the field of writing. Whether you love reading poetry, and merely appreciate it as an art form, or whether you are working on being published or …

Hi Everyone, First of all, I'll tell you that I used to facilitate and Artist's Way Group thru Meetup here in Austin. I am creating a group based on the correspondence classes of Chicago's Jerry Cleaver's Immediate Writing course of study. Jerry has many accolades and many published writer's singing his praises. My goal is to begin and complete his one year of correspondence classes by utilizing his book "Immediate Fiction", which contains all the lessons needed. I'm looking for other would be w …

If you have an interest in digital imaging techniques relating to photography, graphic design, presentations and multimedia, this group is for you. This group is focused on the development of an individual's skills through the practice, demonstration, and collaboration of digital imaging projects. If you have a love for graphic arts and photography we'll be hosting a mixture of basic—advanced workshops around the greater Austin area. The goal is for everyone to learn something, have fun learning …