Hi all,

We've moved to a different newsletter system (hosted on our own pattern club server) so this might look a bit different to usual, but we're still us !

Here's news about our festival happening next year, plus the algorave from our friends Elevate happening next week.

Alpaca Festival 2027

We're excited to announce the dates for the next edition of our festival called Alpaca -- Algorithmic Patterns for the Creative Arts. It's happening 6th-9th May 2027 here in Sheffield (as well as online and hopefully additional partner events elsewhere in Europe). The festival brings together all kinds of pattern-based arts and crafts, from weaving to live coding. The first one happened last Autumn, you can watch the recap film here!

If you are a patterny person and interested in getting involved, our open call for performances, conference talks and workshops is now open: alpaca.cc/call 

The open call deadline is 1st November, please do let us know if you have any questions or doubts by emailing us via contact@alpaca.cc

We haven't put tickets up yet, but more info will appear on the new (and currently quite minimal) Alpaca festival website soon: alpaca.cc

Elevate

Also! Next week, Thurs 17th Sept 2026, our friends Elevate return to factory floor in Neepsend, featuring top experimental electronic music and live coding from Pigs Sample Lungs, Glasz, sleepsang, Vernon Delph and Psi. More info and tickets (starting at £3 !) here: https://ra.co/events/2521209

Thanks

Ok that's it for now! Hopefully this new newsletter system works ok.. Please let us know if you find this in your spam! 

take care