The Lexington Ad Club [AAF] is hosting kick ass designer Aaron Draplin at the Kentucky Theater. Join us for the talk and then we will follow the lecture with a Shift + Sip at Henry Clay Pub to discuss and socialize.

AAF social starts at 6:30, lecture at 7:00. Shift + Sip after the talk is over.

Tickets can be bought at the door for cash or check, or online here.

•Photo / art credit- Aaron Draplin (http://www.draplin.com/1998/01/ddc067_kentucky_kollected_poster.html)

Join us for a Shift + Sip event featuring Able Engine’s GiveCamp Lexington. GiveCamp Lexington is a two-day event where technology professionals including designers, developers, SEO strategists and marketers donate their talent to enhance the online presences of Lexington’s non-profits. Come to find out how you can participate and give back to Lexington’s non-profit organizations.

This will also be a socializing and networking event, so even if you aren’t interested in participating in GiveCamp, join us to chat with local creatives in Able Engine’s new location.

March 5th
7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
269 West Main Street
Suite 100
www.AbleEngine.com

Join us for another Shift + Sip. We will be gathering at Henry Clay Pub for creative socializing and networking. The kind folks over there have extended their Happy Hour for us AND Tuesday is their Jazz night; so live music should start around 8:30.

The event is open to all creative types and their friends. This is a great time for local businesses to meet local creatives. Or for creatives to chat with people in similar fields.

*Image Credit: http://www.thefancy.com/things/257833971151279097/Victory-Ribbon-Decal

Arcadium
574 N LIMESTONE
LEXINGTON, KY 40508 

Wednesday, November 7th

 We are shifting out normal meet up this month due to Election Day to Wednesday, November 7th. We will be having local lawyer Will Montague run a Q + A for creatives and their businesses at Serif Group and Shaun Ring Photography’s new studio. Please meet us starting at 7:00 P.M.

 Will is a Lexington lawyer representing businesses and individuals in matters involving intellectual property law, internet/computer law, advertising law, and business disputes. He’s been an attorney for twenty years and was an equity partner at two of the region’s biggest law firms, Dinsmore & Shohl and Stoll Keenon Ogden. In 2011, Will left Dinsmore & Shohl to start his own practice, Montague Law PLLC.  For more information, visit wmlex.com.

Shift is turning 1! Come celebrate our one year of creative, networking success with a night of food, drinks, creatives, music and fun activities. We will have food from Bourbon and Toulouse, tasty locally crafted beer from Country Boy Brewery and music from local DJ Patrick Smith! There will be an art raffle to help raise money for future Shift events and goodies to help inspire you to keep making Lexington a center for creative culture.

The celebration will take place Tuesday, August 7th from 7-9 at Base 163. This is the same location where we held our very first meet-up. Please invite your friends, all are welcome!

A big thanks to the sponsors and volunteers for this event!
Randall Stevens and Base 163
Bourbon and Toulouse
Country Boy Brewery
Jim Edmon
Adam Kuhn Design
Randy Janeshek

Local Creative Panel

The Creative Panel will include Brad Flowers from Bullhorn, Jeff Ruth from Shatterbox Studios, and Adam Martin from Martin Design Studio. It will be an open Q +A session. So bring your design, business, and entrepreneur questions to ask the panel. 

For parking at Bullhorn: They have 10 spaces in their parking lot and there is nearby street parking. For overflow, Grace Baptist Church’s parking lot next to Bullhorn will be available. 

Bullhorn
804 N. Limestone St, Lexington
Tuesday, June 5th
7:00–9:00 P.M. 

Tuesday, May 1st
7:00-9:00 P.M.
West 6th Brewery
501 West 6th Street, Lexington, KY

Tuesday, April 3rd
7:00-9:00 P.M.
Country Boy Brewery
436 Chair Ave, Lexington, KY

Come join us at Lexington Beerworks for a creative social outing. We will be checking out this great new venue in town and socializing with other local creatives. We will have a follow up about the Gallery Hop we held in February and have an opportunity to brainstorm future Shift events. Don’t forget to spread the word and bring your friends!

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