[Street] [Occupybostonoutreach] [Facilitation] Tiny Tents Idea
angela giudice
amgnsm at verizon.net
Tue Dec 13 12:58:27 EST 2011
I would LOVE to host a tiny tents party at our house in Roxbury, and invite members from our neighborhood association, especially young people. How would I do this???
Peace, Angela (617-427-3312 h, 857-342-0049 c)
--- On Tue, 12/13/11, Katie Gradowski <katie.gradowski at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Katie Gradowski <katie.gradowski at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Occupybostonoutreach] [Facilitation] Tiny Tents Idea
To: "mallory biggins" <mallorybiggins at gmail.com>
Cc: "street" <street at lists.occupyboston.org>, "outreach" <Occupybostonoutreach at lists.occupyboston.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 11:27 AM
Hey mallory,
I'd like to get outeach + streets behind this re: tiny tent craft parties (reaching out to smaller occupies, somerville, quincy, natick etc?) This is also a perfect complement to the tents-in-the-yard proposal - which I think someone has already mentioned? - I think both would have a lot of traction in the suburbs, as well as groups within OB.
Brett was excited about working on tents in the yard, and there are two groups already established who were working on that. Does anyone have contact for them? let's talk more about this! Craft parties are also an AMAZING entry point for people not yet connected, as a low-stakes social event (which is a big priority that isn't really getting addressed at the moment.
Tiny tent craft parties -- a good thing to put on the calendar.
Katie
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:47 PM, mallory biggins <mallorybiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
Dearest All--
So sorry to be sending out so many mass emails today. Too many
thoughts, and I'm away from the city.
SO at last nights General Assembly, I brought a few little tiny fabric
tents that I had made earlier on in the day. It just so happened that
Katie also brought a bunch of little inexpensive LED lights as well.
At some point, the little lights ended up in the little tents, and a
village of illuminated tents came to form. Heres a picture that Robin
took of the tiny tents: http://postimage.org/image/llvcna2hj/
I feel as though this beautiful representation of our occupation could
make for a very fun, peaceful and uplifting evening event. In my mind,
I envision people getting together to mass produce a few hundred of
these little tents a few days in advance (I made six of them in about
45 minutes, alone, in my car!). Then, on another evening (perhaps
#D17, if things could get put together quickly enough), Occupy Boston
could have a vigil or speak out where everyone is invited to write
their hopes for the movement or concerns for the world on each little
tent. We could talk about the ways in which occupy has illuminated our
minds, has connected us in carrying the light of hope for a better
world (or something potentially less corny and pun-oriented...but I
couldn't help myself.)
I believe a big part of Occupy Boston 2.0 will be gathering people
around creative, engaging actions. In my mind, this type of group
vigil speaks to the fact that: A. We are a movement about humanity,
about connection, about community, B. We are promoting beauty in the
world, despite the fact that everyone wants to spin us as being
destructive and grotesque, and, of course, C. WE ARE STILL HERE.
I imagine at the end of this event, we could invite people to take a
little illuminated tent home with them, to display in a window, on the
dashboard of a car, on top of a computer at work--wherever--as a
reminder of our deep connection to each other, to the occupation, and
to our hopes for the 99%.
If you are at all interested in helping build the tents, if you have
any ideas about this type of event, if you think this is a good idea,
or a bad idea, or if you have any thoughts at all, please, do tell!
And if you'd like, please join the #TinyTentsTaskForce. There will be
lots of work to do.
with solidarity and endless gratitude,
Mallory
978.269.4509
malloryapril.tumblr.com
@malloryapril
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