[Street] community forum tomorrow at St. Paul's Cathedral

Occupy Boston Music and Events booking99percent at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 12:16:44 EST 2011


Sage and John Ford will represent *"Music and Events"* tonight.They are now
a part of this working group.  :-)

Thank you
Kelley

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Katie Gradowski
<katie.gradowski at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey all!
>
> So last week, facilitation put through a proposal for Monday evenings
> (6-8:30 p.m.) to be "Community Forum" nights.   It's an awesome proposal
> and has been a long time coming, and will help both in terms of inviting
> and opening up our space to new folks  (a harder task, in the absence of
> Dewey Square) and also giving us an opportunity to meet across working
> groups and familiarize ourselves with each others' projects.
>
> The first one is being run as a general "open house" for Occupy Boston --
> a chance for people who may be on the fringes to come in and see a little
> bit more on what we're all about -- and specifically, for working groups to
> highlight cool projects and ongoing initiatives.   A rough sketch of the
> evening goes as follows:
>
>    - 6-6:30ish -- coffee and snack time!   hanging out, mingling, talking
>    to unfamiliar faces,
>    - 6:307ish -- quick presentation -- this is OB!  welcome!
>    - 7-8:30 -- breakout WG stations -- each working group takes a corner,
>    an alcove, a small space in the sanctuary, where they are set up with
>    sign-up sheets, a sign saying who they are and what they do, and a few
>    people who are able to talk about exciting stuff that's coming up for that
>    working group.
>
> Again, this is TOMORROW, so it's pretty quick planning!   It's meant to be
> pretty informal - a place for us to meet each other, and invite new people
> to participate in what's going on between and among different working
> groups.
>
> The working group breakouts are a great place to talk about what we've
> done, and give new people (or people from other working groups) an idea
> about what projects are really exciting for us at the moment  (town halls?
> community gardens?  community-wide action planning?)   Even better to bring
> pictures or have people on hand who can speak to the specifics of why
> outreach is an awesome place to be.
>
> Jay from signs will be there to help get set up, but we'd need to bring
> some materials -- any printed matter, nametags, signs saying who we are,
> documentation of past projects, etc -- and have at least one person to man
> these stations.    It would be awesome if outreach, labor outreach and
> streets could be involved in this!   I'm going to reach out to the
> community orgs right after this to see if they want to cancel or go forward
> with the regular meeting -- I think it would be awesome to have them
> involved as well.
>
> Wanted to take a quick temp check on cancelling meeting tomorrow so we can
> participate in this!   What do you all think?
>
> Best,
>
> Katie
>
>
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Kindest regards,

Kelley Pope
Occupy Boston Music and Events

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