[Street] [Parts and Crafts] Saturday Open Shop!

Katie Gradowski katie.gradowski at gmail.com
Sat Dec 10 04:01:41 EST 2011


Hey everyone!

It's Saturday!   As per usual, we're running open shop --- not in Copley,
or Dewey, but back in our home town of Somerville, in the basement of the
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powder House Blvd.   What is open
shop, you ask?

Every Saturday we open up our shop, from 12:00 p.m. to 3 p.m. to families
and other curious folks who want to come in, look around, and make
something (or make something happen!) We’ll have a few projects around, and
spend the afternoon building and hanging out together. People are
encouraged to come to open shop with projects and ideas of their own that
they’d like to work on and explore, but we’ll always have something in mind
to get you started if you’re suffering from maker’s block.

Open shop runs from 1-3 p.m.   It's free, but donations are gratefully
accepted.

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A few additions for tomorrow!

1.  * At 11 a.m. (just prior to open shop) Occupy Somerville will be
holding their FIRST ACTION in Somerville at the Bank of America in Davis
Square*.   Move your money from Bank of America (third largest company in
the world?!) to a local bank or credit union (smaller!).

Why are we protesting BOA?   Beyond raising rates for customers in good
standing, refusing loan modifications, and the institution of arbitrary
fees, BOA was recently the target of a lawsuit for seizing three homes in
Texas and Kentucky to which they *did not hold the mortgage*    Bring your
signs and make some noise!

2.   As many of you know, P&C has been working pretty closely with Occupy
Boston over the last two months (a shout-out to outreach and the street
team, cc'ed on this email!)   This week has been a difficult week for us!
In spite of the threat of eviction (and the rain!) there were 200 people in
Dewey Square through the night, playing music, participating in teach-ins,
and holding down the site into the early hours of the morning.    The last
two days have been really amazing, with teach-ins, music, and speak-outs
going well after midnight, which has (so far!) successfully kept the camp
in place.

*Tomorrow, during open shop, we'll be organizing phase 1 of a lightsaber
flash mob*, to set converge on Dewey Square Saturday night at midnight
Saturday night.   If you're interested in participating in this action,
come by open shop and help us plan it!   We'll need cloth, spare rope, and
of course, lightsabers!  (we've got those covered).   We need lots of
people  (99 of them!) to dress as Jedi and protect Dewey Square!   On
Thursday we had a roving band of bankers -- this Saturday, it's going to be
Jedi vs Sith.

3.   As part of our ongoing support for OB, we're planning to take the last
hour open shop to cook a big meal to take down to Dewey Square.   *If you
have food to donate --- cookies, chips, hummus, sandwiches -  and would
like to contribute to this important effort, please let us know*!   If
you've never cooked for 100 people, now's your chance!

Thanks for reading through all that!   One final announcement, which is
that REGISTRATION IS OPEN for winter vacation camp!   Details below.
Please help us spread the word!

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*Parts and Crafts is happy to be offering another week of camp in December!*

*when:* December 27 through December 30, 9am to 3pm (early and late care
available)
*where:* the Parts and Crafts workshop — 155 Powderhouse Boulevard in
Somerville
*who:* kids, 7-12
*cost:* $50-300 for the week, sliding scale

*What is winter vacation camp?*

A whole week of invention and creation! We’ll have our electronics
workbench, art table, a bunch of hand-tools, building supplies, scrap
materials, air pumps, hot glue, duct tape, etc. Printers will be taken
apart, bread will be baked, LEDs and motors will be glued to things, there
may very well be giant cardboard sculptures. For details, email
contact at partsandcrafts.org or visit our camps page for more information.

Sign up for camp! <http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2577254638/eorg>
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