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

Katie Gradowski katie.gradowski at gmail.com
Sun Dec 18 17:54:11 EST 2011


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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