Social Working Group March Meeting

Hello Social Cliftonites!

The first Social Working Group meeting was great: it didn't involve any working at all!

About 20 people attended the potluck, where we shared good food and great ideas for spreading a sense of community. Several group members shared the sentiment that a strong social fabric not only makes for a more pleasant place to live, but a good base for addressing serious ecological and other issues.

Here are ideas for neighborhood activities people shared:

1. participating in community gardens
2. beautifying vacant lots as a group (a.k.a guerrilla gardening)
3. putting together a street fair
4. organizing card playing groups (hey, how about a tournament?)
5. planting fruit trees to improve neighborhood snackability
6. community canning of fresh foods
7. throwing an apple cider festival
8. finding a "sister" neighborhood, like a sister city
9. highlighting opportunities to treat the neighborhood as a living
and learing campus
10. attending community events - movie screenings, etc - as a group
11. meeting neighbors through coffee invites
12. walking groups (with or without our pets)
13. a neighborhood book club
14. more potlucks

Anything sound like fun? Thought so. Share your ideas, join in. Write to
socialclif...@gmail.com.

Next potluck, we'll see what sorts of resources we each have as community members to make some or all of these things happen for our burgeoning ecovillage.

Here's the initial potluck invitation:

Our potluck will be 6-7:30 pm this Sunday March 16 at the Clifton Center (right after the ecological group meeting in the same place). It's on Clifton between Payne and Frankfort, behind Caffe Classico. We'll chat and eat and discuss some of our ideas for creating a more social neighborhood.

Please bring any and all ideas, and some friends and family, too, enough food for your party + three. We'll talk about what we like, what we'd like to change, and what groups of people you feel like you want to connect with but don't know how.

We'll finish at 7:30 on the dot.

For those who can't make it, it would be great if you sent along your ideas by e-mail so we can make sure they're not left out. We'll move the meeting days and times around so that everyone has a chance to participate.

PLEASE RSVP to jenniferola@wildmail.com

Okay. See you then.