Setting a date for the introduction event and creating a buzz
We decided to set our date, designed posters and started publishing, mostly on FB and local groups on different messenger apps, despite silence from the town hall until today. I messaged the owner with our date. We also started contacting local people who we would like to invite, and set out requests for market vendors and artists.
This afternoon the town hall got back to us in a polite, but somewhat concerned sounding email, about ‘clearing up doubts about our project and request for support’ proposing a meeting next week! We are obviously delighted to be important enough to be honoured with a meeting, and have responded that ‘we will happily introduce our project, clarify doubts and talk about support’.
We have already some artists and vendors, some associations wanting to present their work, and lots of people being very curious. Somebody offered us a translation and further help, someone else has been connecting me with potential organization structure examples our project could follow.
Best thing about all this: it’s a community project and I feel very light about setting its seed and slowly sharing it with others. I am usually very anxious around other people and having to speak, scheduling stuff, having to present things … and now it’s just fun and I am so curious as to where this leads to.
Congratulations! I find public speaking is easier when fueled by passion.
Enjoying all the updates and hope the meeting goes well!
Thank you! I’d say helping a project like this into existence is very much a life’s passion and combines elements from all of the public and half-public and other hospitable spaces I’ve encountered and benefited from (and heard of and read about) throughout my life. I should very much be writing down at least some notes, and your keyword ‘passion’ will be an excellent guidance.
Sounds wonderful. Don’t forget to promote with the Nextdoor app, which is for local networking.
I’ve never heard of Nextdoor, so I checked it out and it turns out doesn’t really exist where I live. I would love to have a self-hosted solution to support digital networking of the real community, but I believe currently more than 80% of promoting events, associations and small businesses happens over FB and WA here.
This sounds so cool!! I can’t wait for the next update!
