🌟 Membership Launch and more! 🌟
March in Denver means balance; balance of warm, sunny days with days of sub-freezing snow storms and surprise flurries; balance in celebrations of our wins while staying focused on the work at hand; and balance of the needs of our communities with the needs of our own body, our own mind, our own spirit.
March is Women’s History Month. We recognize that the colonial gendered concept of a woman was created to be a contrast to the concept of a man, what we know today as the gender binary. We also know the experience of being a woman is profoundly more than that. Women, and people raised to be women, produce the majority of labor worldwide, and receive a fraction (if any) of the gratitude, recognition, and compensation that cis men are afforded for the same work. This gets exponentially more true with women- and people-of-color, trans women and nonbinary people, those without wealth, those with chronic illnesses and disabilities, those enslaved within the prison industrial complex, and those born without government paperwork and identification.
This March, we recognize the ingenuity and labor of women and non-men in our communities by compensating equitably, by taking on the burden of education for ourselves, by elevating women and non-men into leadership roles and positions of decision-making, and by initiating ways to ease labor from women and non-men (like volunteering and investing your time and energy into your local community!)
🌀 Announcements
We’re about to launch membership! Be the first to know, fill out this form here.
Lior has filled the role of our newsletter writer!
Our membership launch gala is happening this month (March 18th 6-10pm)
We’ve announced our open hours!
We’ve updated the website, check it out!
👋🏽 Open Hours
Tuesdays & Thursdays 10am-5pm: Open coworking for members (donation based, drop-ins welcome!) & SG general info
Saturdays 10am-5pm: BIPOC centered space (by-us-for-us) & SG general info
Sundays 10am-5pm: Sacred Sundays (spiritual programming) & SG general info
🎟 Upcoming Events
MEMBER EVENTS (Become a member here!)
March 2nd @ 3:30-8pm: Shared Ground Work Party and Potluck; we'll bring supplies, tasks, and some food. You bring elbow grease and a side dish or two.
March 5th @ 6-8:30pm: Community Potluck; Join us for good food & conversation, bring friends/family and food to share!
March 19th @ 2:22-3:33pm: Sacred Soapbox; a different kind of open mic and Sacred Sundays offering.
RECURRING EVENTS
Mondays @ 6:15pm: Movement Mondays: Community Yoga with Honeycomb Healing (donation based, drops-ins welcome!)
Sundays @ 9am: Scream Church (tickets go fast!)
Sundays @ noon: Quiet Queer Happy (tea) Hour (free, drop-ins welcome)
Sundays @ 3pm: Kaleidoscope Creatures | Community Dance Practice; discovering the power of partner dance in queer community (sliding scale fees and donation-based)
PUBLIC EVENTS
March 1st @ 9-5pm: Federated Futures
March 4th @ 10am-1pm: Discovering Heart- Radical Love Movement
March 4th @ 7pm-12am: Radical Purim Masquerade
March 5th @ 12-1pm: Musical Circuits
March 8th @ 5-8pm: Galentine’s Sound Bath and Women’s Circle
March 8th @ 5-8pm: Mycoalition Member Meeting
March 8th @ 6-9pm: Bad Bitch Book Club
March 11th @ 11am-5pm: Abstract Art Market
March 15th @ 6-9pm: Metro Denver Nigun Collective
March 18th @ 6-10pm: Shared Ground Membership Launch Gala; bring your friends, family, and neighbors to this exciting event and join our loving community!
🪩 You’re invited to our Membership Launch Gala!
On Sunday, March 18th from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM MT, we will be holding our Membership Launch Gala! This interactive event will embody our mission as a climate resilience sanctuary and center for community needs. Come enjoy a plethora of offerings as we integrate individuals, families, and more communities into our shared space. Learn about Shared Ground’s mission, and get involved with community organizations such as Spirit of the Sun, Potted Peace Project, Food Not Bombs Denver, Just the Pill, SPORE, Compost Colorado and more!
This FREE event will consist of:
🥙 Delicious tapas and desserts
🍸 Non-Alcoholic elixirs
🎭 DJ + performances
🛍 Local BIPOC artisan vendors
🃏 Tarot readings
🎨 Live art
🧘🏾 Sound bath
🤫 Silent auction
🎤 Accessible Recording Studio Launch
📣 Interactive presentation about Shared Ground
Free entry with donation options at the door and throughout the building. RSVP here!
🎉 Welcome to the marketing committee, Lior!
Our marketing and external communications team is growing! Lior joined us this month to help with writing our monthly newsletters (the one you’re reading now!). We are very excited to have them on board and helping us expand our capacities as a community. Lior has been independently writing poetry, music and non-fiction for over a decade, and has recently expanded to writing short stories and fiction (read more of their work under their pen name, Rae L Ellis, here). After leaving their indie music career and harm reduction community in Phoenix, Lior moved to Denver in 2020 and has been working with Denver’s chapter of Food Not Bombs for over a year doing behind-the-scenes work in marketing, social media, volunteer outreach, and operations. They advocate for disability rights wherever they go and add valuable perspective to our community. Lior is a self-proclaimed “neurospicy” and all-around artist/writer/musician/painter/wannabe-chef currently working on writing their first book.
Be sure to check out their self-produced music at raenotlydia.com (or any streaming site), keep up with their newly created music and book progress at patreon.com/raenotlydia, and find them at a Sunday Cooking Party with Denver Food Not Bombs.
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Thanks for reading and being a part of our community!
-The Shared Ground Steering Committee
