Volume 1, Issue 16 | Summer’s End
Livvy was playing a fortune-telling-themed card game earlier this year—right around when we were getting started with The Company—and however it is that the game works it produced the phrase “Harvest in the Fall”. At the time she kept asking Norton and I what we thought it could mean, and she landed on it having something to do with our then-new venture.
She invokes the phrase every so often, when we talk about membership numbers, and our revenue, and our seemingly slow march toward our goals for this experiment.
Perhaps as a reference to that, we did schedule a storytelling event with the theme of “Harvest“ for this past week, the very first week of Fall, which would have provided a conveniently literal fulfillment of this pretend prophecy. But we ended up cancelling that for secret reasons. So we’ll see what this season holds.
In any case, we really love Fall, and we really love this community, and we’re so grateful to all of you for being a part of what at times seems like a bold and elaborate fiction.
—Ivan
Happenings
This week:
Mary Ann’s Book Club, Monday, September 30
Mary Ann’s monthly book club is having its first meeting tomorrow!
The book in discussion is How to Know A Person, by David Brooks, and if you haven’t started yet, you’ve technically still got time! If you’re a Spotify premium user there’s an audiobook. And if you’ve started but haven’t finished it yet, you’re still welcome.
Conscious Spending Class, Tuesday, October 1
José is teaching his second Conscious Spending Class. In this one he’ll go over the topic of investing and debt. These two major areas of finance unlock opportunities and create a new way of thinking about your money and how to use it best. Come hang out to plan your next month, and feel good about life in Denver. Limited spots.
Creative Coding Demo Night / Art Show, Saturday, October 5
Part meetup, part art show, part demo night, part party, Creative Code Denver’s second annual show will gather and showcase artists and programmers exploring code as a creative medium.
Next Week:
Refugee Initiative Training, Monday, October 7
Company member Allyson is working with Lutheran Family Services to help a newly arrived refugee family in 4 main areas: English language, job applications, financial literacy, and life skills. If you’re interested in being a part of this initiative you must go through a training, which you can do virtually on your own (it’s hosted once a month), but it’s much more fun if you attend this in-person session at The Company. There’ll be pizza.
Film Screening: Eno, Tuesday, October 8
We are fully sold out on this, but you can sign up for the waitlist.
PowerPoint Party No. 19, Saturday, October 12
What’s a PowerPoint Party, you ask? Twelve people giving 7-minute presentations about whatever they’re currently into. At past ones people have presented about their rules for life, how to cross this intersection, Dyson spheres, family history, and loved ones. It’s a wide mix.
It’s a nerdy and sincere crowd that cares a lot, and we’ve met some of our favorite people at these.
Want to present? We’ve got a waiting list (email us back if you want to get on it). Want to just show up and meet interesting people and learn about what’s fascinating them lately? That’s great too. Bring yourself, bring a friend, bring your mom.
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Also coming up: Block Printing Class, Homecoming
Nostalgia
Do you remember Summery that year? Meeting parents and eating cake and reminiscing? How we sang Happy Birthday to José before the show? All the pictures and reflections and memories—all the time travel and gratitude and tears? How one of the many things we remembered is how much we love Summery?
The lingering? The resetting? How Halie and Justin slow-danced to the background music as things wound down?
Do you remember how some of us got food with Mason’s moms, while Livvy and Justin played one of the board games he published in a former life? That we had to cancel Glint, but a pile of us hung out, and watched one too many episodes of Only Murders in the Building?
The worknight? The long breaks, the five stars, the late-night Dominos, and watching Halie reverse everything on Justin’s desk?
Or the jam session with Lexi on drums, Trevr on guitar, and me on keys? How we thought later about how ephemeral it was, and she described it as a collective flow state?
All of us at Creative Mornings? Trevr’s first? How we stared at the graffiti on the building across the street, and wondered at the question marks? How we thought about forming a Katamari but didn’t?
How there were ten of us in on Friday, and it felt great? How disruptive and sweet it was how many times we all got up to hug whoever just walked in?
Waiting outside of Maci, with great weather, and the long lunch-time conversation after?
Bureaucratic Minutiae
At Summery: José, Drew, Justin, Ankit, Livvy, and Ivan presented about their summers.
At Worknight: Ivan made four musical sketches, Halie and Lizzie planned Homecoming, Livvy fixed a bug for her day job, Norton did art show outreach, Justin made progress on Currentss, Lizzie caught up on journaling and ate chocolate, and Drew edited photos.
Finally, a reminder that The Company is a membership-supported mixed-use creative space, and if you know any of us, you’re welcome to pop in any time for free (outside of events). If you know that one of us is here and you’d like to come by, reach out and we can let you in.
Do you know anyone in the Denver area who might be looking for creative community? Feel free to forward this email along to them. Everyone loves Paperwork.
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This issue of Paperwork was made possible by the support of our members, Halie, Drew, Justin, Mason, Lexi, José, Mary Ann, Trevr, Aubrey, Allyson, Lizzie, Madison, and our newest member Melissa.
