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In 2017, DS4SI created Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) to help people understand the moment we’re in, from all different perspectives. Co-created with activists, artists and community members, SERCs are temporary, pop-up spaces that help us move from rage and despair into collective, radical action. SERCs are continuing and growing—a people-led public infrastructure sweeping the country from Utica, MS to Atlanta, Albuquerque, Washington DC, Chicago, Orange, NJ, Hartford, CT, etc. They are popping up in homes, community centers, schools, churches and conferences. SERCs function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such, they aim to find the balance between the two, answering questions like: How will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like?

Read more at http://www.ds4si.org/interventions/serc

DS4SI has helped support over 20 SERCs over 2017-18.

Here's a diagram via DS4SI to help you imagine it!

The SERC Dispatch

The SERC Dispatch is a collaboratively-written mini-newspaper based on The Barnraiser, a for the SERC at 2018's Equity Summit in Chicago. Visit the SERC at Randolph 2 to get involved!

Resources

Here's a worksheet for SERC Dispatch reporters: worksheet.pdf

SERC-Intake-Form.pdf

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Past content

This page was formerly used to organize the Somerville SERC in 2017; see this page for more info.

In 2017, DS4SI created Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) to help people understand the moment we’re in, from all different perspectives. Co-created with activists, artists and community members, SERCs are temporary, pop-up spaces that help us move from rage and despair into collective, radical action. SERCs are continuing and growing—a people-led public infrastructure sweeping the country from Utica, MS to Atlanta, Albuquerque, Washington DC, Chicago, Orange, NJ, Hartford, CT, etc. They are popping up in homes, community centers, schools, churches and conferences. SERCs function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such, they aim to find the balance between the two, answering questions like: How will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like?

DS4SI has helped support over 20 SERCs over 2017-18.

Here's a diagram via DS4SI to help you imagine it!

The SERC Dispatch

The SERC Dispatch is a collaboratively-written mini-newspaper based on The Barnraiser, a for the SERC at 2018's Equity Summit in Chicago. Visit the SERC at Randolph 2 to get involved!

Resources

Here's a worksheet for SERC Dispatch reporters: worksheet.pdf

SERC-Intake-Form.pdf

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Past content

This page was formerly used to organize the Somerville SERC in 2017; see this page for more info.

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. In support of this, our (Parts & Crafts and Public Lab's) goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day, from one to two hours each. We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Submit a session

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Schedule

(Updated daily! Contact jeff@publiclab.org & katie@partsandcrafts.org to add stuff!)

Resources

SERC-Intake-Form.pdf

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. In support of this, our (Parts & Crafts and Public Lab's) goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day, from one to two hours each. We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Know Your Rights workshop - by Cora V
• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)

[prompt:paragraph:Enter your session here]

• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Schedule

(Updated daily! Contact jeff@publiclab.org & katie@partsandcrafts.org to add stuff!)

Resources

SERC-Intake-Form.pdf

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. In support of this, our (Parts & Crafts and Public Lab's) goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day, from one to two hours each. We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Know Your Rights workshop - by Cora V
• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)

[prompt:paragraph:Enter your session here]

• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Schedule

(Updated daily! Contact jeff@publiclab.org & katie@partsandcrafts.org to add stuff!)

Resources

SERC-Intake-Form.pdf

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. In support of this, our (Parts & Crafts and Public Lab's) goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day, from one to two hours each. We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Know Your Rights workshop - by Cora V
• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)

[prompt:paragraph:Enter your session here]

• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Schedule

(Updated daily! Contact jeff@publiclab.org & katie@partsandcrafts.org to add stuff!)

Resources

SERC-Intake-Form.pdf

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. In support of this, our (Parts & Crafts and Public Lab's) goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day, from one to two hours each. We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Know Your Rights workshop - by Cora V
• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)

[prompt:paragraph:Enter your session here]

• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Session ideas

Edit here: http://pad.publiclab.org/p/serc

Resources

SERC-Intake-Form.pdf

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. In support of this, our (Parts & Crafts and Public Lab's) goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day, from one to two hours each. We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Know Your Rights workshop - by Cora V
• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)

[prompt:paragraph:Enter your session here]

• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Session ideas

Edit here: http://pad.publiclab.org/p/serc

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. In support of this, our (Parts & Crafts and Public Lab's) goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day, from one to two hours each. We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Know Your Rights workshop - by Cora V
• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)

[prompt:paragraph:Enter your session here]

• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Session ideas

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. In support of this, our (Parts & Crafts and Public Lab's) goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day, from one to two hours each. We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Know Your Rights workshop - by Cora V
• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)
• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Session ideas

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. In support of this, our (Parts & Crafts and Public Lab's) goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day, from one to two hours each. We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)
• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

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Session ideas

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. In support of this, our (Parts & Crafts and Public Lab's) goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day, from one to two hours each. We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)
• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Session ideas

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. Our goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC 1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day:

• from one to two hours

We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)
• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Session ideas

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. Our goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC #1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day:

• from one to two hours

We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Drum painting - by Katie Gradowski
• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)
• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Session ideas

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. Our goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC #1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day:

• from one to two hours

We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by Jeff (@warren)
• ...more coming very soon, see below for ideas listing

Submit a session

---

Session ideas

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. Our goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC #1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day:

• from one to two hours

We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by @warren

[prompt:paragraph:Add your own session here!]

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Early notes

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

DS4SI wants to host 5-15 SERCs in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. Our goal is to host two events in Somerville between now and May -- a trial run on Saturday March 18, at Parts and Crafts, the second in early May, location TBD, as a more evolved version. We would love you to be a part of it!

Interested in helping us plan? March 18 is a trial run -- we're going to throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks. Want to help us put it all together? Email contact@partsandcrafts.org

Mark your calendars!

SERC #1: Saturday March 18 10-4 pm with pizza to follow 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville (at Parts & Crafts)

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Interested in being a part of it? Here's how!

Run a workshop. Workshops are food for the brain, body, or soul, and can be on anything from screenprinting to Standing Rock, decompression strategies to anti-displacement. What do you want to learn? What do you want to share?

Build a cohort. This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our collaboration muscles and build a cohort of people -- Somervillians, artists, old timers, crafty folks, educators, hipsters, and activists of all stripes -- to reach across boundaries and help to lift each other up.

Intergenerational. If you've been around the block and have seen all this a million times -- or if you're just-recently-not-a-kid and are terrified out of your mind - we want your perspective and your voice. CITS, Full Circle cohort, youth leaders, and youth organizers: you especially are invited!

Somerville local (and Cambridge, and Medford, and Arlington, you too!) Occupation, privatization, state-sanctioned violence, displacement, and disruption of everyday life: Trump didn't invent these things. Likewise, strategies for creative resistance, non-engagement, and grassroots solution have been happening right here at home for decades.

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day:

• from one to two hours

We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by @warren

[prompt:paragraph:Add your own session here!]

---

Early notes

Organizing page for March 18th mini-SERC Somerville.

What's a SERC?

In emergencies like hurricanes and tsunamis, emergency response centers exist to coordinate evacuations or provide services like temporary housing, food, and water. We want you to join us in re-imagining response centers to take on the real and pressing social emergency that we are facing today. (via DS4SI)

Social Emergency Response Centers (SERCs) will be temporary, emergent, and creative pop-up spaces co-led by activists and artists around the US. They will function as both an artistic gesture and a practical solution. As such we will need to figure out the balance, like how will we feed people--and their hunger for justice? How will we create a shelter--where it's safe to bring your whole damn self? What will reconstruction--of civil society--look like? Here is a rough diagram that we’re excited to have people add to:

Here's a diagram to help you imagine it!

Planning

Planning is now in progress, and more will be posted soon. Please email jeff@publiclab.org if you'd like to be involved!

Sessions

We're looking for people to organize sessions for the day:

• from one to two hours

We're hoping to have a session of each of these types running at a time:

• 1 crafts-oriented
• 1 "learn about this"
• 1 brainstorm-oriented
• downtime -- for "taking a break"
• 1 for young people (various ages)
• accessible to teens, best facilitated by teens (any good workshop should be accessible)

Currently planned sessions

• Timelapse Pollution Monitoring Kit - by @warren

[prompt:paragraph:Add your own session here!]

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Early notes