16 Sep Institute news: Coming Out Party!
Come for an afternoon of live music, food, demos, lawn games, a scavenger hunt, and opportunities to learn about and explore Lupinewood Institute, its projects, and the hilltop grounds of the historic stone mansion at Lupinewood in downtown Greenfield, MA! Families welcome. Donations accepted but not required, free to all. Sunday, October 5th, from 3-9pm at 172 Highland Ave.
3pm—Learn about the Institute’s six-month Start Something program that can help you develop and launch a community arts project at Lupinewood. Stipends and support available; no experience necessary
4pm—Live music sets start
5pm—Food is served until it’s gone
Snacks, drinks, games, and other buffoonery throughout the day
See you there!
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Lupinewood Institute
A flywheel for community projects to take flight and established ones to grow.
Why?
To support the creation, growth, and long-term health of community projects;
To put resources, equipment, and know-how in the hands of people who need them;
To build relationships between people across differences.
How it works
New projects join the Institute by completing the Start Something program: A six-month facilitated curriculum offered by the Institute that helps organizers to develop and launch a community arts project at Lupinewood.
Once a member, the new project joins a collective of established ones that work together on individual and group goals, collaborating on administration, fundraising, and promotion.
The Institute is staffed by admins who provide a backbone for the collective of projects to operate, managing things like decision-making between projects, shared fundraising efforts, and the Institute’s own programming.
Project leads and admins come together at monthly meetings to report back to each other, make and discuss proposals, and support each other’s work. Once a year, annual plans and budgets are proposed, discussed, and decided on collectively.
What is Lupinewood?
Lupinewood is four acres of meadow and forest that overlook the Connecticut river valley and surround a stone mansion and its outbuildings, once occupied by a convent of nuns and originally built by an industrialist family over two hundred years ago.
In 2016, with the house on the verge of foreclosure and collapse, a group of artists and organizers moved in with the intention of building a long-standing community resource together.
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