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> just start. Find a space that’ll work well enough, start inviting people to it, and be the best host you can be. In the end, spending time with other people i
by righthand 6mo ago
> just start. Find a space that’ll work well enough, start inviting people to it, and be the best host you can be. In the end, spending time with other people is the most important thing. Everything else comes from that.
It doesn’t go over costs. Starting a “community space” in Brooklyn cannot be cheap. There seems to be an ever growing divide in art as those who can even afford to open a community space. “Just start”? I work 5 days a week and my parents would not give me the rent money to open a Brooklyn art space. This reads like someone had no money problems to worry about even when profitability was a question.
- tekla 6mo agoIt's interesting that people will label someone as "well off" pejoratively even after the article in question described how it started and how it was financed.
- righthand 6mo agoI wasn’t being perjorative about their financial standing. I was merely pointing out the lack of information relative to just starting a community center. “With what money” is a valid question. And for the record it appears this author is a highly paid software engineer at Amazon. The average person isn’t going to be able to afford to live in and rent out a warehouse in Brooklyn to “just start” a community center. Let a lone the social connections to do so without money.