Fwd: Meeting for a New Social Space for Galway this Thursday 7pm Massimo

[Antóin Óg Ó Cuinneagáin]

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From: Transition Galway <galwaytr...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:38 PM
Subject: Meeting for a New Social Space for Galway this Thursday 7pm Massimo
To:


Hi all,

There's a first meeting this Thursday 19th April from 7pm-8pm in
Massimo, William St. West (near the Crane Bar) to explore setting up a
social centre for Galway similar to Seomra Spraoi in Dublin. All
welcome!

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/334888589898527/

Now that the Spirit Centre and the Garden of Transition are soon to be
homeless what about getting a new venue together? We could collaborate
with other like-minded groups or organisations to rent a space
together. We could get a much better space by pooling resources. There
is potential for lots of things: classes, film screenings, a cafe,
small music concerts, lectures, debates, a shop, a library, urban
gardening, stand up comedy, small scale theatre, book launches, poetry
readings, art exhibitions etc.

Seomra Spraoi in Dublin is a possible model of what's possible
(http://seomraspraoi.org/).

sound,

Caoimhín
(087) 125 4817
Transition Galway/Trasdul na Gaillimhe
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/34809731344
WEBSITE: www.transitiongalway.com

[Barry Coughlan]

That's interesting, would the labs ever consider merging with these groups?

2012/4/16 Antóin Óg Ó Cuinneagáin <anthony.c...@gmail.com>

[Aaron Hastings]

While our goals and objectives are fundamentally different in many ways (091 Labs is a members club that is open to the public for some, but not strictly all, events), I would be more than happy - delighted in fact - to run crossover events between the maker- and social-spaces. Every little helps these days, as they say.

As for a formal merge, I would be very much against it. The two models are simply incompatible.

[Richard Conroy]

+1 What Aaron said.

Collaboration and Joint Ventures are to be recommended, but diversity in social groups, maker spaces is a positive thing. 

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[Conor Hoary]

i support Aaron's stance as well.

[Jodi Schneider]

+1 Aaron. 

Can anybody make their meeting on Thursday? I think it would be great to start out collaborating with them now. I'd go but I'll be in London, I'm afraid.

-Jodi

[Domhnall Walsh]

I'll be... wherever this stag I'm going on is to be, but out of the country either way, sorry.

[Ciarán McCool]

Its a nice idea alright, assuming we can hammer out issues involving who is in charge of what. Wasn't something like this ment to happen with Mens Shed to? What happened there?

[Antóin Óg Ó Cuinneagáin]

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