Moving Toward Maintenance: Community

Virtual Event

June 2, 2023 at 11am ET on Zoom

Join The Maintainers network and friends for a 3-Part Event Series highlighting different spheres of maintenance, asking: “How do we maintain ourselves? Our communities? Our movement?”. Together we will explore questions about these maintenance aspects. Each session will feature practitioners with experience in the field, and you will come away from each event in the series with a takeaway document to guide you in your dedication to that form of maintenance.

This is the graphic for the event "Moving Toward Maintenance: Community" There is a collaged background with purple, gold and light green cardstock taped up onto a light grey background. There are also three dried flowers, one yellow, one purple, and one pink. In the middle of the image, there are the words "save the date" in an arch, with "Friday, June 2 11a-12:30p ET" written beneath it. At the bottom is The Maintainers logo, a sewage cover icon with the word "Maintainers" running through the middle"
A collaged graphic with purple, gold and light green cardstock taped up onto a light grey background. There are3 dried flowers, one yellow, one purple, and one pink. In the middle of the image, it says “save the date” in an arc, with “Friday, June 2 11a-12:30p ET” written beneath it. At the bottom is The Maintainers logo, a sewage cover icon with the word “Maintainers” running through the middle.

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Up next, on Friday, June 2nd, we will be exploring questions around maintaining community. We have gathered Shelby Seier from All Kinds Accessibility Consulting, Kalmia  Strong from Public Space One, and Purna Sarkar from Repair Cafe Bengaluru to share their perspectives. We’ll explore and examine the following questions:

Why must we maintain our communities? How does community-maintenance contribute to self maintenance and larger movement building? Whose responsibility is it to maintain the community? How can we maintain communities with many in mind? What do these tools and practices look like?

Please enjoy learning about each of the practitioners and their amazing communities below!  

This event will be an hour and a half, and each practitioner will speak about their work and share about how they have maintained community.  You can learn more about The Maintainers virtual events by reading our code of engagement (scroll down on our about page), as well as in our virtual events guide.  

Access note: 

The Maintainers is committed to practicing and providing a range of accessibility support for our virtual events, acknowledging that we still have room to grow. At this time, and at this event, the gathering will include the following access supports:

  • Communication Access Realtime Translation, or CART. This means there will be live captions in English provided by a human (not automated) during the event. 
  • Recording and transcript will be sent out after the event. 
  • There is no requirement for participation, so show up as you are: have your camera on or off, move around your space, do or don’t participate in the chat, etc. 
  • This event will be in English on Zoom.

 

Virtual Events Guide

 

Please contact our community outreach & events coordinator ahead of time with further access needs and accommodation requests, and we will try our best to make it happen,  liliana@themaintainers.org. 

This is a no-cost event. If you choose to purchase a pay-what-you-wish ticket, the funds go directly to sustain event offerings, honorarium for all guest speakers, and to provide more expansive accessibility options for The Maintainers virtual events.

 

Speakers:

Purna Sarkar

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A gray square with “Purna Sarkar” in a sans serif all caps purple font on the lower left side, a dried yellow flower on the bottom right, and “Meet The Practitioner” in a thin oblong frame on the upper right. In the center is a black and white image of Purna holding an object, smiling, as she teaches in front of a white board. In the corner there is a graphic of a dried yellow flower.

 

Purna Sarkar is an activist, theater in education (TIE) coach, life skills trainer and HR professional. She is a co-founder of an environmental sustainability initiative called Repair Cafe Bengaluru. The idea of repair was not new to her life, as she has witnessed her parents and grandparents maintain a box of tools ready to tinker when the need arose. Purna left her corporate job to do something more meaningful and that was the beginning of repair café workshops in Bengaluru in 2015.

 

Shelby Seier

square graphic with a light grey background and purple text that reads "meet the practitioner" at the top in an oval, and in bold letters reads "SHELBY SEIER" at the bottom left. In the center is an image of Shelby, who has blond hair and is wearing a green shirt. Next to her is a graphic of a dried flower that has small pinkish red buds.
A gray square with “Shelby Seier” in a sans serif all caps purple font on the lower left side, a dried pink flower on the upper left, and “Meet The Practitioner” in a thin oblong frame on the upper right. A headshot of Shelby is in the center: she is a white woman with wavy blonde hair seated at a gray chair, with one arm resting on the table, wearing a green blouse and smiling.

 

Shelby Seier is the founder of All Kinds Accessibility Consulting, which creates resources and accommodations that reduce barriers and improves how we interact with each other. All Kinds aims to decrease ableism and increase community collaboration through collective solutions that center disabled people and their networks. When not nerding out about accessibility, Shelby draws and makes improvisational quilts. 

 

Public Space One

A square graphic with a light grey background and purple text that reads "meet the practitioner" at the top in an oval, and in bold letters reads "PUBLIC SPACE ONE" at the bottom left. In the center is the logo for Public Space One, a community arts organization based out of Iowa City, IA. It is an icon with different black and white triangles. Below it is the word "POSSIBILITY", where the P, S and I are in red font, and the rest of the word is in black -- so to indicate the "PS1" acronym. Next to it is a graphic of a small purple flower, collaged onto the corner.
A gray square with “Public Space One” in a sans serif all caps purple font on the lower left side, a dried purple flower on the upper left, and “Meet The Practitioner” in a thin oblong frame on the upper right. In the center of the graphic, there is the logo for Public Space One, a community arts organization based out of Iowa City, IA. It is an icon with different black and white triangles. Below it is the word “POSSIBILITY”, where the P, S and I are in red font, and the rest of the word is in black — so to indicate the “PS1” acronym.

 

Public Space One (PS1) is an artist-led, community-driven, contemporary art center. PS1 was founded in 2002 for students in need of an off-campus space to rehearse and perform an original play. Since then, we have maintained a multidisciplinary, experimental space for the Iowa City community, and beyond, to build community and present and experience creative work.

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