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Category Archives: Finding volunteers
My aims and what I’m working towards!
Hello everybody! Just doing a quick post to outline my aims for the Starving in a Garret workspace and sanctuary. They are baby steps at the moment until I round up more volunteers but here they are: 1. to eventually … Continue reading
Posted in Finding volunteers, Sanctuary for writers and historians, Setting up a workspace
Tagged artists, bibliography, books, collaborative, donating time, facilitating, fiction, finding volunteers, helpers, history, non-fiction, oral history, planning stages, sanctuary, selling your books, staffing, volunteers, workspace
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It’s a juggling act, finding the right balance!
As much as I’d love to do have Starving in a Garret open three days a week, I can only manage three hours on Saturday mornings at the moment due to my work commitments. But that’s life these days, isn’t … Continue reading
We are open for business!
Tomorrow is the first session of Starving in a Garret. I will be at 63 Stewart Avenue, Hamilton from 10am to 1pm and I have books to sell! Three but it is a start. Meg Dunn has kindly given me … Continue reading
Five is the magic number!
This evening I will be making my first pitch for volunteers. It will be at Poetry in the Pub (hopefully) for poets to drop in their chapbooks to the co-operative. After much deliberation I’ve decided five is the magic number. … Continue reading
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Tagged artists, books, calls, co-operative, collaborative, collaborative workspace, drinks night, early days, getting together, helpers, lithographs, photographs, planning stages, plans, sanctuary, selling on commission, selling your books, Starving in a Garret, volunteers, workspace
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A Beginning
This is the very first post for Starving in A Garret. This project is only in planning stages and needs a location for a workspace and sanctuary but excitingly there are a number of options open. Hoping to speak to … Continue reading
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