2/1: Gallery Swap

Support Share Tompkins and check out Fire on the Water Studios, a fresh gallery and art education space, while swapping your goods and making new friends!

Share Tompkins Gallery Swap
Wednesday, February 1, 5-7 pm
Fire on the Water Studios
317 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca

Bring to share/swap/buy/sell/trade/talk about:
Clothing for adults and children
Toys
Art
Books, movies, music, and other media
Craft supplies
Preserved food
Graphic design services
Dog walking
etc.

Don’t have anything to trade? Don’t worry! Come empty handed and see what relationships you can foster.

Contact McKenzie (717-903-4871/grasswriter@gmail.com) with any questions.
We hope to see you there!

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Check out Fire on the Water

VIDEO: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy

By Center for a New American Dream

VIDEO: Collaborative Consumption

Via Swidjit

12/18: 3rd Annual Craft Swap and Really Really Free Market

Sunday, December 18, 2011, 2-4pm
The Space @ Greenstar
700 W Buffalo Street, Ithaca, NY

Mark your calendars, get out your knitting needles, brush off your art sets! Bring arts, crafts, food, and anything to swap or give away. Tell your friends, tell your families, tell your former enemies!

To get involved or for more information, contact Danny Bowers at dannybowers@gmail.com.

More details coming soon…

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12/11: Ithaca Free Barter Market Grand Opening

Check out this event, organized by some Occupy Ithaca folks!

Sunday, December 11, 2011, 12-3pm
Dewitt Park, Ithaca

Come participate in the Ithaca Free Barter Market, a new community based trade event, using Ithaca Hours as a base currency. The event will be a truly free market, allowing free barter between people, as well as using Ithaca Hours as the backbone to facilitate trade. We are asking participants to bring things they want to sell or trade as well as submit a lists of things you have to sell or want to buy so that we can compile them. If you have Ithaca Hours, please bring them to the event, if you don’t we will be providing micro loans as seed money. If you have questions or comments, feel free to email Lucas Bonnet at Whirlingdervishofrevolution@gmail.com

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12/8: Take It Or Leave It Sustainable Gift Swap

Thursday, December 8, 2011, 8am-5pm
Emerson Suite B in Campus Center at Ithaca College

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Looking for some interesting gifts for friends and family but not looking to break your bank account? Need to get rid of some stuff? Come to Ithaca College’s Take It Or Leave It sustainable gift swap, where you can do both of these things! The gift swap is brought to you by ICES (the IC Environmental Society), REMP (IC’s Resource and Environmental Management Program), and Share Tompkins.

Donate your gently used clothes, odds and ends, school supplies, kitchen supplies, books, movies, etc. to the gift swap and avoid sending it to the landfill. And rather than buying something new and increasing demand for extraction of natural resources, you may find something that one of your loved ones could really use or appreciate.

The event will be held Thursday, December 8th, from 8am – 5pm in Emerson Suite B in Campus Center at Ithaca College. Drop off your donations as early as 8am or any time throughout the day until 5pm, and browse for as long as you wish.

There will also be food (including vegan hot chocolate!), music, and fun such as face painting and hula hooping, and space to just take a break and kick back. We will also be raffling off sustainable items and gift certificates to local businesses, such as Finger Lakes ReUse and Collegetown Bagels.

This event is entirely free and open to the public. The more the merrier! For additional info and individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations contact Margaret Keating.

I’ve got something you want: Share Tompkins Open House

On 
Saturday, November 19th, 2-4pm, join us at the Worker’s Center for an open house / Ithaca Freeskool class all about Share Tompkins!

Share Tompkins (a local mutual aid network formed in May 2009) wants to share what we’ve learned so far! Come talk with us about free local resources, how to trade goods and services equitably, and how bartering can help us save money and make connections.

Hosted by Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 MLK St., above Autumn Leaves on the Commons.

Facilitators: Marina, Danny and Ari – ari@shirari.com, 607.821.0654

More info:
http://sharetompkins.wordpress.com

This class is a free Ithaca Freeskool class!
http://ithacafreeskool.wordpress.com/

Click here to RSVP on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197900600285373

10/13: Creating a Sustainable Marketplace

Please join us for this event, which is organized by The SEEN…

What does a sustainable marketplace look like to you?

Come join us on Thursday, October 13th for a panel presentation on four innovative systems in Ithaca that facilitate local exchange:

Thursday, October 13, 5:30-8:30pm
The Space @ GreenStar
700 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca, NY
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For the entry fee, we are accepting Ithaca Hours at twice their standard equivalence (typically $10 = 1 Hour), so bring your Hours!
The entry fee (to cover food & space) is:
$5 or a quarter Hour for SEEN members
$10 or a half Hour for non-members

Paul Strebel presents Ithaca Hours
Leslie Strebel presents Time Banking
Shira Golding presents Share Tompkins
Alex Colket presents Swidjit

Come learn about how new technologies are reviving traditional localized economies. Learn how you can leverage these systems for personal growth or to bolster your business.

The panel will be followed by a Community Market that draws from all four innovations and welcomes your own creative input. Let’s co-create a marketplace that builds community, enriches our lives, and strengthens the local economy.

Bring the following:
Your questions on the above topics
Your ideas about sustainable markets
Your items to trade
Your list of haves and wants
Your Ithaca Hours
Your friends

We look forward to seeing you there!

SEEN members are also invited to table at the event and sell goods and services for which they accept Ithaca Hours. If you are a SEEN member interested in tabling, reserve your spot by emailing info@TheSEEN.org.

About The SEEN
The Sustainable Enterprise & Entrepreneur Network (The SEEN) is a growing community of businesses, organizations, and individuals working together to achieve ecological, social, and financial success. Members of The SEEN bring a Triple Bottom Line perspective to the Finger Lakes regional marketplace. Their commitment to sustainable practices helps them lower risk, increase customer loyalty, and generate sustainable profitability for their businesses. They contribute to the broader community by building a strong and resilient local economy and helping to safeguard our shared future.

Goodbye GoGoVerde, Hello Swidjit

Since starting Share Tompkins over two years ago we have experimented with different web-based tools for communicating people’s haves and wants between our in-person events. There has been an explosion of websites aimed to help people share and swap and we have been testing many of them and listing them all in our directory.

About eight months ago we got excited about GoGoVerde.com and encouraged folks to join us in creating an active Ithaca group on their site. At that time, we didn’t anticipate Swidjit.com, an Ithaca-based enterprise which has since launched. We got really excited about Swidjit but weren’t sure how people would feel who are already invested in GoGoVerde. However it is now a moot point because yesterday I received an email from the GoGoVerde folks announcing that their site is shutting down on September 18.

So…let’s all get on Swidjit and help it reach a critical mass! Join here: http://swidjit.com/ithaca

More about Swidjit from creator Alex Colket

The Evolution of Share Tompkins

Last week, we had a great visioning meeting to reflect on what we’ve accomplished so far and to determine where our collective energy is moving forward. We decided that we will still be organizing Community Swap Meets and Really Really Free Markets, but there will not be an event every single month. More likely, we will have several sharing and bartering events spread out over the year. In addition to these happenings, we are going to start doing more educational events, where we present best practices for sharing and bartering and discuss strategies for increasing mutual-aid and community self-reliance. To this end, we plan on partnering with SEEN, Swidjit, Ithaca Hours, Ithaca Freeskool and Local First Ithaca in the coming months.

Other projects in the works are an Ithaca Free Store (perhaps mobile), a Share Tompkins display at the Workers’ Center and a sharing-themed float at the Ithaca Festival.

As always, all are welcome to get involved behind-the-scenes. Contact us if you want to contribute to any of these projects or if you have any other ideas to share!