Photos: Share Tompkins Service Swap – Oct ’10

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Oct 24: Service Swap – Share and Barter Your Time and Skills!

Sunday, October 24, 7-8:30pm
Tompkins County Workers’ Center
115 The Commons (above Autumn Leaves), Ithaca, NY

Gardening for graphic design? Music lessons for massage? Ever wish you could trade time with others to meet your needs without cash?

The Share Tompkins Service Swap is presented in partnership with the Finger Lakes Bioneers “We Make Our Future” Conference. It’s a chance to barter with others for services like photography, accounting, health care, and anything else that attendees have to offer.

Emphasis will be placed on making personal connections and exploring ways we can help meet each others’ needs locally.

Feel free to bring business cards and a snack or drink to share!

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Finger Lakes Bioneers “We Make Our Future” Conference website

TC Workers’ Center website

Photos: Sound Swap at the Ithaca Sound Maze

Our first ever Sound Swap was a great success. We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful fall day full of sunshine, corn, music and swapping! Thanks to the Ithaca Sound Maze for being such a wonderful host.

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Oct 10: Sound & Music Swap at the Ithaca Sound Maze

Sound & Music Swap at the Ithaca Sound Maze
Sunday, October 10, 1-4pm
Ithaca Sound Maze
Calkins Road, Ithaca, NY, Map

Our 12th Community Swap Meet is a very special sound and music themed event at the Ithaca Sound Maze. Sharing never sounded so good!

Bring instruments and gear (amps, cables, etc.) as well as CDs, tapes and anything music or sound related. You should also bring a tarp or table to put your stuff on. There will be an area for bartering and another for give away stuff. You can post haves and wants to the Wall of this event or to the Share Tompkins email list (see below).

While you’re at the swap, you can explore the a-MAIZE-ing 😉 Ithaca Sound Maze, a corn maze packed with interactive sound installations made mostly out of found and recycled materials that you can discover and play. It’s usually $5 to visit the maze, but the organizers are offering a special $3 entrance fee during our event.

Live music by Jamie and McKenzie! Plus everyone will get a free copy of the fall issue of Yes! Magazine in which Share Tompkins is featured!

Please plan on taking stuff that isn’t scooped up back home with you. While our volunteers will arrange for left-overs to be donated, it makes our lives much easier if there aren’t a lot of items to haul.

The group Developing Pictures will bring left-over musical instruments to orphaned children in Haiti and they will also be accepting donations of tents and other disaster relief supplies.

DIRECTIONS: From downtown Ithaca, take Route 13/96/34 South (Elmira Road) 3 miles to Calkins Road and turn right. Or you can take the bus – take TCAT #67 to Calkins Road.

Carpooling is encouraged – let us know if you need help finding a ride!

PLEASE NOTE: Event will be cancelled and rescheduled if it is raining.

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Check out the Ithaca Sound Maze website

This event is officially part of 350.org’s 10.10.10 Global Work Party!

Check out local press coverage of this event:
The Ithacan, October 7, 2010
Locals hold event to replay old music items’ use

The Ithaca Journal TICKET, October 7, 2010
Musical gear in spotlight at Sunday’s community swap meet in Ithaca

Wed 9/15: Organizers’ Meeting

Share Tompkins Organizers' Picnic/One-Year Celebration

Like sharing? All are welcome to come to this organizers’ meeting to plan for the next few months of Share Tompkins events. We’ll also discuss strategies for reaching new people, partnering with other groups and generating press.

Wednesday, September 15, 7-9pm
212 N. Plain St. #1, Ithaca, NY 14850

Feel free to bring snacks (vegan) or drinks to share.

If you’d like to get involved but can’t come to the meeting, let us know!

RSVP for the event on Facebook.

See you there!

Share Tompkins Featured in Tompkins Weekly’s Signs of Sustainability Series

Sustainable Tompkins curates a weekly series for the Tompkins Weekly newspaper and we were invited to write a piece about our work for the August 30-September 5 issue. Read the article: Part I, Part II or Download the PDF

Share Tompkins in Tompkins Weekly

Here’s an excerpt:
Bring what you can, take what you need. It’s a simple but powerful concept that inspired the formation of Share Tompkins in May 2009. Since then, the volunteer-run group has been organizing monthly events that enable people to share and barter goods and services from foraged mushrooms to massage and everything in between.

Community Swap Meets have been hosted in people’s homes and public spaces around Tompkins County, including Ithaca, Newfield, Trumansburg and Lansing. Open to anyone and everyone, the swaps are fun, social happenings that often include potluck food and live music. that might be too big or inconvenient to bring like lumber for a wood stove.

Photos: Newfield Swap/Tweetup

We had a great time at Phoebe and Matteo’s in Newfield with tons of people, food and, of course, stuff! Almost everything people brought went in the “free” pile, which suggests folks really do like no-strings-attached sharing. The event was also a tweetup, meaning locals who make posts to twitter, had a chance to meet up face-to-face to hang out.

Here are some photos from the first half of the event – stay tuned for more!

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July Community Swap Meet and Tweetup – our first event in Newfield!

Saturday, July 17, 2010
The Wyllyamz Home!
6 Brown Road, Newfield, NY
Map

Drop in as you like for …

4-8pm Share Tompkins Swap Meet
6-8pm BBQ and Potluck
8pm… Country Bonfire

SWAP MEET
Bring stuff, services, or skills you’d like to swap, share, barter, sell, or give away. Think: yard sale meets opportunity to network.

TWEETUP
Would you like to meet others from the Twitterverse? This is a laid-back gathering for local & regional Twitter enthusiasts to meet one another and hang out.

COMMUNITY MUSIC-MAKING
Whether you are an established musician or just like to bang on the drum from time to time, please come and bring your instruments and play (or sing) along! Let’s make music together! (This can be ongoing throughout the evening.)

ALSO TO BRING …

1) Something to share: dish to pass, or something to grill, or a beverage (alcohol welcome), or a dessert. Veg-friendly event with dedicated meat-only & plant-only grills. If you like, coordinate foods in the comments section below.

We’ll also need picnic-ware: Please pack-in/pack-out your own plates, bowls, silverware, etc, or bring compostable: cups, forks, knives, spoons, plates (paper is okay).

2) Dress to be outdoors. Lawn chairs, blankets, balls, frisbees, hackysacks, games, guitars, drums, bug spray, towels, kids’ bathing suits, friends & family. There is a stream; kids (young and old!) can get wet!

Very kid & dog friendly.
Also, did someone mention s’mores?

If you are on twitter, please RSVP to the tweetup by going to http://twtvite.com/twithaca3 and clicking the button in the right column so that we’ll know you are coming. If you need help with transportation, let us know, and we’ll help arrange carpools. We are located 6 miles from the southern edge of Ithaca. Campers are also welcome if you want to avoid a late-night drive home. Thank you. – Phoebe and Matteo 🙂

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Article about Share Tompkins in Shareable Top Ten List!

Shareable, a great site on strategies for sharing, invited us to write a how-to piece last January, and now they have featured the article How to Throw a Community Swap Meet in their editors’ top ten list! Hopefully this will inspire even more people to read the article and organizing similar events in their communities.

Shareable, June 28, 2010
Best of Shareable, Part II: Top 10 Editors’ Picks

This is a wonderfully useful case study in city-wide sharing and countercultural community building, of which we have many. Why did this one stick in our editors’ minds? I’m not sure, but I do tend to use it as an example of an archetypical Shareable DIY piece, when asked for one.

Ignite Ithaca Video

A few weeks ago, we were invited to do a 5-minute presentation about Share Tompkins at the first ever Ignite Ithaca. Check out the video below and watch some of the other awesome powerpoints on YouTube.