Events
The Fletcher Collective is holding a bread-baking skillshare! We will be providing baking supplies, so please RSVP: fletchercollective@googlegroups.com. Our selection of pans is limited. Please bring your own or loan us your extras. Feel free to bring a donation to help offset the costs. Attendees will partner up participate in baking and sharing their products. 
At the Kalamazoo College Sustainability House.
All those involved in intentional communites are welcome.
Meristem Cooperative member Rob Morrison will be displaying his artwork in an exhibition entitled, "In Celebration of Seasons" at the Vine Neighborhood Association. The event will feature photography by the artist from the four different seasons: fall, winter, spring and summer. The pictures range from natural landscapes to human modified ones, as all of these are part of our planet. Locations of the photos are derived from Michigan, Arizona and Germany. The reception is scheduled for Friday, February 26th beginning at 6:30pm and going until 8:30pm. The address of the gallery is 511 W. Vine Street. The artwork will be on display for most of the month of March.
Meristem Cooperative continues its themed potluck series with the counterpo
int to the Solstice Dress Potluck it had in December. This month, the them is "A Black Tie Affair," and Meristem encourages you to bring out anything fancy you may have (a dress shirt, a tie, a boa, slacks!) and wear it to the potluck. Bring a tasty treat to pass and as always your wonderful company! It will be on Saturday, February 27th starting at 7pm. We are located on 825 Davis St. We look forward to seeing you there!
Friends: You're invited to attend Meristem’s WildLIFE house party on Friday March 19th from 7pm–10pm at Meristem Co-op (824 Davis Street) where we'll watch a sneak-peek DVD of the Discovery Channel's spectacular "Life" documentary series. "Life" is the follow-up to the wildly popular "Planet Earth" series, and Oprah Winfrey narrates it. The viewing will begin promptly at 7:30pm. "Life" reveals the most spectacular, bizarre, and fascinating behaviors that living creatures have devised in order to thrive, animals like Fruit bats, Komodo dragons, and Humpback whales.
Kalamazoo Nature Center House
on North Westnedge
Bring things that go with Maple syrup
(March 20th and 21st is maple syrup fest at the nature center)
Two miles past Heron Homestead, last house on Right before the KNC for more info call Ryan at 269-352-4762)
at the Gibbs House
4503 Parkivew Ave
for more info call Remy @ 734-276-8387
Kicking off Meristems fortnightly potluck! Bring a dish to share and join us for our fortnightly potlucks on the 1st. and 3rd. Tuesday of every month. Lets enjoy the cheerful company of each other with good music and delicious foods that are vegan/vegitarian friendly.
Join KCH members in sending out our first fundraising campaign! Money raised will help us develop two new properties over the summer. The party will be at Fletcher (302 W. Walnut Street)
Bring a dish to share.
Polls are open 7am-8pm.
Details at http://kalamazoocity.org/portal/government.php?page_id=369
It's time for Meristem's fortnightly potluck! Please bring a vegan/vegitarian friendly dish to share and your happy self.
Our fortnightly potlucks are on the 1st. and 3rd. Tuesday of every month and we hope to see you there!
Come on over! Please bring a vegan/vegitarian friendly dish to share and your happy self.
Our fortnightly potlucks are on the 1st. and 3rd. Tuesday of every month and we hope to see you there!
Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training provides education and training to dismantle racism and build anti-racist multicultural diversity. The primary work of Crossroads is with religious and community-based organizations.
May 13-15, 2010
Thursday 6 - 9:30 p.m., Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., &, Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
On May 13th, convene at the Fletcher Collective to discuss "Good Old Neon," by david Foster Wallace. A digital copy of the story is attached below.
Hey everyone...it's time for the Annual Meeting! Please join us Monday, May 17th at 5:30 pm. O'duffy's has offered to be our gracious hosts for the evening (a special thanks to Kim and Jamie). Annual elections will be conducted and the state of the neighborhood will be discussed. Come one, come all. Hope to see you there!
Meristem Cooperative continues its fortnightly potlucks this May 18th at 7pm on 824 Davis. Bring a dish, bring a friend, but most importantly, bring yourself!
Meristem Cooperative continues its fortnightly potlucks at 824 Davis. Bring a dish, bring a friend, but most importantly, bring yourself!
The Fletcher Collective is hosting a monthly reading group. We meet on the second Thursday of every month. On June 10, we’ll gather in our yellow living room to talk about "Where are you going, where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oats.
You are invited. The reading group is accessible, no matter what your confidence level. We take the perspective that no ideas are ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in literary criticism. There’s no conclusion to interpretation.
For a digital copy of the story, contact us using fletchercollective@gmail.com.
The reading group is participant lead. From the selection of the readings to the format of the discussions, everything about the group is democratically determined. We’re open to anything – you name it: fiction, comics, non-fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction – what we’re especially into is first-rate recommendations. What readings do you want to talk about?
Meristem Cooperative continues its fortnightly potlucks at 824 Davis. Bring a dish, bring a friend, but most importantly, bring yourself!
From June 22-26, 2010, the USSF will gather at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in Detroit, providing an open space for people and groups to blend their ideas and energy. The USSF 2010 in Detroit is expected to be twice the size of the 2007 forum in Atlanta. That's twice as many young people. Twice as many participating groups. Twice as many experiences of what the alternatives to corporate power look like.
From June 22-26, 2010, the USSF will gather at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in Detroit, providing an open space for people and groups to blend their ideas and energy. The USSF 2010 in Detroit is expected to be twice the size of the 2007 forum in Atlanta. That's twice as many young people. Twice as many participating groups. Twice as many experiences of what the alternatives to corporate power look like.
From June 22-26, 2010, the USSF will gather at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in Detroit, providing an open space for people and groups to blend their ideas and energy. The USSF 2010 in Detroit is expected to be twice the size of the 2007 forum in Atlanta. That's twice as many young people. Twice as many participating groups. Twice as many experiences of what the alternatives to corporate power look like.
From June 22-26, 2010, the USSF will gather at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in Detroit, providing an open space for people and groups to blend their ideas and energy. The USSF 2010 in Detroit is expected to be twice the size of the 2007 forum in Atlanta. That's twice as many young people. Twice as many participating groups. Twice as many experiences of what the alternatives to corporate power look like.
From June 22-26, 2010, the USSF will gather at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in Detroit, providing an open space for people and groups to blend their ideas and energy. The USSF 2010 in Detroit is expected to be twice the size of the 2007 forum in Atlanta. That's twice as many young people. Twice as many participating groups. Twice as many experiences of what the alternatives to corporate power look like.
Thursday, July 1, 7 p.m., Douglass Community Cente
Detroit has lost nearly half its population and more than 15,000 businesses since its peak, and 70,000 vacant lots now cover one third of the city. However, promise is blooming today in numerous community gardens and urban agriculture projects. Join Ashley Atkinson from Greening of Detroit, local activist Olga Bonfiglio, and some of Kalamazoo's urban farmers for a fascinating, hopeful look at how Michigan can make the transition from manufacturing to agriculture.
This month, we'll be reading "Boar Taint," by Bonnie Jo Campbell. Contact us at fletchercollective@gmail.com for a digital copy.
Gibbs House
4503 Parkivew Ave
for more info call Remy @ 734-276-8387
At the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
6-9pm
Meristem Cooperative continues its fortnightly potlucks at 824 Davis. Bring a dish, bring a friend, but most importantly, bring yourself!
Meristem Cooperative continues its fortnightly potlucks at 824 Davis. Bring a dish, bring a friend, but most importantly, bring yourself!
Kalamazoo Collective Housing
Annual Membership Meeting and Board Election
Location TBA
Meristem Cooperative continues its fortnightly potlucks at 824 Davis. Bring a dish, bring a friend, but most importantly, bring yourself!
Meristem Cooperative continues its fortnightly potlucks at 824 Davis. Bring a dish, bring a friend, but most importantly, bring yourself!
Upcoming Events
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- Meristem's Fortnightly Potluck(19 days)
- KCH Annual Meeting(29 days)
- Meristem's Fortnightly Potluck(40 days)
- Meristem's Fortnightly Potluck(54 days)
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