Join Sister Midnight for a skill sharing seminar and Q&A --->>>>> learn all about how to start your own community business, with tips on legal structures, funding options, launching a community share offer and all the other weird specific things that those who know know but we don't.

Sister Midnight collective

[ID: image shows three young women in brightly coloured dresses cropped just above the waist. They are standing in the sun outside of a boarded up pub. Above them is the old pub sign which reads 'RAVENSBOURNE ARMS']

Tue 14th September
7pm

~~pay what you feel
£1 unwaged /£3 low wage/ £5 waged/ £10 solidarity

[zoom link will be sent upon registration]

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As part of our abolitionist summer school - Anti-Institution Summer School - we have gathered over 30 guests and participants situated at the intersection of art and culture and community organizing (artists, organisers, facilitators, educators, renegade economists, community herbalists among many others) to share knowledge, space and time (and food!) while dreaming new radical infrastructures. We are delighted that from among these, the amazing people behind Sister Midnight London will be running a public-facing event to share skills and knowledge about what it takes to start a community-led business.

Directly in response to the ongoing disappearance of grassroots cultural venues, and set on de-mystifying this knowledge, Sister Midnight are running this skill-share in keeping with their longer mission to getting more women, queers, and people of colour access into the community ownership conversation! 

Sister Midnight are on a mission to create Lewisham's first community owned live music pub. Formerly a grassroots music venue in Deptford, when Sister Midnight had to leave their premises due to the pandemic, they set their sights on the disused Ravensbourne Arms pub on Lewisham High Street, and have been working to bring it into community ownership to be run as an accessible, affordable, and inclusive space for live music. The proudly female led project is being fronted by three young women, Lenny Watson (the founder of Sister Midnight), Sophie Farrell, and Verity Hobbs (Co-Founders of Social Records Society, who started out running nights at Sister Midnight's Deptford Site).

Sister Midnight are launching their share offer in September, and are hoping to raise the funds necessary to save the pub by the end of the year, re-opening it in 2022 as Lewisham Celebrates its status as London Borough of Culture 2022.

Join them for a skill sharing seminar and Q&A where you can learn all about how to start your own community business, with tips on legal structures, funding options, launching a community share offer and more!

Tickets are on a pay what you feel basis (suggested: £1 unwaged; £3 low wage; £5 waged; £10 solidarity).

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[ID: Greyscale still image from CCTV footage shows a basement show in Sister Midnight’s former venue in Deptford. A trans man sings/shouts beside a nonbinary saxophone player in very close proximity to the crowd.]