RSVP for Dinner/Solstice Friday and We Need Your Money

We have a couple important year-end updates for you:

RSVP TODAY!
Join us for dinner and solstice celebration this Friday at 7pm!

More info and RSVP here:
https://partiful.com/e/veqQp9vBfwh3A8XWdWBe

To show our gratitude and build community, we'd like to invite you all to a hearty soup and salad dinner.

We'll reflect on where we've been and where we're hoping to go next, followed by a winter solstice ritual, tea and warming pot grab bags and fire pit outside afterward.

Please RSVP by today, December 17 so we can plan to make enough food! BYOB and bring your favorite soup bowl or mug (though we'll have extras, if you're not able to).

The Menu is: * Soup: * Cheddar Bacon Broccoli Soup (contains meat and dairy, GF) * Tuscan Bean Soup (vegan, GF) * Tomato Ginger Miso Soup (vegan, GF) * Salad: * Arugula and Sprout Salad * Mediterranean Three Bean Salad * Bread * Vegan and Dairy butters available Please reach out if you have any additional dietary needs that we should know about in preparation for this event.

RSVP here:
https://partiful.com/e/veqQp9vBfwh3A8XWdWBe

Can you spare $5, 10, or $20 a month?
We have rent covered until March but need more monthly supporters.

Hey all. Thank you so much for everyone that has donated their state money-credit to keep The Rhizome House open in 2024!

More info on our money stuff - take a minute and read it all here:

https://opencollective.com/therhizomehousesolidarityfund/updates/winter-solstice-and-2024-in-review

A bit from our full report back above: A number of major goals were achieved this year, including acquiring refurbished sound equipment suitable for a small venue, which has allowed us to begin experimenting with hosting one or two shows a month. For the third year in a row, we scaled up our slime-making operation for the annual Heights Candy crawl, producing a total of 175 batches of slime with hundreds of kids, probably the most organized yet (immense gratitude to the volunteers that braved the chaos to help us!).

We spent about six months demoing, painting, and organizing the Cooper Andrews Center for Technology and Resistance, our new tech and tinkerer lab named after comrade, friend, and early Rhizome House collaborator Cooper Andrews. We are opened this space in honor of Cooper, his comrades and all who have been killed revolting against empire and fascism.

This year we officially launched our book distro (which will be fully stocked for solstice!), and also began offering a free coffee/tea and library during Sunday open hours. This has been really successful! More books are being added to the library regularly, and members of our collective have worked tirelessly to curate and catalog the selections. We have been thrilled to see Open Hours increasingly filled with folks checking out the space, utilizing the library, helping out with various organizing tasks, and even just coming by to hang and do their own thing. Being everyone's favorite anarchist living room is definitely the dream <3

*Finances for 2024: As long as money exists we'll still be paying the rent, utilities and all the other expenses that keep the Rhizome going . . . So what have we been using your money on?

November 2024 - Monthly donations:
$417 total donations!
27 monthly supporters
Averages $14. Between $5-50 dollars.

Estimated Monthly Costs:
$729.78

Rent $300 (may increase to $600)
Copier $100 (starting soon - free for community to use!)
Payment fees $20.78 (for Nov 2024)
December utilities estimate:
Internet: $97
Gas $80
Electric $118
Mailchimp $21

Thank you for your support! Since relaunching our Open Collective page just a few months ago, donors had to restart their monthly donations. Returning and new donations have brought us up to $417 in small donations each month!

When we had to clear out our fiscally hosted page, we used those funds to pay rent for our storefront through March 2025. We hope to use the time until then to encourage new supporters to help us keep the lights on and the snacks and zines stocked.

Based on this estimate we need to raise an additional $313 per month - or about 31 new supporters at $10 per month.

We also want to be in a better place if rent increased.

If you can afford it, become a monthly supporter here:

https://opencollective.com/therhizomehousesolidarityfund#category-CONTRIBUTE

With gratitude. In this year and the next,

-The Rhizome House Caretakers Collective

PS- Have enough commodities already? Consider asking a pal or loved one to donate to Rhizome for the holidays instead of buying more things. <3