What is the BCC?

The Blacklidge Community Collective (BCC) is a space for experiments in playful autonomy, resilience, and sharing. We are home to an ever-developing set of projects that share the aim of cultivating the practical skills, strategies, and creative thinking necessary for not only surviving the ongoing crises, but re-imagining and asserting what it means to live dignified lives within them. We host events, workshops, skill-shares, and meeting space, as well as long term projects. We strive for a space where anyone can build their own life and vision, through their own capacities and self determination. Ultimately, the space is for people to find each other and get organized to build better futures for us all.

Principles

Through the guiding principles of consent, collaboration, harm reduction, and autonomy we hope to build our capacities to support individual and collective needs for health, stability, comfort, joy and knowledge. We also share a vision of bringing people together through art, music, creativity and workshops and desire to make these things accessible, fun, and welcoming. We desire a space that is appealing and exciting for people of many backgrounds and experiences; and we hope to foster relationships here that can overcome intolerance, domination, and bigotry in all its forms.

Purpose

Starting from our own skills, needs, and desires, we must build our capacities together and link up with others attempting to do the same. Our vision of autonomy can not be a pursuit of self-sufficiency, but must come precisely from within our interdependence with each other, the Earth and all the life-forms with whom we share it. Everywhere, we can see others getting organized to outlive this world and give birth to many new ones. We aspire to be among them.