Indoor Meeting Spaces

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This page is for the Facilitation Working Group (FWG) to use for figuring out potential winter spaces for General Assemblies and Working Group meetings.

Please list name of place, address, potential use, hours of availability, #s of people allowed, the place's contact info, and your contact info. }

Place
Address
Potential Use
Hours
# of people
Contact info (for the location)
Contact info (of an Occupier with a connection to this place)
Notes
Arlington Street Church, Unitarian Universalist

351 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116

(on Public Garden)

Confirmed GA Space on Tuesdays from 7:00-10:00

until further notice

Working Group Spaces



Tuesdays 6:00-10:00, Parish Hall (200 people)


Variable Times: Clarke Room (approx. 50 people); Chapel (approx. 50 people)
 

see "Hours"

Rebecca Froom, Ministerial Intern

RFroom@ascboston.org

Laura Evonne Steinman, Religious Educator and Artist in Residence

les@ascboston.org


Rebecca Froom, Ministerial Intern

RFroom@ascboston.org

Our Parish Hall has already been reserved for Tuesday GA's from late October through late March (arranged with Eric from the Logistics Team)
St. Paul's Cathedral
138 Tremont Street, Boston, MA (on the Boston Common)
REGULAR GA SPACE -- large sanctuary space

Confirmed for Community Gatherings Monday 6:00-8:30, except for 12/26 and 1/2.


also available on, Tuesday and Fridays

200+
Stephanie Spellers, revsteph@gmail.com, Dean: The Rev. Jep Streit, Church telephone: 617-482-4826, ext 221. Email: jps@diomass.org



Contingent on a written agreement regarding space usage guidelines, as well as a small donation from OB to cover janitorial services
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
38 Ash Street, Boston, MA (half mile from Dewey)
Working groups and possibly GA
Weekdays 6-9 Saturday possible as well although harder
3 rooms; each can hold up to 30 people, 2 of the rooms can be combined into a bigger one
http://www.bcnc.net/
Richard Levy richlevyus@yahoo.com
It would cost $10/night and could be reserved on an ongoing basis
Emmanuel Church
15 Newbury Street
GA Confirmed for Thursday util further notice
Occupy Boston can meet there this Thursday from 6:30PM to 11PM. Please have someone contact the rector about longer term meetings at the church
# of people

Keith Nelson, parishadmin.emmanuel@gmail.com







Community Church of Boston

585 Boylston Street

Boston

Copley Square

Confirmed GA Space for Sundays until further notice





Jason Lydon is the pastor there: info@commchurch.org

Mark @

"Commchurch.org" <info@commchurch.org

Paolini & Haley

28 State Street,

37th Floor


Working Group Space w/ computers ad Mtg rooms
9:00 to 5:00

Domenic Paolini

617.951.0300









Place
Address
Potential Use
Hours
# of people
Contact info (for the location)
Contact info (of an Occupier with a connection to this place)
Encuentro 5
33 Harrison Ave., Boston
Small group meetings
Close around 8 or 9 most nights
<20


SEIU
26 West St., Boston
Group meetings

~25 (room), 100 (main)


Reggie Lewis Center
1350 Tremont Street, Roxbury
GA meeting
Hours
Corporations and community organizations have used the Center's resources as a cost-effective alternative to an expensive venue. The Center can provide any business or organization with spaces as large as 70,000 square feet or as small as 500 square feet.
617-541-3535
Susan Labandibar 617-571-3757 susan@techboston.com
Church of Christ, Scientist: The Mother Church
210 Massachusetts ave
GA Meeting
Hours
# of people
617-450-2000
Susan Labandibar 617-571-3757 susan@techboston.com
Suffolk University
12th floor, 73 Tremont Street

www.suffolk.edu/sustainability Address

GA Meeting
Hours
# of people
Erica Mattison (emattison@suffolk.edu)

Campus Sustainability Coordinator Facilities Planning 617-973-1145 br/>

Susan Labandibar 617-571-3757 susan@techboston.com
IronWorkers Local 7

195 Old Colony Avenue

South Boston

WG mtgs

available 7:00 Am to 3:15 PM Mon to Fri

30
call Nick @ 781.593.3042

Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church
1555 Mass Ave., Cambridge
Meetings, movie screenings, dance parties, socials, potlucks, etc.
in general 9am thru 10pm m-f, some Saturdays (other groups use spaces, need to check particular days/times)
Small room good for up to 20, large room 200, sanctuary seats ~ 300
Pastor Lisa Fagerstrom, (617) 354-0837 harvardepworth@verizon.net
Marla Marcum 781-475-0996 marla.marcum@gmail.com (I am a member of a congregation that worships here)
Haley House
23 Dartmouth St.



617-236-8132 (main number). Talk to Kathe McKenna.

Friends Meeting House





John Bach
First Church of Roxbury






Jubilee Church
1500 Blue Hill Ave., Dorchester





12th Baptist






Morningstar






Boston Workers Alliance?






Freedom House






Kool Smiles
2181 Washington St. Ste. 101, Roxbury MA
Meetings (maybe just for local groups?)

50
Martine D. Russell, Community Relations Specialist mrssell@ncdrllc.com, 617-460-1266
Eli Cohen eli.cohen@mail.goucher.edu
Old West United Methodist Church

131 Cambridge Street (between Govt. Center and MGH)

617.227.5088

Maria Marcm will get back to Greg M, concerning availability. Please do not call the church.

Meetings, movie screenings, dance parties, socials, potlucks, etc.
in general 9am thru 10pm m-f, some Saturday late afternoon into evening (other groups use spaces, need to check particular days/times)
Small room good for up to 15, large open space up to 50 (maybe more depending on fire code: it's in a balcony), sanctuary seats ~ 250
Rev. Marion Easterling, (I would like to make this contact myself initially on behalf of any group, then connect WG directly to him, as he is a colleague and friend who has not been involved with occupy)
Marla Marcum 781-475-0996 marla.marcum@gmail.com (former member of this congregation, and colleague/friend of pastor. This church has hosted month-long anti-coal student art show in the past and has a program in the arts; sits next to Fed building where John Kerry's MA offices are located)
First Baptist Church, JP
633 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain
Meetings, movie screenings, dance parties, socials, potlucks, etc.
in general 9am thru 10pm m-f, some Saturdays, some Sunday late afternoon and evening (other groups use spaces, need to check particular days/times)
Many spaces, largest good for ~ 150 ppl
Rev. Ian Mevorach, (I would like to make this contact myself initially on behalf of any group, then connect WG directly to him, as he is a colleague and friend who has not been involved with occupy)
Marla Marcum 781-475-0996 marla.marcum@gmail.com (this church has been active in environmental and climate work and social justice work, have hosted meetings/parties at my request in the past, pastor is a colleague and good friend)
Church on the Hill (Beacon Hill, Boston)
140 Bowdoin Street, Boston
Meetings, movie screenings, dance parties, socials, potlucks, etc. (they have a big fellowship hall with a ceiling-mounted projector and wifi, great commercial style kitchen)
in general 9am thru 10pm m-f, some Saturdays, some Sunday late afternoon and evening (other groups use spaces, need to check particular days/times)
Many spaces, largest good for ~ 200 ppl

'Church on the Hil'lis not available,
at this time, for OB meetings

mbancewicz@churchonthehillboston.org

617-523-4575

Marla Marcum 781-475-0996 marla.marcum@gmail.com (this church supported student-led climate work at a high level for 2 months in 2009. It sits across Bowdoin Street from the State House)
Union United Methodist Church (
485 Columbus Avenue, Boston (South End)
Meetings, movie screenings, dance parties, socials, potlucks, etc.
in general 9am thru 10pm m-f, some Saturdays, some Sunday late afternoon and evening (other groups use spaces, need to check particular days/times)
Many spaces, largest good for ~ 400 ppl
Rev. LaTrelle Miller-Easterling
Marla Marcum 781-475-0996 marla.marcum@gmail.com (this is a queer-friendly historically Black congregation with a long history of social justice work. I would like to make this contact myself initially on behalf of any group, then connect WG directly to her, as she is a colleague and friend who has not been involved with occupy
Democracy Center
45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Working group meetings, movie screenings, dancing, craft projects like little tents, and so on
Not obvious but very permissive, seems to be 5am-12am
Rooms range from 20 people to 80 people in capacity
http://democracycenter.org/book-a-room
Douglas Breault, email GenKreton(at_)gmail.com
Lexington United Methodist Church (
2600 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington (South End)
Meetings, movie screenings, dance parties, socials, potlucks, etc. (sanctuary has great a/v system and a 15 foot? drop-down screen with projection from the balcony; also a portable projector for use in smaller rooms)
in general 9am thru 10pm m-f, some Saturdays, some Sunday late afternoon and evening (other groups use spaces, need to check particular days/times)
Many spaces, from small meeting rooms for 20 people to large fellowship hall (completely flexible space) good for ~ 200 ppl, plus sanctuary seats over 300 ppl in pews
Ms. Marla Marcum, Director of Christian Education (that's me)
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Boston Chinatown Nighborhood Center
Ash Street Chinatown
Can be used for working groups etc
Weekdays 6-9 Saturday possible as well although harder to access
3 rooms each can hold up to 30 people, 2 of the room can be combined into a bigger one. All have white board (bring our own markers) and, I believe, one has an overhead projector
Don't have it offhand
Richlevyus@yahoo.com
It would cost $10/night and could be reserved on an ongoing basis. If a local community group pre-empted one of our meetings, another space would be found.



Note: I've turned this into a table, and listed a bunch of churches and orgs that were suggested to me at last night's Outreach meeting. I don't know much about any of them, but it was suggested that they might all be receptive to hosting town hall meetings and such.  -Eli Cohen          To print use landscape (sideways) and it'll print ok, eden