We’ll be hanging out at Elston Electric on Wednesday, October 22 from 6–11:00 p.m. Pop in, say hi, and have some fun all for a good cause. 15% of all bar and arcade sales from the night will be donated to Women Unite! and Chicago United Solidarity Project.

Join us for a wonderful evening of conversation, community, and care. We’ll be meeting up at Movement on Montrose to view clips from One Another. This forthcoming documentary takes a look at the ways friendships support and shape us as they’re broken, tested, and remade.

In the face of this moment, where corporate monopolies and capitalist consumerism drain our neighborhoods of wealth, culture, and power, we want this Solidarity Market and Skill Share to serve as both protest and practice. Especially during the holiday season, it is a collective refusal to pour our resources into systems built on exploitation, and a recommitment to investing in each other.

By sharing this time and space together, we can exchange skills, knowledge, and care. Through art, conversation, and collective learning, we can dream and put into practice seeds of care and liberation.

Our goal is to uplift and prioritize makers, growers, and creators who hold deep commitments to the collective freedom of Queer, Trans, Disabled, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Southwest Asians, and North Africans (SWANA), and people of the Global Majority whose lives and work are rooted in liberation.

We hope this marketplace serves as more than a place to buy; that it offers a small vision of what is and what could be—a reminder that we are stronger together.

Join us as we celebrate another year of community and care over some good food, good company, and arcade games! Food and drinks will be available for purchase at the bar, and we’ll also have a raffle (duh!).