neighborhood

sea (south elm alliance)

SEA (the South Elm Alliance) is a neighborhood group of residents, business owners, and civilians utilizing creative practices to preserve and connect the South Elm neighborhood of Greensboro. SEA projects encourage social creativity as a mode for exploring place as a convergence of past, present, and future. SEA participants build paths for Greensboro’s downtown revitalization that are inclusive, inventive and conscientious. We host mapping events, public dinners, skill-shares, front window performances, neighborhood tours, and urban games as a mode of exploring and interacting with our neighborhood and its peoples. SEA supports local businesses, connects neighbors, and defends thoughtful development. see SEA projects. see SEA events.

garden

Elsewhere’s urban green initiative approaches Elsewhere’s interior and exterior environments as models for investigations of sustainability, re-purposing, and recirculation of resources in our urban landscape. Begun in 2008, Urban Green’s first objective was the transformation of our back alley into an urban garden, which now fosters herbs and vegetables, experiments in soil bio-remediation, worm composting, water catch systems, and soundscapes architectures. Urban green extends beyond plants to the entire planet--linking Elsewhere’s practices of collection, collectivity, and creation to natural resource sustainance. Urban green hosts public gardening opportunities throughout the season, and special programs that bring sustainable solutions to Elsewhere’s long term growth. View urban green projects. View urban gardening events.

co-operative

Elsewhere’s food co-operative is a collective model within the collaborative. Elsewhere collaborators eat up daily delicious dinners prepared according to a weekly schedule of cooks and cleaners, and chow down on self-initiated breakfast and lunches made from the vast assortment of ingredients available in our kitch-en. Leveraging larger buying power through a weekly acquisitions excursion (Costco, Asian Food Markets, the Farmer's Market, and Harris Teeter), individual costs of time and money are kept extremely low—it costs only $35 per person for a full week of meals in the co-op. Museum members are invited to join our collaborative for $3 dinners (+ cooking or cleaning!) at 7pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The co-operative provides a functional and aesthetic model for sharing food and chores as an ongoing expression of care and generosity within our community. The food co-op is also the site of many food-art projects including recipe books, food art creations, and collaborative dinners. View food co-op projects. View food co-op events.