I don’t think there are other community venues that could host the solstice celebration for free
Instead of having one big gathering for the whole Bay Area you could have several gatherings small enough to fit in the houses of community members who have large spaces. Since the main bottleneck is organizers splitting like this wouldn’t make sense for the Bay, but hosting them at houses is pretty common in cities with smaller gatherings (ex: Boston, which I help organize).
Staggering the gathering in time also works. Many churches repeat their Christmas service multiple times over the course of the day, to allow more people to come than can fit in the building.
Staggering it sounds kind of nice. It could allow there to be a solstice event on the actual solstice (Dec 21st) as well as small solstice celebrations in the week leading up for those who cannot be there on that date.
I’d be excited to try that at Lighthaven (if the solstice organizers wanted to give it a shot), though I also really like having a big get-together. Perhaps we could have a week-long solstice celebration at Lighthaven with multiple rituals and other little fun things for people to do.
Instead of having one big gathering for the whole Bay Area you could have several gatherings small enough to fit in the houses of community members who have large spaces. Since the main bottleneck is organizers splitting like this wouldn’t make sense for the Bay, but hosting them at houses is pretty common in cities with smaller gatherings (ex: Boston, which I help organize).
Staggering the gathering in time also works. Many churches repeat their Christmas service multiple times over the course of the day, to allow more people to come than can fit in the building.
Staggering it sounds kind of nice. It could allow there to be a solstice event on the actual solstice (Dec 21st) as well as small solstice celebrations in the week leading up for those who cannot be there on that date.
I’d be excited to try that at Lighthaven (if the solstice organizers wanted to give it a shot), though I also really like having a big get-together. Perhaps we could have a week-long solstice celebration at Lighthaven with multiple rituals and other little fun things for people to do.