Community and Place

            Location is a tricky issue with the Northwest Creatives Meetup Group because it is an online group. It does encourage face to face meetings and there are a few places that connected to this group:

The Website -- This is the main way that members interact and many members never get past this point. The website provides the basic means of communication for announcing and organizing the group’s events.

 

http://www.meetup.com/thecreativesocialclub/

The Blitz Bar, Pearl district – since 2007 this has been the location for the group’s most popular meetup -- The First Thursday walk. The bar is a nice place to get together, but it can become extremely crowded at times and that makes it difficult for Meetup members to find each other.

http://blitzbarpdx.webs.com/

Lincoln Hall, PSU – Occasionally this group meets up to attend performances here. These performances are sometimes the most interesting events this group organizes, and it is a benfit of membership to receive a discount on tickets. It seems to be difficult for members to find each other at these performances and so the social aspect of the group suffers.

http://www.pdx.edu/profile/visit-lincoln-hall

Portland Art Institute – This is a new location that seems to be popular with the new group leader. There has only been one event at this location, a lecture on art, and I am not aware of attendance at the event. Hopefully the new leader can find events that will get the members to attend and solve the communication problems that keep them from finding each other.

http://www.artinstitutes.edu/portland/