Woodbine is running a Spring Subscriber Drive this May, to help grow our base of community contributors in order to keep the space open and thriving. https://withfriends.co/woodbine/join

The majority of Woodbine’s operating budget comes from community donations and monthly subscriptions, which allow us to host our twice weekly food pantry, fitness and yoga classes, speaker series and reading groups, arts workshops, film screenings, soccer games, a basement hackerspace, poetry readings, and Sunday dinners, all of which are offered for free or sliding-scale donation. Our overhead expenses of rent and utilities come to about $4,000 a month.

Woodbine is a volunteer-run, non-commercial space we have maintained for the last 9 years in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Our collective ability to survive and sustain ongoing experimental programming and community organizing is an act of defiance against the logic of capitalist competition and domination.

We have online recurring donation pages on both Patreon and WithFriends, ranging from $5 a month, $10, $25, $50, $100, and up: https://www.patreon.com/woodbine You can also make one-time donations via our WithFriends page. https://withfriends.co/woodbine/join

If you live here in Ridgewood or New York City, and you get to participate and experience the work that happens at Woodbine, please consider becoming a monthly subscriber so we can maintain our space. And if you follow our work from elsewhere in the country or world, and recognize the importance of what physical hubs represent as beacons in a global communal movement, we’d love it if you could contribute whatever you can to keep the space going.

It’s vitally important we don’t take our autonomous gathering spaces for granted, which provide a foundation for the political, creative, and social lives we want to live.