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So The Birdhouse is an open community space based in the historic 4th and Gill neighborhood.
And it's a house that's been here since the 1960's as a neighborhood center. It's an open
venue that we maintain as a space for nonprofits and people doing social justice work, environmental
justice work, racial justice work. The Birdhouse is what the people in the community determine
it to be. What I really connect to most about The Birdhouse is how it really runs the gambit
pedagogically and that if you're interested in learning something, whether it be listening
to a new band or seeing an art show, brewing beer, gardening, you can come, you can learn
these things. But conversely if you're interested in teaching something you can teach these
classes. If you're interested in carpentry and you know how to do this specific skill,
you can come in and teach people in the community how to do that thing. This is a great space
and there are lots of people in it, and because of that all our corners are filled. We have
no more space in The Birdhouse. And so we want to build a shed out back. We've already
spoken with a nonprofit in town who employs Iraqi refugee men to do this kind of thing.
Our plan is to have them come in and we pay them a little bit less than what it would
cost to go to Home Depot and purchase a garden shed, but they're gonna build it to the historic
requirements of our city.