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The Band House Collective

What can I tell you about what we're doing? We are the Providence Band House Collective. We started with four core members, but already dozens have invested their time and expressed their support -- musicians, builders, videographers, web designers, graphic artists, fans. We offered a vision of a place where we work together to help all of us, and they offered their skills and time and enthusiasm.

We had a Mecca in the valley; a community built amid the gun fire and crack pipes of an overlooked part of town, a place where agencies of poverty allowed for the burgeoning of positive community -- a community that at its core held a belief in ethical living centered around creative expression, social involvement, personal agency, and wide-scale sharing of resources.

These people housed, fed and entertained musicians from around the world and opened up their fucking living rooms to the city for us to join in the experience. On good days I see the Providence Band House Collective as being an extension of the events started by the residents of Oak & Troy and before that Fort Thunder. On bad days, I worry about how formalizing a music collective will effect the energy and fluidity of what was once an organic process. But the people are still here, the community is still here, and if this incarnation doesn't do what we need it to do, we'll break it down and start over again. In the end, it's about the positive feedback loop that happens when people come out week after week to make, see, hear and literally feel the music.

It's about doing it ourselves, together.

artist

The Providence Band House Collective is a not-for-profit organization currently steered by Bob Otis, Christine Saraullo, Scott Reber and Molly Booker.

contact

Further information about the Collective will soon be available at http://www.provbandhouse.org.