What would you do if you had support and could afford to get started?

What if you didn't have to choose between making a living and making a difference?

The Living Room is a not-for-profit co-operative of members passionate about community. We are educators, artists, makers, freelancers and small businesses rooted in the shared values of interdependence, sustainability, equity, and creativity.

Together we pursue our own projects, co-create and operate a free public space open to all ages for connection, learning, and making.

Crafting a new future together.

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Values

Interdependency

Humans are social creatures and survive best in groups, leveraging individual skills and capacities to care for the collective.

Sustainability

Enough is plenty. The material goods we need to thrive already exist.

Equity

All human lives have equal value, and though their needs may be different, everyone deserves a collective effort to meet those needs, and everyone deserves a voice in the decisions that affect them.

Creativity

The world won’t change through inertia. Creative solutions are needed to craft better outcomes. Exploration, curiosity, experimentation, and failure are all accepted and expected parts of the creative process.

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Politics

The Living Room is political.

Our members may not collectively ascribe to any specific politik; however, we aim to co-create an alternative vision to unexamined participation in the systemic harms of Capitalism, Colonialism, Patriarchy, and White Supremacy.

The Living Room operates on stolen land.

It cannot undertake its mission and vision or align with its values without learning from and beside equity-seeking groups, or without striving to understand how disability injustice, anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism impacts our Co-operative, neighbours, and broader society.