Work Service

Our work program is an important part of our value system at SotA. It’s how we are able to sustain, how we are all able to all actively participate, and the “many hands make light work” aspect of it all really creates a community where everyone helps uphold it, and everyone has space to engage in it fully.

STUDENT WORK SERVICE:

For students, work service is in the morning from 9-11. Kitchen needs the entire time, but when your group is on operations you’ll sometimes be done by 10:30. Update for repeat folks: We built in OFF DAYS for work service this year for students, in response to a call last year for more rest.

Students rotate between:

• KITCHEN - you’ll work with a member of our kitchen staff to prepare lunch.

• OPERATIONS is like hosting - you’ll work with a staff member to help set up classrooms, straighten common areas, make signs (we are all so rarely in the room that signs are a huge communication tool at SotA), forage flowers for the dining tables, and do other things like that to take care of our community.

• GARDEN: We also have a community garden down the street at community members Zach and Christina’s house. We will be working in that community garden space. A portion of all food grown in the garden is donated to local food redistribution non-profit, Bounty and Soul.
  
  
  FACULTY WORK SERVICE:

  
  Faculty work service looks a little different, just because we learned after a few years that often it is helpful for faculty to have the morning time to prep for class, etc.
  
  Faculty work service rotates between:

• Lunch cleanup

• Dinner prep

• Dinner cleanup

Prep will be done with a kitchen staff member, but cleanup will be done with another faculty member. 

Some info about our radical staff

As staff we are also full participants, in almost every case volunteering time (or receiving a small $100 stipend) because we think and know that this work is important, and that this community sustaining matters to us, deeply. We are so excited to welcome you here this spring, and to do all we can to take good care of you. We will also be full participants in the session - working to run the show, cook, and lead work service - but like y’all, we will also hold the role of student, maybe gas class teacher, event participant, weirdo freak alongside y’all! At SotA everyone has space and time to hold each role, and we all participate in maintaining the space in real time.