Engage in your community.

Written By Gabrielle Davis

Community is all around you every day. It could be at work, in the office, in your neighborhood, at a school, a community theater, the local market, a restaurant you adore, your favorite boutique, or a local event. Your ability to be present in that moment does make all the difference. Be friendly. Greet people with their first name if appropriate. Go beyond the “how are you’s” and the “what did you do today’s” and strive to do better in conversation. Enjoy your communities for all that they offer - and be part of creating those places that bring vibrancy into the world.

Gabrielle Davis

Why is taking a public space and transforming these beautiful urban landscapes temporarily into community focused events so particularly important to me? In part, bringing together the creative and service sector and our community is beneficial to encourage economic and community engagement through community event platforms, and because people need spaces to truly connect with one another. These community events transform public spaces, like parks, streets and vacant lots, to celebrate our cultural vitality and inspire these settings to become readily utilized by the public by encouraging both our civic and government organizations to activate these urban spaces into remarkable friendly places. Connecting our people to the places in our city through community events is a transformative process of urban landscape and mindset. This is the very reason place making in our community starts with a bit of exploration and community events are just one avenue to initiate this process.

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