Donate to our Wants & Needs Auction

by AREA | Published Nov. 5, 2010

We are having another Wants and Needs Auction to raise funds for AREA Chicago on DECEMBER 4. (Save the date!) (Facebook Event)

Can you come and bid? Would you like to offer a service or skill up for auction?

If you can offer a service, skill, or craft for auction, please write to rebecca@areachicago.org with the subject line Auction. Give a short title (10 words or less) and a description (25-50 words) of your offering and your suggested minimum bid. Include your full name if it's not obvious from your email address.

Please reply by November 15. For ideas, consider items from last year's most-successful-auction-ever. They included (amongst a variety of others):

- Tequila Night for 4!
- 2 introductory or intermediate bass guitar lessons
- A Retreat in the Countryside for Small Group (up to 5 people) or Individual.
- A customized tour of the Calumet Region (Example: sand dunes, Mexican Mutual Aid Societies, company housing, etc...)
- Custom "Correspondence Stock” Typographic Design and Hand Printing
- A gourmet Italian meal; a 'nouveau' Korean BBQ home-cooked dinner
- A custom crochet hat
- Twenty-five 2x4's or 2x6's
- And many other skills and services: babysitting, drafting, proposal consulting, grad school application advice, hypnosis, massage, hair cutting, research...

Can you offer something like this? or something completely different?

More info about the evening is forthcoming. Please come party while helping us fund future radical and amazing AREA projects, grassroots style!

Please save the evening of December 4 for our live Wants and Needs auction. Suggested donation for admission is $10. Bids will start as low as $5. We can accept cash, check or credit card on site at the party.

***DJs, location, and further details to be announced soon!***

Proceeds from AREA's Wants and Needs Party will benefit forthcoming issues of AREA including issue #11, (Im)migration.

Write with any questions to rebecca@areachicago.org.