Poetry, Music, and Beer

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In this presentation, Linda Tate and Jeff Gillio will share a variety of methods for generating fun in the Wild Sage Cohousing Community in Boulder, Colorado. Two activities – the bluegrass brunch and the beer club – provide fun for the community itself, while two other activities – the Yellow Pine Literary Series and the Wild Stage House Concert Series – use fun as a way to reach out to the surrounding community. All activities take place in the community’s common house. Participants will be encouraged to share ways in which their own communities have fun together.

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Writer and educator Linda Tate lives in Wild Sage Cohousing in Boulder, Colorado. With her husband, Jim Rebman, she produced the Wild Stage House Concert Series, drawing attendees from the Wild Sage community itself as well as the larger Boulder community. She has also helped to put on the semi-annual bluegrass brunch, a favorite community activity. In addition, she has been a featured reader at the Yellow Pine Literary Series, hosted in the common house by another Wild Sage member. The Yellow Pine Series has become a well-known literary venue in the Boulder/Denver area.

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Jeff Gillio is a criminal defense attorney who lives in Boulder’s Wild Sage Cohousing along with his girlfriend Karen Bowen, their dogs, Boris and Grendl, Hazel the cat, and two fish that don’t have names. Jeff was the moving force in starting the Wild Sage beer club, which started with four members and has now grown to over twenty members, including several people outside the Wild Sage community.