Keep it cool: Mutual aid workshop for summer safe communities

An El Niño summer is coming, and we’ll need to look after each other in the deadly heat. Join us for a hands-on workshop exploring mutual aid and how it can help meet the immediate survival needs of our communities. Our goal is to plan and kickstart grassroots projects in multiple neighbourhoods to keep us safer, cooler and more resilient to extreme heat. Heatwaves kill more people than any other natural disaster in this country. Climate change is making them more frequent, longer and more intense, while hostile infrastructure and rising energy bills mean we are less able to cope. But communities can meet each other’s needs with our own knowledge, skills, resources and collective power. This workshop is a chance to imagine what community-led mutual aid projects could look like for your area, and to build the structures we need to make them happen. It’s also a chance to start developing relationships necessary to survive the hotter world to come.

Together, we’ll: Explore mutual aid and its underlying principles, including its connection to long-term social change Look at how mutual aid has been used in disaster response and recovery in the past Break into geographical working groups to identify what our own communities need to stay safe in extreme heat Build tangible plans for starting heat-related mutual aid projects together this summer and beyond.

Everyone is welcome – just bring your own experience and your readiness to work together.

Venue: Minor Works Building, 22 Stamford Ct CBD, Kaurna Yarta Time: 10am-3pm Date: Saturday 5 December What to bring: BYO lunch, or buy at a nearby café during lunch break.