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560 Art Collective

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Home-sharing
  • Urban

Founding year

  • 2004

What we do

560 Art Collective is a long-standing anarchist artist collective based in the historic Westcott Neighborhood of Syracuse, NY. Many different people have called 560 their home in its 20 years of life as a collective; you’d be hard-pressed not to find a stranger who has their own story about the place. And in that way, 560 has always had the power to turn strangers into friends. From weekly potlucks to basement shows, couch surfers to activists, there aren’t many lives that Five-Sixty hasn’t lived.

Our Mission

Currently, 560 Art Collective is focused on art, creativity, and expression, emphasizing our roles outside of and in opposition to capitalism, and our commitments to our communities. In a world that threatens queer lives, we are invested in cultivating safe, stable spaces and living for queer people, and celebrating our joy as resistance. Everyone has a story to tell and 560 is about exploring the capacity for love and intentional living in all of us.

  • Purpose
  • Home-sharing
  • Community type
  • Coliving
  • Activities
  • Property management
  • Experiences
  • Networking

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2004
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2002
  • Started living together

Video

  • 8 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
8

How to join

People interested in becoming a member can reach out and schedule a house tour with us, where we can meet you and you can meet us (and the house)! Then we can follow up with a more intensive interview and exchange questions with you about what you’re looking for, your experiences with collective living, and if 560 would be a good fit for you. During the interview, we also ask for three character references to contact. Once we can contact your references, review your interview as a house, and all current house members have met you, we hold a consensus vote. The average membership approval time is 4-8 weeks.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

Visitors can contact us by e-mail to schedule a time to visit or ask about upcoming open-invitation events!

Primary decision-making authority

  • Small Leadership Group

A few people (not elected by the broader community) make the major decisions.

Decision-making process

  • Modified Consensus

Generally seek agreement, but have backup methods when consensus isn’t reached.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • There is a one-time fee, investment, or share purchase to join the community separate from accessing housing
  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Join fee: $400.00
Regular fees: $10.00
Labor: Encouraged or suggested
Members with pre-existing debt: allowed
Our house operates a collective shared house fund that we ask new members to pay into when they move in. House fund covers the cost of daily use items like toilet paper, dish soap, garbage bags, etc. as well as the cost of larger purchases that may come up, like a new dryer.

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Library, Workshop, Fire pit, Internet

Frequency of communal meals

  • 1-3 times per month

Significant food acquisition practices

  • Locally sourced

Dietary restriction

  • People can cook and eat what they want in their own residence

Community activities and engagement

  • Volunteer, Internship, or Apprenticeship, or WWOOF’ing
  • Neighborhood, Community Housing, or Homeowner's Association
  • Organization, Resource, or Network
  • Festivals, Conferences, Events

Substance use culture

  • Substance use is frequent and public in the community
  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies
  • Religions
  • Buddhist
  • Native
  • Wiccan, Paganism, or Earth Religions
  • Unitarian Universalist

Gender composition

  • Majority non-binary/gender diverse (over 30%)

Age demographics

  • Mixed adults (few or no children)

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Location

  • New York, United States

560 Art Collective

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Money, love and power are among the hardest things any community works with, and many of us carry the same fears into both: not having enough, losing what we have, and the sense that if someone else gets money or love, we won’t. Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture is taught by two intentional communities. Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle are from Clear Sky Meditation and Retreat Center, a Buddhist-lineage community in the BC Rockies. Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera Healing Biotope, a community of about 160 people in southern Portugal that has spent decades studying love, trust and relationship. Clear Sky has spent years working on its relationship with money, and our two communities found surprising parallels in the fears beneath both. Over four sessions we explore the roots of fear around money and belonging, love, possession and power, trust as infrastructure (community as a container for healing), and ethical livelihood. We use short meditations, body-based practices, reflection and small-group conversation. You do not need to be in a romantic relationship or live in community. When: October 27, Nov 3, 10, 17. All four sessions: 12–2pm Vancouver, 1–3pm Alberta, 7–9pm UK and Portugal, 8–10pm Central Europe. Note: US and some Canadian provinces change clocks on November 1, so the US west coast is 12–2pm on October 27, then 11am–1pm for the remaining sessions, and Eastern is 3–5pm on October 27, then 2–4pm for the rest. Cost: sliding scale Details and registration: https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/healing-love-healing-money-online/  
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