Start a civic revolution from your living room.
Little salons, hosted in American living rooms*
*Or kitchen. Or dining room. Really, wherever you want.
Salonettes are a social way for people to learn about and discuss whatever impacts their day to day lives.
You host a monthly gathering for friends and neighbors to discuss issues affecting the community. The goal is to help people feel more invested in where they live and more engaged in local life. You invite public officials and community leaders to join as guest speakers for respectful, direct, off-the-record conversations where participants can ask questions and hear how local decisions are being made. It is a way to learn more about your community while strengthening local relationships.
Facilitate informed, interactive discussion within our communities, about our communities.
Every Salonette is grounded in three central principles designed to make local civic engagement feel natural, empowering, and sustainable:
Inform: Learn about issues that matter to the community.
Interact: Have conversational discussion and debate about these issues with friends and neighbors.
Involve: Meet with local, state, and federal officials and institutions to ask questions, voice support, and flag concerns about issues that matter to you.