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Reliable Street -- A feed for every need! Reliable Street encourages a working environment that is both interdependent and collaborative.

Reliable Street is a collective space in Ames that works across the disciplines of art, design, and economic development seeking to strengthen the connection between the public and place-making. The intention is to actively involve the public as both participant and collaborator in the on-going creation of the project.

03/11/2022

Check it out! 🌈❤️

10/11/2021

Join us for six weeks of belly dancing fun! No experience necessary. Come learn some new moves, and make some new friends!

🧣Belts and scarves will be provided. For everyone! No experience necessary.

A part of Reliable Street Play Time Theater 🎭 ✨
🗓 First class Thursday Oct 14
@ Reliable Street

🎟 $50 for the full session 🔆 you can pay through Venmo.

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10/04/2021

Tomorrow night and every Tuesday night, join us on stage or off! Everyone’s welcome 🤗

09/16/2021

Join us at Reliable Street for some super fun belly dancing with Sara Merritt. This is the first workshop of the Reliable Street Play Time Theater. So if you can’t come to this one, or it’s not your thing, check back, there will be more!

Just $15 - you can pay through Venmo here:

https://forms.gle/rMD23pY3tAUzpTnt8

Belts and scarves will be provided. For all peoples, no experience necessary.

Thursday, Sept 30 @ 6:00

📷 Mirage Belly Dance Troupe

06/02/2021

As many of you already know, our beloved Always Open Free Thrift was burned down late Sunday night. It saddens us because this resource to our community has been taken away and also that so many wonderful volunteers have put so much time into maintaining it. We are so grateful for y’all. As you can see many supporters came to clean the wreckage the very next day. We have such an amazing community here it’s truly heartwarming💕So we hope the person or persons responsible for this act know that no one was physically harmed, but you have taken away a space for people in need and that was dearly loved😢But we are already looking for a new structure! People have been coming everyday with donations and we need something ASAP🎉We are looking at this small storage pod but are open to other ideas too. We love y’all out there and we will always continue to support the good of our community, it far outweighs the bad🔥💗🔥

12/01/2020

Today we are stocking up the Free Thrift with our all the donations from our Winter Wear Drive. Thanks to everyone who brought items. There’s a lot of really nice warm things. If there’s something specific you or someone else needs, let us know🔥💗🔥

08/05/2020

Just beautiful☺️Reliable Street is a piece of history that was once a community gathering space for farmers in the area. We are constantly grateful that we were given the opportunity to slowly return it to a new community space. Everyday we experience the joy of meeting and working with more amazing, talented, and kind people. This space would be nothing without y’all🙏We are stronger together🔥💗🔥If you haven’t had a chance to check out Lockwood Cafe, it is again open for business. Sending out all the love🥰

07/31/2020

🤯🔥💗🙏🏽 😊Street Art and Graffiti: Somewhere in between...We’re still meditating on our privilege of space and how these art forms relate.

Graffiti evolved from “‘taggers’ part of street gangs concerned with marking their territory.” It began mostly with symbols and names but also included images. It had long been seen as vandalism and viewed very negatively. But many graffiti artists eventually developed such amazing artistic styles that they began to be recognized by the fine art world, like Black artist Jean-Michael Basquiat. It was a way for underprivileged artists to have a shot at an art world that excluded them.

Street art was born out of graffiti but is usually done by trained artists who are given permission or commissioned by property owners. Street art pieces are typically curated or approved by property owners or city officials.

So there has been an ongoing battle between graffiti and street artists. Graffiti artists are fighting for space, fighting to be seen, fighting for expression without control of content or censorship. To have space to make art, to make the art you want to make, to have your art be seen are all a privilege.

Graffiti existed here when we bought the building. Now there is unwritten consent for graffiti and street artists to use our space. This takes away an original element of graffiti, the rush of possibly getting caught but preserves the freedom of expression, there’s no submitting your proposal. So we get a huge variety of what some would consider art and some would say is definitely not art. Either way, just the opportunity to share your voice, be seen, be heard, make a mark, can affect someone positively🥰So before you write off graffiti as being vandalism, consider if this is a discrimination against the roots of it, against a population that has been oppressed and space for art that they were not given.

07/29/2020

The Always Open Free Thrift is bursting right now 😂 Sometimes it’s incredibly clean, thanks to the angels who have made it their personal mission and sometimes it’s an absolute mess. But it’s the perfect example of what a community effort looks like. We’ve been meditating on our privilege of space here at Reliable Street and how our mission is driven by treating our space, indoors and out as more than just a public space.

We get lots of crazy looks and cautionary voices in our ears about allowing our private property to be utilized by anyone. It is radical in the sense that we are putting our trust into people we don’t know, yet 😉 Sometimes it is hard. Sometimes it seems easier to try to be in control. But the relationships, the growth, the opportunities to provide care for one another makes it all beyond worth it 🔥💗🔥

We’d be happy to talk to anyone interested in using their own private property for community space. It’s a magical thing and it’s clearly needed 🙏

05/31/2020

Dear Community,

We apologize to all who are hurt and suffering right now. We apologize that we have not done enough to change a system that is broken, yes, even in our small city. We apologize for all the violence and loss. We know at Reliable Street we can do better. We are so sorry.

Right now we are listening. We are having personal conversations and trying to hear everything. We are reading and facing our own faults. So when we move forward with a plan it is respectful and educated. We need this to change the system permanently.
We love y’all and we want to hear your voices. We are listening. We are here. I’m so sorry.

Always Love,
Lyndsay and the Reliable Street Team @ Reliable Street

04/24/2020

...and After! Thanks again to everyone who’s helped make this a reality. We are so excited to show you all 😄

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4625 Reliable Street
Ames, IA
50014

Website

http://www.reliablestreet.com/

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