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Founded in 2023, The People's Place (TPP) provides fiscal sponsorship, training, and coworking space to emerging organizing efforts that build collective power for social and economic justice in Waterbury and across Connecticut.

to join The People’s Place on IG Live to learn what the Midterms mean for us in Connecticut and how organizers across ...
10/13/2026

to join The People’s Place on IG Live to learn what the Midterms mean for us in Connecticut and how organizers across the state leverage the power of elections to serve the working class.

TAP IN 📲 Tuesday, October 27th at 12:30pm.

We have more power than we realize. Use it this November during the Midterms.The Midterms are not just about electing Fe...
10/06/2026

We have more power than we realize. Use it this November during the Midterms.

The Midterms are not just about electing Federal candidates. It’s also about electing State-level candidates like Governor, Attorney General, and even ALL 36 State Senators and 151 State House Representatives. These elections are going to impact us for the next 2 years, and we all have a stake in this fight.

Join us for an IG Live on the basics of the Midterms, what it means for us in Connecticut, and how to leverage the power of the elections for your local organizing.

TAP IN 📲 Tuesday, October 27th, at 12:30pm.

10/06/2026

Parents, give your teen a space to create, experiment, and express themselves. 🎨✂️

Surge Arts Initiative is hosting Connect & Create, a FREE hands on art workshop for teens ages 13 to 18, facilitated by Surge Arts Initiative Resident Artist Ashe.

Teens will mix paint, cut, collage, reimagine, and explore their creativity while connecting with other young people in a space designed for them.

đź“… Sunday, October 25
⏰ 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
📍 The People’s Place, 101 Pierpont Rd, Waterbury
🎟️ FREE | RSVP Required

Parents, sign your teen up today:
https://forms.gle/XwZQDAyciyQSB7yLA

Funded in part by Connecticut Community Foundation and the Connecticut Office of the Arts.

Join us for Aquí Me Quedo: A Fireside Chat with Dr. Ruth Glasser. On October 29th, The People’s Place will welcome Dr. R...
10/02/2026

Join us for AquĂ­ Me Quedo: A Fireside Chat with Dr. Ruth Glasser.

On October 29th, The People’s Place will welcome Dr. Ruth Glasser for a conversation about Puerto Rican migration, community-building, organizing, and the history of Puerto Ricans in Connecticut.

This gathering will also support the republication of AquĂ­ Me Quedo and the continued work of preserving, expanding, and sharing this history.

🎟️ Free Admission
🙌🏽 $15 Suggested Donation
📖 $30 Book Admission — includes a copy of the republished edition and supports Dr. Glasser’s continued research and scholarship.
✊🏽 $50 Solidarity Admission — includes the book and provides additional support for the event and the continued work of The People’s Place.

Whether you join us for the conversation, take home a piece of this history, or contribute additional support, we hope to see you there!

📲 Register: bit.ly/AQUIMEQUEDOTPP

09/30/2026

Meet our first SURGE Studios Resident Artist: Ashe! 🎨✨

We’re excited to officially welcome Ashe (they/she), a Waterbury-based artist, creative, caregiver, and lifelong knowledge-seeker, as the inaugural artist in the SURGE Studios Residency.

Ashe’s work leans toward realism, with moments of expressive and abstract exploration. Working across oil paint, watercolor, alcohol markers, colored pencils, pastels, and charcoal, their subjects center primarily on people and nature.

Ashe is especially interested in natural history, earth science, human evolution, and the connections between humanity and the natural world. During their residency, they’ll have dedicated space to explore those intersections, strengthen their creative practice, and develop new work.

For Ashe, making art professionally is a new chapter and we’re excited that a piece of that journey is happening right here in Waterbury at SURGE Studios.

Welcome to SURGE, Ashe. 🖤 We can’t wait to see what you create.

Puerto Rican life is deeply woven into the fabric of Waterbury. We are longtime residents and newcomers, business owners...
09/30/2026

Puerto Rican life is deeply woven into the fabric of Waterbury. We are longtime residents and newcomers, business owners and workers, community leaders and neighbors — and generations of Puerto Ricans have helped shape this city. Yet many of the conditions our communities face today, from poverty and housing and employment instability to equitable access to healthcare, remain unresolved. Looking to our history helps us understand not only how we got here, but the long tradition of organizing, institution-building, and collective struggle that has shaped our communities — and what it might teach us about building greater power today.

Nearly thirty years after the original publication of Aquí Me Quedo, The People’s Place is thrilled to bring Dr. Glasser into a fireside chat where we will explore Puerto Rican migration, labor, community-building, and political incorporation, with particular attention to how generations of Puerto Ricans have built relationships, institutions, and collective power in the face of structural inequity.

We will also create space to reflect on what has changed since the book’s original publication, what remains unresolved, and how continued research can inform contemporary efforts to build political power and advance self-determination.

This conversation will be moderated by Delmaliz Montez de Oca, a Waterbury native and proud daughter of Puerto Rican migrants from Juana DĂ­az. A former student of Dr. Glasser, she is deeply connected to the Puerto Rican diaspora and holds AquĂ­ Me Quedo close as an important record of Puerto Rican migration in Connecticut.

đź“… Thursday, October 29th, 2026
🕠 5:30pm–7:30pm
📍 The People’s Place | Waterbury, CT
👨🏾‍🍳 Food by Papi's Kitchen
📲 Register today: bit.ly/AQUIMEQUEDOTPP

This program is free to attend and registrants will be invited to make a contribution to support Dr. Glasser’s continued research and TPP’s mission to incubate organizing efforts that build power in Waterbury and beyond.

Renters are a majority of Waterbury residents, and we’re getting organized to make sure that the powers that be know it!...
09/05/2026

Renters are a majority of Waterbury residents, and we’re getting organized to make sure that the powers that be know it!

Following on our Tenants, Know your Power political action training on August 22nd, we’re heading back to The People’s Place on Saturday, September 12th, for a mini-training/refresher on our power analysis, Waterbury’s current policy and housing landscape, and the pathway to build tenant power, before kicking off a citywide canvass to get more of our renter-neighbors informed, engaged, and organized in the movement!

📲 REGISTER TODAY: bit.ly/WTBYTENANTS

“Divided we beg, united we bargain.” — CT Tenants UnionThis past Saturday, nearly 30 tenants from Waterbury and surround...
08/25/2026

“Divided we beg, united we bargain.” — CT Tenants Union

This past Saturday, nearly 30 tenants from Waterbury and surrounding communities came together for Tenants, Know Your Power!, a powerful training led by the Connecticut Tenants Union. The training gave participants a clearer understanding of their rights and protections under Connecticut law and Waterbury ordinances — including the gaps that leave too many renters vulnerable — while connecting those individual protections to the larger fight for housing justice.

We also dug into the political landscape behind housing policy: who makes the decisions that shape our housing conditions, which leaders have stood with tenants in the fight for stronger protections, and who has consistently sided with corporate interests — including their own — at the expense of working people. Most importantly, the training made clear that winning better laws will require more than individual advocacy. We need organized tenants with the people power to change who makes decisions, what policies get passed, and who our housing system ultimately serves.

The People’s Place believes firmly that everyone has an inherent right to dignified, affordable housing. The work of the Connecticut Tenants Union and others organizing toward that vision is one step in the much longer journey of making that right a reality.

With deep respect for the leadership development and union formation happening through CTTU, we are proud to be a partner and comrade in this fight to ensure that Waterbury remains pendiente — present, connected, and equipped to organize for the communities we call home.

We got us!

🚨 Tomorrow’s Midterm Elections & You workshop is canceled.After checking in directly with registrants, we learned that m...
08/19/2026

🚨 Tomorrow’s Midterm Elections & You workshop is canceled.

After checking in directly with registrants, we learned that most are no longer able to attend. Rather than move forward with a small turnout, we’re taking the information we planned to share and turning it into a series of infographics and reels that we’ll share weekly leading up to the November elections so more people can access and use it. Stay tuned!

This also brings our Spring & Summer Learning Series to a close, and we are grateful for the incredible turnout throughout the season. It’s been powerful to see people from across Connecticut come together in the spirit of learning and solidarity. ❤️

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We’re still looking forward to seeing you this Saturday for Tenants, Know Your Power!

Renters are a majority of Waterbury residents. With our numbers, renters have the potential to determine elections, set policy agendas, and transform the future of our city. But raw numbers alone don’t matter — until we get organized.

The People’s Place is proud to partner with the Connecticut Tenants Union (CT Tenants Union) for a half-day workshop examining the forces shaping the housing conditions of Waterbury renters. Together, we’ll unpack the laws and policies that govern housing, identify the institutions and decision-makers behind them, and explore how ordinary people can organize to build tenant power in their apartment buildings, neighborhoods, and across the city.

📲 REGISTER TODAY
Location to be shared upon registration.

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101 Pierpont Road
Waterbury, CT
06705

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