pika
A continuing experiment in cooperative living
pika fall chill 2017
from Sunday (September 3) to Thursday (September 7)
chill events
Sunday 9/3
Root beer floats!
4pm-5pm
Cool off with delicious ice cream on top of fizzy drinks! Vegan ice cream available :)
Art and Shiz
5pm-6pm
Make a mural, paint a canvas, paint yourself! Come join us in altering the appearance of various surfaces through a process of artistic expression. Possible activities include: painting a new mural in pika, henna, making fashion statements out of career fair t-shirts, and much more!
Twine Jam
6pm-Dinnertime
Play cool text-based interactive narrative games, and learn how to write your own!
Walk to pika
6:30pm-Dinnertime
Meet in Lobby 7 at 6:30, and we'll walk you over to pika for delicious dinner!
Make your own sushi!
Dinnertime (roughly 7pm)
Be the sushi chef you wish to see in the world. Vegan options available :)
Jam Session
8pm-9pm
Play music at pika! We have a piano, various ukuleles, guitars, drums, finger pianos, a ridiculous number of tin whistles, a harmonica, a didgeridoo, and who knows what else! Alternatively, sing or bring your own instrument! Get ready to improvise/sightread/etc. etc. No previous musical experience required!
Anime Party!
9pm-11pm
Things that pika and anime have in common:
- Unnatural hair colors
- Complicated relationship diagrams
- Everyone's a student, but you never see them doing schoolwork
Monday 9/4
Tie Dye
5pm-Dinnertime
Introduce colors to fabrics! White shirts and socks provided, but feel free to bring your own.
Basic Origami
6pm-Dinnertime
Come and learn origami by folding a beginner-level model. No prior experience necessary.
Walk to pika
6:30pm-Dinnertime
Meet in Lobby 7 at 6:30, and we'll walk you over to pika for delicious dinner!
Make your own pizza
Dinnertime (roughly 7pm)
A spectre is haunting pika: the spectre of PIZZA! Come seize the means of pizza production and make a pizza with whatever toppings you want! Vegan options available :)
Art, Architecture, and Cake!
8pm-9pm
Ever wanted to build something out of cake? Do you enjoy documenting your own unconscious expression in icing? Come build and decorate cakes with us! We can also be make candy glass. Cake and irreverent architecture and art history memes/puns provided.
Queer Night
9pm-10pm
We'll have a relaxed talk about all sorts of queer issues. LGBTQ life at MIT, dating, sexuality, gender, coming out, Judith Butler, the whole nine yards. Featuring genderless gingerbread people!
Sex Without the Scare Tactics
10pm-11pm
Let's talk about sex and eat sexy foods. BDSM, polyamory, safer sex, birth control, the November rule, consent, STIs, and “hookup culture”.
Tuesday 9/5
Cookie Cat!
5pm-6pm
Oohhhhh!
He's a frozen treat with an all new taste!
'cause he came to this planet from outer space!
A refugee of an interstellar war!
But now he's at your local grocery store!
Cookie Cat!
He's a pet for your tummy!
Cookie Cat!
He's super duper yummy!
Cookie Cat!
He left his family behind!
Cookie Caaaaat!
Come make delicious, adorable, vegan cookie cats (icecream sandwiches in the shape of a cat) and watch Steven Universe (possibly in Spanish)
Forkapple and Shoeblade
6pm-Dinnertime
Come enjoy pika's traditional sports! Athleticism not required. Come meet new people while we throw fruit and shoes at various implements / each other.
Walk to pika
6:30pm-Dinnertime
Meet in Lobby 7 at 6:30, and we'll walk you over to pika for delicious dinner!
Brunch for dinner!
Dinnertime (roughly 7pm)
Brunch: a meal that combines breakfast and lunch. But what happens when you serve brunch for dinner, combining all three meals into a single all-powerful SUPER MEAL???
Make your own smoothies
8pm-9pm
Green smoothie, red smoothie, totally rad smoothies! Get your creative juice flowing and then drink it!
Dance Party!
9pm-11pm
Cut loose before classes start with a swinging dance party. To include swing, salsa, headbanging and more!
Wednesday 9/6
Please Explain
5pm-6pm
Do you think you are good at explaining things? Let me give you some very hard things for you to explain using only the ten hundred words most often used. It will be funny and there will be gifts for those who win.
Digital surveillance and what to do about it
6pm-Dinnertime
Corporations and governments love collecting as much of your personal data as they can. Learn how to give them slightly less.
Walk to pika
6:30pm-Dinnertime
Meet in Lobby 7 at 6:30, and we'll walk you over to pika for delicious dinner!
Sour and Sweet Dinner
Dinnertime (roughly 7pm)
Don't be bitter. Don't be salty. Tonight, all the food will be sour. But don't worry, we'll be giving out miracle berries to everyone! Sweet!
Zephyr: The Chat Protocol of the Past and Present
8pm-9pm
Learn and chat with other students over MIT's very own instant messaging system. Bring a laptop.
Fine Food and Filosophy
9pm-10pm
Come hang out, eat deliciously fancy chocolates, cheeses, and fruits, and chat about the pressing questions of who, what, and why we are, and how to live our best lives.
Thursday 9/7
Run to pika
5pm-6pm
Join us for a fun jog, starting at Lobby 7 and finishing at pika! No athletic prowess required :)
Movie Time
5:30pm-Dinnertime
Come dig through my hard drive and watch something: anime films like Paprika (which inspired Inception), documentaries like Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and more… or suggest something!
Walk to pika
6:30pm-Dinnertime
Meet in Lobby 7 at 6:30, and we'll walk you over to pika for delicious dinner!
Oulipian Food
Food Hour (roughly 7pm)
All of tonight's foods don't contain that fifth orthographic symbol, which is normally so common in Anglophonic words.
Vegan Baking
8pm-9pm
Come for the music and friendship, stay for the tasty treats. You won't believe it's not butter!
Experimental Poetry Jam
9pm-10pm
This ain't your high school English class, kids. Make cut-ups, erasure poetry, 20-consonant poems, Oulipian writing, and whatever other weird writing processes and constraints you want to play with!