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• Art Materials and Location Safety:

  • Makers, Installers, and Hubs are individually and collectively responsible to themselves and one another for taking reasonable safety measures when providing and engaging with art making materials including scissors and sharp objects. Hubs are responsible for the safety of those attending any better together hARTs project driven initiatives. By participating in the bthp, all participants agree to take full responsibility for their safety and any participants’ actions at hub locations. Neither, the founder of the better together hARTs project (Cydney Peterson), nor the the better together hARTs project name are responsible for the safety of the participants or hubs.

• Community Safety:

  • The privacy and confidentiality of the recipients of installations must be prioritized. No exceptions. Not all recipients of an installation need to documented and shared publicly or even privately beyond the ecosystem responsible for the hARTs installation; and some recipients absolutely should not be shared publicly.

    Makers and Installers are collectively and individually responsible for protecting the rights, dignity, safety, and welfare of the recipients when an Installation is created and installed. Makers and Installers are also collectively and individually responsible to the better together hARTs project community and ecosystem.

    How we choose to protect our communities and each other matters; it comes with much responsibility. When choosing to participate in the better together hARTs project, you are agreeing to uphold and abide by these ethics.

All you need is a ball of yarn, a crochet hook to match your yarn weight, and a pattern or tutorial to follow.

There is no “right way” to hART. The bthp requests that whatever hARTs installation(s) you choose to create and install, you do so in the spirit of the values of the bthp and the egalitarian ethos.

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The privacy and confidentiality of the recipients of installations must be prioritized. No exceptions.

Not all recipients of an installation need to documented and shared publicly or even privately beyond the ecosystem responsible for the hARTs installation; and some recipients absolutely should not be shared publicly.

Makers and Installers are collectively and individually responsible for protecting the rights, dignity, safety, and welfare of the recipients when an Installation is created and installed. Makers and Installers are also collectively and individually responsible to the better together hARTs project community and ecosystem.

How we choose to protect our communities and each other matters; it comes with much responsibility. When choosing to participate in the better together hARTs project, you are agreeing to uphold and abide by these ethics.

No. Hubs are created for communities by community members. You can participate from the comfort of your home and connect with like-minded people in your community to create and install a hARTs installation all without going to a hub.

Thank you for your interest in the hub ecosystem! Please review the info about hubs on the About and Hubs Pages. To initiate a hub listing on the bthp website or for additional support launching a hub, please use our Contact form for inquiries.

Printables for hub signage are available for free!

No, the better together hARTs project is fully grassroots and goodwill driven by individuals, groups, and businesses offering heart-centered resources, time, talent, space, etc.

It is not a non-profit because non-profits are structured within a system of oppression and control.  Capitalism favors for-profit companies over non-profit entities. The bthp operates outside of this paradigm. The bthp strives to align with the egalitarian ethos.

*To clarify, the bthp does not have funds to pay locations to be hubs. bthp does not operate as a business model.

The better question is, what is it like to work with your community? The bthp is the foundation of a community care project; therefore, how you choose to engage in the community-care ecosystem will inform what it is like to work with the bthp community at large.

To contact the person behind the computer screen, please use our contact form. Please allow time for a response, the project is run by person-power between life’s demands.