In this first session of Beer and Gear we’ll jump right into one of the pieces of equipment that organizers in our community most frequently ask to borrow: PA Systems.

We’ll take a look at the range of PA equipment that the Re:Action team has available and walk through setting up, operating, and tearing down a sound system. By the end of the session you should feel comfortable borrowing a PA system and power source and setting it up and running it for an action or event.

Want to go deeper? Join us the following week for “Sound Good! Running a mixer.”

About Beer and Gear

Beer and Gear is a weekly-ish series of workshops and skill shares on some of the more technical nuts and bolts of organizing actions and events. Each week we tackle a different type of equipment, talk through how it’s used and get some hands on experience with the gear. 

And since we are starting each week at 5pm on Friday afternoon, these sessions are BYOB (but electronics and beer don’t mix so you’ll have to finish your drink before you pick up a PA system or camera!)

Our hope is that this project will build our movement infrastructure, increase our collective capacity, and democratize event production by putting solid gear in the hands of grassroots organizers. Once you’ve learned how to use the gear, all of our equipment is available for volunteer organizations to borrow for actions and events.

These sessions are FREE and open to anyone, but we do ask that you RSVP in advance so we can follow up with the logistical information for each week’s session and other logical information.