Founded in 2010 and opened in February of 2015, SixTwelve is a community education center that focuses on creativity and sustainable living. We provide a PreK program three days per week for 3-5 year olds and camps during fall, spring and summer breaks for 6-17 year olds. We house the Oklahoma City Girls Art School after school program, and offer classes, workshops and educational experiences to adults week nights and weekends. We have a community garden, rain gardens, a hoop house, chickens in a chicken coop, a compost bin, a playground, a fire pit and soon we will have a community kitchen.
Our mission is “Sharing Tools to Build a Better Community,” and we strive to encourage creativity and sustainability in everything we do. Even our building represents this endeavor, as it sports a geothermal heat and air system. We also opted not to have any garbage disposals in the sinks at SixTwelve, so as to encourage composting at all times. We try to reduce waste in whatever ways we can (composting and recycling), and encourage
SixTwelve hosts the Oklahoma Cimarron Sierra Club meetings and a local pick up site for the Oklahoma Food Coop, once per month each. Other non-profits and community groups use our space for workshops, meetings and events. We believe that sharing our space with others encourages community and we partner with some of these groups to provide movie nights, game nights, no trash potlucks and anything else that we can imagine to help bring people together!
We are currently working on residencies for artists, writers, chefs, musicians, dancers, film makers, urban farmers, teachers and even administrators who are willing to share their knowledge with us and with the community. So far we have organized four different residencies in OKC and have sent three residents to Savannah, Georgia as a part of our pilot program. We hope to officially announce our program and application this summer! 