Community Build Day — plan, run, and share yours

What would make the Sunset feel like home? That question, on a flyer with a dusk photo of two houses on Judah Street, brought 157 people to Sunset Village Music Hall on a Friday afternoon in October. Twenty-three of them stood at the mic with a dream for the neighborhood — a community event calendar, a map of empty storefronts, a babysitting co-op, a welcome page for new neighbors, an open mic in December. Teams formed around the dreams that got the most nods, everyone walked to the ocean and back, and by 5pm five projects were on the wall, working, with QR codes the room scanned from their seats. Live bands after.

Press Build yours and Relational Builder walks you through four short steps — the place and the people, the shape of the day, what to make now, how it looks — with a suggested answer at every step. Accept all of them and you have a day; change any of them and it becomes yours.

What you leave with

• The plan and the day-of agenda — roles with names, the entry point (dreams at the mic, challenges, or deliberate-then-build), logistics with a name next to every line, a two-week countdown.
• A landing page with the question as its headline and one RSVP button to wherever your people already sign up (the Sunset day used Luma).
• A printable flyer and a square-and-story social ad, in the day's own look.
• The email to RTP's stewards that gets your event code minted: the room key people scan at the door, the Event Admin page, Share Live, and the demo wall are already built and come with the code.
• The host's slides: welcome and Wi-Fi, the agenda, the one question, make teams, submit by 4:50, celebrations, thank you.
• After the day, a recap page like the Sunset's — the afternoon as it happened, every dream at the mic, what was built by 5pm, the threads, what's next — made from your documenters' photos and the wall.

How the Sunset day ran

2:00 doors, coffee, and pastries · 2:15 dreams on the mic · 2:45 teams form (walk to the dream that pulls you, 2 to 5 per team, dreamers hold their sign high) · 3:00 a walk to the ocean · 3:30 build · 4:50 slides submitted · 5:00 shares, celebration, and dinner · 6:30 live bands. Partners: Sunset Social Club, the Relational Tech Project, Good Neighbor Lab, and local businesses; part of SF Tech Week.

The event page: https://luma.com/tzyvkp9j · The recap: https://dearcrisis.com/buildathon · How build days run on Relational Builder: https://relationalbuilder.org/buildtogether

Details

• maker: Sunset Social Club & the Relational Tech Project
• featured: true
• artifacts: plan, agenda, landing page, flyer, social ad, steward request, slides, recap page
• event url: https://luma.com/tzyvkp9j
• image url: https://relationalbuilder.org/media/commons/sunset-build-a-thon.webp
• recap url: https://dearcrisis.com/buildathon
• hosted url: https://relationalbuilder.org/buildtogether
• remix idea: Ask the one question your place is already asking.
• plan stages: the place and the people, the shape of the day, what to make now, how it looks
• entry points: dreams at the mic, challenges, deliberate, then build