Welcome to BACH
The Brown Association of Cooperative Housing is a non profit corporation consisting of about thirty people who reside in our two houses: Watermyn, 166 Waterman St; and Finlandia, 116 Waterman St.
Membership in BACH is open to all undergraduates, graduate students, alumni, faculty, and employees at Brown. However, we are not just limited to the Brown community. RISD students, alumni, and employees as well as Providence locals also share the benefits of cooperative living.
What's New?
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Watermyn will be hosting an alumni get together on Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 7:30pm. Watermyn is located at 166 Waterman Street, and all BACH members and alums are welcome!
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Summertime Housing is now available on a first come - first serve basis. For more information go here; we also have excellent directions to the co-ops.
Contact bach.housing@gmail.com if you are interested in housing for the Summer or the Fall!
- The message board has just been added. Give it a try. It replaces the old forums, which were unfortunately filled by Japanese spam. R.I.P. forums…
- We've posted a movie of an old LarsFish concert in Milhous from 1989. For some retro co-op action, check it out.
An Introduction
BACH was founded in 1970, the brainchild of student activists at Brown stemming from a wider cooperative movement revived in America during the sixties. It was intended to provide an alternative lifestyle to the capitalist system. No more dorm blues, frat dreams, or nasty landlords for BACHsters, but a new way of living . . . not only to be practiced as a technique for urban survival, but as a technique for global survival. The philosophy of a co-op is based on the phenomenon of synergy, or "the more the merrier": the idea that people can get more out of their lives by working together and helping each other than by staying alone. BACH is not a place for those who are just looking for a cheap place to live and eat. We want people who belive in cooperation, who are willing to make sacrifices, wash dishes, cook, clean, put up with and prevent noise, and sometimes put themselves second so that everyone can live and get along better. We are participating in an ideal. Our co-ops are places to study, to meet people, to party, to sleep, to begin (and sometimes end) friendships, to fall in love, to learn from others, and to learn about yourself.
