AGORA The Gathering Place

01/08/2025

Sign up today! We’re looking forward to hosting this book club starting next week.

Don't forget to sign up!

Join us for a book club about how to thrive in our amazing community!!!

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01/02/2025

The count down is on: 1 day and 7 hours until the screening of Join or Die. Popcorn provided, thanks to the City of Leoti. Bring your own beverage with a lid, please. Water and tea will be available.

10/02/2024

If you missed the lunch and learn with Shannon today, you can still join us tomorrow evening, Thursday, October 3 at 6:30 pm. Learn the why behind all the health strategies you’ve heard before - it’ll change your thinking about mastering your metabolism!

It’s $15 - register online or pay with cash when you arrive. https://prioritizehealth.net/store/p/metabolism

09/20/2024

We were glad to get such positive response and feedback about what kind of health and wellness classes you would like to attend! Our first one in partnership with Shannon Dubois will be Wednesday, October 2 from 12-1 p.m. and Thursday, October 3 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The topic is Master Your Metabolism: Keys to creating more energy and a healthier body.

Pre-registration is highly encouraged and can be completed here:

Attend this 60-minute session at Agora in Leoti to discover easy-to-follow tips to boost your metabolism, improve your energy, reach your goal weight, and feel your best! We are offering two sessions - pick the time that works best for you. ( After clicking "Register Now," click the shoppi

08/21/2024

There's still time to give us your feedback about what kind of health and wellness classes you would like to be offered through Agora. We are excited to connect with you about topics that are important to you. Thank you for taking time to contribute to the future of this space!

Is getting healthier on your to-do list? You don't have to go at it alone. We want to offer health-based educational opportunities at Agora, The Gathering Place, and want to hear from you about what you're looking for. We know that sometimes you need a friend or group to help keep you accountable an...

08/20/2024

Love our new look? We do too! Thanks to Hailey Case www.hhaileycase.com for the update to match the aesthetics and goals of Agora as a place to gather, to connect, to learn. We love the subtle nod to the Greek origins of the word Agora meaning "a public space for assembly and dialogue." We hope to see you soon!

Hailey Case is a young creative who is knowledgeable in branding, design, creative strategy, social media management, and content creation.

08/14/2024

As we are making the final touches on updates to the physical space, we're ready to start planning programming, classes, and events in Agora. Please take 5 minutes to take this survey to help identify priority areas for health and wellness classes. We will have a similar survey around arts and culture later this fall.

Is getting healthier on your to-do list? You don't have to go at it alone. We want to offer health-based educational opportunities at Agora, The Gathering Place, and want to hear from you about what you're looking for. We know that sometimes you need a friend or group to help keep you accountable an...

07/13/2024

We were glad to have a nice crowd who showed up for the Candidate Forum last night! Thanks to our candidates and moderator for gathering for a night of civic engagement.

07/10/2024

We hope you’ll join us for an opportunity to meet the candidates tomorrow evening, July 11 at 6 PM.

05/31/2024

We are so grateful to the Wichita County AIM Coalition for their work creating a healthier Wichita County over the past 8 years. The opportunity for the grant couldn't have come at a better time. We're doing some finishing touches to the inside and preparing to launch opportunities to gather beginning later this summer and look forward to welcoming you.

04/01/2024

We’re not fooling - updates to our space begin today. We look forward to welcoming the community back with a fresh look!

02/12/2024

In a nutshell, this is what Agora hopes to do for the Wichita County community...create a place for people to gather, as they have done within these four walls for many years prior.

We appreciate everyone who took the survey at the end of 2023! Thanks to your feedback, the board is working on carrying out some plans to recreate this space while honoring the role it has served for many decades. Stay tuned for the exciting things to come!

A community behaves much like a family and when we take away a place for people to gather, we take away the place where it becomes possible to feel a sense of togetherness. A family will struggle to grow closer if there is nowhere they can be together and a community is the same. This notion of community does not exist in theory only, it requires PLACE. People have to come together for it to occur. It is by design and this is why it has always been designed into the urban fabric, because it is essential to the civic experience and the human one.

It’s not just having the dedicated space either, but making sure that space is inviting and attractive. The space where you want your family to spend time together should be designed to entice them. It won’t work if it is loud or dirty, if it’s not comfortable people won’t use it, therefore its function ceases to matter.

Main Street, the public plaza and town square, these are the places that are essential to the health of your town. These are the physical locations where a sense of community can occur. This is where the roots get put down and the attachment begins and deepens. These are the places we must begin to invest in if we aim to make our towns relevant to the people that call them home.

Public places have to do more than just take up space, they have to be nice. They have to be welcoming and entertaining. They have to be better than all the other options to function properly. They must entice people from inferior places. The setting matters if good public space is going to bring people together and we must find ways to bring people together.