Agenda:

• 1.Live Music Permit: When do we want it for? 1.Contacts: Who's contacting whom? 1.Tables: How are we getting them? 1.Flyers: We need them NOW. 1.Commitments 1.Hourly flow of the event, what's going on when.

Present: Kiran, Anthony, Chris, Charlie, Anders, Spoon, Ian,

Discussion

• Kiran : Can we collect Donations?

  Anthony : Only for 501(c)3 organizations. They have to be at the event, and we can collect it "for them".

  Kiran : We could label the donations as a "freebox", and then it wouldn't be donations to anyone in particular... then we just collect the freebox at the end and give it to the charity of our choice.

  Anders : We ought to get people with skills (not just larger organizations) to come to the event. We should have a better layout of the tables - the half circle was oppressive. (layout discussion ensues, considers moon, crescent, zig-zag, straight lines, dotted islands, and various other layouts; none is consensed on specifically).

  Kiran : What about rain? Do we have an indoor space? (discussion about other venues, the alternative of postponing in the event of rain..)

  Spoon : Friends of the USCA could give us a space.. Or various coops?

  Ian : Chateau would be hard. We only really have 2 rooms, and they'd be crowded.

  Chris : Chateau seems like our best backup.

  Kiran : Some groups couldn't come if we postponed, so we might not want to do that. Chateau could work - we could just shove all the furtniture into the smoking room, and use the dining room, council room, and carriage house. It could work.

  Ian : Alright, I'll ask council. (Kiran and Anthony will also attend).

  Anders : But remember, that (rain) is not going to happen. (turns head sheepishly) but it might happen...

  Kiran : Let's make a goal to have flyers brought to the next meeting and passed out. Should we fund copy making? Let's try to get free ones...

  Charlie : Let's establish a goal: Each person should bring 100 copies of a flyer (quarters and/or full pages) each. Get them free if possible, pay if necessary, and the BC will reimburse copy costs. (consensus)

  Spoon : It might be good to structurally group things so that they don't overlap (i.e., not all the music events in one slot), as people with a specific interest would want to go to all the workshops/tables of that interest. We could do color coding - the blue group, the green group, the yellow group.. then people could easily see where each event of each category would be.

  Kiran : Good idea. This would mkae it better.

  Ian : We shouldn't segregate it too much, leave people the opportunity to float.

  Chris : This would be good in concert with a well layed out program, so that people would be able to easily see when what was happening.

  Anders : I want circus folk!

  Charlie : We ought to schedule a time ahead of time to layout the program, the banners, etc, once we know who all is coming.

  All : DIY Foreplay! Do it the night before. We can advertise it.

Hourly breakdown for the event:

• 10 to Noon: Breakfast.
• Noon to 1: Live music.
• 4:00: Dinner.
• 5:00 to Dusk: More bands.

Bands we want to try to get:

• Fleshies
• International Maggot Theater
• Stripmall Ceizures
• SAFEWAY
• Scott's one-man-band guy.

Commitments:

• Kiran :

• Terry Compost, for plants and medicine.
• Food not Bombs
• Femina Potens
• International Maggot Theater
• Cell Space
• "Pocket" for Radical Cheerleading, tree-sitting.
• "Nutmeg" for forrest defense.
• AK Press
• 100 flyers

  Anthony :

• Peter, for NEED (needle exchange), Bound together
• Gillman Skillshares
• Long Haul
• Sling Shot
• DIY Publishing
• Flowershop Radio
• Spazz
• Advertising
• DIY table with fabric
• 100 flyers
• Stripmall Ceizures

  Anders :

• Midnight Law Collective
• Talk to Darushna re: free clinic
• Advertising
• Santa Cruz contacts
• Midnight Special Law Collective
• 100 flyers
• Homes not Jails
• Community Organized entertainment, make your own instruments

  Chris :

• Video Action Network
• Cooperative Roots
• Berkeley Mic
• Indy Media
• DASW
• Revolutionary Knitters
• Beehive Collective
• Procuring Tables (table baron)
• Contact mic re: pirate radio
• Simone re: knitting
• Weaving
• 100 flyers

  Spoon :

• Enemy Combatant Radio
• Pirate Radio
• De-prog collective
• random Santa Cruz contacts
• 100 flyers
• International Maggot Theater

  Charlie :

• Emailing people re: specific commitments.
• 100 flyers

  Ian :

• Investigating Chateau as backup; Chateau's council
• Gay Shame
• 100 flyers

  Claire :

• Active Solidarity Collective
• Ruckus Society

  Andy :

• Older community members, story telling
• Central Maintenance of USCA
• Berkeley Worms Composting
• Biodiesel

  Johnathan Pilch :

• Environmental Justice Groups
• Notebook Making
• Making Camp Stoves
• History, local ideas... (Kiran is committed to Terry Compost, perhaps collaborate with her?)
• NoBAWC

  Scott :

• One Mand Band Guy

  Lindsay :

• Rainbow Grocery

  Hunter :

• DJ for workshop

  Untaken Commitments/contacts/ideas :

• FreeSkool creating

• Bike across country
• Poetry and Revolution Before Breakfast!
• Dumpster Diving
• Plumbing, Electrical, etc.
• Recruit accoustic performers at local open mics
• Contact "The People"
• Contact "The Fleshies"
• Contact "Safeway"

Next Meeting: Monday, 8:30 PM, at Chateau.