Meeting notes from 9/9/09
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Chloe Bass
Sep 10, 2009, 10:38:02 PM9/10/09
to Arts in Bushwick
Hi all,
Here are yesterday's meeting notes.
Important points: BETA Spaces will take place on November 8th. We are having a mixer for BETA Spaces on September 23rd. Our next meeting is on September 16th, 9 PM, at 70 Wyckoff Ave., Apt. 1D.
Everything else below!
Cheers,
Chloë
Arts in Bushwick meeting
I. Introductions: in attendance Laura B., Rafael F., Jeremiah, Steve M., Salim, Chloë, Amy, Steve W., David C., Lee M.
II. BETA Spaces
What is BETA Spaces? BETA Spaces revolves around curated group shows, smaller area of space, boundaries already outlined. Usually 20 - 30 exhibitions. We produce map and website. Free festival for everyone involved. Logistically, curators volunteer and we ask for show titles and collect show descriptions. When we have that info, we make the map and program. Curators are responsible for finding spaces (wherever, own space, gallery, etc. we like creativity). We don't provide content, you can do whatever you want, as long as there's a group of people and a concept behind the show. The festival gives people an opportunity to curate. Any kind of medium. Nothing is set. Everything is up to you.
Timeline: commit to doing a show by the end of September, beginning of October. We just publish title of show and space of show, and you have leeway to do whatever. Low tech.
Tentative date: November 8th. We want 4 weeks to work on print materials, so we have 4 or 5 weeks to finalize all of the shows.
We need to look into spaces, who has space available. We have at least 5 tentative shows that people have talked about doing stuff.
Who have we talked to? English Kills is planning opening around this festival, maybe Lumenhouse could have a guest curator?
Are we going to have mixers? Mixers are a chance for people to meet: artists and curators can mingle.
Wednesday, September 23rd: Mixer Date.
Fliers need to go up on September 16th or thereabouts.
We need to finalize the location by Friday so that the flier designer can have the information and finish a flier by the end of the weekend.
Who is going to coordinate fliering effort and volunteers?
Deadline for shows to get into the print materials: October 2nd (realistically, this will be extended until October 5th).
We definitely need help producing the festival. At the moment, we do not have a graphic designer. We need to talk to Tanya and to Pegah.
Financially, we have enough money to produce the festival. It should cost about $600. We do not need to stress out about sponsorship. We can send out something on the eblast soliciting sponsorship, but otherwise we don't need to do a big push.
Are we going to have a party? Chloë is potentially interested in producing a party. We will talk more about this later.
III. Website
We don't know what's going on. What started the problem is that the program set up to download for the public was the same one we sent to the printer, and that caused huge space issues. We had to pay extra money for having it up there, and somehow this cascaded the entire problem.
What should we do? Start again? Can we pull down the content of the site and reproduce it with a new domain name?
The site is over 1G. That is hard to pull down and transfer. Do we know anyone who can go in and poke around? Is there something wrong with the site, or not?
Someone with expertise needs to go in there. A programmer: a website administrator or a webmaster in real life would be the perfect kind of person. If there is a problem, we can't just bring the website down and put it back up. We're not sure that the domain name is tainted. It might just be something in the site.
Can we set up a forwarding address site? Is that even possible?
Step one: finding someone to do the work.
For the purposes of BETA Spaces, it seems unlikely that this will be resolved in the next few weeks. It would be good to set up a simple wordpress blog just for BETA Spaces, with a forwarding address.
Contact the web hosting company and ask them if something that can be put up there to forward them to a different address. We need to contact Brea and ask her for access to the Bushwick Open Studios blog. We will talk to the new volunteer about setting up that blog for BETA Spaces.
We are going to contact RJ, who worked on BOS in 2005 and 2006.
Laura is meeting with Alan (the new potential wordpress volunteer) tomorrow.
ACTION PLAN:
1. Laura will meet with Alan and talk about wordpress.
2. Laura and Alan will talk with Brea about getting access to the BOS blog.
3. Someone needs to contact the web host and ask them if they can set up a forwarding address from our site. If so, set up to forward to the BOS blog.
4. We need to find someone to do the big work of excavating AIB.org
IV. Four things from the community:
1. There is a merchants' association street fair on 9/20.
2. There is a CAPITAL B street fair on 9/27.
3. Community Board 4 starts up next Wednesday, 9/16.
4. Arts & Literacy @ the Coalition for Hispanic Family Services (contact: Salim Martin). Explanation of what Arts & Literacy is. Salim wants to collaborate outside of his immediate staff members. Salim wants to address the disconnect between the students and the arts based community. Why is there that separation? It seems natural if that if you have an arts-based program, you want local artists to come in to teach the kids. He wants to bring artists in for a day, three days, whatever people want to do, to be with the kids. It's an opportunity for everyone.
David Crespo is interested in volunteering.
We will be sending out a call for volunteers also through our eblast.
Salim wants:
1. All the artists who take part to feel like they've accomplished something;
2. All the students to feel like they've accomplished something;
3. Hands on involvement.
Arts in Bushwick can help by putting up more of our fliers and information around the area where Arts & Literacy parents live, so there's more exposure to the arts for the families.
Maybe the students can have a show in BETA Spaces?
V. CAPITAL B is getting tabled until next week.
VI. Our next meeting will be next Wednesday, 9/16, 9 - 10 PM. 70 Wyckoff, Apt. 1D.
--
Chloë Bass
chloe....@gmail.com
Here are yesterday's meeting notes.
Important points: BETA Spaces will take place on November 8th. We are having a mixer for BETA Spaces on September 23rd. Our next meeting is on September 16th, 9 PM, at 70 Wyckoff Ave., Apt. 1D.
Everything else below!
Cheers,
Chloë
Arts in Bushwick meeting
I. Introductions: in attendance Laura B., Rafael F., Jeremiah, Steve M., Salim, Chloë, Amy, Steve W., David C., Lee M.
II. BETA Spaces
What is BETA Spaces? BETA Spaces revolves around curated group shows, smaller area of space, boundaries already outlined. Usually 20 - 30 exhibitions. We produce map and website. Free festival for everyone involved. Logistically, curators volunteer and we ask for show titles and collect show descriptions. When we have that info, we make the map and program. Curators are responsible for finding spaces (wherever, own space, gallery, etc. we like creativity). We don't provide content, you can do whatever you want, as long as there's a group of people and a concept behind the show. The festival gives people an opportunity to curate. Any kind of medium. Nothing is set. Everything is up to you.
Timeline: commit to doing a show by the end of September, beginning of October. We just publish title of show and space of show, and you have leeway to do whatever. Low tech.
Tentative date: November 8th. We want 4 weeks to work on print materials, so we have 4 or 5 weeks to finalize all of the shows.
We need to look into spaces, who has space available. We have at least 5 tentative shows that people have talked about doing stuff.
Who have we talked to? English Kills is planning opening around this festival, maybe Lumenhouse could have a guest curator?
Are we going to have mixers? Mixers are a chance for people to meet: artists and curators can mingle.
Wednesday, September 23rd: Mixer Date.
Fliers need to go up on September 16th or thereabouts.
We need to finalize the location by Friday so that the flier designer can have the information and finish a flier by the end of the weekend.
Who is going to coordinate fliering effort and volunteers?
Deadline for shows to get into the print materials: October 2nd (realistically, this will be extended until October 5th).
We definitely need help producing the festival. At the moment, we do not have a graphic designer. We need to talk to Tanya and to Pegah.
Financially, we have enough money to produce the festival. It should cost about $600. We do not need to stress out about sponsorship. We can send out something on the eblast soliciting sponsorship, but otherwise we don't need to do a big push.
Are we going to have a party? Chloë is potentially interested in producing a party. We will talk more about this later.
III. Website
We don't know what's going on. What started the problem is that the program set up to download for the public was the same one we sent to the printer, and that caused huge space issues. We had to pay extra money for having it up there, and somehow this cascaded the entire problem.
What should we do? Start again? Can we pull down the content of the site and reproduce it with a new domain name?
The site is over 1G. That is hard to pull down and transfer. Do we know anyone who can go in and poke around? Is there something wrong with the site, or not?
Someone with expertise needs to go in there. A programmer: a website administrator or a webmaster in real life would be the perfect kind of person. If there is a problem, we can't just bring the website down and put it back up. We're not sure that the domain name is tainted. It might just be something in the site.
Can we set up a forwarding address site? Is that even possible?
Step one: finding someone to do the work.
For the purposes of BETA Spaces, it seems unlikely that this will be resolved in the next few weeks. It would be good to set up a simple wordpress blog just for BETA Spaces, with a forwarding address.
Contact the web hosting company and ask them if something that can be put up there to forward them to a different address. We need to contact Brea and ask her for access to the Bushwick Open Studios blog. We will talk to the new volunteer about setting up that blog for BETA Spaces.
We are going to contact RJ, who worked on BOS in 2005 and 2006.
Laura is meeting with Alan (the new potential wordpress volunteer) tomorrow.
ACTION PLAN:
1. Laura will meet with Alan and talk about wordpress.
2. Laura and Alan will talk with Brea about getting access to the BOS blog.
3. Someone needs to contact the web host and ask them if they can set up a forwarding address from our site. If so, set up to forward to the BOS blog.
4. We need to find someone to do the big work of excavating AIB.org
IV. Four things from the community:
1. There is a merchants' association street fair on 9/20.
2. There is a CAPITAL B street fair on 9/27.
3. Community Board 4 starts up next Wednesday, 9/16.
4. Arts & Literacy @ the Coalition for Hispanic Family Services (contact: Salim Martin). Explanation of what Arts & Literacy is. Salim wants to collaborate outside of his immediate staff members. Salim wants to address the disconnect between the students and the arts based community. Why is there that separation? It seems natural if that if you have an arts-based program, you want local artists to come in to teach the kids. He wants to bring artists in for a day, three days, whatever people want to do, to be with the kids. It's an opportunity for everyone.
David Crespo is interested in volunteering.
We will be sending out a call for volunteers also through our eblast.
Salim wants:
1. All the artists who take part to feel like they've accomplished something;
2. All the students to feel like they've accomplished something;
3. Hands on involvement.
Arts in Bushwick can help by putting up more of our fliers and information around the area where Arts & Literacy parents live, so there's more exposure to the arts for the families.
Maybe the students can have a show in BETA Spaces?
V. CAPITAL B is getting tabled until next week.
VI. Our next meeting will be next Wednesday, 9/16, 9 - 10 PM. 70 Wyckoff, Apt. 1D.
--
Chloë Bass
chloe....@gmail.com
Ali
Sep 11, 2009, 12:38:29 AM9/11/09
to Arts in Bushwick
Hi everyone
Sorry I couldn't make the meeting, I had a prior engagement that I had
forgotten about. Just wanted to say that I want to be involved. I
don't mind doing press again (unless someone else wants to do it) or
whatever else is needed.
Ali
PS Is there any way to block the spam from the Google group?
> chloe.r.b...@gmail.com
Sorry I couldn't make the meeting, I had a prior engagement that I had
forgotten about. Just wanted to say that I want to be involved. I
don't mind doing press again (unless someone else wants to do it) or
whatever else is needed.
Ali
PS Is there any way to block the spam from the Google group?
Pegah Shahghasemi
Sep 11, 2009, 11:28:49 AM9/11/09
to Ali, Arts in Bushwick
Hi every one,
I also missed the meeting but would like to be involved. Let me know
if you have any design need.
Pegah
Sent from my iPhone
I also missed the meeting but would like to be involved. Let me know
if you have any design need.
Pegah
Sent from my iPhone
Chloe Bass
Sep 11, 2009, 4:04:22 PM9/11/09
to Pegah Shahghasemi, Ali, Arts in Bushwick
Ali and Pegah,
I think I can speak for everyone when I say we'd LOVE to have you involved, especially doing press and design stuff.
Pegah, we actually have an immediate design need: we need to make fliers for the mixer that we're having for BETA Spaces on September 23rd. We need to set a location and an exact time (probably 8 - 10PM?), but I (or Steve) can give you content if you can give us a design . . .
Let me know what you need in order to make that happen.
More info soon!
Chloë--
Chloë Bass
chloe....@gmail.com
I think I can speak for everyone when I say we'd LOVE to have you involved, especially doing press and design stuff.
Pegah, we actually have an immediate design need: we need to make fliers for the mixer that we're having for BETA Spaces on September 23rd. We need to set a location and an exact time (probably 8 - 10PM?), but I (or Steve) can give you content if you can give us a design . . .
Let me know what you need in order to make that happen.
More info soon!
Chloë
Chloë Bass
chloe....@gmail.com
Tanya
Sep 12, 2009, 2:58:13 PM9/12/09
to Arts in Bushwick
Hi all,
Nice to hear that you guys are planning on this new project, BETA
Spaces and I am sure it will be another great success like AIB.
I no longer live in New York. But if I happen to be back there around
November 8, I will definitely join the event. It's nice to meet you
all and I had a great time during AIB weekend.
Best,
Tanya
On Sep 11, 4:04 pm, Chloe Bass <chloe.r.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ali and Pegah,
>
> I think I can speak for everyone when I say we'd LOVE to have you involved,
> especially doing press and design stuff.
>
> Pegah, we actually have an immediate design need: we need to make fliers for
> the mixer that we're having for BETA Spaces on September 23rd. We need to
> set a location and an exact time (probably 8 - 10PM?), but I (or Steve) can
> give you content if you can give us a design . . .
>
> Let me know what you need in order to make that happen.
>
> More info soon!
> Chloë
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Pegah Shahghasemi
> <pegahghi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> chloe.r.b...@gmail.com
Nice to hear that you guys are planning on this new project, BETA
Spaces and I am sure it will be another great success like AIB.
I no longer live in New York. But if I happen to be back there around
November 8, I will definitely join the event. It's nice to meet you
all and I had a great time during AIB weekend.
Best,
Tanya
On Sep 11, 4:04 pm, Chloe Bass <chloe.r.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ali and Pegah,
>
> I think I can speak for everyone when I say we'd LOVE to have you involved,
> especially doing press and design stuff.
>
> Pegah, we actually have an immediate design need: we need to make fliers for
> the mixer that we're having for BETA Spaces on September 23rd. We need to
> set a location and an exact time (probably 8 - 10PM?), but I (or Steve) can
> give you content if you can give us a design . . .
>
> Let me know what you need in order to make that happen.
>
> More info soon!
> Chloë
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Pegah Shahghasemi
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi every one,
> > I also missed the meeting but would like to be involved. Let me know
> > if you have any design need.
>
> > Pegah
>
> > Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi every one,
> > I also missed the meeting but would like to be involved. Let me know
> > if you have any design need.
>
> > Pegah
>
> > Sent from my iPhone
>
Roarke Menzies
Sep 16, 2009, 11:57:36 AM9/16/09
to Arts in Bushwick
Hey,
I'd love to get involved as well. Perhaps as an artist, perhaps as a
curator.
All of the meetings, though, are on Wednesday evenings, which is when
I work.
I'll try to stay up on things via meeting minutes and talk to others
in person,
but just wanted to let you all know I'm there in spirit.
Cheers,
-Roarke
> chloe.r.b...@gmail.com
I'd love to get involved as well. Perhaps as an artist, perhaps as a
curator.
All of the meetings, though, are on Wednesday evenings, which is when
I work.
I'll try to stay up on things via meeting minutes and talk to others
in person,
but just wanted to let you all know I'm there in spirit.
Cheers,
-Roarke
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