REMINDERS: notes, cool graphics, and next steps!

[Lucas Shapiro]

hey team,

i just wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to do three things:

1) make sure you are free on thursday for our meeting in bushwick at 6:30

2) give feedback (or make direct edits) to the ranking doc i sent in last email

3) contribute your comments and ideas for our week of ideal programming

We want to be able to share the documents related to #2 and #3 at our meeting on Thursday, so don't miss out on a chance to shape them collectively!

xx

Lucas

ps: more meeting notes and next steps below...

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Lucas Shapiro <lucas....@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone going to the Making Worlds event that starts tonight?  I might stop by...

Notes from the MSP mtg March 27th with Lara and Lucas

We went through and agreed upon a framework for ranking the activities that can happen in the space.  Please see my attached draft and provide feedback ASAP.  Let me know the number of dollar signs, thumbs ups, fists or dynamite sticks you think we should alter... or notes to add!

We also agreed that we wanted to explore hosting/organizing a programming event within the next couple months.  Here's the ideas we came up with:

• Co-hosting a happy hour with the Activista group (they host monthly get-togethers, Lucas friends with organizers)
• Check in with Thanu about co-hosting dance party with another crew (iBomba and "X")
• Film screening & discussion maybe with someone working on social justice/movement space work
• Dinner with Arnau Monty about social movements and social centers (visiting NYC in May, works here)
• Building solidarity across differences panel/discussion on class, race, etc.
• Intergenerational encounters focusing on a particular movement: queer, police violence, labor, racial justice, space (ex: Charas, Young Lords and East Harlem)
• Looking at movement training centers like the historic Highlander Center and give space for Brooke Lehman to talk about her project upstate that can support NYC groups and struggles
• Later in summer: picnic or barbecue get-together

We want to build many of these events into our week of ideal programming. We would then share these programming ideas with MSP list and have folks write back with their top picks (and what they would be willing to help organizing with us).  We would do targeted follow-up to key people we want to pull into this to get their feedback/buy-in.

Check in with Jodi and Nadia about this... and target date for when we pull off one (or more) of these events... MAY?

Goal: by next week have draft of dream programming week finished.  Please add your feedback/events to the Google Doc link above that Lara created.

Confirm meeting time in Bushwick next week. UPDATE.. we're meeting by the Jefferson Stop on the L train next Thursday at 6:30pm.  Mark your calendars!  We will meet with Mcnair Scott's crew and then leave ourselves a little time to debrief and work on other MSP next steps afterwards.  This April 4th meeting will be in place of our regularly scheduled Wednesday meeting.

QUESTIONS for Mcnair about his project in Bushwick: 

• What are their intentions about the vibe they wanna create at the bar space (music, aesthetics, etc.)?
• Who is their target audience and how are the planning to bring them in?
• How much programming are they looking for?  Particular kinds of programming they would like to see?
• If we were to do programming, what would be our financial responsibility to the larger space?  (does the "event space" need to generate a certain amount of income?)
• How will decisions be made (business and otherwise) between Mcnair, Andy and Ana... and the other collaborators (us?) working in the space?
• If they are hiring people from the neighborhood, will those same people have decision-making role in what happens in the space (as opposed to just bartending, working the kitchen, etc.)?
• What balance do they envision between people being attracted to a space for "fun" social purposes as opposed to more "serious" political discussions/events?
• What is there sense of social spaces that already exist in the neighborhood and how to organically connect to those... what would they relationship to those be (if any)?

 

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[Jodi Nicole]

Hello

It's making the most sense for me to step back from MSP core. I'd like to participate in conversations around programming, perhaps if the outreach working group comes together.

That's where my passions, desires, and strengths lie. And I don't want to extend my capacity beyond what makes sense. Or hold folks back with my non-participation regarding conversations that it doesn't make sense for me to be apart of.

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