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Nancy Wills
Sep 29, 2015, 12:34:30 PM9/29/15
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The next meeting of the Kingston twig is Thursday, 08 October 2015, at 7pm at Ongwanada. We have a single agenda item: the future of the twig. Carla, who has been the twig coordinator for at least five years, is stepping down from that role. This will leave a significant gap in the leadership of the twig at a time when leadership is urgently needed. In November 2013, the twig had 22 members. Right now we have 12 and only one person attended the September meeting. Hopefully, more are available to participate in this important discussion next Thursday evening.
Look forward to seeing you.
Nancy
Elizabeth d'Anjou
Oct 8, 2015, 5:55:36 PM10/8/15
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He, all.
I see that's tonight!
Russell and I are leaving town for a few days tomorrow and I have two deadlines to meet before then, so there's no way I can come out.
And I suspect this isn't the best night for a lot of other folks, right before a holiday weekend.
But.... I would like to participate in a discussion about the future of the twig!
I had no idea things were so dire.
And really don't think they have to be.
I'm on the Editors Canada exec now (bwahaha, the power!), and there's been quite a bit of discussion about branches and twigs that are faltering. Our organization is undergoing a period of change, as are many.
But there's also a lot of exciting stuff going on in Editors Canada (new edition of ECE out last year! new website coming with free job board and better online directory! new communications avenues! explorations of online training! twitter interviews with guest tweets from none other than founding member Lee d'Anjou!), and i think the Kingston twig can and should be a part of it.
And there's such a great literary community in Kingston, I know we can grow again.
Carla definitely deserves a break, and her shoes will be hard to fill, but the running of a small twig like ours needn't, I think, be onerous if we can share it. I think turning things around to a growing direction should be doable. I'm willing to be part of the solution.
I'd like to ask those who do meet tonight to either
- schedule a follow-up special meeting, maybe at a different time and venue (or contact me to help do this)
OR
- organize a way we can meet remotely (the Editors' Canada office can offer links we can use for an "Adobe Connect" get-together, or we can use Google hangouts or Skype or a good old-fashioned conference call...)
The national council can probably help us, too. We're giving some organizing help to the prairie provinces at the moment, too. The representative for Twigs and Branches for our area, Stacey Atkinson, is an amazingly smart and helpful person (and a v. good at remote tech stuff!). She's overseas this week and next, but would I think be keen to help us out on her return.
We also do have a bit of money in our kitty. We may be able to can use some of it to help us kickstart.
If there's some little committee of two or three (or even one!) who comes out of tonigh ready to help, please get in touch with me and I'll join and we'll chat.
I love our twig and I'm not giving up on it.
Elizabeth
At 12:34 PM 29/09/2015, Nancy Wills wrote:
I see that's tonight!
Russell and I are leaving town for a few days tomorrow and I have two deadlines to meet before then, so there's no way I can come out.
And I suspect this isn't the best night for a lot of other folks, right before a holiday weekend.
But.... I would like to participate in a discussion about the future of the twig!
I had no idea things were so dire.
And really don't think they have to be.
I'm on the Editors Canada exec now (bwahaha, the power!), and there's been quite a bit of discussion about branches and twigs that are faltering. Our organization is undergoing a period of change, as are many.
But there's also a lot of exciting stuff going on in Editors Canada (new edition of ECE out last year! new website coming with free job board and better online directory! new communications avenues! explorations of online training! twitter interviews with guest tweets from none other than founding member Lee d'Anjou!), and i think the Kingston twig can and should be a part of it.
And there's such a great literary community in Kingston, I know we can grow again.
Carla definitely deserves a break, and her shoes will be hard to fill, but the running of a small twig like ours needn't, I think, be onerous if we can share it. I think turning things around to a growing direction should be doable. I'm willing to be part of the solution.
I'd like to ask those who do meet tonight to either
- schedule a follow-up special meeting, maybe at a different time and venue (or contact me to help do this)
OR
- organize a way we can meet remotely (the Editors' Canada office can offer links we can use for an "Adobe Connect" get-together, or we can use Google hangouts or Skype or a good old-fashioned conference call...)
The national council can probably help us, too. We're giving some organizing help to the prairie provinces at the moment, too. The representative for Twigs and Branches for our area, Stacey Atkinson, is an amazingly smart and helpful person (and a v. good at remote tech stuff!). She's overseas this week and next, but would I think be keen to help us out on her return.
We also do have a bit of money in our kitty. We may be able to can use some of it to help us kickstart.
If there's some little committee of two or three (or even one!) who comes out of tonigh ready to help, please get in touch with me and I'll join and we'll chat.
I love our twig and I'm not giving up on it.
Elizabeth
At 12:34 PM 29/09/2015, Nancy Wills wrote:
The next meeting of the Kingston twig is Thursday, 08 October 2015, at 7pm at Ongwanada. We have a single agenda item: the future of the twig. Carla, who has been the twig coordinator for at least five years, is stepping down from that role. This will leave a significant gap in the  leadership of the twig at a time when leadership is urgently needed. In November 2013, the twig had 22 members. Right now we have 12 and only one person attended the September meeting. Hopefully, more are available to participate in this important discussion next Thursday evening.
Look forward to seeing you.
Nancy
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C. London
Oct 8, 2015, 6:20:21 PM10/8/15
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I very much agree. I have been an absentee twig member this past year, but I would be very interested in being part of the conversation about its revitalization. I would like to come tonight, but I am recovering from a surprise appendectomy last week and thus far haven't made it to any evening plans post-surgery. Elizabeth's email makes me feel very hopeful about the twig's future and, whether or not my post-op energy levels allow me to attend tonight, I would like to be a part of where the twig goes next.
Best,
Cat London
From: Elizabeth d'Anjou <eliz...@danjou.ca>
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Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: {EACKingston} Future of Twig---Let's Not Throw in the Towel!
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