[Blacklabcollective] Time Sensitive community org pitch!! please respond :)

[Anju Singh]

I am in support, we are using the space from 3pm to 11:30pm on the 18th.
Wendy pedersen has been very supportive of the local community. Im down so
long as the space is cleaned up and good to go for 3:00. Thanks!!

On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Megan Speers <speers.megan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all! I was just contacted by Wendy Pedersen via facebook. For those of
> you who maybe don't know her, she's a long-standing community organizer in
> the DTES who is highly involved in a ton of stuff around the hood.
> Apparently one of the groups she works with has had an issue with their
> meeting space and she asked me if it'd be possible to use the Black Lab on
> Saturday afternoons starting in April for meetings.... here is what she
> said specifically:
>
> "Hi Megan, I heard through the grapevine that you may have a connection to
> the space on east hastings near the empress - it looks like an art space?
> I'm looking for a space to use for community organizing on Saturday
> afternoons.
>
> we just got booted out of the space that we thought we had lined up for
> saturday april 18 and now desperate! We would need it from 11am until
> about 5 pm but we could shrink that if you need us to. Super cool program
> 12-1:30 strategizing with sro tenants about how to charge their landlords
> for Maintnenace violations and 2-4 short video and circle time with a
> community elder."
>
> I think this would be a ridiculously easy way to open the space up for a
> rad community project that would have hardly any impact on us, we'd
> basically just need to let folks in and maybe help set up the chairs or
> something. Brendan has already said he's down to help out with this and so
> am I. I guess the only concern may be that I don't know what time noise
> fest starts at on the 18th/what time folks are gona be setting up but it
> sounds like she's quite flexible with the times so that should be easy to
> work out, i think? Is everyone down? she's hoping to have an answer by
> tomorrow afternoon so that she can put the word out so if anyone has any
> concerns, please let them be known ASAP. it seems like it'd be a cool way
> to connect to folks doing rad shit in the DTES to me ... thoughts?
> questions/concerns? if everyone is cool with it (which frankly i hope folks
> are :) ) --- anju, what time are ppl setting up for noise fest at on the
> 18th?
>
> thanks yall
>
> megan
>
>

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Anju Singh
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