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

[Anju Singh]

And please let her know it's a festival, it's totally crucial that the
space be empty and clean by 3:00 or else it will really screw things up for
our setup, to be honest, we had planned to setup the whole space after the
show the night before so this is making me a little nervous of course, but
I don't want to say no.

On Wednesday, April 1, 2015, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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Anju Singh
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