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

[Rafael "Cabeza" Manrique]

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El miércoles, 1 de abril de 2015, Lindsay Kasting <l.kasting86 at gmail.com>
escribió:

> As long as someone is around to facilitate that sounds pretty great to me.
> Did she say how long for? Or just every Saturday into the foreseeable
> future?
> On Apr 1, 2015 8:44 PM, "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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