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

Wed Apr 8 15:35:21 PDT 2015

Hey Megan, setup starts at 3:00, adam will be coming in to make sure the PA
etc is all there and good at 2:30, so they must be out and the space is
empty and ready to use at 3:00 please! I am very apprehensive about this
meeting running late, so please ask them to be done by 2:30, and the space
cleaned up/chairs returned etc.. at 3:00!!

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Megan Speers <speers.megan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
> Just wanted to let you all know that I met with Wendy and Chanel yesterday
> afternoon and they were super stoked on the space. I kinda showed them
> around and gave them a run down on things... they are into using the space
> and Wendy also mentioned that they are working on getting funding for the
> project they're working on and may be able to throw us a couple bucks in
> the future for use of the space but that's still up in the air. I told them
> we're cool with that and that it would be huge for us if they were able to
> throw us a couple bucks for rent but also not a requirement. Lindsay and I
> cleaned the shit out of the place the day before so it was pretty sparkly
> fresh.
> Also some of the stuff they are talking about (ways to charge your
> landlord for repairs, etc) in their meetings are pretty relevant to us.
> Wendy also mentioned she might know some folks who might be able to help us
> with some of the repairs and such that we have been pondering... I think
> this may be the start of some pretty rad mutual aid!
> So their first meeting is on the 18th, I'm gona open up the space for them
> at 11am. They know that Noise Fest needs to start setting up for 3, and are
> totally cool with that.
> cheers
> megan
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Eris Nyx <erisnyx at hotmail.ca> wrote:
>
>> I can also lend a hand to helping us stay open for the meeting. We could
>> also easily add a lock to the fridge?
>> -eris
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:21:26 -0700
>> From: l.kasting86 at gmail.com
>> To: blacklabcollective at lists.resist.ca
>> Subject: Re: [Blacklabcollective] Time Sensitive community org pitch!!
>> please respond :)
>>
>> This is a huge time commitment. I think that's my biggest concern. Are
>> they offering us anything? For what theyre asking, we would pretty much
>> need to have a collective member there for 6 hours every week on Saturdays,
>> which also affects our own ability to ever use the space during that time
>> (for example, noise fest, flea mafkets, or any other day time workshops
>> that might be best scheduled for saturdays). We have a lot of expensive
>> sound equipment and often alcohol that isn't locked away in there, which is
>> a theft risk, if strangers have access to the entire space without a
>> responsible person present. I think this is actually a pretty huge thing to
>> commit to, and something that needs to be thought out and discussed. Do we
>> know why/how they lost their other space? Sorry if I'm being a party
>> pooper, I think this is a cool thing and people to work with but we need to
>> make sure its a good deal for us as well.
>>
>> Sent from my Huawei Mobile
>>
>> Brendan Plummer <brendan.plummer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Megan can probably better to speak to this, but since I am sitting in
>> front of my computer I will go ahead and answer. To the best of my
>> knowledge, this will be ongoing for the foreseeable future. Essentially
>> then, Megan and I are saying that we will be present to unlock/lock the
>> space before and after their meetings and perhaps to ensure that
>> chairs/tables are accessible. I think we are still figuring out how best to
>> do that given our current schedules, but I think we can make it work!
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Lindsay Kasting <l.kasting86 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Is it just 5he one Saturday or ongoing into the foreseeable future is my
>> question? Because if it is every Saturday, being present for 6 hours every
>> week is a huge commitment. But it does sound great to me too if y'all are
>> into it!
>> On Apr 3, 2015 1:48 PM, "Brendan Plummer" <brendan.plummer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I know my response isn't exactly 'time sensitive,' but I wanted to say
>> that I am hugely in support of this idea. This is a great opportunity to
>> provide value in the community and to make inroads with more folks who are
>> active in the neighborhood. I think the main wrinkles right now are
>> Noisefest and scheduling around unlocking/locking the space after the
>> meetings. Megan and I tentatively agreed to take charge of that, but we
>> will have to be in communication with Wendy to make sure it works smoothly.
>> With Noisefest, I think we just have to make sure that Wendy is aware of
>> this situation, and arrangements are made to meet earlier, etc.
>>
>> I am confident we can sort those things out, and I am stoked that
>> everyone is supportive of this!
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Rafael "Cabeza" Manrique <
>> cabezadevacarecs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Down
>>
>>
>> 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> 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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