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

Wed Apr 8 15:38:00 PDT 2015

I'll be setting up some stuff the night before.. if things can be left as
is for the tables etc that would be really good. I'm actually just totally
nervous about this now..

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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