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

Fri Apr 10 11:28:34 PDT 2015

I echo Brendan's sentiments exactly. This is a really good oppourtunity to
be a part of the neighbourhood. I have a show at around noon on Saturday,
but if I can help out in the morning at all with setup Megan let me know.

Also Eris a lock on the fridge is totally doable, or even that entire back
room? Are there doors on either entrance way?

I am will to help and I think I have some lock bits kicking around....

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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