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

Fri Apr 10 11:58:06 PDT 2015

Anju I'm sure everything will be cleared up in time for the fest! Those
organizers have a lot of experience with facilitating meetings, I'm sure it
won't run late!

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Leggo Sirens <sirensongs604 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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