[Blacklabcollective] Show: Institute show on August 10th

[Rafael "Cabeza" Manrique]

Sup punks!
Back on the email.
So, we need some volunteers for the Institute show. Who wants to give me a
hand?  Also if you know someone that might be interested, let me know! :)
Rafael.

2015-04-16 14:20 GMT-07:00 Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com>:

> Also, just noticed this is the sacred bones institute, not the noise/power
> electronics institute.. raf: do you think that show is too big for our
> space? Institute are a big deal (among my friends at least..). Im stoked
> but wouldn't it be too big? If you do it, i'll help for sure because I
> would be there anyway.
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Megan sorry you don't feel heard! I want to confirm that I am aware
>> of your reservations and respect your perspective as a finance person. I
>> misunderstood and thought this topic was not closed yet. I have a bad
>> memory so I'm sorry if we shut this down. I suggest if we decide to hold
>> off we re-open it in October which is when we will know if we get grant
>> funding.
>>
>> How's that for everyone?
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, April 16, 2015, Megan Speers <speers.megan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> I hate to be a spoil sport (again) on this topic, which we've discussed
>>> at some length in previous meetings, but:
>>> we still aren't at a place where we can afford to pay bands higher
>>> percentages. Last month, we had enough for rent, plus about $150 leftover,
>>> which meant Brendan (thankfully he was able to!) had to front money for
>>> beer, and sending in the paperwork for our society status had to wait til
>>> after our first weekend of shows (which screwed up plans for noise fest a
>>> bit, potentially).
>>>
>>> Again, I'd love to be able to pay bands more! I think that'd fucking
>>> rule and yea, punks supporting punks, etc., but realistically, unless we
>>> secure some sort of extra funding to help us pay our rent, we simply can't
>>> pay out more from the door yet. Cause that would mean not being able to pay
>>> our rent.
>>>
>>> The only other option, if yall REALLY wana pay bands more, would be to
>>> increase the volume of shows we put on pretty dramatically... which I think
>>> is a bad idea if we want to avoid burnout and focus on shows we actually
>>> want to do (we don't wana get stuck in the position we were at with nowhere
>>> space when we were putting on a lot of shows that we didn't even like or
>>> care about and collective people got resentful and burnt out).
>>>
>>> I kinda feel like people aren't hearing me on this one, and in all
>>> honesty, it's a little frustrating. We can talk about it again at the next
>>> meeting if folks want but I'm just trying to be realistic about where we're
>>> at financially.
>>>
>>> As for the institute show itself I'm down with it.
>>>
>>> sorry for being "that guy", haha
>>> megan
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm ok with the show happening.
>>>>
>>>> Re: Money:
>>>>
>>>> I think if we want to change it, the door percentage topic should get
>>>> worked out sooner rather than later ideally so that are giving the same
>>>> deal to shows coming up in May too. In June lots of bands are touring
>>>> through, and also in May. We also have our tour kickoff show on May 2nd
>>>> which would be sweet to have a little more cash for tour, hehe.
>>>>
>>>> When is our next meeting?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Rafael "Cabeza" Manrique <
>>>> cabezadevacarecs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So Jakob (the good looking Jakob we all love) is doing a show with
>>>>> Institute from Texas. Institute is kind of a big band so I would expect it
>>>>> to be a pretty big (over 100 people) show even tho it is a Monday. I talked
>>>>> to Jakob that a few of us in the colective were talking about lowering our
>>>>> cut from the door to 20%-30%-40%(I know, I know, I shouldn't talk about
>>>>> this kind of internal stuff before approving). It just came in the
>>>>> conversation before his proposal. We were talking about how some people are
>>>>> concerned of doing shows there because we take too much $$$.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway The show is going to be with Lie, Woolworm and Pita Mania.
>>>>> Pretty mellow/diverse show and I think the crowd will bring the $$$ so we
>>>>> can expect a bunch of money from the Bar.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know what you think.
>>>>> Long live capitalism.
>>>>> Rafael.
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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