[Blacklabcollective] Saturday events

[Brendan Plummer]

Hey,

I feel like I have been doing a lot of emotional labour around the Saturday
meetings. Because of my emotional investment in it, and also my desire for
the Black Lab to be more than a venue, I can't help but feel under siege
from the folks in the collective who don't want the meetings to happen.

And I agree, it doesn't make anyone 'bad' to not want the meetings,
although I think there are differences in terms of ideals/vision for what
the Black Lab could be *about*. I understand people not wanting to take on
the role of managing the thing, and I was hoping giving Wendy keys would
alleviate some of the time necessary to facilitate the meetings. Folks have
multiple other projects/bands going on, and there isn't a lot of space or
incentive/social capital for the thankless task of helping facilitate
community events. So let's be realistic, and let Wendy know asap if we want
to shut it down. She mentioned that they may have another space available
in the fall, and although she loves the Black Lab because people feel
comfortable and it has a great location it will not be the end of the world
to pull the plug on the SRO collaborative if that will ease people's minds.

That won't actually do anything about the rats though, and I agree that it
should be the landlord's responsibility to deal with pests. So in a lot of
ways that means that we need to talk about how to broach that one,
especially with a pending visit from Michael. And that's another
conversation.

Anyways, I need to laundry but thanks for the response and sorry about the
emailing ...

<3 B.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Brenden,
>
> Ya the smell is pretty bad (what happened to your car?).
>
> I asked my co-worker about landlord responsibility in commercial units,
> pests are one of them.
>
> It's not healthy or safe for us to try to clean and resolve a rat problem,
> we need to bring in professional cleaners and pest control (if we want).
> Also I recognize that smell sort of, is it possible there is a dead rat in
> the back somewhere?
>
> Yea it's gross :(
>
> And regarding Saturday's, the many containers of sour cream in the fridge
> is confusing, and yes there was a mess.
>
> I'm sorry you feel like you are defending it, but we do need to discuss
> when things happen, and you shouldn't have to defend it!! But also maybe
> it's ok for us to decide what will happen if we don't have the people to
> manage the project or if we decide to wait to find someone to bottom line
> the sessions instead of giving out keys. It doesn't make us bad people, it
> makes us realistic.
>
> On Friday, July 31, 2015, Brendan Plummer <brendan.plummer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Just to be clear: the sour cream containers were left out? Or in the
>> fridge? I did a quick sweep of the space on Monday eve and things looked
>> the same as they were prior to the meeting last Saturday.
>>
>> When I went down on Saturday to  clean/set up, things were pretty messed
>> up from someone leaving food garbage another day (not a saturday, because
>> it was someones takeout garbage). My tool bags got shit in and pissed on
>> and I am so sick of that smell because of what happened to my car ... so I
>> am not stoked on any of this.
>>
>> Anyways, if there was food garbage left out I will let Wendy know. She
>> should have known because we were definitely talking about rats as we
>> cleaned up rat shit on Saturday morning. And I don't know what's up with
>> the food in the fridge either, that can't be a thing.
>>
>> There are no meetings for the month of August, so perhaps we should
>> revisit this at a meeting. I am getting a little weary of defending this,
>> if I am the only person that cares then what's the point of continuing when
>> I am gone?
>>
>> Again, sorry about not ensuring things were legit in the fridge. I have
>> had a busy week and haven't been super present in relating to the space
>> over the course of the past few days. I hope the show went well last night,
>> talk soon.
>>
>> B.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Jul 30, 2015, at 6:38 PM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > hey everyone
>> >
>> > I'm not convinced by the Saturday space use without a collective member
>> cleaning up after, there are like 8 containers of sour cream in th kitchen
>> and the kitchen is a total mess. It stinks like rat piss, there was a shirt
>> left behind, I'm not 100% sure about this...
>> >
>> > The food in the fridge takes away space for beer, it's not really cool
>> :(
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Anju Singh
>> >
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