[Radmedia] June 10 meeting notes

[isaac oommen]

Hey Nick - would you book the Seagall hall at SFU Harbour centre and 2
lecture rooms and 2 classrooms if no one objects by Thursday?


Isaac, Harjap, Lauriel, MaryAnn, Erin


PLACE

Har: The cafetaria at Britannia cannot be set up as needed.
MA: And it's long and narrow.
Har: Croatian Cultural Centre has neo-Nazi parties. So we have Ukranian
Hall, Russian Hall.
Laur: We weren't sure the Ukranian hall was completely accessible.
Isaac: Nic said Ukrainian Hall 500+400+250, or Harbour Centre for free, WISE
hall for $50/hr for the day not available at night.
Harjap: VCC would have a harder time giving us the space.
MA: There can't be food at Harbour Centre.
Laur: Same at Martitime Labour Centre.
Har: SFU is shitty but it might be the choice. Bonsor could be good as well
- $1200 or so.
Laur: Harbour Centre has the same advantages of centrality.
Isaac: The alternatives are WISE hall but nothing at night.
Laur: But maybe have night events elsewhere?
Isaac: Too complicated to have multiple venues?
Laur: Not really.
Har: We could use all of the big hall for tabling.
Isaac: And have youth workshops so no childcare needed which HC is not good
with. And have classrooms for breakout rooms.
Har: Rooms that work are Seagall Centre, the one next to Fletcher Challenger
(1700?) and the actual theatre.
Laur: We need more than 25 capacity for at least one workshop room.
Isa: So maybe get two lecture rooms and two classrooms? And we can ask Dawn
and Frank to object to HC if needed by 16th?
*CONSENSED: We book HC, unless there are any objections. Send any
alternative suggestions to the list by the 16th.*
Har: I'll look into Bonsor just for costs. We can cancel HC anyway so let's
book.
*ACTIOn: Isaac to ask Nick to book SFU HC.
*

NAME

All: Liking a weekend of experimental media [sic] as subtitle (check the
last notes for the full subtitle).
Har: Something short can be attached as the title then.
Leon: Unmedia, Unmediate.
Har: Having the area in there is good.
Isaac: But this can go into the subtitle.
Har: Fault lines? (people liked this one)
Laur: Send it to the whole collective.
Har: Don't forget Radical Media Conf as well. We can decide later on how
short the title-subtitle is.
*CONSENSED: People can choose from the three above titles and the ones we've
brainstormed by the 16th over the list.
*

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Leo: Riel and Lynn on a panel.
Har: And Billie Blair.
Leo: Dream speaker is someone from Santiago radical scene e.g. IMC there.
Har: Hoping some people from west coast will fund their way here. I don't
know if they would be the draw. A good panel might be an alternative. Amy
Goodman and Chompsky. We could even Skype people in.
Isa: As'ad Abu Khalil or Arundati Roy for skypeing in.
Laur: Actual media makers would be even better.
Har: Maybe we could sub one keynote speaker for a nice panel.
Laur: Shaka from Oakland who does Black August would be great. He works with
NYM and was in prison.
Har: We could also look at the AMC and see if any name pops out.
Leo: Puget Sound anarchists.
Erin: INCITE Women of Colour would be good.
Laur: Would be nice to bring a critique of activism into things.
Har: Have critique of media projects that pretend to be progressive. We
don't have a key speaker but lots of panel ideas.


WORKSHOPS

Laur: Nick talked about fracking etc. the broad definition of media.
Leo: Maybe we can have the workshops one after another?
Laur: We have lots of ideas for these already.
Leo: Workshops become overwhelming at a lot of conferences.
Har: So Sunday can be an informal space for discussion of what people heard.
Leo: Space for mingling is good.
Laur: I'd like more than 8 workshops.
Har: Then I'm leaning towards booking Harbour Centre. Let's start contacting
people informally about who can come up for this. Think of people in
small-town BC: Neskolith Radio, Tree Frog Radio, Black Ink, Just Seeds,
stencilers and street media. A workshop on informal knowledge e.g. ancestral
storytelling would be great.
Laur: I also would like a workshop on development of criminal forms of
knowledge.
Leo: Roger Farr wrote about this.
Har: Also a panel on movement internal communication and inter-communication
would be great.
Leo: Think of the Wobblies, George Jackson Brigade.
Har: Gaderites, Chinese community that organized againt head tax and race
riots.
Leo: Oral tradition of communication would be good to see explored.
Har: Language as well.
Leo: Dustin Rivers is great for that. Dustin Johnson also.
*
CONSENSED: Erin, Leon, Lauriel added to the listserv.*
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