[Radmedia] June 10 meeting notes

[isaac oommen]

Excellent let's decide on one of the title-subtitle suggestions by the 16th.
And Leroy looks good as a keynoter.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:26 AM, dawn paley <dawnpaley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Isaac & everyone!
>
> I wanted to throw in Leroy Moore Jr as a potential keynote, heard him at
> AMC last year it was great
>
> http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=77
>
> The suggested subhead was *a weekend of radical & experimental west coast
> media. *below are a couple other ideas
>
> I'm back July 5 but will try and stay on top of minutes, etc.
> abrazos
> dawn
>
> Radical Media Conference: Building Resistance on the West Coast
>
> Rebel Media: A Weekend of West Coast Resistance
>
> Rebel Ties: West Coast Resistance Media
>
> Insurgent Media: West Coast Resistance
> On 13-Jun-11, at 11:28 PM, isaac oommen wrote:
>
> 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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