June 14th Minutes

-Agenda-

-Check-ins
-Letter from Foo
-DIY Directory
-Guide
-Community resourse unite Mixer
-Filedtrip
-Zine Symposium
-Roles
-Blog
-Newsletter
-RRFM

-DIY Directory-
-It will be done in about 3-4 weeks. Directory of diy organizations/projects. Adam B. says it is the most elaborate BP he has ever done. Bex will email Vera for zine release.
-Guide-
-Shan. Editing guide. Taking the Baguette off the guide. Shan/El/Bex on Art.
-Mixer-
Bex to email Vera. Bex + Benj to invite. Organizers to mixer. Danceoff to happen weekend after Bumbershoot.
-Fieldtrip-
To the “House of Masterblaster” cabin July 10-12th.
-Zine Symposium-
-Shan + Dan are going. Need to claim a table. Shan will get a table. Everyone make a zine! Benu to make copies. We should put together a “how to make a diy community” zine before the symposium.
-Infoshop meeting –
7pm Thursday June 18th @ Gallery 1412. Robbse + wife (old anarchists) and other Left Bankers are organizing this meeting. Bring snacks!
-Roles-
Tabled! T.B.C. online.
-Blog-
-We need to write more in it! Should we get people outside our immediate community to write in it? Nathan should write for us!!!! There should be a blog about Imojafest
-Newsletter-
-we are going to havce an online newsletter. Sam will put all news on the site. We need a new format. Sam will be putting the newsletter together and meet up with benj to print.
-RRFM-
-Kaleen make a pster! Bex will make it a silkscreen. Eli will make 11x17 make 4. Take flyers to critical mass. Sam contact Issac from FNB to coordinate flyers handed out with sandwiches.

Seattle DIY meeting, 2/22/09
Agenda:
1. checkins
2. film? (matt & shawn)
3. free market
4. riot grrl karaoke checkout
5. Newsletter – theme
6. skillshare
7. recipe book newsletter
8. vera civic engagement committee
9. zine projects (guide, new zine idea)

1. checkins!!

if you could be any fruit or vege what would you be?
Z – watermelon – hard on the outside, sweet on the inside
Ni – (cep) allergic to watermelon – bok choy – leafy and bulbous
E – beet all the way.
M – banana (I really like em, it's crazy)
Sh – prickley pear cuz Dateland makes prickley pear milkshakes and they're amazing
S – pears, they're good.
Shaw – spaghetti squash cuz I'm having it for dinner
B – snowpea or greenbean – definiely a legume, but not sure what kind.
Sar – grapefruit
benj – thimbleberry
em – bokchoy or spinach cuz they have lots of iron and vitamins!

2. film idea -
m & sh – part of CEP program – documentation of cooperatives
film in preproduction – figuring out the functioning of collectives
deciding to choose on housing collectives/activist collectives
film focusing on creating communities that support one another in context of depression
need people, resources, help
Proposal (probable): filming people involved in communities at spaces/houses

3. RRFM
on thurs, rally & march (thurs feb 26, noon @ garfield, rally downtown, meet at 1:30 downtown)for stopping school closuring. E-> will flyer at rally/march
we need to make a new flyer.

4. riot grrl karaoke checkout
$186 raised at riot grrl karaoke – how should we divvy it up?
$50 to For Crying Out Loud, $138 to Home Alive
next time: more public space (vera?), more outreach to places like OFH
maybe do another one in a couple months? June? Let's start brainstorming.
Sars: will discuss with civic engagement committee at vera


5. march theme – the media
Jon will talk with Hollow Earth's person who will write something for the newsletter.
Also: Reclaim the Media info about analogue signals.
indymedia/guerilla video/pirate radio
magmafest involvement – tabling/volunteering – how many can we get in?

6. skillshare – is it going to happen in March? Nobody knows!

7. recipe book
em bought a bunch of notecards & can do a big printing. Sold out a left bank. Needs $50 from collective to cover costs.
Sell at vera's concession booth

8. vera civic engagement
sars: backgroud: vera started out of a political need to address the TDO, engaged youth with activism. Over last few years vera has settled in/settled down, there has been less engagement with things outside of vera's walls. Longtime volunteers want to see vera doing more civic involvement. Vera can bring in more people into utilizing their space – more tabling from tiny mercury, left bank. Have silkscreened posters about history of vera's activist past / home alive & mia zapata. More film showings (afropunk, don't need you). Making activism acceptable and comfortable for the people who come to vera.



9. zine projects
new zine idea: a guide to DIY seattle. A zine with pages of different spaces and projects. Like the bikery, the bike shack, bend-it, CEP – describing all the different projects, stuff that is more DIY than what generally goes in the guide to seattle

10. Behive collective – have an open invitation to come to communities and present, sell their art, etc. Shall we invite them? Any objections (none at meeting). Venue?

SeattleDIY Minutes January 11, 2009

-Agenda-

-Check-ins

-Newsletter Distribution

-Cooking Workshop

-Immigrant Solidarity

-Secret Café

 -Riot Grrl Karaoke

-Guide to Seattle

-Planners

-RRFM Flyers

-Distro-

-Benji has brought newsletters to Vera. Left Bank, Singles going steady

-Samm has brought newsletters to Holy Mountain, Greenhouse, and Sidecar. Also, she will bring some to NW film forum and Gallery 1412

-Becky will bring some to Home Alive

-Jenna will bring some to Wayward, CEP, and Prinasis

-Kaelen will bring some to Squid and Ink

-Shannon will bring some to Centro, Gallegy, and Rainer Valley Food Bank. Also, she will bring Dumpstering Zines.

-Sarina will ask Porter about Solid Ground

-We would like hit up the alternative high schools such as, Nova (Kaelen) and Pugent Sound (will leave some at New Crompton for them to drop off)

-Distro 10 for smaller places and 20 for larger places.

-Cooking Workshop-

-Jan 17^th @ Dancylvania

-Pizza Dough will be done by Sarina. Cheese will be done by Sammm-

-Sarina will be showing how to use Vinegar instead of Egg Replacer in recipes

-We should stick to the basics and work with staples

-There will we a recipe swap as well. People will bring dishes with an index card of ingredients/directions. Only a small amount of dishes.

-4PM start time. We will do the demos first then while baking go around to each dish and have the owner give highlights of the dish.

-We will also do a demonstration on how to use different staples. We will use Tofu as our demonstration. We will go over different methods, such as freezing, soaking, frying, etc.

-So, we will go over “how tos” on pizza, vinegar, tofu, and various dishes during the workshop.

-side note- The Ground Zero movie screening went very well. We would like to draw attention to the men in the Riot Grrl Movement (Fugazi, Huggy Bear, etc). OFH has a womens night.

-Immigrant Solidarity-

-workers permits to pick in the north. Last year the police came and deported quite a few pickers.

-They will be up north on the 21^st.

-They would like people there to support and videotape.

-Possible secret café should focus on it.

-Make people aware of Gregoire deporting imprisoned immigrants.

-NW Immigrants Defense Program- Kaelen knowns somebody there, so we could donate.

-We should wait till Shannon get a response from the email sent asking for more information. They have a set time though the exact location is unknow.

-Shannon will email the link to the SDIY email list.

-We will have a secret café for NW immigrants rights project

-We can make Tamales – get a recipe/help from either angela or andrea(who has been wanting to do a workshop on vengan tamales)

-Possible focuses for upcoming Secret Cafes-

 -nickelsville moving/land rights/housing/idea of nicklesville

 -local tribes

 -enviromental issues

-July will be based on Bend-It

 -Anti-Military/GI Café-60’s set up across the street of bases offering info/support on how to get out of the military

 -Feb will be Riot Grrl based/Ladies month. Proceeds going to For Crying Out Loud, CARA, and Home Alive.

-Shelter for battered women

-Ant-Rape/Violence stickers going up in Capitol Hill on Wednesday nights. Taking these issues with direct action. Money to print more stickers/zines

-Crying out loud coming out party valentines night. Taking donations at Karaoke FCOL/CARA.

-Will have a mini café at the Riot Grrl Karaoke

-Education-Alternative schools(PCA/Free school)

-Kaelen knows who to pick to do art for February s newsletter

-Shannon will see if the skillshare would still like to have a clown training on the first night.

-Riot Grrl Screenings-

-Dancylvania? New Crompton?

-Becky is going to recruit people

-There will be 15 songs

-Promote and send songs you would like to do to myspace/SDIY

-Riot Grrl trailer- Shannon will edit it. Monday Jan 19^th meeting to help with trailer. Shannon will send out email to find out who will attend and figure out meeting location.

-Maybe have Taccocat as the headliner since they do a lot of riot Grrl covers

-Becky will contact Portland Riot Grrl people and see if they would like to come up

-Guide to Seattle-

-Kaelen will do map

-Rough draft needs additions and improvements.

-Have simple indexs, like “cheap places to eat” in each neighborhood.

-Free Stuff, like parks.

-Symbols with each place, like free or late night

-will discuss more at our next meeting and people will bring research for it

-Left Bank-

-now has a featured section of zines

-There are still some Recipe Books at HTFC

-Emily will make some more

December 14th Minutes

-Agenda-

-Check-ins

-Pay Benji (Taylor)

-Food Justice

-Really Really Free Market

-Riot grrl Karaoke

-Movie Screening

-January Benefit

-Skillshare

-Planners

-Website

-January Newsletter-

-Greek anarchists rioting December 20^th

-Day of solidarity of state murdering

-Action north Washington

-Organizations involved with activities –Shannon

-Benji going to post food justice stuff on website

-Organize carpool and prepare food and coffee

-Get Team Victory involved

-1 year anniversary for Really Really Free market

-2 year anniversary of Newsletter

-Events will be done by Samm, Formatting will be done by Eli, and News will be done by Shannon.

-Secret Café-

-Catering Food 6pm and Movie screening 7pm

-Grilled Sandwiches,soup, and popcorn

-Seth will contact Field Roast for donations

-Samm will contact Mighty-O for donations

-Shannon will be bringing short films

-Show Community CGA video on Food Justice, which is about 19min long

-Show Surfing the Waste video, which is about 19min long

-Seth will download videos since Dancylvania’s internet can be slow at times

-Mike will be making a flyer and Shannon has block prints he can use for it

-Find videos/zines about CCEJ, CAGJ, Food Not Lawns, Food Not Bombs, Gurilla Gardening

-Have seed bombs ready and give them away at the secret café

-Grow mushrooms in a bag in your closet (cosmo?)

-Zine on Food Not Lawns made by Eli and Sarina

-Zines on Permaculture, Composting, and BioJustice will be made/found by Shannon

-Zine on Restoration will be made by Eli

-Cooking/Baking Workshop-

-Out of Recipe Book

-Things that are cheap

-Things that do not need egg replacer and use vinegar instead

-Email Brooks about recipes

-Zach will contact Darcy about facilitating the baking portion

-Contact Josh about facilitating a cooking portion

-Seth will contact Andy about facilitating

-Contact Rebecca about facilitating making big dishes

-Eli will contact Drew about facilitating

-Sarina will be facilitating the baking portion

-First workshop will be based on the Seattle DIY Cookbook

-Future workshop will be more in depth facilitated hopefully by Darcy and Josh

-Food Justice-

-This Wednesday it will be aired on Hollow Earth Radio

-The workshops will be posted on youtube soon

-Really Really Free Market-

-Next Free Market will be held on December 27^th

-We will bring hot food and tea

-Ask Rebecca to make some stew

-Benji will invite Team Victory to Dancylvania and help prepare food

-Screening-

-FBK will be screening on Jan 8^th- Kaelen will be attending

-GroundZero will be screening on Jan 10^th-Eli will be attending

-GroundZero would also like to know more

-Movie Screening of America Hard Core

-New Crompton and Dancylvania offered to do a screening

-Shannon will be putting together a collage of clips as a trailer

-Kaelen will be picking clips from the film

-Riot Grrl Karaoke Trailer

-Clips from Portland Riot Grrl Karaoke

-Benji will contact Tiffany

-Tuesday Dec 16^th 7pm @ Dancylvania

-Skillhare-

-Benji wants to do two workshops on Punk Rock Financing and Dumpstering

-Talk to the Free School (Jessica) about doing a workshop

-Planners-

-There will be planners put together by Sarina and Kaelen

-Eli-June, Zach-Aug, Shannon-Nov, Mike-Oct, Jenna-July, Samm-Dec

-Deadline is Sunday. Bring to meeting at HTFC

-8 Quadrants, ¼ in. from sides, start on Mondays, Leave blank finger width in middle

-Include Seattle DIY meetings, Guide to Seattle in back, Address book 3 Letters/page

-Possible to have SCCC copy/bind them

-Everyone come up with creative ways of binding 

December 7th Minutes

December 7^th Seattle DIY Minutes

 

-Agenda-

-Check-ins

-Newsletter

-Other Printing

-Promotion for RRFM

-Skillshare

-Website

-Calendar

-Dancylvania Film Night

-Vegan Cooking/Baking Workshop

-Winter Brunches

-Mission Statement (Next Time)

 

-Newsletter-

-Mike will be doing the art and will be giving it to Benji and he will have them printed by Tuesday

-Jenna can scan all old newsletters will get them from Benji

 

-Other Printing-

-Benji can print up zines and anything they want

 

-Promoting For RRFM-

-Drop off flyers at shelters

-Kinckersville drop off flyers

 

-Childcare program at events. Will discuss further at next meeting

 

-Skillshare (AKA Winter Bummer)-

-Provide Childcare

-SDIY have workshops

-Classes will be held at the Vera Project

-The shows will be at the Underground Events Center

-Friday there will be a talent show and music. Everyone get to know each other.

-Saturday and Sunday there will be workshops and bands playing 11am-5pm

-There will be a coming out loud party Saturday night

-Would like to have a various genre of bands playing

-Looking for at least 20-25 more workshops

-Application form re-posted on myspace, SDIY

 

-CEP and SDIY-

-How can they be connected?

-Newsletter distro with CEP, subscribe to listserv, etc.

 

-Website-

-Centerpiece of site is the calendar.

-Everything in basic HTML and frames

-The problem is updating and managing the site through HTML without all responsibility on Benji

-Re-designing site so its easily manageable with well organized sections (zines, community links, etc.)

-Temporary single events coordinator?

-Google calendar? It’s a matter of someone transferring the info and setting it up

-Seattle DIY website meeting is Monday 12/15 @ Dancylvania 3pm

 

-Film Night-

-Dancylvania is hosting the Food justice film night.

-Donations will go towards topic

-Shannon has films to suggest/contribute

-Secret Café/movie night afternoon/early afternoon on January 3^rd

-$10 per person

 

-Vegan Baking/Cooking Workshop-

-Plan for Dancylvania approval pending for January 17^th

-Bring a recipe plus a dish

-Combined with Winter Brunch

November 23rd Minutes

-Agenda-

-Check-ins

-Skill-share in February

-Newsletter

-Newsletter Art Specifics

-Black Friday

-Free Market

-Gurrilla Video

-Film Night in December

-Vegan Cooking/Baking Workshops

-Recipe Book

-Cover Night

-Thanksgiving

-Winter Brunches

-Mission Statement

-Skill-Share-

-Will be a two-day event. Focused on having people come from the surrounding regional area. The first night will be about getting to know everyone through games, food, bands. Will be held in February, Valentines weekend. 

-They would like to have a Circus Workshop which Shannon will be putting together.

-For Crying Out Loud will be doing some workshops. Some will be fun and others, challenging.

-FCOL will also be putting a Prom(dance) as the finale of the event. There will be a Dancing Bill of Rights for the Prom.

-Newsletter-

-There will be a focus topic for each monthly newsletter

-Food Justice is our Focus Topic for December

-We will put together the programs available in Seattle (famer's markets)

-The art for the newsletters will be hater-free and no exceptions.

-We will let the artist know in advance our focus topic for the newsletter. They will have to option of doing art based on our monthly theme or just do whatever they feel like. 

-For December Topic regarding Food Justice, we will be sending Eli each of our research blurbs. Then Sarina and Eli will summarize them to fit the physical newsletter. Benji will be posting the full research blurbs on the SeattleDIY website. 

 - Blurbs -

-Dec. 6th Event - Benji

-CSA's - Becky

-Markets/Food Stamps/Matching funds - Samm

-Solid Ground - Eli/Sarina/Porter

-FNB - Samm

-Really Really Free Market-

-Will be concentrating on having a Stress free market after Black Friday

-We will be fliering at Holy Mountain on Black Friday

-At the market we will be doing crafts/activities

 - Shannon will be doing Block Print Patches

 - Kaelen will be doing Tarrot Cards

 - Samm will be doing hair cuts

-Rebecca will bring sandwich board to market. If she can not make it then will call Samm to pick up. 

-Samm will be bringing leftovers from Food Not Bombs to market

-Guerilla Video-

-Each month they will have a 5min video based on SDIY's monthly focus topic and how it affects Seattle. 

-December Film Night-

-The first film night will be held at Dancylvania

-Shannon is creating a list of movies/documentaries. 

-Will will have discussions between each short film.

- Will have dumpster food available 

-Proceeds will go towards a collective/organization which they videos are in relation to.

-Vegan cooking/baking-

-Either at HTFC or Dancylvania

-Secret Cafes for video night

-donations go towards theme and video about organization

-Vegan potluck style

-Everyone bring a dish with recipe/instructions

-1st one will be at Dancylvania

- SeattleDIY Recipe  book - 

-Samm will be getting the original from Emily this week and will make enough to supply:

HTFC,LeftBank,FreeMarket(give away some), and Food Justice workshop

-Cover Night -

-Becky will email the list

-Bulletin asking for requests - Becky

-Proposed date for Cover Night is Feb. 21st

-Thanksgiving-

-Samm will post the places that are hosting dinners

-Winter Brunches-

-Benji will wmail Broad, who lives at Sha Bang, about brunches.

-HTFC will think about a good date and email proposed date to SDIY mailing list

-Mission Statement-

-More reaching out to other organizations 

-Community meetings

-Make sure fliering at specific places

-Flyers for free market in spanish

-Obtain translations in for the free market flier

-Something Wonderful is officially meeting place for 1st meeting of the month

-Zine about shoplifting and knowing your rights as a consumer-Kaelen is thinking of doing

 

November 16th Minutes

November 16^th Minutes

 

-Agenda-

-Check-ins

-Newsletter

-Recipe Book

-Cover Night

-Dec 6^th

-Free Market

-Mission Statement

-Geurilla Video/Video Nights

-Check-outs/Bottom Liners

 

-Newsletter-

 - It’s difficult-thanks Benji! (and Emily for 1 month)

 - Eli – will do the formatting for Dec.

 - Samm – does regular updates, can maintain events and regular events

 - Art – Kaelen has contact list. Invite artists to last meeting of month. Get art turnaround soon after. Who? Ask Kaelen

 - Focus – Food Justice

 - December 6^th Event – Benji

 - FNB – do it.

 - Solid Ground – Porter @ Dancylvania – Sar + Eli

 - CSA’s – Becky will get info.

 - King County Lifeboat – KC budget deficit affecting NP’s like Solid ground – Sarina

 - Guerilla Gardening / Food Not Lawns – Shannon/Eli/Sarina

 - Food stamps and Farmers Markets, matching money? – Samm

 - We can have more info/repost this info on seattlediy.com/foodjuctice

 - November newsletter post online myspace

 - Post newsletters online

 - Archive old newsletters

 - Michael will do December art

 - Scanning – Jenna / UW computer lab? Eli / connection @ Perfect Copy

 

-Recipe Book-

 - Brought up at last meeting. Sold out at Left Bank

 - Emily has originals

 - How to make more? Better way to make copies of 5x7 notecards.

 - Cheap copy place on the Ave. – Michael

 - Rings @ UW Bookstore

 - Sam will get originals from Emily @ next meeting and print them.

 - Sell at Left Bank, HTFC, Dec 6^th Food Justice event

 

-Riot Grrl Karaoke Night-

 - 1^st meeting was on Monday

 - email list, give emails to Becky

 - Befriend their myspace page

 - 1^st come 1^st service picks on songs

 - In February @ HTFC

 - Benefit for Home Alive/CARA/For Crying Out Loud

 - Next interest meeting Tuesday Nov. 25^th 7PM @ Something Wonderful house

 - ALL levels of music abilities welcome

 

-December 6^th Food Thing-

 - Zine/Pamphlet – Jake, Samm, Benji

 - Go over content, art, formatting in a couple week.

 

-Free Market-

 - Benji talked to Eric/FNB sat market

 - Go to Sat. Free Market @ Yestler Terrace and flyer – Eli and Samm

 - Have a crate of stuff to bring

 - Samm made sandwich board for Free Market (@ her house)

 - Decorate HTFC sandwich board @ next Free Market

 - Flyers – Michael print more / Bring to next meeting

 - Post @ Food Banks in area / DSHS

 - Benji – Scan flyer and other flyers

 - Flyering – Michael @ YMCA’s/Hidmol GCCC/DSHS/Library

                  - Eli @ Bikery’s list and will email SDIY list, ask for distribibutors

 

- December 6^th @ HTFC  –

 - Benefit for Hallow Earth

 - 3-8PM Show @ 8pm

 - Hollow Earth’s deal, they are putting it together

 - Local record label showcase (10-20)

 - Show later

 - Fit DIY stuff in closet (Samm making holders)

 

 - Other events Dec 6^th -

-Vera’s also having a Craft Bizzarre

- Punk Rock Flea Market

 

 -Guerilla Video-

 - Meeting is this Thursday

 

-Movie Night-

 - Either @ HTFC/Dancylvania

 - Documentaries (Shannon has a bunch)

 - Secret Café?

 - Tie in with monthly theme

 - Projector – Fernando + UW connection / Davey Oil’s projector?

-Mission Stament-

 - Becky will post on wiki

 - Vision / Values / Goals