Wednesday, January 14, 2009

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 17th @ 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 21st.

-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 19th 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