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?
