[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] General Volunteers Meeting Notes 06/16/11

[Nathan Stickel]

The location for the organizer event has been confirmed to be the Flying
Brick. FYI

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Ramey Connelly <rameysaurus at gmail.com>wrote:

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> General Volunteers Meeting Notes 06/16/2011
>
> Attendees: Christie, Brantley, T, Ramey
> Facilitator: Christie
> Notes: Ramey
>
> Agenda items:
> Talking points for Alison re: interview
> Reorganizing
> Next month's Open Hours
> Events
> Community Organizing forum/conference meeting
>
> 1) Talking points for Alison re: interview
>      Brief history of the library (can refer them to "A Brief History of
> TFBL Pamphlet")
>      Open Hours
>      Address
>      website - wordpress & librarything. If there's time/space, the RVA
> Radicalendar could be mentioned
>     All volunteer
>     While a radical space, TFB is not strictly anarchist or
> politically-oriented. Everybody is welcome to organize in the space. Books
> are centered on social issues with a focus of harder-to-find stuff.
>     Not just books; also an extensive zine collection, videos, fliers, and
> periodicals
>     All ages safe space - all events, including open hours and meetings,
> are sober
> Regarding photos: best to keep it to photos of the books themselves;
> Beehive Collective has given permission to use photos from their event, but
> try not to use photos of people who have not given their explicit consent
>
> 2) Reorganizing - Ideas for new sections/rearranged sections are in the red
> notebook. People can move books, alphabetize, or make notes. Spot is help in
> red notebook with a notecard. Ramey will be at Open Hours on Monday
> reorganizing if others would like to join and help.
>
> 3) Open Hours for July will be bottomlined by Brantley & should be posted
> soon
>     There is still one more slot open for June 30th; Christie will send out
> notice. Almost all shifts in June are still in need of a secondary person.
>
> 4) We want to do a series of film screenings & potlucks, with each film
> based on a book we have in the library, and with the potluck having a theme
> related to the book/film. (As per example, screening Persepolis with Iranian
> foods, or screening Che with a variety of foods from Latin America, etc)
>    Proposed doing one screening per month on a Friday evening
>    Christie will bottomline first event & will send out a separate email
> regarding feedback for possible dates & films
>
> 5) A community organizing training conference/forum is in the very basic
> works right now. The next meeting is on Tuesday June 21st at 5PM with the
> location TBA. Please contact Ramey at 804-519-8724 if you are interested
> or would like more details.
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Always with Solidarity

Nathan
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