[matilda] Proposals for next Monday

[gavin at cyber-rights.net]

Following a (cordial!) discussion with some of the art collective 
after the meeting tonight, the following came up as proposals for 
next week:

1.

Art05 organisers were expecting £40 to be given to them from the 
matilda account (that is, from money raised at the bar at other 
events), to cover the costs of specific materials they purchased to 
put on their event (lamps, gaffer tape...there are receipts 
detailing all the bits and pieces).

Other people objected to this, as it has been stated that this 
money is not there to underwrite events' costs, and this would be a 
bad precedent to start. Matilda is not an event funding body 
(though of course in exceptional circumstances a request for us to 
fund an event could be put to a Monday meeting. The example of a 
conference for asylum seekers who have little or no financial means 
was given). 

According to our blueprint for events: for all events (gigs, 
parties, art showings, film nights...), event organisers carry 
their own costs, and can recoup them from charging a donation on 
the door. The bar money goes to matilda.

It does also state that where costs are exceptional (for example, a 
gig with foreign touring bands which is very poorly attended), we 
can consider helping out from bar profits. However, the art05 event 
lost money from matilda's bar by not actually charging for drinks.

So the proposal is 'should art05's costs be funded by the bar 
takings from other events, given this breaks with how all other 
events have run up until now?'


2.

I would like the art collective to describe their procedure for 
introducing and letting new artists use the art space. They don't 
seem to have one on the wiki and it seems very necessary. This 
isn't intended as a criticism, but is intended in the spirit of 
collectively finding a better way to do things.

For example, on the wiki, the gig collective has a greeting message 
for promoters who wish to use the space, a description of the 
process used by us for organising gigs with promoters, our ethos 
for putting on gigs, and our contact details. It seems something 
similar is necessary for the art collective if it is to encourage 
people to use the space and to make it live up to its potential as 
a radical alternative in the form of a not-for-profit artspace - 
rather than being a 'closed club' for the artists who have already 
secured a space.

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