[Pip] Re: Peace in the Park Planning Meeting 14th March

[Dan]

Hi!

Dan here.  Just a couple of things:

1. We do already have an internal discussion list (which I thought was 
different from the announcement peaceinthepark2005 yahoo list...?)

Anyone not subscribed (and you all should be!) can do so by filling in 
the subscribe details on this form:

http://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/pip

And for those of you already subscribed - just send an e-mail to 
pip at lists.aktivix.org - go on, give it a try!

2. Someone's mentioned to me that it might still be on the 11th June.  
That would be wicked!  But that's because I'm biased towards the G8 
stuff!  Is this going to still be open for discussion on the 14th?  
Who's deciding?  Can I lobby them!?

On the other hand - and this is worth considering - getting PiP *too* 
enmeshed in the G8 stuff could present problems for the festival.  18th 
might be better because it's post-ministers.  I've heard from someone 
that all police leave has been cancelled for the mini-G8 summit in 
Sheffield - perhaps we don't actually want a million police crawling 
around the festival looking for terrorists!

On the other hand, it is after all *peace* in the park...

That's all I guess!

p.s. Got a bit of funding for doing pip-and-global-politics-related work 
in schools.  Anyone wanting to get involved in school workshops, get in 
touch.  (Tried phoning Jenny, can't get through!)

love

Dan
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Peace in the Park wrote:

>  
> Hi
>  
> Anybody who was present at the Peace in the Park meeting will know 
> that we have a planning meeting as out next meeting, on the 14th 
> March, where we are going to encourage new people, new 
> ideas (potential workshop leaders, general ideas for the festival). I 
> think this is a really good idea at his stage and I think that if we 
> can people into focused groups to discusss distinct aspects of the 
> festival and then bring it togheter, then it might help in moving us 
> along some.
>  
> However it struck me after the meeting that we'll clearly need to work 
> on some structure for the meeting if it is going to be more focused 
> and slighly less casual (though obviously still fairly casual) then 
> they have been recently. I think we must prepare an agenda for the 
> meeting beforehand. Dividing into groups focusing on Workshops, 
> Fundraising, Music, also the political dimensions of the festival 
> which we should not forget, even now the event is not pre-G8 as 
> planned. The recent SSF open meeting is a good model to use, I 
> attended it and it flowed well because people were able to participate 
> in the groups that particularly motivated them, though unlike the SSF 
> meeting it should not be allowed to overrun so that we can try tie 
> things up at the end.
>  
> There was also some discussion at the meeting of the e-mail account, 
> and as I'm not used to Yahoo, I was wondering if their was a facility 
> on it for a two tiered contacts system? Because although general 
> callouts can be sent out to everyone on the address lists, other 
> e-mails (like this one) might be suitable only for the core organizing 
> committe.
>  
> Jenny, would it be possible to meet up and get the workshop funding 
> apps filled in sent off soon? We only need ask for a £500 grant to 
> being with, as the council small grants fund can give a decision on 
> this very quicky, and if that goes well we can be a bit more ambitious 
> next time.
>  
> That's all.
>  
> Peace x
>  
> Benjamin.
>  
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