<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>Hi Everyone!<BR>Here are the notes from the planning session we had on the 14th March <BR>and the task lists. Hope they make some sense to everyone! What with this monday being a bank holiday and stuff we reckon it best to look at the task lists etc at the next meeting on the <BR>11th April. Hope that's cool with everyone! We will print out the lists and <BR>minutes and enlarge them and we can go over who's doing what etc.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>-the last meeting worked well, I think that if we can build on that and go though each of the identified task groupings that Joe and Amy have identified in the next meeting, and if everyone works on their own little part then we can get a whole festival together yet! Especially if we conceede it's going to be less ambitous in scale then last years. That is no problem to me. Getting more focused on that fact that this IS a community festival and as such requires good community outreach strategies is more important than the number of sound systems we can pack in there.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>-It strikes me, as a relative newcomer to Peace in the Park, that this years festival kind of has more people involved then before, but that each of these people, well-intentioned as they are, have less time to commit to voluntarily organizing the festival than they did before. I think that maybe we should be looking at bringing in some volunteers who might want to bring some fresh blood into the festival next year- first and second year students who have plenty of time on their hands. I don't think the music side of things is a problem (we already have some very experienced and talented musicians and event organizers on our side- and this side of things will no doubt work itself out by June) but, otherwise, for me- the Peace in the Park which we are getting is not the Peace in the Park which I can imagine. I think, ideally, we should have outreach workshops starting
as early as Janurary (!) - building up a slow and culmulative approach to the festival, and getting children and adults involved as soon as possible. Of course, it is easy for me to say this; why didn't I get on with doing just that rather than just talking the talk (I am good at throwing around terms such as 'community outreach' and 'inclusivity' a lot) ? Well- I guess I was just waiting to see what would actually happen. But next year, if I am still in Sheffield that is, I will do just that. Anyway, two months of workshops will be better than none! </DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>-I have made two new recruits to the festival who are interested in doing scriptwriting / comicstrip writing as workshops- I will invite them to the next meeting !</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>-We need to re-organize a meet up with the cemetary manager if this has not already been done. Is anybody free to do this on Monday? Dan, have you managed to get in touch with Guz, or do you have his number to give me?</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Well, that is all I think. Hope you all have very nice weekends. Lantern carnival on Sunday ! </DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Peace.</DIV>
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