January 22nd, 2015 - Meeting Notes

Chicks on Sticks Annual Meeting 1/22/15

6:24 Amy has reached pure gluttony first

(not here yet Kat)

Tara, Laurel, Angie,Amy, Malia, Tonya, Anne, Gaea, Sarah, Soozin, Nicole

Chair Gaea

Note taker Sarah

Agenda Amy

Agenda Review 6:45 and accept

Reading subcommittee meeting minutes (ANNE reads)

Chairperson

Secretary

Treasurer (6-8 hours per month)

Coordinators

-Answers email and Facebook

-No more phone number

-Communicate details, costume bits etc.

<Clarification>Tara about agree to close conversation and table agenda items

<Soozin>Do we want a year-long chairperson I have collective housing and the chairperson always changes

<Gaea>I noticed certain items were never followed up on

-Amy (someone could pass the torch)

-Soozin I feel like sometimes in the past one or two people have run things for a long time and so there has been frustration on someone’s part in that

-Tonya One thing I have I like about having different people that people have different styles and like having that

-Amy - I like rotating things because we could have a hard time communicating with one person, if we make that choice then there are things we’re missing. Is there another way to capture the loose ends (maybe a new role)

-Anne “The Nagger” to nag the loose ends (laughter)

-Soozin - maybe have a new google doc or some way of capturing who that is

1 Year long

2 6 month

3 Rotating Chair (status quo) learning to be a chair, low pressure, rotating through strengths

4 Head- nagger (or 3b) someone to follow up on all loose ends

Agenda mod - 30 min late

30 min check-in

Slideshow at end?

Check-in

Laurel gingerbread, armstilts

Angie Stick to agenda, jazz fest, acro

Amy one year anniversary of loosing job, we’ve been keeping to our agenda and quorum, excited from learning to read or reading to learn, personal, gotta get on my stilts

Nicole: goal: self build a new pair of stilts (maybe add aluminum etc) us: more social meetings nice to host at homes and plan extra times for socializing or have sewing meetings or crafting meetings and I miss that favorite moment Selby Jazz Festival, new one and lots of people of color and the music was amazing

Malia: Ditto amy yay us for having meetings fav moment: can’t choose but sewing illuminated costumes, making flowers and something else. goal for myself as a chick I think about few people know how to sew and maybe I could pass sewing skills on to youth and I think it’s empowering and costume-making I miss group crafting and personally I’m doing awesome chee gong (spelled wrong?)

Tonya goal for self Costumes! Expand wardrobe and sparkly things and in a social way goal for us as group get together and sew and be creative together, fave moment was stilters ball. It’s nice to come and stilt without a gig

Anne Stilter’s ball and sewing at our house and tossing the crap around here and that’s nice. It has turned around for me as chicks. Goal for us: make more costumes that go together with individual style but it’s cool to see those illuminated costumes together and I will add on it will be fun to do some sort of a performance of all of us, doesn’t have to be super choreographed. Goal for myself: it’s all about the poofs! Encyclopedia of Exquisite Things illustrations of gigantic head dresses think ship in hair

Gaea: fav moment covered by everyone but also really enjoyed performing again after returning to Chicks and our three new chicks and new energy and perform with you guys have been super fun the extended reentry process goal as group: I agree we could do social stuff on stilts where we have the most fun but I don’t think we can do that until we get organized so my goal is I want us to get organized in a way that is achievable for us and also have more fun, my goal is to have more fun and goof off and still get stuff done synergy. I have a photo show up at the Unitarian place and reception on Sunday 12:30 to 5pm

Sarah: Highlight added to Chicks Group yes to fun and organizing

Soozin: Fav moment: illuminated costume and making them and seeing the reaction at the Little Mekong Night Market in St. Paul (new audience) reaching out to new community and the costumes looked really slick and great and have a set of matching costumes so I was excited about that even though it was bumpy to get there. Goal for self: the last couple years  have been hard so I want to lose 50 lbs and I feel like I’m a bigger person on stilts but people seem to react that way so I like being that way so i can feel good about representing for that but I used to be able to spin on one peg and skip which I like doing and showing off Goal as a group: more documentation and compile pictures better, we want more business cards chicks flickr account or dropbox or something. Documentation would be good. I also like it when we work on a group project together to work on. My strengths lie in strategic in big picture planning or objectives but not in people relationship building. I would like us as a group take a strengths finder training to see where our strengths lie and how we work together and what we do well. It could be interesting.

Tara: highlight having fun together bedlam ball, building things together and working together. Sometimes as you do a larger work project you sometimes discover strengths about the group you may not have seen and we also have pretty intense personalities also so learning as we go. Personally I have been pulling back a bit from stinting because some of my excitement hasn’t been as strong and I need challenges and if i don’t see them so I have loved creating and pushing self in the past about convey concepts and challenges but a big challenge for me was working on the greenway project which wasn’t exactly chicks but chicks were involved. Apply for grant money to have a seed to work on a bigger project to do a performance and longterm planning and get a seed of money to get that to work in a really awesome way. I would like us to do a larger project: maybe Acro Yoga or fire troupe etc. During the class a member of the aerial yoga said we always wanted to learn to stilt and stilters have wanted to learn how to do the Acro Yoga. potential collaboration and I’m excited for dreams to hear and moving them all forward. I’d love to do more costuming too giant butterfly wings for everyone.

Laurel: strand beast video creatures that work with the wind and I want stinting costumes with strand beasts on the top and sculptural costumes that function with the wind.

8:34

Year in review moved to end of agenda

2)Meetings (Every other month April and October Off-limits and only one in Summer) March May July September November January generally Third Thursday 7-9

We agree 7-9 on Thursdays is doable

March 19

May 21 (Amy will be in Greece-poor Amy)

July 16 (Anne won’t be here and Violet’s Bday)

Monday Sept 14 (No Angie this is a MONDAY)

Nov 19

Jan 21 2016!

7:48

Voting member policy (do we like having non-voting members and voting members) Are non-voting members for gigs? Yes. we like this

It leaves a way for people to not damage quorum and get gigs and contribute early on

Laurel - I think it would’ve been nice to be a non-voting member for the first bit. Do we always have to wait for the annual meeting to build quorum do we add them and then putting them on a non-voting status for 6 months….will there be a probationary period for 6 months

Tara - clarify about do we want this to be can we change half way through

Amy - I like the idea of flexibility importance

Anne - poof hilarity dead

Gaea- important thing to bring up adding people mid-year and made them choose then and there if you were going to be voting member I think part of what we need to establish is non-voting or voting status commit for the year or can you change halfway people in good faith should commit

Anne - I think  we should make a good faith commitment and mindful and trying to stick to one or the other

Amy - if you say tonight you want to be a voting member you are committing to these meetings and miss only two

Anne - head-nagger t-shirt and poof with built in flashing siren and tiara

Voting member do we want to be?

Gaea yes

Sarah yes

Soozin yes

Tara yes

Laurel yes

Angie yes

Amy yes

Nicole yes

Malia yes

tony a yes

Anne yes

Sharon (assumed yes)

Amy (sent email to people

Soozin (Gabriella said no)

Deb said no because she might be living in NYC

Amy (Kat said no)

12 total

9 Quorum

8pm

Year-round roles do we want new members?

Malia - new members topic having a thought generally I’ve heard of friends of color who want to learn stinting and make a goal this year to teach them and see how they like it and then maybe invite them later because it would be great

Gaea - I like that and want to figure that out

30 gigs income of 15,091.00

Sharon found checks!

Soozin, Tonya (small number of gigs), Tara, Laurel, Angie, Amy (small), Nicole, Nicole, Anne, Gaea, Sarah

(Sharon says no not actively stilting gigs)

Predicted 5 gigs per chick per year

Soozin last year one sub (mark saffron) two gigs in one day and may day build day etc etc. So after adding the stilters.

Malia - don’t add people but put people on trainee status as sub of sub

Gaea - I like the idea of opening up and teach people to stilt but they won’t be already performer “member-ready” in the first season

Malia - maybe learn how and have different layers

Laurel- trainee fun things idea on months that we don’t have chicks we could have a fun thing during the same meeting time like it could be a new people learn things and play or craft and sewing or eating or bringing the poof to show people walk in the park

Malia - Awesome idea and maybe lets schedule and people pick a time they want to do something who takes on what and when.

Fun year meetings (surprise agenda item based on Malia is awesome)

Feb 2/19 lantern-making at HOBT 7-9 (Sarah will remind)

April 5/23 Mayday build Chicks Fun help Angie

June 6/18 Hosting Gaea, Amy, Sarah Hosting

Aug 8/6 Anne hosting

Oct 10/15 Build and Barebones Tara

Dec 12/17 Malia Sewing craft party

Gaea

I propose: We are not opening up for new members this year but we will start running workshops to invite people to stilt so we can open it up in future years so we can expand the love of stilting (consesus)

Malia - addendum keep an eye out for people who might be a good chick and have them secretly in our back pocket to “audition”

Tara - create a back-up list maybe have a list for coordinators

Gaea - it could be tough to fall back on back-ups too soon after two days not hearing from chicks

Tara - yeah, how much time can go by before you go to back-up list

Gaea - Maybe March conversation Back-up stinters and lead time and how long you wait

Year-round roles

Malia- Rotate chairperson and have a head-nagger who could pass on the “poof” if it’s needed

Gaea - Could be nice I like that option

Malia: "I propose we have a rotating chair, secretary and agenda-maker so we all get a chance and to have an official head-nagger position which is consistent throughout the year but if they feel it’s too much they can pass on the role. The head-nagger is somebody who volunteers for the position and then is voted in by the group."

(agenda-maker must collude with head-nagger)

-Proposal passed-

Soozin nominate Gaea

Vote unanimously approved!

Laurel back-up nagger

takes her place if she’s not around or nag if Gaea is not nagging

Soozin I like head task-mistress not nagger

which devolved into cat o nine tails and black vinyl stilt chaps

Slideshow

Adjourn meeting at 8:45 pm!!!! early!!!!! wee

Announcements!

March 7th Anne premier book goes to mad mouse city

January 31 HOBT 10 and 12 Snowflake Bentley

Gaea photo show Sunday January 25

Amy - Community sings 7pm January 31 at the Walker

Chairperson in March Sarah!!!!

Note-taker Malia

Laurel agenda-maker

Sarah: you need to make a form for coordinators and the gigs they make.