May 21, 2015 - Meeting Notes

Chicks on Sticks Meeting

Attendance: Gaea, Angie, Tara, Laurel, Anne, Nicole, Tonya, Soozin, Sarah

Check in: This happened.  I didn’t write it down because I was getting my computer booted up.  Mostly, folks are good and busy for the summer.

Chair: Tara

Notes: Gaea

Motion to move non standard gig conversation to the end of the meeting as it isn’t pressing.  Motion passed.

YWCA teaching gig

Angie: This is a volunteer gig to teach girls at the St. Paul YWCA.  Is anyone else interested in doing it?  Can I use the teaching stilts?

Gaea: When is it?

Angie: June weekdays 1-3 or 1-4.

Tara: Excited about teaching gigs but worried about current teaching stilts.  They sometimes break, which means they need to be repaired in a timely fashion.

Soozin: On the business end, we should ask for some kind of pay because that’s a precedent we want to set. 

Tara/Anne: Can we do a trade or barter?

Gaea: What is the standard teaching rate?

Soozin: $25-60/hr

Tara: continuing concern about stilts and scheduling/repair of stilts.

P’Horn Gig

Gaea: P’Horn loved the Spring Break thing.  We have a gig for summer.  At the moment, we have $300 through the People’s Festival to teaching for the 3 weeks leading up to the People’s Festival and have the students perform at the People’s Festival.  Further details to follow when I talk to Liz, the coordinator.

Tara: Continuing concern over scheduling the teaching stilts and making sure they are in good repair.

Soozin: Maybe they can build stilt pants/stilts as a separate class?

Gaea: There are stilts that need repair.  I have knee pieces cut, I need to install them.

Tara: We should set up a calendar.

Greenway Glow

Angie: We got $250 from the Greenway Glow.  That is half of what we asked for.  Our notes from last meeting should reflect that we agreed to kick in from the kitty to cover what we needed the difference.  I don’t know what the costumes cost originally to tell how much that will cost.  Stilting has always been volunteer.

General discussion about Greenway Glow including a review of the original proposal.  Who needs costumes? Laurel, Angie, Sarah, Deb, Sharon.

Anne: Sharon totally deserves a costume.  She works harder than anyone to get all the financials of our group in order.  She should at least get a costume.  I’ll make her hat!

                  TWINKLE!

People committed to the gig: Gaea, Laurel, Anne, Nicole, Tara, Angie.  (Tonya maybe) Need to follow up with people not here.

Angie: When can we meet for costumes.

Sunday May 31^st, 7-9

Gaea: We need to order lights sooner rather than later because they took two weeks to arrive. 

Nicole: Can we get the costumes from Paulette? 

Tara: Concern over costume costs, can we pare it down?

Gaea: I can sew corsets.  So can Laurel.

Laurel: I have sewing machines.

Discussion of space.  Soozin’s studio is a good possibility.

Angie: Is this meeting for deciding on fabric or for building?

We need to start building sooner rather than later.  This meeting will be for building.  We will email around all the details of the previous costumes.

GAEA TO EMAIL OUT OLD COSTUME EMAILS

ANGIE TO EMAIL ABOUT MORE STILTERS

Soozin: Can we have little portable speakers to make it more fun!?  Also, can we join in later.

Calendar

Tonya: Anne and I met.  We are working on some things. 

Anne: Maybe doing a test run with the photag. 

Tonya: Fully embracing the storybook element.

Anne: With a test run, maybe we can get something more concrete from the group if we know what’ we’re looking at more specifically.  Concerns about over sexualization may be mitigated if we know what it will look like.

Tara: Concerns about money and cost.  If it is going to be personal cost, this might be too expensive for some individuals.

Anne: We’re doing the test shoot on our own, out of our own money. 

Soozin: The intent is that Anne and Tonya do a photo shoot without any commitement and for the fun of it without a commitment from CoS.

Sarah: I want to join too!

Soozin: I took calendar to mean something else, like future gigs.  Little Mekong is fundraising for a bigger, better market in a better location.  They have asked if we want to come back.  The market is 5-midnight.  They will pay us the same we did last time, which we think was $50/hr/stilter.  Maybe stilters later in the evening.

Dates: July 3^rd & 4^th and late July/early August.

Anne: I’d be interested in a later in the evening.

Soozin: Laurel is in Little Mekong’s fundraising video.

Gaea: Off topic – Can we clarify how we deal with teaching paying in the kitty? 

Tara/Soozin: The total for all the gigs is going to be $350, but that depends on if we get paid a full $25/hr for the gig.  But we need to think about precedent on these types of gigs.  Previous gigs have been figure it out as you go.

Gaea: I will work out our pay with Angie and let the rest of the group know.

General agreement

Convention Center

Angie: They gave us $5000, rather than $7000 or $10000.  The date is also now in flux, they want August/September, we proposed for July.

Anne: I can’t do August. I am heavily invested in this.

Gaea: August and September are during my heavy performance season and I would prefer not.

Angie: So if we say we’d strongly prefer to do July, but we’ll take Sept if we have to?

Soozin: Steve is the kind of person who might be willing to listen to a strong reason like the collective was planning on July. 

Angie: So, I’ll push for July but we’ll accept September if we have to.  If its that or nothing, we’ll take September.

Angie: A reminder of what the original was: we were going to pull characters from fairytales and do short vignettes.

More discussion

Tara: Angie will get the details of nailed down and send out an email.  We will meet again soon about the details, once we know them. 

Offtopic

Gaea: Am I missing gig emails?  There are gigs I’m confused about.

General discussion.  Culmination: Gaea needs to learn to read.

Back on topic

Soozin: Can we be reminded about what this entails?

Angie: There is budget for rehearsals, props, costumes, and performance.  We can scale back on some things to produce more stilters or however we want to do it.  We should have enough money to have anyone who wants in being paid to do things.

Tonya: Times?

General statement that times are weird for our group.  We have a combination of self-employed and standard employed groups.  Maybe we can do a hybrid and take advantage of the small group nature of vignettes to use people’s times as we have available.

We will meet soon and sort out the details.

ANGIE WILL ORGANIZE A MEETING!

Wrap Up

Next meeting is July 16^th, the week after we hope to have the Convention Center gig.

Place: Soozin’s backyard!

Notes: Sarah

Chair: Gaea

Agenda: Laurel