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Post subject: Poetry Meeting Saturday 3rd July 2010 2:30pm
Event starting Sat Jul 03, 2010 15:30 for one hour
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 01:56
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Meeting with a keen poet to plan out the beginning of the poetry project =)
Where: The office, Greenfish Resource Centre
When: 2:30pm
Anyone who's interested, we'll be meeting during the middle of the week for anyone who can't make it today!
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Post subject: Re: Poetry Meeting Saturday 3rd July 2010 2:30pm
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 12:05
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| Claireyfairey wrote: |
Meeting with a keen poet to plan out the beginning of the poetry project =)
Where: The office, Greenfish Resource Centre
When: 2:30pm
Anyone who's interested, we'll be meeting during the middle of the week for anyone who can't make it today! |
Let me know the gossip! :D Cheers
Good Luck
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 16:27
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Claire, this poetry group thing sounds immense! :D
Good luck with it all! Hope it goes exactly to plan!!!! :D
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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 22:08
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hey i enjoyed today it was well good and helped with the flyer image hope everyone else likes my ideas claire will probly post all info of meeting sometime soon . can not wait for first proper poetry afternoon
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 22:08
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i'd be interested on the progress of this,
just gotta wait for claire to post up what happened in the meeting...
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 15:23
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Sorry guys, got the details of what happened on Saturday here =D
LOTS of ideas were discussed and considering this, ideas may be changing or put off til the next event, etc, at the next meeting:
The initial first meeting went off a few ideas started by cotsie100.
He suggested a project that involved a relaxed cafe atmosphere poetry reading afternoon.
This would be in a cafe like Nexus / Teacup / Coffee Pot / Earth Cafe
It would involve:
- Drinks
- Picnic Setup
- An acoustic set playing jazz in the background
- An emphasis on being so laid back that there is no microphone for the poets
- A possible art corner
- Stalls to give out information and for artists to produce their work and possibly sell.
- To happen on a Sunday afternoon.
A couple of dates were thrown in for preliminaries.
- The 8th or 15th August
- The 5th or 12th September.
After meeting with Josh and Katya, we arranged another meeting which we had on Saturday =) Josh, Sarah, Katya and Katy came to this and shared their ideas.
We wrote out a project overview form:
- The name of the project? The Poetry Picnic
- Brief Description:
To try and get poets who haven't performed before up on stage to read out their poems infront of their peers (16-25).
A relaxed cafe atmosphere with soft drinks, tea, coffee, cupcakes, cakes, food etc. An acoustic band, young artists and stalls that provide information or artwork from the young artists.
Outcomes:
- Young people to express themselves in more public surroundings.
- To boost young poets confidence.
- To provide a safe environment for young people to gather and enjoy themselves.
- Good opportunities for first time volunteers.
Tasks for volunteers:
- Managing the stalls
- Poets - writing and performing -
- Designing flyers
- Guerella box promotion
- Acoustic band
- Handing out flyers
- Someone on the door
- Photographer
Evidence needed?:
- The feedback on the website!!! It's been brilliant =)
- A lot of poets want the chance to perform. There's a need in the scene for new poets to have somewhere to start out and feel comfortable doing so.
We wrote out some volunteer descriptions for the roles listed above!
Then we moved on to the flyer and decided on a design and what should be included for the first event!
Design:
Woodland theme with a picnic table - Trees have faces, squirrels with teacups, cupcakes. Something kooky and fun =)
We decided it would be fun to have a continuous design (with the woodland idea) with something different each time, like the squirrels have rabbits to join them or more and more cupcakes etc.
The flyer should include:
Date
Time
Venue
Price (Free for the first event)
Josh's Email to apply for the slots
16-25 age range for open mic slots
Mystery Guest
Mystery Headliner
website address
A quick outline of the day:
Doors open!
-30 mins to mill around and chat and get drinks and food
- Open mic slots - 5 minutes each! Maximum of ten slots
- Break for 30 minutes for the acoustic band to play and people to talk and discuss the open mic performances
- Introduce Urban Alternatives & ask if people want to get involved for 5 - 10 minutes
- Guest - 15 minutes
- Headliner - 25 minutes
- Then there would be a discussion for 20 minutes with the Guest and Headliner at the same time.
We then drew up a schedule of dates for when we'll have things done by, and when we'll meet to discuss the plans leading up to the date!:
- Saturday 10th July -
Dates from Venues
Venue Feedback
Visit the Venue
- Saturday 17th July -
Flyer designed
Poster - same or similar to flyer but twice as big!
Send flyer/poster off to be printed
Tyvek wristbands to be ordered?
- Saturday 24th July -
Meeting - Stalls sroted and agreed
Open mic slots agreed
- Saturday 31st July -
Hand out flyers!
- Saturday 7th August -
Hand out flyers and Guerella box on Urbis!
EVENT! Sunday 8th August (preliminary date)!
Anything to add people?
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 16:08
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Do you think we should add anything or disagree with anything or take anything away?
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 16:14
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Me and Sarah(who is sat next to me) are both grinning wildly XD
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 17:46
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Sounds Fantastic! :) - and alice in wonderland much? lol - I would like to attend!
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 18:00
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Well I'm sure we can bring you down as a volunteer =) What would you like to volunteer to do?
Reading poetry? or?
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 23:28
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well i can help with Arty stuff...Like a backdrop for the theme? or help with media (Photography)...but I am mostly interested in reading my poems out etc. :)
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 23:44
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Cool, we'll use you as a poet and for alternating photographers  if that's ok with you?
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 23:50
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Yeah I am Happy with that - The arty and Bohemian type over here! *waves* :P
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 00:21
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Wooooo =D it'd be cool to design a backdrop =) but for the first event we just need to kickstart it, then we can look at adding stuff in to it like that!
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 10:03
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everyone i don't think you understand how happy this is making me its helping me loads with life thank you all so much
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 13:39
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I'm so glad to hear that =) It's good to see that this project is helping you, is it the expressive side of it?
Poetry can be very deep and a lot of sharing is done of personal feelings and as long as people are comfortable with it, it can definitely help build confidence =)
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 18:08
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Back from london!
I've seen the progress for the posters and they look ace and the venue trip sounded interesting, certainly won't be going to teacup any time soon.
Have we got anything 100% confirmed yet.
My friend has found an acousticy/jazzy/interesting band that are intrested, just need to give them a date now
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 18:53
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Waiting to hear back from Earth Cafe, they sounded the most promising, if i haven't heard from them by tomorrow, i'll go back again and hint that we would like to know sooner!
I rang Koffee Pot and no answer, (no voicemail option) will text and ring again!
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 22:40
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How about Nexus?
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 22:55
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It wasn't open when i popped down. We were emailing them, so I'm trying to find their email as we already have a link with them. This might help us!
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:00
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Hey I am going away on holiday from Thursday till the 2nd August - Please can you keep me informed about the poetry picnic developments Thank you :)
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Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 21:30
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Definitely =) it'll all be here on these forums!
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