Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Insurance Team

Hi all,
earlier I talked to Ati and we agreed to take care of the insurance.
If I could be in any other help please let me know I will be glad.
Ati and May, would be good if we meet to discuss the Insurance issues as soon as I come back from Bulgaria.
Georgi
I have read the blog as I've missed the most recent monday morning meeting and I understand that most people in the group have already been allocated to a section, which is great. I would like to work with the Insurance team on this group project as it still needs members, or if it has enough people I'm more than happy to work on something else.

Insurance Team

Hi I understand that I have not been able to attend Mondays group meeting, but now I am 100% available and wanting to make an active collaboration. I see that there is still an opening for the insurance team and would like to volunteer myself as a member for this section. If anyone is also interested please let me know. I understand that the venue of the exhibition has not been verified, so I may be able to get the walkabout in Covert Garden as a location. It is not a very attractive venue but it is in a good location. Let me know what you think so that I can ask in further detail.

Notice From Treasures

hey all!

so as you all know myself and Helene have been put in charged of the finances for the porject, so has lee as mentioned before any "withdrawls" etc must be passed by myself or Helene, as we will be keeping ontop of this for sure.

So hopefully everyone will be able to bring £10 for tomorrows lessons, allowing me and Helene to note it down and basically get the "financial ball" running! : )

also Jaz has done a splendid job on printing the raffle tickets out for everyone to purchase tomorrow...well done jaz! so now we just need to sell them and also everyone, we all need to bring an extra £3 for tomorrow for the society at uni. All has been explained in lee's blog, but just incase anyone may forget.

p.s the Troubadour as a possible space has been decline has they basically cant accomodate the time in which we will really need to put up and put down the work, as Pat mentioned it will take much longer then what we actually think. so yeah that place is out of the running now.

Niks

FUNDRAISING

hi everyone,

we've been down to the student union to discuss putting on fundraising gigs or nights. That should be absolutely fine as long as we do it through a society. What we therefore have to do is create a photography society. All that is needed is everyone to put in £3 and give their names and student number. The more members we have, the bigger our budget will be, and the more our costs will be covered by the university. 
So basically can everyone bring an extra £3 on top of the £10 we agreed to put into the fund for the meeting tomorrow at 10am.

Thanks guys!

c u tomorrow. xx

Monday, 6 October 2008

Today's Meeting

Minutes of todays meeting... Please do read because it contains some rather important information

In attendance: Lee, Jasmine, Parveen, Paul, Nicola Penfold, Kate, Helene, nikki, Aga, Natalie, karel

· Has anyone yet contacted The Foundry regarding using it as an exhibition space? Kate to contact them as she has a contact that may be able to help.
· Lee to contact Redgate Gallery again as they never got back to us. Parveen has said she will also give them a call.
· Antenna Studios is a no go because it is too far away. Crystal Palace. Lee will contact them to tell them that it is a no go and thank them for their time
· Kate to see Jenny Owens about the universities views on us using the No ID gallery, legal squat.

· Criteria for submissions:
· Deadline 14th November Friday
· Are we going to also include Performance Art as part of the exhibition? Kate has friends that she can contacts that she can ask if they would be interested
· Paul has started work on a website and we all chose a web address that would be suitable. It is www.secrets-exhibition.co.uk(.com?)
· We discussed forums through which we could collect submissions. Have decided on using online spaces as well as asking friends/contacts as it increases the chances of us findings people to submit.
· We will use: Facebook, Myspace, Flickr, DeviantArt, Friends, Graduates, Ask Daniel For Contacts, Digiphoto, Gumtree,
· Kate will use UCAS to make a database of arts courses in the UK so that the course directors can be contacted as soon as possible in regards to getting their students to submit to the show (Art, photography, Fine Art, Graphic Design, DMA, Visual Arts)
· We will use a standardised letter/email to ask for submissions. Lee is to write this. General Mail Out Notes – Curating an exhibition, a group of collaborating artists, the keyword is Secret and this will be a working title for now, url address for the website, the email address to submit work to, the deadline, for the selection process images no larger then 600 pixels wide, work will not be credited in the actual space but contributing artists will be advertised through leaflets or other media, building a personal space (bedroom) in which the work will be placed, artists chosen to be the exhibition will be contacted and asked to send full size images, artists keep copyright, videos uploaded to youtube for preview, sculptre and painting please take photographs from multiple angles,
· Lee will have submission letter set up by the end of the day
· Paul will have the website up and running soon. Will post screenshot of design to blog for Wednesday. People can discuss final design then.
· Kate Database – Wednesday

· Groups (splitting in to little sub-groups to achieve goals):

· Design and Publicity: Paul and Karel. Will be responsible for any graphic design on leaflets, websites or public profiles etc. Karel and Paul will work together to code the website and any public profiles such as Myspace. Anything with a design element is their area, including letter heads, leaflets, tickets, flyers etc

· Fundraising: Parveen, Liz, Natalie and Jasmine
The fundraising team will be responsible for thinking up, implementing and managing fund raising events. They are more than welcome to request help if they need it and if anyone has any suggestions then please contact the team to let them know. The goal is to raise as much money as possible with the least amount of effort

· Treasurers: Helene and Nikki
Helene and Nikki will be responsible for keeping track of all incoming and outgoing funds. Everyone must keep receipts of expenditure to give to Nikki and Helene. Both of them will be responsible for keeping detailed records. Payments must be approved by both of them so contact them if you have to spend money for your individual teams BEFORE spending the money, they will have to see if it is within the budget

· Installation Team: Nikki and Aga The Installation team are responsible for curating all ideas that the group has regarding how the installation should look/ be set up. They will responsible for seeing who can lend which furniture and also be responsible for designing the space using graph paper etc to show how it should be laid out

· Insurance Team:
Someone has to be responsible for looking in to insurance for the event. Any stuff we borrow from the university will have to be covered by contents insurance and we may also have to get public liability insurance as well. Someone needs to take care of this please

· Submissions Team: Lee, Nicola, Paul The submissions team will be responsible for coordinating the image collection. They will be getting most of the online work as they already have quite an active online presence

· Hospitality: Helene, jasmine ,Kate, The hospitality team will be responsible for catering, food, drinks etc for the show. Will be responsible for afterparty.

· Locations: Should contact Francoise and Chris

· Redgate gallery to contact still

· Troubadour Gallery – contacted them already. Wednesday book a visit. Nikki to contact.

· No ID and Foundry – kate

· Antenna Studios to cancel

· Peckham warehouse – aga to call. By Wednesday


· Fundraising ideas:
· Ask everyone to contribute £10 on Wednesday.
· Raffle off a photoshoot
· Karel to design raffle tickets
· 3 Prizes: Professional Portrait Session wherever you want it within London
· Design Team to design, Fundraising Team to Print and cut up and shit
· Liz has offered a music evening , door entry. Fundraising team to sort that
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Sunday, 5 October 2008

area 10 peckham

Paula recomended this space http://www.area10.info/ , in Peckham.... It is an old warehouse where they do diffrent forms of art. I haven't been there myself so don't really have much to say about it but their website looks interesting .