Present: MycoRrhizae, Jake, Spiro, Saturn
Check-ins and Updates
Jake: Eagle House emailed us again and their budget went up so they are out of the question although we could pursue it for future events
Veteran’s Hall requests no amplified music after 10 PM
Posters looking awesome, visually engaging on poster boards
Sam started a flyer draft
Michael has emblem for collective, a circle for consensus on its use at another time
Note and FB messages were sent to Portegeuse Hall for potentially renting their space
Spiro updates on technical/logistics, we need more equipment
Jumpstart Eureka Ecstatic Dance: starting in a way with a large crowd to attract new community
Spiro suggests we make a list of venues in order to be more aware of our options
Are we committed to Fall Equinox as the celebration’s focus? Collective Rising is interested in crafting events that are in coalition with the cosmic happenings
DJ Suaje “Ya sounds good brother.” from email in confirmation of playing Sunday morning Ecstatic Dance the 22nd
Low-stress practice run for this event, if it happens to be large scale then that’s a perk let the focus be the quality of our event and what is it artistically that we want to create for people’s experiences. Learn what works and what doesn’t for future reference. Start with what is manageable. Mutual respect, work discipline, and communication.
Spiro mentions the potential of art and decorations in blank spaces
Spiro has a BA in business and has ideas/theories that marketing is important and will impact the event
-Agenda-
- Venues-portegeuse hall, bayside grange, acrata playhouse, jam, humbrews, ATL, dance halls, municipal center in Eureka (rate deposit 10% of ticket sales, rental rate 20%), contact Synapses about connections (Kateri and Leslie)
- Roles
- Poster commission/due date – Marketing
- Bands/Projects deadline – bringing together different crowds through our line up through their common interests in dancing, an ecstatic dance as a whole event with the flows, peaks, and aquatic realm. Contact Flobots. By mixing genres and bringing the variety it will make our event more particular
- Tentative: flow arts
Venues
Do we agree with Eureka being the location of the event? Arcata is comfortable because we are familiar with the community, and Eureka is potent because it can jumpstart dance being there more often.
Is outside an option? It takes more work buuuut Redwood Acres and Renaissance Fair
What capacity venue would we like to see? It depends…300 minimum
$15 minimum tickets
Roles
Information based on Jake’s experience with production sets: Directors- creative elements, Producers- supporting elements to creative elements, Technical Directing- stage manager, set up crew, Running green room for bands
Keep communication a central focus all elements that are being worked on are valuable
Collective Rising vision of yin and yang balance will be a feature of how we participate in focalizer positions and blending our contribtutions
Jake: Producer
Spiro: Stage manager and needs assistant potentially, supporting the bands (hospitality)
Michael: creative director, how the event plays out, crafting the experience for people is energizing
Saturn: adaptable, flexible, mulitlogical approach to what is needed, detail oriented, art and visual happenings, magical touch, providing service, communication – getting meetings crafted, contacting musicians and venues, creative director
Poster/Marketing
Name, branding, emblem
300 posters minimum
Promotion- Facebok, radio (Spiro can record in his studio the ad), and Dar (meeting with Jake about event production in Portland in a few weeks), Emerald Sisters, newspaper, Lost Coast Outpost- the lounge, KMUD, Student run radio HSU
Saturn shows poster draft: feedback was to include more ribbons and information
Bands/Projects
Object Heavy, Roslyn’s band (Chris Perreia), Absynth Quintet, King Foot, No Good Redwood Brambles, Tropa Magica, Marty O’reilly, Drum Spyder (call Zeke), Spiro has contacts, Urathyme (early October show)
Acts: Kateri, Live Artists, Humboldt Circus, Albert Z, Shea Freelove and the dude, flo artist, silks
Smudge Fairies, sell fruit
Action Items
Find venue and talk to friends about what they know
List of rates and venues – Jake
Get rates for promotion – Jake and Sam
Talk to artists – everyone
Long Term Action Items
Record radio promotion after bookings complete
Get walkie talkies
Visions
FloGlo Show: multiple acts, visually potent, technical wow-ism, amplifies possibility
Artistic beauty and the inspiration of the people
No fillers, seamlessly into a musical performance/dance event
Why are we doing this? What is each of us in this for?
Focus on what we want
Michael
Gratitude for any medium through which vision circle can inject its essence is a great opportunity for building community
This is a cool way to experiment with the yin and yang balance. Find a way for work to be harmonious and more reflective of how we would like to live our lives. It’s a platform for experimentation
Gatherings of celebrating and being in sync with celestial cycles as a priority for balancing our trust of our self-identity and community-identity
Fall Equinox nights become longer, shorter days, winter is coming and celebrate the summer happenings, time of feeling and noticing the transitions
Spiro
Outerspace vibes, cosmic energy: art as organization, we define what is big and accessible, we inform and motivate people to participate, and politically share thoughts/food
How we expose people to art and opening their perspectives through cosmic energy and communication
Communities across distances, massive connections through networking collectives
Jake
Changes in humboldt’s attraction to people, now would be the perfect time since the economic areas are fluctuating, ability to form the “new wave” of humboldt, conscious and diversifying people’s exposure to worldwide cultures, supporting the dynamics of relationships and evolving from the current and historical structure
Bioregionalism: facilitating networking and linking up peoples and places
Potential when effort is present
Saturn
Resonates
We are reflections of that which we are attracted to — we are us
Equinox = transitions, remeeting ourselves
Sharing visual experiences
Balance the intelligences beyond our logical capacities by having the opportunity to practice them through sensuous exploration