2007 Fall Town Hall

October 10, 2007 at The CHAC
"History is made by those who show up!"

Send love letters and restraining orders to board@ignitionnw.org

Board members present:
Corprew, Ali, Ivan, Heather, Brian, Stuart, Kay, Phill, Marco, Erin
Absent: Dane
Thanks: Sexretary par excellence, Julie V.

Phill
Introductions, brief history, INW was founded 5 or 6 years ago to steward the community's money and promote art.
After meeting – the board will hang out in the lower level lounge and be available for questions and conversation.

2007-2008 Board
Kay Morrison: VP, chair of events committee, Stuart Updegrave – chair of arts committee, Erin Pimm, Marco Mazzoni, Brian Wise, Heather Candelaria, Ivan Cockrum – secretary (fun fact: he rode his recumbent bike to BM this year), Ali Hosler - treasurer, Corprew Reed, Phill Arensberg – el presidente

INW t-shirts and sweatshirts
Peter Pan - winner of logo contest. Slogan - "No community funds were harmed in the making of these t-shirts", buy yours at B-Bam 907 E Pike St, (206) 329-0499

Treasurer's report – Ali
Balance $20,939 – in past couple of years there have been administrative costs, grants, etc. – getting reading to file form 1023 (application for exempt status under section 501c3)

Brian: website developments
Looking for artist submissions to be highlighted on INW site, email submissions to Brian brian@ignitionnw.org

Erin: producer, 2007 Critical Massive
Critical Massive wrap-up, thanks for help, total attendance 437 w 41 comps, gave out $9200 in art grants, 2008 will be a week long event hopefully without the sound constraints of last year, great staff laminates

Ivan: SeaCompression –
Seattle's decompression party, November 10^th 7pm – 2am @ SandPoint, 25000 sq ft blimp hangar
All-ages element will be outdoors "during the day" and organized by Zoey. Contact her at zoey@togetherweareone.com
comp ticket reduction - last year there were nearly 200, event depends on ticket purchase so this year there is a policy of "encouragement". asking volunteers to purchase $5 volunteer tickets and offering the general public either a standard $15 ticket or $20 sponsor a volunteer ticket ($5 towarads volunteer sponsorship)
next meeting next Tuesday, October 16^th at 7pm

Kay Morrison: VP, chairman of events committee
Critical Massive 2008: producer application deadline October 11, 2007, process has been developed which includes self nomination and review by panel that will choose producer for CM 2008
Event details: secure 5-n year site, something consistent
Defining spaces – spaces are out there but difficult to find, create reference book for large-scale spaces, if you know of spaces send contact info to Kay (kay@ignitionnw.org) so that she centralize process of making contact and researching space, re-con will be done once Critical Massive 2008 production team is chosen

SeaCompression 2008
Dream is to produce day long all-ages street fair in Georgetown, similar to SF decompression which is an 8000 person day long fair, 4 city blocks with for-sale food and four stages

Strategic Planning
Shunpike – organization that helps other art non-profits with board development, help with filing for non-profit status, acts as umbrella for other organizations and provides strategic planning

Strategic planning process
-Put together focus groups – who are we? What do we want? What's wrong and right?
-Developed 3 year plan – initially presented to community for corrections, additions and opinions and has since been ratified

Heather: strategic planning update –
Community wants to come up with ideas to do what we want to do with resources and funds
Ideas: Small events, big events, workshops, park clean-up, exhibits

-Advocate and evangelize for your idea and Ignition can support it. INW needs input from community, send that input to board@ignitionnw.org. If you have questions about fleshing out ideas, contact heather@ignitionnw.org. INW provides framework, step-up, push for and bug us about implementing programs that you want to see.

Phill A: delegated chairmanship of arts committee to Stuart Updegrave

Take it away, Stuart…

Wants to see more art in the city like the art we see out on the playa
Need to form art committee – call for folks interested in serving on that board. Email him at stuart@ignitionnw.org
We fund art for the events we support/create – INW can and should fund art in community outside of events

Creation of Pratt scholarship – at least one person/quarter – details to come.

Do you have skills you'd like to teach? Would you be interested in facilitating ½ or 1 day welding workshops. Would your project get done if you had some community participation in the form of a quick turnaround project/skill sharing events – ala the Synapses project?

Large scale art touring rotation – Yay, Burien!, permanent place for temporary art,

Ivan: website and communications
Rebuilding site from ground up with basic features, eventually adding features for resource sharing, calendaring and user profiles –oooh, social networking, baby! INW website is headed that way one step at a time. GPS tracking on board members – cool!

Announcements

Heather: KUOW membership drive – 10/14 –10:15pm – 2pm - 10 slots with volunteer parking passes in the U-district

Corprew: Rangers – if you're good at mediating, talking or communicating or want to help community grow/thrive, medical experience? volunteer to Ranger – corprew@ignitionnw.org - there will also be booth at SeaCompression

Tabasco (on behalf of Donia): Fire @ Winter Solstice at Seattle Center - currently 10 different fire art projects and 7 different performance groups – donia.love@gmail.com

Shouting Fire: regional burner-based radio station – email phill@ignitionnw.org for more info

Sid– Burning man vignettes 2007 – sights and images of burning – also sponsoring left coast burning man film festival for seacompression ericdoit@aol.com

Circus Contraption: October 26^th at Theo Chocolate in Fremont – Haunted Housewarming

Hive–Mind Halloween: October 27^th