Updates

Promo

• Sarah K. made the facebook events – Steve is looking them over before inviting people

• Sarah K. has been vigilantly facebooking the incoming students group about Alt101

• We will get ads for Social Theatre from CHUO, La Rotonde & The Fulcrum; we’ll put their info into our kits.

• We will have an article about Alt101 in the first issue of La Rotonde

• At the “Bee” we’ll make stuff to put into the OPIRG bulletin board on Campus (schedule, website, table location, workshops, opirg info, tagline). The background can be newspaper articles, messy, colourful, recycled stuff, wallpaper, etc.

Logistics

• 500 movie tickets have been printed

• Sandy Hill Community Centre has been book. It cost $360 with tables, chairs and sound equipment from 7pm til 1am.

• Guides are being registered for training

• At the Social Round Table it was reiterated that we are to allowed to fucking on walls. At all. So, make sure the 101ers aren’t getting it on in public.

Events

• Workshops: The final workshop schedule has been drawn up by Alix. IWW & Killer Coke have canceled, but Otesha and Jason Collard are in. The workshop schedule will be sent out to all Social. Most workshop blurbs have been submitted. Alix will email them to Carly & Steve to put on the website.

• War Resisters Rock Show: Butternuts will open, follwed by Medhi, the Ali, with war resisters talking in between. It is unclear about whether we have a sound system for Wednesday at 1848. Alix will verify.

• WSSA: The Women’s Studies Students Association will bring in a prof to talk at one of the breakfasts.

• Drag Tea Party: The Terminus has been booked for the Drag Tea Party because we are anticipating a large turnout. The Pride Centre donated $250 towards a giant cake. CLS & SASS will cover the venue rental. We can have one MC at the event as well. We should supply juice as well.

• Carnival: We’ll have 15amps of power for the carnival. We’ll have tent & chairs too.

• CRAZY: Divergence has 100 tickets. GLBTQ Carleton & Pride Centre will have some to sell too. Some 101ers from other faculties will buy the tickets from the table. We’ll talk to Exile, Librarie de Soleil, bilingualism centre, octopus books, Pride Ottawa, Inside Out, Youth Services Bureau, GRIPO volunteers, Working Groups, facebook, Agitate, etc. to see if any of them want to sell tickets. They are by donation (suggested $1.50)

• Patty Berrera: Maybe she wont be able to come, so we need a back-up plan. We will have a facilitated dicussion on Alt101/Coming to University and some board games (Ajà will look into borrowing them from the Pride Centre).

• Kicker: Alana Hock (our dance instructor) can do DJing for the first 30 minutes. We’ll ask Sam if he wants to DJ for the last part. Ajà is also willing.

• Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights: SPHR is hosting an art exhibit, understanding conflict through art, at the SAW gallery on Sept 4^th in the evening. We’ll bring our 101ers to the event after the movie around 9:30pm.

• Community Tabling: we need to get more groups involved. We’ll talk to groups and get them in touch with Ronda if they are interested in having a table for $10. Examples: Fair vote, 10000 villages, Exile, Divergence, Agitate, SPHR, Caucus, Social Theatre…

Fedstock

• We’ll arrive late because we’ll be coming from Gatineau

• Steve will make a standard (gladiator flag)for us to carry to Fedstock

• Once a 101 leaves the Park they are not allowed to be readmitted

• Two of our guides have to stay behind to help clean up

• There might be health inspector issues with PRD if they serve at Fedstock. We’ll see if they can serve at the Carnival at lunch instead. Steve will talk to Paul & PRD>

Misc

• Alix and Sarah A. are working on feedback form for 101ers and a Wrap Session for Guides.

• Mohammed Ali offered to do a workshop on “capitalism and hip-hop” during lunch on tuesday, we’ll ask if he can do it on thursday instead.

• Kit Bee – Elizabeth made stencils. Ajà will make Drooker stencils, she also has mix to make fabric paint and fabric dyes. We’ll put kits together on TUESDAY August 28^th at 1pm. Meet at OPIRG.

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Next meetings:

Thursday Aug 23^rd 6:30. Déja vu. General Meeting.

Tuesday August 21^st. 6:30pm. Déja Vu. Programming meeting.

ALTERNATIVE 101 – Minutes – August 16^th

UPDATES

Website

The website is up, though it doesnt run consistancy on all browsers. Registration is not working & there are a few mistakes on page. There is no stat counter on website yet. This can be resolved when we talk to Carly.

Kit Sales

3 kits have been reserved.

Misc. updates from Steve

The Shinerama BBQ ticket have been bought.

100 white t-shirts arrived.

The Facebook

Youtube tracks who is coming from facebook to watch the Alt101 video. There have been 300 hits.

Sarah K made bilingual event listings (No invites yet) for Breakfasts, Kicker, etc. No even listing for Friday night yet .

Sarah K has been posting Alt101 info on the Incoming student facebook group with links regularly

CRAZY

Tickets for CRAZY done & being printed. Steve will get them done by Sunday.

Kicker

We need to decide by Monday if we are taking the Sandy Hill CC for the kicker.

Ronda has been looking into churches for the dance, they are very expensive.

Shinerama

Sarah A. went to the Social Round Table as Steve’s proxy. Our Shinerama location will be on Bank St. between Laurier and McLeod St.

Steve will ask Heather if she wants to take on this event.

Workshops

Otesha & Agitate have been dropped. Venus Envy is last on thursday in cafe alt. Alix is waiting on blurbs from presenters. The bike repair wants to move to friday.

Guide training update

The guide training will be on August 31^st from 5:45pm until 10pm. Alana Hock will be teaching Swing to all the guides. Topic to be covered will be: anti-oppression, purpose of Alt101, kits & event overview & an introduction to OPIRG.

DECISIONS

Friday Night Activity

Naomi Klein has been canceled.

Alternative event –

A “chill night” in market at The Tea Party.

We’ll have an Informal speaker, Patty Berrera, long time activist, former opirg staff, sfuo exec, etc. Topic : radical activism on campus, stories from Chiapas (pre: uprising), seattle 1999, etc. We can make an audio recording for later uses. The event will be open to volunteers, OPIRG board, and 101ers. The former president of arab student association will join Patty in speaking.

Patty is willing to donate $$

It’ll all be over by 10pm.

Women’s studies student association.

Wants to participate in an event. Suggestions are: Women’s collective workshop, Venus Envy workshop. We’ve offered them the opportunity to co-host breakfast with discussion. We can put Provocative facts on the walls of Café Alt.

Green small t-shirts offered to Alt 101

They are printed on one side. We’l offer them to Exile for patches, to the pad-making workshop and the t-shirt altering session.

Media

The fulcrum printed an article about Alt101. It’s dry and inaccurate. Perhaps we can write letters to editor. Alix wrote to the writer in regards to errors, re: workshops, OPIRG’s name, co-sponsorships, etc.

Sarah A. wrote the Press Release. It needs some fixing up before being sent out.

Kicker

The Sandy Hill Community Centre costs $60 for the licence to play music. The rental costs 46/hr. (total – $200). They need to know by Monday.

We still need to get moustaches.

Alana Hock can do the dancing lessons. She and her partner are asking for $150. We have more money in our budget so we can offer them $200. We’ll put her name on things that mention the kicker and put her business cards in kits. She is also willing to do DJ-ing for the first 30 minutes of the dance.

Guide T-Shirts

Elizabeth made “guide” stencils. We will have a stenciling bee. Sarah K. will make a facebook event. We need to make 40 stenciled shirts. Steve will talk to elizabeth to pick a time/date. Sarah A. can bring clothing hanger. We’ll use OPIRG’s parking lot as the space.

First Aid & Safety

Alix did her first aid training. We need a safety ambassador for the Mohammed Ali show. We’ll ask Karine if she can do it.

There are pins for first aid trained folks, ask Alix about this.

CHECK IT OUT!

Time keeper: Heather

Facilitator: Steve

Moodminder: Elizabeth

1. Welcome, intro
2. Updates
   1. Blurbs for Alt101/OPIRG translated, sent out to faculties agreeing to advertise
   2. Training for guides – one day anti-oppression, one specific Alt101, some swing dancing and potluck; Aug 31
   3. Website up, volunteer list, minutes to be posted
      1. Old website to be taken down
      2. New coding to be put up
      3. Survival guide from last year to be posted
   4. Sandy hill community centre has been booked with sound equipment – price to be figured out
   5. 100 guide t-shirts have been ordered: unisex model in white. Paid $9.50 each, sweat-free.
   6. Bytowne booked for Tuesday 4^th September for C.R.A.Z.Y.
      1. Divergence to be selling tickets and postering through VenusEnvy
   7. Drag Tea Party: Pride centre to get back to us.
   8. Video made: perhaps to be put on YouTube and website
      1. Put in facebook frosh groups for uottawa
   9. Facebook events: post in group
      1. Facebook advertising, links to website
   10. Smartserve: Steve and Alix to get trained
   11. PC Bags purchased, need tags cut off
   12. 100 cocoa camino hot chocolates for kits also acquired for free!
   13. Water bottles: current price from MEC is $5.75 (original budget allotment was $5) which may raise price of kits by $1 to $46
       1. Kit prices high to include costs for guides.
       2. Consensus:  prices to go to $46
   14. Spins and Needles:
       1. Sfuo may give free sound equipment
       2. Carleton to pitch in for supplies – needs a cost estimate
          1. option to buy own supplies or pay more to S&N; steve to find out if we can compromise on items like tiles which may be more expensive
       3. Collage tile coasters, DIY plush monsters, or fuse bead projects?
          1. paint and t-shirt day supplies to be put out as well
          2. consensus: tile coasters and fuse bead projects
   15. Schedule: basic schedule (without times) to be put on website; discussed schedule
   16. Possible local band to play night of mohammad ali (Wednesday)

Next meeting: August 2^nd at Déjà-Vu

GENERAL UPDATES

• the DVD ad is done! & ready to be sent out.

• We need to look into a new location for the kicker

• CRAZY will be the film at the Bytowne. The theatre costs $700 to rent. We will open the tickets to friends, and community. Perhaps the Pride Centre & SFUO will want to cosponsor. The theatre is wheel-chair accessible.

• Steve is looking into Café Alternatif for workshops

• the OPIRG guide training will be just before swing dance lessons.

• Feedback forms are being written up to give to guides & participants

• Food & Bike safety distribution info are being considered for the Kicker

• There are concerns about the accessibility of the Gatineau Park trip.

• People will be able to buy kits online through AlumniBoutique

• Carlis is finishing up the website

KIT UPDATES

• $5 for PRD BBQ is included in the kit

• the kit will cost $40 without the Fedstock ticket…$50 with.

• Loblaws sells reusuable bags for 99 cents each. These can make good kit bags. Maybe we can get a sponsorship or discount.

• The AIDS committee of Ottawa can provide condoms, lube, etc.

• Guide shirts may be given out for free, or at cost.

CUTTING COSTS OPTIONS

• Cut the bike trip from 50 bikes to 30 & do the trip in three rotations.

• Cut the chill space on Friday

• optional Fedstock tickets instead of requiring that folks buy them

• folks pay their own way at the Bytowne

• Drop dinner on Wednesday at the Community Event

Wednesday Community Event UPDATE

• Sandy Hill CC has bad acoustics

• Alix to check the price for 1848

• All ages event

• open invitation to community members

DRAG TEA PARTY

• OPIRG has kettles, mugs, tea, etc.

• Maybe muggy mondays can be there

• Déja Vu is a potential space

• we should invite drag queens

• Steve has a tickle truck, we need to fill it with clothes for people to wear

Alix Holtby – Alt 101 Organizer & Volunteer Coordinator – alixandra.2@gmail.com

Alex Magdzinski -Anything Bike related – uottawabikeclub@gmail.com

Sean Kelly - Alt 101 Organizer & also bike related stuff – yellsnake@gmail.com

Jenna Dunsby - Breakfast Coordinator – jendunsby@gmail.com

Ronda Brook – Community Tabling Coordinator – sendbrook@yahoo.ca

For the third year, OPIRG-Ottawa is coordinating Alternative 101 week (Alt101), a welcome week to the University of Ottawa that focuses on the social justice and environmental aspects of the campus and the city. This weeklong affair includes daily vegan breakfast, a bike tour of the city, a trip to the Bytowne, and a night of Spins and Needles.

To make the week a success, and an inclusive, community-based welcome for new students, we are in need of volunteers. The energy is high in that first week of September; guides and participants have an amazing time, make new friends, start new projects, and revitalize as we head into a new shcoolyear. Don’t miss out! Below is a list of events and assocaited tasks. Please contact Steve (Alt101 Coodinator, gripocampus@gmail.com) if you see someting that tickles your fancy.

If it’s going to take some convincing, I’m prepared!

Perks of being a volunteer with Alt101:

• You get to be right in the action! Enjoying the workshops (sex! bikes! yoga! ), activities (mustache party! Naomi Klein!), bike rides (yay! Bikes!), free food…and more, of course!

• New people, great people! Expose incoming students to your projects and working groups! Find out what they are into! Coordinate, learn, build a stronger movement!

• You get more and more involved at OPIRG! Next thing you know, you’ll be on stage during Social Theatre! There’s just no end to what you can do with OPIRG!

• Free Food. Sometimes it takes some effort on your part to find, but there’s so much free food during 101 week…so much.

• It’s an enriching experience. Ask any past participant, or guide. Most are back for a second or third go at the week. It’s worth your time & energy!

• …also you get swing dance lessons. For free.

So, without further ado, I know you are getting antsy to see the list and sign up for the fun!

THE VOLUNTEER LIST!

(note: “Coordinator Needed!” means that we are looking for someone to take care of volunteers and logistics at this event.)

1. Breakfast!

   Yummy, vegan breakfast daily. We need help with cooking, washing & menu planning.

2. Tablin’!

   Coordinator Needed!

   We’ll have a table set up all week for recruiting & information. We need people to be at it, basically. Be there and be smiley and welcomng.

    

3. Campus Tours

   We have two tours, an eco-tour and an anti-corporate tour. We need guides, and people to help prepare the tours.

4. DIY Bike Clinic

   Help things run smoothly. Fix bikes with folks.

5. Naomi Klein

   Promotions & Postering.

6. Bike Tour

   Coordinator Needed!

   We need the tour mapped out, a picnic planned, some games to play….the logistics need to be worked out. If you bike the city, and know a good short tour, and have some ideas to make it an unforgettable trip that keeps folks biking into the Fall, this option is for you!

7. Bytowne

   Coordinator Needed!

   A night at the moving picture show! Goody! To make the night go off without a hitch we need folks to pick up tickets, & guide people to the theatre.

8. Gatineau Park

   Yay Park! We’ll looking for picnic coordinators. And game players.

9. Chill Space

   Coordinator Needed!

   Sometimes people just need a break from all the excitement. Board game lovers, this is your place in Alt101. Games, snacks, music..Helping with the Chill Space is a great way to meet new people, have a great time, and not spend too much energy.

10. Speaker

    We’re excited to host Mohammed Ali & an American War Resister to Alt101. We are looking for folks to help coordinate food and music at the event on Wednesday the 5^th.

11. Community Tabling

This event is basically a bunch of tables with communtiy groups promoting their work and introducing themselves to new students. We need folks to set up tables in the morning on Thursday the 6^th, and someone to be the most key volunteer – the generous gofer, who can do all the running around during the event, if need be.

1. Workshops

   We’re hosting 22 workshops on everything from sex to bike repair! Again, a volunteer gofer would be desirable. The workshops run all day Thursday and Friday.

2. T-Shirt Altering

   If you can operate a sewing machine, or have some fancy techniques in clothes alteration that you can share, please volunteer yourself to share your skills! The Alt101 t-shirt will be a momento of the week for every volunteer, guide and participant. Skills in making clothes beautiful will go a long way.

3. Potluck

   Coordinator Needed!

   Foody events take some extra effort. Organization skills fit really well. Plus you get to eat yummy food.

    

4. Kicker

   Mustraches and Swing Dancing! It shouldn’t take much to convince folks to help volunteer for this event, I should hope! Help with music and logistic coordination is needed.

5. Promo

   Alt101 need propaganda. We need posters and handbills to get folks to come out to the workshops and the speaker. So, if you can make posters, or put them up, inquire about options in promotions!

So, that’s the list! I hope you are revved up and ready to email Steve at gripocampus@gmail.com to inquire about volunteering with Alt101 2007! Don’t worry about asking questions, this email was brief in description to keep it short enough that folks will read down the this last paragraph.

Thanks for your help!