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Meeting Minutes - Feb.12th -

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Saturday, 16 February 2008

The potluck was great.
An abundance of ethnic treats such as Bosnian "Pita" and “shredded salad”
along with two yummy Quiches, Chicken and a Chicken-rice concoction, and
many flasks of red wine were provided by Edita, Raphaele, Lee, Chris
,Bethany, Thomas, Mookie (nsumi), Maureen, James, and Lara – who was
sporting a memorable flying hamburger T-shirt.
(did I forget anyone?)

The evening was more about frolicking and opulence than digesting the
various proposals up for consideration, however some time was spent
looking over and discussing the Creative Capital grant app in progress.

As this discussion occurred after a hunk of the group had already left
(..blame the wine), and with out GH and Daniel not in attendance, it might
be wise to have the discussion spill over into email. The big ideas were:

- the text in progress still needs work. There was question as to what CC
would and would not fund.

- a new idea from Maureen: launch an artists’ think tank. (which is also,
an old unrealized nsumi idea). To this Lee added in the idea of a lobbying
service; and to this James added that we draft up a set of proposals on
what we think the feds should doing in support of the arts, create a
serious proposal, and set up a meeting with the Obama cultural
representative in NY (hedging our bets that Obama will win), in the hopes
that he/she would take the ideas to heart and remember us next year.

- Chris provided some sage advice regarding the way that grant panels
operate and the nuance of writing project descriptions.

- Bethany noted that we might not actually need a grant to do any of this
and that our time and energies might well be better spent developing the
project rather than engaging yet another bureaucracy.

Many more things were discussed! As I had not planned to be the scribe,
this is all from memory. Additional recollections are welcome!