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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Jun 28, 2007 9:33:43 GMT -5
wait, one step at a time. First of, to avoid completely spamming - people should be designated as "contactors" and they should talk amoungst themselves about who's going to talk to what schools.
And also, ppst, tara, can you pm me the admin stuff... 'cuase... i like doing that, teehee.
And ack, I have to run again, but tonight! Tonight I will actually start writing real responces
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Post by trampsarahh on Jun 28, 2007 11:03:41 GMT -5
Weird it won't let me log in :-(
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Post by trampsarah on Jun 28, 2007 23:05:20 GMT -5
SarFairy you are an acronymph :-)
I made a few additions/suggestions to Tara's preliminary statement...feel free to reject/expand/whatever...
The Student Circus Resurgence Conference: (Insert Date, 2007/08) (Amherst, Massachusetts)
The Student Circus Resurgence Conference 2007 is a three day event for participators in the collegiate circus arts. Its primary purpose is to bring together the next generation of circus creators, performers, and enthusiasts. This event consists of a conference as well as a series of workshops, skills classes, open practices and performances, taking place side by side at Hampshire College.
SCRC aims to provide a common ground, introducing both students of circus arts and the liberal arts to one another. The conference is about providing connection routes between creators, programmers and artists by stimulating discussion, assembling and sharing skills and demonstrating performances that expand the breadth of the collegiate circus in the U.S.A.
The physical portion of the conference includes and is not limited to: fire arts, acrobatics, static trapeze and silks (yay sarah and me!), clowning…(so on and son ).
The discussion portion of the conference will discuss issues surrounding the creation and suistainability of grassroots circus troupes. Several keynote speakers and topics include: (fill this in later).
SCRC introduce students of both the circus arts and the liberal arts from across the country to each other in order to encourage discussion of the current youth circus movement, to fuel creative collaborations and partnerships, and to inspire and evoke new ideas in the field of this quickly growing performance art.
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Post by Dani on Jun 29, 2007 9:34:53 GMT -5
Hey - quick thought - one of those classes could possibly be a dance class? for stilters? I went to that swing place in noho last night - pretty cool and it wouldn't be too hard on the shorter stilts!
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Post by Victoria on Jun 29, 2007 10:05:05 GMT -5
Oh that's an awesome idea. And for anyone! Dance can be inspiration for all sorts of acts and new movements. (Oy, am I biased?......naaaaaaaaaaaaah.)
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Post by trampsarah on Jun 29, 2007 12:37:03 GMT -5
This dancer in England on the Circomedia course ran weekly contact improv classes. Its alot like the orgy game but to the next level and with acro. We MUST do that at the conference! Dancing I want to learn: Capeoera and Breakdancing!!!
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Post by acrobaticmisfit on Jun 29, 2007 16:26:03 GMT -5
orgy game? Well that catches my interest. Convention you say? sounds great! I want to convention!
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Post by Dani on Jun 30, 2007 11:00:21 GMT -5
oh! i'm working with this breakdancer named Josh at the camp - if he's any good at teaching, which i hope he is - i'll see what he thinks about helping us out! man. capoeria on stilts, that'd be wicked cool. - and perhaps possible when molly's housemate makes those arm stilts . . . hmmm!?! and PS- Kalamazoo is a real place! and K college is pretty awesome, but my point is that when i was little, i thought that Kalamazoo had a zoo, or at least a lot of giraffes walking around or SOMETHING! and then when my mom and i went to go get our car repaired there i was very disapointed.
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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Jul 1, 2007 16:32:11 GMT -5
Mkay.
How about trying to get this going for either the spring? Reasons for this: I do not think the fall is at all feasible for this, especially since the summer is half way done. Also, if organizing parties of the circus have graduated, the fall can be a bit hektic as others try to take the lead and organize, etc; by the spring, things are usually a bit more calm. Plus, we can then start a dialogue with both hampshire stuff and the other schools when we first get back, so that we can really get this baby in the air.
Alright, now, planning for this. There will need to be committees, or different groups and people who work on their own portion to help organize this. Those involved will need to be committed to the end, and should be able to run their portion of the team. As of now, these are the committees that I see us needing
1. Hampshire Admin/Events contact: This group will be the liason between us and hampshire. If we want this to be a hampshire sponsored convention (especially if we want them to provide housing - remember when those conventions come and students volunteer their rooms/ lounges, I hope for something like this).
2. Financial: This is sorta obvious, but this group would be responsible for all funding parts of the convention. This would include dealing with FiCom, coca, and all other hamsphire funding operations. They would also be responsible for estimating costs (food/housing/any advertising/pamphlets and info once people are here/media services/ permits/etc) And they would be the ones to set and deal with admission fees.
3. Outside contact: The is group would be the ones to get the word out, and be the contact with all the other schools. Once schools are signed up, this committee would either be responsible for ensuring that everyting pans out (admission/housing/transport/etc), or handing the school over to the correct person (or commitee) who would be able to help them out.
4. Liability and Insurance: This one is going to be one of the most important - I don't think this'll happen without getting cleared in this area. They would most likely need to be in good communication with the three previously mentioned committees, because they all really have something to do with this. We'll need to find out from the school what we'll need in terms of insurance to pull this off. We'll need to clear any sort of acro/fire/aerial performance - this would put the committee in touch with the fire and police dept; the school, and potentially lawyers and riggers. Chances are a lot of this stuff is going to require money (insurance and permits). They'd also need to have an idea of what the other schools have and need: What schools have fire or aerials, do they have any sort of insurance to cover themselves, would they request from us any particular kind of insurance to participate, stuff like that.
This third committee is probably going to be the hardest. But hey, we were trying to clear aerials for our own use anyway, right? I had hoped to do this by the next of this coming school year as it was; this'll push my "to do" date up a bit, but I think this would be a HUGE step for us as a circus.
4. Scheduler: This committee would be in touch with the outside and school contacts to work out when to hold the actual event. Once that is set, they would be responcible for organizing class/event schedule for the convention. They would need to keep in touch with outside contact about how many people to expect.
Here's my take on scheduling: I think there should be three main types of events. 1. Panels/lectures - This would inclued all these things you guys mentioned already (and could also inclued something like dealing with insurance and liablity) We could get a sense of who is comming and what they do, and invited certain people to help lead these (i feel like have panels would be better than individual lectures - the panel could prepare a small lecture on the subject, then answer questions, and lead discussion) I also agree about having certain professionals come in to help out with these panels
2. Workshops/classes - this is the more interactive portion. Classes like acro/staff/juggling/aerials... Workshops could inclued stuff like "how to make fire poi or hula hoops" and people would make it in the workshop.
3. Performances - it really depends on how many schools prove to be interested, and what sort of skill levels they have. If there's a lot of interest, picking who can do a performance, and who can't will be... ugly. Lets not worry about that one yet, though.
Oh, and side thought: how do we feel about inviting circus schools!? Some in californial, I know that... There are a number in canada, too.
Phew, I think that's it for now, from me... I told you I'd write a huge ass schpeil one day!
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Post by Victoria on Jul 1, 2007 18:07:52 GMT -5
I'd love to do contacting with other schools, since that's my ultimate goal, to get everyone connected. However, I also desperately want to see this work out, so I'll do most anything that's needed. (Though I would shy away from the money bit. Figuring that sort of thing out isn't my strength.)
Admission I feel should really be kept as low as we can, especially for the first year. If this ends up catching on and more and more people come, then admission is good, but as of now we're trying to encourage people to come, so in my opinion, I think it might be better to rely mostly on other fundraising we can do.
I also agree that spring's a good idea since fall comes up fast.
And I second the panel idea.
As far as performances go, I wouldn't worry about it too much. There's a chance no one will have anything but will just wanna show off what they learned, which I think would be great, or if we have a lot of people who want to perform...*shrug* I'd say let 'em. Maybe add a time restraint (no more than 3 minutes), but I feel like performance is sort of a big deal and people who would like to should get to.
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Post by James on Jul 1, 2007 18:47:51 GMT -5
I think that t-shirts are a must, don't you agree?
If we're to bring in any professionals to teach I think we should at the least offer travel money. Maybe we don't want or can't afford the sort of people who'd want to be paid much more than that, but reimbursement for travel expenses would be courteous.
At the risk of becoming overly bureaucratic, we might also want another committee that oversees the entire convention, made up of representatives from the 5 smaller committees. Or we could assume that the 5 committees will talk to each other and there won't be a problem. But I can't see how it would hurt.
Also, Sar? You used number four twice. When you were listing committees.
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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Jul 1, 2007 18:52:07 GMT -5
oh... well, bah. but also, as this is a CFU thing, I'm guessing we signers would be the over-seers of everything.
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Post by Victoria on Jul 1, 2007 18:54:33 GMT -5
Sar, can that be an official title? Overseeers of everything? (I'm picturing heroic music, standing on top of the world with capes, and a deep booming voice saying "For they were the overseers of EVERYTHING!") Heh, heh.
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Post by Blue Hair Sar on Jul 2, 2007 0:01:26 GMT -5
Yes.
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Post by trampsarah on Jul 2, 2007 19:36:04 GMT -5
So many wows.
Dani! Arm stilts!!! If and when we do the aminal show...makes me think of the Dali elephant.
And yes. Sarah...thank you for saying Spring. This is gonna take alot of planning. duh. DUH!!!
I love you all, even the ones I don't know. I hope you like me at least as much as I like popcorn.
And tho its off topic....come visit me in 2 weeks at Smirkus!
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