October 12 Meeting Minutes

 October 12 Meeting minutes 

Members in attendance:

Cindy Tai McKenzie Edward June Angelina Emeli Roman Keshia Thomas Amare 

At the meeting, we talked about several things and finished decorations for the Fall Festival:

We are going ahead with getting tee shirts made. In order to get a tee shirt, you must attend 6 full meetings and an event starting in 2023.

Tai and Thomas talked about the Student Government group. They want to do a block party event on Sat. March 23, 1-3 pm. More information coming.

Haunted House

• Haunted House/ Fall Carnival updates: All Members who will be working as scare actors or workers for the fall carnival need to sign waivers for safety and legal reasons. If you didn’t sign it at the meeting, we will have the papers at the planetarium. Important* If you are under 18 your parent will need to sign the paper. Please make sure to bring the signed paper to the Haunted House event. I will also attach the papers. Make sure you sign the correct one.
• Tai will send out a map of the Planetarium soon, so you know where to find us.
• If you can meet at the planetarium at 9 a.m. on Friday, we could use the help putting together the rooms.
• Then we meet back there at 2 p.m. to run through our activities a few times. There is a meeting at the planetarium with the club director at 5 pm that everyone needs to attend. We start at 6 pm.
  
  Please look at the list below and make sure we have you in the right location:

• Haunted House:
• Storytellers: Thomas and Angelina 
• Scare Actors: Brandi the Mad Librarian (Keisha will substitute for her during Brandi's breaks)
• Tai/ Emeli the dolls (Emeli will also work in the Fall Festival Room and sub for Tai during breaks)
• Edward the Mad Scientist (Roman will substitute for him during breaks and will be working in the Fall Festival Room when needed also)
• Keshia/ Mckenize the Clowns, Roman Scarecrow 
• Amare the Ventriloquist 
• Fall Festival Room:
• Emma A, Cindy, Alyssa, William Jones, and off and on Emeli, June, and Roman. 
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• We were asked to have a table during the April 8^th eclipse. Suggested is selling space-themed hacky sacks and doing comet and UFO crafts with kids.
  
  We were asked to participate in a June 1^st Epically Geeky Expo on campus. More info on that later.
  
  Either see you at the Haunted House on Oct 20/21 or at the next meeting!
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• Thanks for helping out and being awesome creative people! 

Stuff

 Hi Creative Oxygen Breathers, 

Before we get to Edward's meeting minutes, please consider volunteering for positions at the Haunted House

We have.........

Thomas and Angelina - guides with horror stories

Tai and Emeli - disturbed small children who play with horrifying dolls

Edward- Mad Scientist who rearranges children (don't be horrified)

Brandi - the mad librarian and who knows what she'll do if you are late with your books!

Keshia and McKenzie - evil clowns that plan to terrify at will (if Emma can sub, she'll go here too) 

Amare- ventriloquist who will totally mess with everyone's minds

We need members in the Fall Festival room to help with the games

Me and Alyssa and the guy from the Career Center, William Jones will be in there. 

We're hoping we have so far June, Sania, Roman, Emma A. , and Josue. You guys, please let me know if you will be there to help 

The hours we need you are 6 pm -11 pm on Friday, October 20, and  on Saturday, October 21

If you can work all or some of the hours, please let us know ASAP, so we can put you on the schedule. 

Just hit reply (not reply all) and say, "Yes! I'm ready, willing, and able to scare the beejeebees out of people!"

Or "I'm ready to watch small children attempt festival games."

Also.............................................if you truly want to be a serious author, you may want to stop by the library this Sunday 1-3pm for Author Day. We will have 12 published authors here who you can talk with. Four of our members, Josue, Ashley, Dez and Emma said they wanted to talk about their work, so they will have 5 minutes each after the authors are finished. Then you will get a chance to meet the authors and purchase their books if you'd like. I'll attach a flyer. Try to come! 

And Now for Edward's Meeting Minutes..................

3:00pm-5:15pm

Tai               Edward          Emily
Amaree        Mckenzie       William
Angelina       June             Josue
Cindy           Sania

In this meeting, we discussed the Haunted House.  We divided up the things we need and will verify if we need more at the next meeting.  Please bring what you were asked to bring to the next meeting. (Edward, I need that paper that I gave you. It had who's bringing what on the back). 

We will be setting up the Haunted House room and Fall Festival on October 20 at 9:00 a.m. if you can help.  We have to all be at the Planetarium by 4 p.m. on October 20. Please do not be late. We will run through the games and Haunted House acting then. 

At the next meeting, we will talk about cleaning up the Haunted House and Festival. But if we all work together, as soon as it's over on Saturday, we should be able to gather everything up quickly and toss it in my van. 

There will be food for sale during both evenings, but if you don't want to spend money, please bring your food and drink and I'll keep it in the Festival Room for you. 

To finish the meeting, we played a game where we had to make a horror story by each one making a sentence based from one word that was given to us. Lastly, there was the proposal of an activity that we will see more in the future, which consists of a writer volunteering to write, and another person will provide a character, genre, and plot for the volunteer to write about it and present it in the next meeting(or when the writer finishes it). :-) 

Don't forget all this stuff!

See you at the next meeting on Oct 11, 

New stuff and new members

 Hi guys,

We have 3 and possibly only one more person signed up for the Poetry Slam. Are any of you interested in participating? We don't want to cancel, but we will have to do a virtual one instead of an in-person one if more people don't register. 

If you want to enter for either the in-person one or a virtual one, please register here: https://forms.gle/DTaVTsieb2Crqq5GA

If you want to enter virtually, send an MP4 video of yourself reciting the poems or doing your Open Mic act no later than Oct 10. If we get all the videos, we'll change the event to virtual and cancel the in-person. 

But we have to know who wants to enter in-person or virtual no later than Oct 10. And you must register to perform. No late entries. 

Here's the info

Plus please welcome a couple of new members. Welcome Maki and Professor Estringel. We're glad you're with us! 

Meeting tomorrow Sept 27 at 4pm

 Hi guys,

There's a Writers Guild meeting tomorrow. I'll send out the Webex invites for anyone who needs it. 

On the agenda:

• Haunted House planning
• Some info from our Pres, Tai, and Student Government Representative, Thomas, on committees they've attended.  (Tai and Thomas, talk to me before the meeting, ok? 
• William has some business with Discord to ask
• Eclipse planning
• And let's work more on our creativity - '

See you all then!

Meeting Minutes 8/31/2023

 Good afternoon y’all, this is August 30th meeting notes (from the desk of Tai and Edward): 

We have new members: Emma, Josue, Bob, McKenzie! 

In attendance: Cindy, Emeli, Tai, Emma, Josue, Bob, McKenzie, Edward, Thomas, William

During August 30th meeting we introduced ourselves to new/current members.

• Talked about what our club does. 
• Introduced the officers: Tai (President) William (Vice President), Edward (Secretary)
• Talked about future events: Haunted House and Fall Carnival, Author day, Byways.
  
• We played a creative game with the Inkling board game. We wrote stories, poems, drew, and took photos that were related to the words we got on a car. 

If anyone wants to earn T-shirts: You must attend at LEAST 6 MEETING/ EVENT from January 2023 - now.

If you want to be added to Discord or the blog, let us know. I'll send invitations to our new members. Remember, you don't have to get on Discord or the blog if you don't want to. Our blog is at https://ctcwritersguild.blogspot.com/. We'll send out links to the Discord.

These are the people we have working on the Haunted House or Fall Carnival: Tai, Amare, Edward, Thomas, Keisha, Emma, McKenzie, Emeli, Brandi (staff), Alyssa (staff), Cindy (staff)

We need more people to work the fall festival and to substitute when needed in the Haunted House. Please consider volunteering. The event is on Oct 20 and 21 (I think) I heard Fri and Sat and Tai heard Sat and Sun. We'll get back to you exactly when it is.

If you're interested in making a video for the horror contest, here's the registration form: https://forms.gle/Ce45NsycLtWjPDKX7 Flyer attached.

If you're interested in being in the Poetry Slam/Open Mic, here's the registration form. https://forms.gle/bnhXBZTud4HyJgAY6 The flyer is attached. 

If you're interested in entering Byways, here's the information: https://www.ctcd.edu/academics/library/byways/

If you're interested in entering the pet photo contest, send your pictures to referencerequest@ctcd.edu. See flyer attached. 

Our next meeting is on Sept 13 at 4pm ish till 5:20ish. See you guys then!

Cindy, Tai, Edward, William

Welcome Josue and meeting tomorrow

 We have another member!

Josue joined us, so please welcome him on Discord and at the meeting. See you all tomorrow!

We'll be meeting in Room 209 (our regular room) at 4pm. Our meetings will run from about 3:45 to 5:15, so our High Schoolers won't miss anything.

Welcome Mckenzie and Angelina!

 We have some new members! Please welcome Mckenzie and Angelina! 

We're looking forward to meeting you soon!