Seldovia Arts Council

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The regular meeting this month will take place by teleconference. If you have important business to bring to the meeting, please contact Interim Secretary Tania Spurkland (secretary@seldoviaartscouncil.org) about participation. In order to limit costs for the teleconference, Chair Susan Mumma has asked that presenters prepare background information for items they will present that can be reviewed prior to the meeting.

Update 11/6: Anyone in Seldovia is welcome to join the teleconferenced meeting at the Seldovia Village Tribe Visitor Center Boardroom on Monday, 11/10 at 10 am.

(Latest agenda version: 11/10/08)

Meeting agenda

1. Minutes of last meeting (Spurkland)
2. Treasure’s report (will be provided at the meeting or by email upon request to treasurer@seldoviaartscouncil.org)
3. Old Business:
   1. Events:
      • Soul Street Dance
      • Ball in the House
   2. Festival Committee Reports
      • Director (Mumma)
      • Assistant director (Lewis)
      • Housing (Stranik)
      • Transportation (Spurkland)
      • Publicity (Zerwick)
      • Sponsorships (?)
      • Merchanise (?)
   3. Alaska State Council on the Arts Meeting in January (Mumma)
   4. EVOS Art Exhibition (Lewis)
4. New Business:
   1. Bylaw changes (Lewis)
   2. Report on Conferences:
      • FAR-West: report at director’s blog; download expanded report (Mumma)
      • Arts Northwest report (Mumma)
   3. Program Selections for next year (Mumma)
   4. Office space (Mumma)
   5. Homer Council on the Arts membership proposal (Mumma)
   6. Alaska Statehood Banner contest: website; download (Mumma)
   7. The Big Read participation (Mumma)
   8. Winter season meetings (Lewis) withdrawn at chair request

(Download a copy of the full meeting packet, updated 11/7/08) Update 11/10: full meeting packet removed to conserve hosting space; all individual files above remain available.

Paid members will be receiving an email today with their ballot to elect our officers and five board members. Members who do not have an email address on file with the Treasurer will receive their ballot by regular postal mail. You may contact Treasurer Darlene Crawford at treasurer@seldoviaartscouncil.org if you need to check what contact information we have on file for you or to update that information (hint: we really appreciate being able to reach you by email!).

Ballots are provided in both .pdf and .doc format. If you do not have software to open these file formats or have problems with the files, contact websupport@seldoviaartscouncil.org for assistance.

To cast your vote, ballots should be printed out, marked with the voter’s selections, placed in a blank envelope, sealed, and then that blank envelope placed in a mailing envelope addressed according to the instructions printed on the ballot plus your own name and return address (so we can check you off against the membership roster). Identifying information (the outer envelope) will be separated from the ballot (the inner envelope) before the ballots are counted so that the tallying of votes will be fully anonymous. Votes will be tallied by Tania Spurkland, Tobben Spurkland, and Savannah Lewis.

Voting is open Oct. 22nd - Nov. 7th. Your ballot must be postmarked no later than November 7th and received no later than Nov. 14 to be counted.

Election results will be announced Nov. 24 via Twitter and on this website.

Betsy Scott will continue yoga and add some dance classes for the winter schedule.

General Yoga
Mondays from 3:30 to 5 in the Music Room at Susan B. English School

Gentle Yoga
Fridays from 3-4 at Lakeside Terrace

Yoga classes will be offered at the same prices as the summer session:
$5/class drop-in
5/$20 punch card
ages 12-18: free

Dance exercise
Mondays from 5-6 in the Music Room at Susan B. English School
Monthly focus will be:
October: salsa
November: hula
December: African
The dance class will be free.

There was not a quorum for today’s scheduled meeting, so the attending members held a workshop to review current business.

We will be holding election of officers for 2009 next month. Nominations will be open from Oct. 1 till 15; voting will be held from Oct. 16 to 31. Results will be tallied and reported in early November. The call for nominations will go out to members via email from the secretary, and nominations will be made by return email. Voting will be conducted the same way.

All currently paid-up members are eligible to vote. If you don’t receive an email nominations notice, please email secretary@seldoviaartscouncil.org so we can make sure that we have your current email contact information. It’s not too late to pay outstanding dues and become eligible to vote: download a member application and mail it as the form instructs along with your dues check.

Although no actions could be taken in workshop session, participants reviewed proposals for next year’s program and refined them for further comment:

1. Memorial Day in conjunction with the Chainsaw Carvers event:
   proposed:chainsaw-juggling comedian Mad Chad Taylor
   plan: director to discuss with Chamber of Commerce
2. 4th of July booth or fundraiser
   discussion: favorable but no specific ideas put forward
3. Other July event: Mary Glover would like to bring one of the Fiddle Camp folks to town
   discussion: depends on what kind of music we book for solstice festival
   plan: hold planning on this until festival selections are established
4. August event workshop:
   discussion: favorable
   suggested topics: fiber arts, possibly silk-painting or ? (more suggestions on topics and artists needed)
5. Labor Day event: Guitar Masters concert
   Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart signed up
6. additional suggestion: radio theatre
   discussion: favorable with call for participants in early spring and schedule to be determined by participants and potential venues
   plan: Susan Mumma will be taking a podcasting workshop at ArtsNorthwest that might allow us to record and distribute this event online as well as in performances
7. additional suggestion: late July/early Aug: Kenai Peninsula Orchestra (touring group) chamber music performance
   discussion: favorable

What do you think about these proposals? Leave comments and suggestions in the comments here or share them at the next arts council meeting.

The next regular meeting will be held November 10.

There will be a regular meeting of the Seldovia Arts Council on Monday, Sept. 29 at 10 am in the public library.

Director Susan Mumma has proposed the following agenda for this meeting:

1. Planning for Soul Street Dance events in Feb (chair: Mary Glover)
2. Planning for Ball in the House event in March (chair: Laurel Hilts )
3. The Seldovia Summer Solstice Music Festival. June 18,19,20: committee chairs’ timeline
4. PWS RCAC Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 20th commemorative art show (chair: Savannah Lewis)
5. Election of officers: planning, nominations
6. 2009 events schedule, including possible dates:
   • Memorial Day in conjunction with the Chainsaw Carvers event
   • 4th of July ….a booth or fundraiser????
   • Other July event Mary Glover would like to bring one of the Fiddle Camp folks to town
   • August event workshop????
   • Labor Day event: Guitar Master’s again??? can we add more to this?
7. Update on FARWest
8. Update on Acoustic Guitar Camp
9. Update on possible SAC office downstairs in library building

Members and nonmembers alike are welcome at meetings; the Arts Council needs your input in program planning.

The regular meeting scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 6 has been canceled due to lack of a quorum.

The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 29 at 10 am in the public library.

Members should watch for two email polls to be coming their way shortly. These polls will have a deadline and all members are asked to please respond in order to help with event planning for our 2009 season.

With summer coming to its end, the yoga class schedule will be changing.

Kate will offer her final class of the season on Tuesday, Sept. 9. At this time, her yoga studio will also be closing.

Betsy has not yet released her fall class schedule, but plans to change her class times effective Oct. 1. We’ll update this posting with more detailed information as it becomes available.