STaG Board Minutes 7th June 2010
Taken by Sarah MacDonald
In attendance: S. Gregson, S. MacDonald, T. Pennock, C. Felstead, A. Kane, F. Bird
Apologies: D. Hahn, T. Eaton, H. Allan, L. Taylor, L. Monkman, A. Blundell, E. Burckhardt,
Agenda
- Fringe
- Fresher’s Week
- STaG Nights
- Lights
- New Talent Nights
- Workshops
- G12
- AOB
1. Fringe
Ed could not make it so arranged to meet (for those who can make) tomorrow (Tuesday) in the STaG Room 2-3pm. Simon will not be at that meeting.
2. Fresher’s Week
We spoke about the need to get a good location for the stall at this year’s Fresher’s week. F. Bird will contact the SRC to request one. At this stall we want pictures of the board and of shows that have gone on (with captions) to illustrate STaG’s successful history and to give the fresher’s an idea what they are getting themselves into! We will sell t-shirts at this stall.
It was brought to the board’s attention that the Hillhead Bookclub had excellent publicity before its launch with the simple flyer design. We thought that perhaps we could have orange posters with just the antlers at the beginning of the week and later on introduce more information to these original posters. This was an idea Hilary Sloan had for STaG Nights 2009 and could work really well as a teaser.
T-Shirts were discussed and it was suggested that they need to be ‘cooler’. Orange is a big fat YES (as recommended by Fergus Andrew) but Sam suggests we need something a little more interesting and that we would actually like to wear outwith STaG events (perhaps antlers crawling arond the shirt?) It was suggested that we need to check out companies off and online to check this out in terms of price, quality and suitability.
We chatted about putting posters around the art school to entice them into STaG but this must not divert attention from the University of Glasgow in which we must put most of our energy into.
We need a new sign to put in front of the STaG room (a plastic one like the G12 shows?) C. Felstead is going to look into this.
We decided that a social with a pub quiz will take place on Wedneday 15th September and a BBQ in Kelvingrove park will take place on Friday the 17th with auditions being on the Sunday (19th).
We also would like to help Fresher’s move into their halls during the week as this is a good way of getting first years to get to know us. We need a lot of help with this though.
STaG Bear is, of course, a must!
We would like to hold an improv workshop and S.Gregson is going to ask Magic Ben if he would like to host one (as he had plenty of experience and led a very successful one last year) for £20 and a drink from the bar.
We decided to clear out the STaG room on Wed 8th and Thurs 9th of September – be there!
3. STaG Nights
Stereo has been booked!!! And now S.MacDonald will send an email out to StaGgers encouraging them to think about proposing for the festival. She has already sent an email out to a lot of companies around the Uk urging them to propose. S.MacDonald is, before she goes away, applying to Ideas Tap and Young Scot for funding. Storage and vans will be sorted in the next term.
4. Lights
£200, and we have decided to buy them now! And store at one of the techies house until a more suitable home can be found for them. Additionally we have found heavy duty wires in the store room beside the STaG room that we can use for shows – yes.
5. New Talent Nights
So far we have three directors interested, which is encouraging but sending out an email to see if we can encourage more and if we can find any designers. Next Tuesday 15th the board will have an email discussion to decide upon the two directors.
6. Workshops
M.Westbrook is interested in offering a one off workshop for STaG but S.Gregson will continue the search.
7. G12
Lee will let us know mid-summer what is happening.
8. AOB.
T. Pennock asked if Improv Teatime would continue. There was a lot of support for it from the board at the meeting and it was suggested to keep it up, every month with a new person leading it every week. B.Watson will be contact about this with his ideas about how it can be continued/a pack can be made about improv games etc...
Happy Summer all!!!
