Minutes 9th January 2012

STaG Board Meeting 09/01/2012 In attendance: S. Gregson, C. Felstead, G. Bennett-Lurie, H. Allan, I. McArthur, Erik Igelstrom, C. Goldstone, D. Keenan, L. Monkman, L. Taylor, D. Di Rollo H. Bolwell, A. Rutherford, W. Foote, C. Beaumont Agenda 1) Cinders 2) The Girl with the Red Hair 3) New Works 4) QMU Play 5) Mark Westbrook Collaboration 6) Social 7) University Publicity 8) Archive 9) Community Theatre 10) Various STaG Groups 11) Board Trip 12) Radio Play 13) AOB 1) Cinders The GUU has been booked for auditions which will take place 11-3 on January 16th and 3-6 on the 17th. Board members will be on hand to help auditionees. The SPACE has been booked for the 21st-24th March. Meetings for publicity and budget are yet to be organised. A meeting will take place between the directors and the board rep (C. Beaumont) to discuss the production this week. The crew and those involved in the play will meet the board on the 23rd January. A tech meeting has been held and the crew is being put together by A. Rutherford. 2) The Girl with the Red Hair The read-through will take place this evening and H. Bolwell will attend. There is still an issue with finding a venue however S. Gregson has some leads – St Mungo’s is due to respond to give their decision soon. Publicity and budget meetings have been held. 3) New Works 4 Judges have been confirmed so far and the plays have been chosen. L. Taylor is really excited about the prospect of the festival and is organising a casual meet up for those involved and the board, this will be held on the 19th January most likely in Coopers. A Burns Nights themed fundraiser will be held on the 28th January in the STaG room. A poster idea has been decided upon and publicity plans will be made soon. Grants are going to be applied for tomorrow and feedback for individuals is being sent out. L. Taylor will choose the show nights fairly soon. 4) QMU Play A date still has not been confirmed although I. McArthur is ready just in case. If there is no response to our emails however, we will have to pull out due to inadequate communication. 5) Mark Westbrook Collaboration The venue is to be confirmed but Mark has chosen a play although due to the small cast size he is thinking of various ways to include more people. He will attend a meeting (possibly next week) to discuss. 6) Social A rough plan of pubs to visit will be made and the board should wear their STaG t-shirts/hoodies. Donal is looking into theatre trips for this term. 7) University Publicity I. McArthur will send a list of places to put posters up. 8) Archive D. Di Rollo, C. Felstead, C. Goldstone are interested in helping do some archiving and there has been 1 membership response too. D. Di Rollo will organise it further. 9) Community Theatre I. McArthur will pass on a list of school contacts to D. Di Rollo who will think of ideas for next week’s meeting. 10) STaG Groups Improv teatime, the reading group and the writers group will all continue this term. 11) Board Trip Another doodle will be sent out for availability later on in the term. The board MUST fill this out. 12) Radioplay It has been suggested we do a radioplay in conjunction with Subcity. Jassy Earl will propose a play and seems very keen on doing this 13) AOB STaG will buy some lights and a dimmer rack for £125. This was applauded as being a good deal