circusSPARK Meeting Tomorrow (6.29.10) 8pm at the Borough
Hope to see you all at the circusSPARK Meeting, Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 29th at the Borough at 8pm! We will discuss upcoming fundraisers, scheduling, and costuming! Thanks!
SPARKcon News & Updates
Stage Application Online!
SPARKS! Want to use the main stage during SPARKcon? Fill out this form by July 19 to apply.
It will live on the main Organizer’s Corner Page throughout the summer.
General Organizer’s Meeting Tonight 6.21.10!
Just a reminder that tonight is the next General Organizer’s Meeting tonight Monday, June 21, 2010 at 6:30 at Designbox (323 W Martin Street, Downtown Raleigh). See you all tonight!
artSPARK meeting minutes 6.16.10
artSPARK meeting minutes 6.16.10
in attendance: Michelle Greene, Mary Kay Kennedy, Kalesia Kuenzel, Eric Schneider, Rodney Boles, Adrienne Taylor, Megg Rader, and Meredith Burgess
overview: photoSPARK gave the group an update on their progress with space, sponsorships, calls for talent, etc. The group also discussed a few ideas for kidSPARK.
2010 artSPARK events:
- gallery: Eliza Kiser, Joanna Stocking, Bill Wallace
- Call is out online, in the Indy, and on Craig’s list. The group has permission to hang art in Foundation and Busy Bee.
- abstract painting: Sys Oppenlander, Domingo Vega, Carol Joy Shannon
- No update.
- street painting: VAE staff
- Call for talent is out online and on VAE website. Deadline is September 3.
- kidSPARK: Shonna Greenwell, Megg Rader
- On Saturday, September 18, the Mahler Fine Art will host an open house from 12-4pm for the book Poppy Bear. Kids and their families will be able to meet the artist and the artist.
- Shonna mentioned at the last general SPARKcon meeting that she would like to find ways to incorporate kid’s activities into all of the SPARKs.
- photoSPARK: Mary Kay Kennedy, Michelle Greene, Adrienne Taylor, Rodney Boles, Eric Schneider
- Call for talent out. Group is working on sponsorships (there is a form online). They are all set to display at Fish Market. They have 3 jurors for the show (Charles Joyner, David Bibb, and Michael Shore). Group talked about asking Taz’s to donate wine. The show will open on Friday and be displayed through Saturday.
- photoSPARK talked about having kids take Polaroid photos during SPARKcon and then posting them on a kid’s wall; maybe a contest would be involved.
- pods installation: VAE
- Call for talent is out online.
- digital gallery: VAE
- Call for talent is out online.
next artSPARK meeting: Wednesday, July 14 @ 6:30pm @ Morning Times
The group will start to meet weekly closer to SPARKcon.
action items for next meeting: Discuss plans and budgets! At the next meeting, we will need to discuss your final plans and budgets—sponsorships, entry fee money, etc.
poetrySPARK meeting, June 16th
Cal shared a draft copy of the anthology. There is an updated version with some edits on the he way for final proofing.
Cal will check with Quail Ridge Books, Flywheel books, Borders and several other area stores about carrying the book (in addition to its availably on Lulu and Amazon.
Walden will confirm with AJ and Jonathan at Lulu regarding our sponsorship. They both indicated they are enthusiastic about supporting poetrySPARK and possibly SPARKcon again this year, possibly at a higher level.
Walden is meeting with Betty next week about AfterDark. He is still working on confirming a location for AfterDark, In addition to the Berkeley, White Collar Crime is a possible venue.
Walden reconfirmed with Isaac Hunters Tavern.
Cal confirmed Morning Times.
Cal asked if Vybee screens will be placed around the SPARKcon area over the event weekend. This has not been confirmed.
The call for talent looks good and we have already received 10 submissions. We will work for the next several weeks to ensure it is well publicized.
We also discussed the possibility of making a poetrySPARK t-shirt to sell.
Walden has a contact (Brad) that may be able to donate a stage for Isaac Hunters Tavern.
As soon as the stageSPARK call is official, we will request stage time for the Poetry Slam.
Drew Becker of Convey Media Group attended. He is interested in connecting his group: Inside 919 to poetry SPARK. He offered to publicize the call for talent to his community and also to possibly videotape the slam for us.
Denada mentioned having poets read at the local Growers market. A September date, close to the festival is preferred.
Details are still being finalized for poetry workshops. The Haiku Twitter idea was discussed. We also discussed having a kiosk somewhere on the site to sell anthologies and other poetry relate materials.
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