Commitee Meeting Minutes

Minutes Cecilian Society Committee Meeting 21/11/02

Present:

Ali, JP, Tony, Nadia, Chris, Cate, Gregor, Nicky, Liam, Eliza

Apologies:

Jenny, Adele, Libby

Also Present:

Ewan McLean. Minutes taken by JP in Libby’s absence and typed up by Ali. So typical.

Meeting Opened.

Don’t know when.

1

Eliza lost her purse. Possibly also her purpose.

2.

David Doig got an 8 letter word in Countdown which neither contestant got. The word was remodels.

3. Room Booking Faff.

The committee room is full of sound equipment, Food Factory full of CU. We will share Food Factory with them, but hardly ideal. No babies for Tony

4. Storeroom Saga.

Tony and Liam went to 62 Oakfield Ave. It consists of:

1 huge room (bigger than cttee rm 2)
2 smaller rooms (together same size as first room)
1 “kitchen” i.e. it has a sink
2 cupboards
Male toilet

They spoke to Mimi. She wants:

to share everything with kitchen as a shared office, with the big room as a rehearsal space, and the others as stores:
to have 1 dedicated costume room and 1 store:
A piano in rehearsal room and mirrors along wall for dancing.

She has also ordered several things, including new painting, and some stuff in our room, apparently. Liam thinks sharing space unneccesary; we don’t need to rehearse there and we already share sufficiently; the big room is probably not big enough for chorus rehearsals anyway. Alternative: ripping out toilet? Unlikely ever to happen. 70 Oakfield Ave. Available until Thesis Boy leaves. Liam unsure what to do with Lorna Bailey’s piano, as there isn’t really room for it. Gregor will speak to Lorna about what to do.

Ewan was worried about storage of the bar, and if we will still have rooms to build in. (We wonder if CU will mind us singing) We must chase up Hugh Harris re. SRC shop storage space.

We finally decided that we really can’t let STAG use our storage space, as there’s not enough room for all their stuff, although it would be fine on an ad hoc basis ONLY.

5. 50th Subcommittee Report!

Yay, we made a surplus of around £500, although we’ve still to collect money and pay for photocopying. Ewan wants photo archive kept properly maintained. Andy Walker thinks we should start keeping a record of who won the quaich while we still know. Should we set up a direct debit for associate membership, or maybe a standing order form? If anybody’s read this far, maybe they’ll know better than I or JP’s scrawls do if we decided anything. [Yes you cheeky bitch we decided to ask the bank about it. Though sadly I didn’t note who was going to do so - JP]

6. Ticket Manager

Sally not interested anymore. Tony expressed interest. Do we need more than 1? Gregor suggested that the President shouldn’t be the ticket manager as they are the “figurehead” of the ticket drive. Lorna Bailey may have said she was interested, and although Andrea said “not at the moment” we will try and use our persuasive powers. It was also suggested that we have cast members who are around every week to inspire us all. Cate and Eliza both volunteered, but we decided to wait ‘til next week when we’ve heard back from Andrea and Lorna, so hopefully we will decide next week.

7. AOCB

Show T-shirts?
Cate says lots of nearby companies who make shirts; Nicky said she was in the process of designing them. Could we get sponsorship for a subway ad? Let’s wait til Jenny’s here. Central Room Bookings are rubbish. They didn’t tell Eliza they’d changed stuff. Boo!

Weekend Away!
Same time as last year? Yes, probably. Where shall we go? Chris, Libby, and maybe Liam are truly the posse. Cate suggested the north Lake District, as it’s not very far, but it IS pretty. The date of that is not written in the minutes taken at the time, so someone should really look up a diary or something.

Ceilidh:
Chris and Tony on door duty, they will be here from 8. Mr Mac asks what the band need. Do we need guard rail on Qudos stage removed? [no, as it turned out...]