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Some of this is for the kids who come along to spin, learn and enjoy themselves and some is for the people who are interested in performing with the spin. There are overlaps and one may become the other, so it’s a good idea to know whats going on.
Halls
Due to evil things like the weather and short days, we intend to rent a hall for a couple of hours every other Sunday. This will mean that the spin can carry on over the winter.
I seem to have the week off, so I’ll ring around and see what prices are like. It is very possible that the fact we want a regular booking is going to count against us, 1) because of the time of year and 2) they may well demand more money for it.
If anyone didn’t hear last night, Mike asked the people in the Pig about hiring the back room and got told that if we wanted it on such a regular basis then we’d have to bring in a lot of money/pay them a lot of money.
I think it was agreed that we would try for an inside spin every two weeks. No-one is saying that people can’t spin between these meetings, but it’ll be nice to know that people will definitely be spinning on certain days (and that we’ll be inside!).
Contact List / Phone Tree
Will asked if we could draw up some kind of contact list, and Aimee asked for a phone tree, so we all have certain people to contact if a spin is/isn’t on etc. If you could all send me your mobile and home phone numbers, email addresses etc I’ll make one.
Website
Mike will be registering www.hastings-spin.co.uk (or something along those lines) very soon. That means that not only will you all know where to look for news, we can also start using @hastings-spin.co.uk email addresses etc for gigs, which will look professional. So far, the suggestions for site content are:
News & Upcoming Events (gigs)
Performance Details
Fees
Contract
Code of Conduct – not drinking before a performance etc (so the people we’re spinning for can see we’re not going to put ourselves or the audience at un-necessary risk. Well. Not whilst we’re spinning, anyway)
Fire Safety and Risk Assessment information
List of members w/photos and contact details (sparkley emails, ooh)
Gallery
Forum (either pointed at the lazyfuck hosted one or a forum of our very very own)
Promo
Once we’ve got the halls sorted posters and flyers will be going out as quickly as possible – the more people we get interested the better, and I bet there are a lot of spinners who will be going into hibernation otherwise. Plus this is a good time to build our reputation as a spin, get more new spinners coming along etc so when the summer comes back they aren’t so nervous about coming!
We’ve got to emphasise the fact that we’re a group for all levels of ability – quite a few people I’ve spoken to have been too scared to come down because they think we’re all poi ninjas who’ll laugh at them or something.
Observer / East magazine
Pieces in the observer and east magazine would be lovely. Michael has the contacts, he can do that.
Hastings Spin
First things first – if we intend to make Hastings Spin a performance group everybody needs to sign some kind of membership thing. Not anything big and scary, we just need a defined list of members for reasons discussed at the meeting. It will also help with things like who we are insuring, who is responsible for any money needed, who is coming to gigs etc.
So far these are the people who have expressed some kind of interest:
Aimee
Colin
Kayleigh (as first aider)
Loz
Mike
Will
(Plus others who I'm sure will raise hands)
Registering the name
Copyright is more about intellectual property than it is about protecting names and logos etc, so we’d need to apply for registered trade mark status. However, that will cost £200 (at least), take ages and, at this point in time, be a bit silly. Plus I’m not sure the flame logo will be individual enough to be accepted as a trademark and…well we’d look stupid if we invested the time and money and were denied a trade mark at the end of it.
In the meantime we can use the ™ mark, because that doesn’t mean we’ve paid for it…I checked…
Insurance
You’re all aware that we need insurance to do gigs … we’ve been lucky that we haven’t been asked for it yet…well, not specifically anyway. Mike is going to get in contact with an insurance broker he was talking to at our last Harpers gig to talk about prices and things.
However much it does cost, we’re going to need to find the money somewhere. This could mean the people wanting to be covered by the insurance reaching into their pockets, or busking, or some other form of fundraising. Any ideas? I have some that could probably cover it up front, which I have no problem doing if i’m certain that I’ll get it back.
Funding / Fundraising
Although we talked about this quite a lot at the meeting, nothing was really decided. we need to investigate getting funding from local charitable foundations, the princes trust and further on down the line arts council funding etc etc.
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
"I'm quite good at darts, though i often miss" - Kylie
"I'm not a bad driver, I just panic when theres other cars around" - Sarah
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
"I'm quite good at darts, though i often miss" - Kylie
"I'm not a bad driver, I just panic when theres other cars around" - Sarah
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"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
"...We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing......."
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