[AVPPride] [Avpaganschat] Awesome Job, folks!

[Lisa Morgenstern]

Thanks Derwyll, for the kind words.
I think what I have learned is that this event has gotten bigger and it's
more than I can do without a significant amount of help.
So what I am looking for is  some COMMITTED volunteers who will help plan
this over the next year so we can make a bigger better publicized event.

I was asked why I did not ask for help before by some.
I will have to tell you that I have been asking for volunteers for a year
now. What I got was Daniel, who did vendors this year.
While a lot of the work is the day OF the event, there are some things that
can be done to help promote the event which I was not able to do because I
simply got busy. Granted, I also had to deal with my husband having brain
surgery this year! So I think I've got a decent excuse there :)
Anyway, We need to have a raffle coordinator who can come to some planning
meetings and a volunteer coordinator to help find people to do things.

Scott/Scan and Wes did a great job on security. There are a few things we
need for the day of event we didn't have this year, but I think we can
accomplish a lot if we plan ahead a bit.

Timing for one, I will not schedule it at the beginning of the month again,
it's a bad shopping time. Another thing, I don't think we want to go back to
McAdam, even though it's a lovely huge park. If we can find something
comparable which is cheaper that would be great. Poncitlan Square is a nice
location but I was wondering about something indoors instead.

I'd love to hear ideas from people about all this.
Join the AVPpride email list if you aren't on it already (this is to
everyone not Derwyll who is on this list already)
http://avpagans.org/mailman/listinfo/avppride_avpagans.org
And let us know what you think is a good idea. I want to have a post- event
meeting soon to discuss ideas. Perhaps we can talk about some of them at the
moot this coming Sunday, and announce a meeting date.

BTW, I have lots of shirts available for this year's event so if you want
one, get it... I will try and bring them to the moot.

Lisa


On 10/2/05 12:57 PM, "Derwyll O'Tara" <derwyll at avhp.com> wrote:

> Lisa, you are endlessly AMAZING!!!  How wonderful it is for you to put on
> this event as you do -- I love it!  I didn't get a chance to stay the whole
> day like before (had to work), but I was there for two hours on an extended
> lunch break from my pagan-friendly job (at PC Club on Ave P).  My manager
> even showed up at the park just after I left...
> 
> But to all the incredible people that were involved in getting this thing
> together again, I thank you.  I feel so recharged from the ambience of
> events like this and I'm so happy to have it here to attend, the rare
> occurrence that it is.
> 
> Aside: I'd like to share with you a dream of mine that I would like to
> catapult into reality sometime in the future.  Don't know when it would
> happen, but keep it on the backburner of inspiration as it is for me.  I
> want to build a real-life Diagon Alley, of sorts -- mostly just a
> double-sided strip mall modeled after a medieval stone street, such as seen
> in the Harry Potter movies, where I can rent shops to vendors for cheap and
> we can have a "Pagan Pride Day" any/every day we wish.  I have some other
> fun ideas to add too that I'll keep secret as a surprise.  This is all
> hinging on my getting rich from something, so *when* that happens ;o)
> beautiful things might develop.
> 
> Cheers!
> -Derwyll
> http://avhp.com/
> http://gypsymt.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ariadne/PP [mailto:paganpride at avpagans.org]
> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:37 PM
> To: AVPPride
> Subject: [AVPPride] Awesome Job, folks!
> 
> Hey all I want to write and thank everyone for helping out,  Nan and her
> daughters Jaime, JT and Jacqueline, Julia and Stacey, Maria, Carolena, Scott
> and Stephanie, Westley, and Mark who let us use the truck to haul items
> there that were way big (the big tables we rented)
> 
> The event went fairly well, I think. I was pleased by the attendance at the
> Wiccan ritual, and the blot was a bit smaller than in the past but we were
> up against a Viking event in san Diego that probably got some folks to
> attend down there.
> 
> Regardless, this event happened because YOU stepped up to MAKE It happen by
> volunteering.
> 
> I believe we collected 395 lbs of food this year.
> Someone will count the money when I get the stuff out later and we'll be
> able to tell you more about how we did. I have a feeling we lost money
> though.
> 
> I want to schedule a post PPD breakdown or such where we can talk about
> ideas for next year.
> 
> Please think about volunteering to help next year and even be in charge of a
> particular aspect of the event.
> 
> I am seriously considering moving the event somewhere cheaper next year,
> though. I think there are some problems with this park not the least of
> which is the water/mud problem. :(
> 
> More to come... Post your thoughts though, I'd like to hear them.

-- 
Lisa Morgenstern


 "Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal;
While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last
moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
~ Herodotus