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Attached are notes from the Friday RSC conference call.
Here below is a short version of notes from Friday’s RSC conference
call:
Report from New Orleans Learning Exchange: The Learning Exchange in
New Orleans was successful. Two questions have emerged.
One question is about finalizing the payments, fees & reimbursing
everyone. This needs to be part of a larger discussion of budget.
Second question: What is RSC looking for in terms of documentation
for New Orleans & Orangeburg, etc.?
Report on Learning Exchange April 17 & 18: Orangeburg, SC:
Gwylene: Shon Ebony Kim and Delvina met. Exchange is during the
festival. Friday we have breakfast with some key members of the
community who will be part of the Learning Exchange. We have a
short performance Friday evening by Ebony & Shon.
9:30-1:30 on Saturday is the Learning Exchange. Four hours. We have
another call Ebony Shon Hope & Gwylene. Shon has developed a flyer
that will be distributed. Bridging the Gap Between University and
Community. We want to have a community member to work with us all
along so we would be introduced with people in the community and
there is a woman who will be doing that and we will meet with her
Thursday & she will be at the Friday Learning Exchange. Hope is
doing documentation and evaluation.
The budget needs to be reviewed. What is our freedom?
Kathie: The proposed budget was sent out last month. We have
flexibility with it. I would suggest that we assign each learning
exchange team and let them divide it up however they want to.
Gwylene: after Monday, I can send you a budget about Orangeburg.
There is more conversation about how RSC allocates and spends and
tracks money that we will continue in our June retreat.
For now, each team will figure out how much to pay the lead, host,
shadow and co-facilitators. People will submit receipts for travel.
There will be a per diem to help with the cost of eating when the
Learning Exchange does not feed the facilitators.
· April 25 : Carpetbag: Gwylene Gallimard, Paula Larke, Margo Miller
Gwylene: The date is May 15 & May 16. Carpetbag hasn’t had enough
time to prepare. Margo is trying to understand the RSC piece. Margo
will spend some time working on that question.
· Richmond: Laura Schandelmeir, Ebony Golden, Trey Hart
Laura: no new information
· Annual Meeting: Trey, Hart & Priscilla: are you getting the
participation you need?
We have no insight as far as how much RSC will be participating on
the Annual Meeting plan. There are Wednesday night calls. They are
rolling along.. The workgroup is waiting for a coordinator.
· o Input from all about agenda items for the June RSC Retreat
-- confirm participation so we can arrange housing.
The learning exchange is Saturday. The Retreat is Friday, and maybe
part of Sunday. it is about Artist to artist and artist to
community partnership. We may be able to use the materials prepared
for a previous Atlanta Learning Exchange that only a few people
came to. Eleanor will construct a questionnaire to find out what
Atlanta people would be interested in learning about.
Kathie and Gwylene will co-organize; need to confirm local
coordinator (could double as Learning Exchange host). We need
Carlton to look at the grant proposal as amended after we were
allocated $5,000 to see how long the weekend needs to be. We want a
team that is diverse to lead.
June retreat agenda:
· Discuss evaluation
· follow up Learning Exchanges
· Look at how we document
· discuss pay, magenta path
· plan for increasing diversity of participation among facilitators
· Look at ROOTS strategic plan
· Annual meeting
Best,
Sheila Kerrigan
kerrigan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2310 Stansbury Rd
Chapel Hill NC 27516
919-929-1624
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