Greetings!
You know the drill: bardurf.blogspot.com
This week we are all focused on CAGED, an event headed by our own Izzy Filkins at the Global vs. Local event this coming weekend!
CAGED takes individuals who volunteer to express what makes them feel trapped in the Bard community. By sitting in a cage in the campus center for a short time, they show their state along with a written statement of their predicament.
The details and protocols are loose and subject to change, but if you would like to be involved, please contact us immediately or show up at the final planning meeting on Friday at 6pm in Village J.
In other news we also are working on a fun project for Halloween: the Bard Haunted House! Get in contact with us if this interests you, as we are just in the preliminary stages of work.
<3 URF
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
We Need Volunteers!
Hey everyone!
As usual check out upcoming events on bardurf.blogspot.com! This includes two more bonfires, a screening, a volunteer meeting for CAGED and a recommended food-related event! Come to the fires, and also bring your friends to Club Fair so they can sign up for this mailing list or at least meet the interesting folks of URF!
More importantly: We need volunteers for CAGED! This event is quite serious and will be prominently featured in the Campus Center at Global vs. Local. If you feel that an aspect of your identity is trapped, restricted, ignored or otherwise "caged" by the Bard community or your community at home, we ask you to take a chance to express this to the community. Contact if9597@bard.edu for more information. And to the faculty on our mailing list, please feel free to volunteer or reach out on your own to locate students who can partake in this event. A general synopsis is below.
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CAGED:
This event focuses on a visceral representation of issues in our community. Brave volunteers express their entrapment on placards that are displayed next to a cage, inside of which they sit for a period of time. Over the course of the day the people and confessions will rotate.
Other details are up to the volunteers to discuss at meetings of their own where they can have a chance to discuss their confessions and thoughts and set parameters that they feel most comfortable with.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
First Update, Towers of Thought and CAGED
Dear URFies (URFites? URFians?)
Welcome to another year of Bard URF! This year we are the Union of
Ridiculous Freelancers (last year we were the Unlikely Realists'
Forum), so let's get to business!
Upcoming Events!
SURPRISE I won't list these because our calendar of events appears on
the front page of our blog now! This calendar will include our events,
as well as events and clubs we particularly like. This includes Poi
Joy, Tsuuuuupa Hoop, No Diner Cast, Mental Academy, Surrealist Circus
and others!
Of course emails will contain blurbs, but more complete information
will always be linked to: bardurf.blogspot.com
If you have suggestions for things to go on the calendar, email
bard.urf@gmail.com
More importantly, these emails will usually contain updates and
information on projects in motion, as opposed to those that are plan
and set:
Towers of Thought: Ten Years Later
Project Heads: Amii Legendre and Jono Naito
This Sunday we will be handing out notecards at the 9/11 screening and
panel. On these people will respond to the event or our questions. We
will compose these cards into long strands that are placed throughout
the Campus Center in pairs. They are offset in height slightly to
suggest the towers symbolically. We will hang these on Sunday, Monday,
Wednesday and Friday morning, then take them down the next Sunday (a
week later). These responsibilities can be distributed among several
people so we don't overwhelm one person.
We will offer people to write more responses on cards on 9/11, the
bonfires and at the info desk until Friday, occasionally hanging more
pieces.
We will also be running 9-11pm bonfires on the 11th, 13th and 15th as
"safe spaces" to discuss some poignant questions as posed by Amii.
Show up to help keep things rolling and to share your thoughts.
CAGED
Project Heads: Jono Naito, Izzy Filkins, Brian Mateo
On the weekend of the 24/25th this month there is a large scale event
called Global vs. Local, designed to look at how subjects we try to
deal with abroad (discrimination, for example) may not be as well
focused on in our own community. Ann Seaton, Brian and Amii have all
invited us to conduct the CAGED event in the Campus Center during
either or both days of this event.
To explain CAGED, it's is a performance art piece where a person
displays an honest and heavy confession abut themselves feeling
trapped in their community while they sit in the cage. Volunteers and
confessions are switched out every hour. Whether the cage is
decorated, if the volunteers can talk, etc. will be discussed at
volunteer meetings.
We need a cage. We need volunteers. We need to move fast. A meeting
slot will be selected ASAP to start the mediation between volunteers
to go in the cage. Speak to Izzy or Jono immediately to get involved
ASAP. For example, jn8828@bard.edu is a good place to start. Warning
to volunteers: You are expected to be very honest and to be brave in
making a personal statement. Do not take this lightly. If you know
anyone who would like to do this, tell them!
Contemporaneous is this weekend! Go to it. Hoop/Poi/Improv/Circus
should all be attended as well. Have fun! Get involved if you want to
help out, otherwise have a nice week.
<3 URF
Welcome to another year of Bard URF! This year we are the Union of
Ridiculous Freelancers (last year we were the Unlikely Realists'
Forum), so let's get to business!
Upcoming Events!
SURPRISE I won't list these because our calendar of events appears on
the front page of our blog now! This calendar will include our events,
as well as events and clubs we particularly like. This includes Poi
Joy, Tsuuuuupa Hoop, No Diner Cast, Mental Academy, Surrealist Circus
and others!
Of course emails will contain blurbs, but more complete information
will always be linked to: bardurf.blogspot.com
If you have suggestions for things to go on the calendar, email
bard.urf@gmail.com
More importantly, these emails will usually contain updates and
information on projects in motion, as opposed to those that are plan
and set:
Towers of Thought: Ten Years Later
Project Heads: Amii Legendre and Jono Naito
This Sunday we will be handing out notecards at the 9/11 screening and
panel. On these people will respond to the event or our questions. We
will compose these cards into long strands that are placed throughout
the Campus Center in pairs. They are offset in height slightly to
suggest the towers symbolically. We will hang these on Sunday, Monday,
Wednesday and Friday morning, then take them down the next Sunday (a
week later). These responsibilities can be distributed among several
people so we don't overwhelm one person.
We will offer people to write more responses on cards on 9/11, the
bonfires and at the info desk until Friday, occasionally hanging more
pieces.
We will also be running 9-11pm bonfires on the 11th, 13th and 15th as
"safe spaces" to discuss some poignant questions as posed by Amii.
Show up to help keep things rolling and to share your thoughts.
CAGED
Project Heads: Jono Naito, Izzy Filkins, Brian Mateo
On the weekend of the 24/25th this month there is a large scale event
called Global vs. Local, designed to look at how subjects we try to
deal with abroad (discrimination, for example) may not be as well
focused on in our own community. Ann Seaton, Brian and Amii have all
invited us to conduct the CAGED event in the Campus Center during
either or both days of this event.
To explain CAGED, it's is a performance art piece where a person
displays an honest and heavy confession abut themselves feeling
trapped in their community while they sit in the cage. Volunteers and
confessions are switched out every hour. Whether the cage is
decorated, if the volunteers can talk, etc. will be discussed at
volunteer meetings.
We need a cage. We need volunteers. We need to move fast. A meeting
slot will be selected ASAP to start the mediation between volunteers
to go in the cage. Speak to Izzy or Jono immediately to get involved
ASAP. For example, jn8828@bard.edu is a good place to start. Warning
to volunteers: You are expected to be very honest and to be brave in
making a personal statement. Do not take this lightly. If you know
anyone who would like to do this, tell them!
Contemporaneous is this weekend! Go to it. Hoop/Poi/Improv/Circus
should all be attended as well. Have fun! Get involved if you want to
help out, otherwise have a nice week.
<3 URF
Saturday, September 3, 2011
TSUPA HOOP
circus skill subgroup with bard's favorite hoopers. keep an eye out for meetings. BECOME LIKE THIS GUY:
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Running an URF Project
So at our first meeting you will all hear about our organizational change concerning events. Or the meeting may have happened and I told you to come here. In order to not overburden myself and to ensure everything can run without Sarah or I, when things come up as potential projects, a person will take it on as the leader. This mean a division of labor and responsibility.
By taking on a project, you are committing to doing a peice of work woth the resources and manpower of URF at your disposal, although you must motivate the process on your own. This is likely preferred to a sytem of officers who oversee different processes (aka one person always does advertising), instead letting a given individual locate the necessary people and materials to do anything.
Note that Village J remains ours through a diligence to offer things to the community. By choosing to head a project, you are being awesome and have helped Village J not only remain, but thrive.
Below is a checklist of things to consider:
-Most important of all: Set a date that works! Try not to conflict with other things, and once you have a date, stick to it and prepare as well as possible. It is hard to change things at the last second. There are/will be two slots that are identified as good times to plan things, and the schedule for these time slots will be available in the laundry room. Grab 'em quick!
Screenings/Meetings/Music Exchanges/Other events in J suites
-Advertise!
-Send the date, time and info to jn8828@bard.edu and I will post it on the SPARC calendar for all to see, as well as put it in the weekly update.
-Get permission from the hosting suite
Events elsewhere:
-Guerilla art or performance art may need training, rehearsal, preperation, etc. but may not need registering, etc.
-Advertise more!
-Stop by SPARC to reserve the space, put it on the calendar and register it! I can't do this for you, but if you stop by when I'm in the office it'll be easier. If you stop by any other time, you need to bring a second event host.
-Send me info to put in the weekly update.
-Locate people and prepare them for anything that needs to be done.
-Meet with special staff and ensure the event can be run (e.g. in Kline)
-Submit check requests and reimbursement information to access club budgets.
<3 Jono
By taking on a project, you are committing to doing a peice of work woth the resources and manpower of URF at your disposal, although you must motivate the process on your own. This is likely preferred to a sytem of officers who oversee different processes (aka one person always does advertising), instead letting a given individual locate the necessary people and materials to do anything.
Note that Village J remains ours through a diligence to offer things to the community. By choosing to head a project, you are being awesome and have helped Village J not only remain, but thrive.
Below is a checklist of things to consider:
-Most important of all: Set a date that works! Try not to conflict with other things, and once you have a date, stick to it and prepare as well as possible. It is hard to change things at the last second. There are/will be two slots that are identified as good times to plan things, and the schedule for these time slots will be available in the laundry room. Grab 'em quick!
Screenings/Meetings/Music Exchanges/Other events in J suites
-Advertise!
-Send the date, time and info to jn8828@bard.edu and I will post it on the SPARC calendar for all to see, as well as put it in the weekly update.
-Get permission from the hosting suite
Events elsewhere:
-Guerilla art or performance art may need training, rehearsal, preperation, etc. but may not need registering, etc.
-Advertise more!
-Stop by SPARC to reserve the space, put it on the calendar and register it! I can't do this for you, but if you stop by when I'm in the office it'll be easier. If you stop by any other time, you need to bring a second event host.
-Send me info to put in the weekly update.
-Locate people and prepare them for anything that needs to be done.
-Meet with special staff and ensure the event can be run (e.g. in Kline)
-Submit check requests and reimbursement information to access club budgets.
<3 Jono
Friday, August 26, 2011
Potential Projects
Hey everyone! I am going to take a moment to list possible things we can get involved in this semester that I know about so far:
-Amii would like some people to do an event for 9/11
-The CAGED event can be staged
-Freeze in Kline
-Organic Canvas '11
-Brian wants to do Paparazzi
-Begin screening Game of Thrones each week
-Another Beatboxing workshop by AmstarKatz
-PC's are thinking of making Manor into a haunted house this October
-Officially sponser NaNoWriMo on campus
-Retool and restart the URF book club
-Donut Ninjas!
If anything comes to mind, be sure to mention it at Homecoming!
<3 Jono
-Amii would like some people to do an event for 9/11
-The CAGED event can be staged
-Freeze in Kline
-Organic Canvas '11
-Brian wants to do Paparazzi
-Begin screening Game of Thrones each week
-Another Beatboxing workshop by AmstarKatz
-PC's are thinking of making Manor into a haunted house this October
-Officially sponser NaNoWriMo on campus
-Retool and restart the URF book club
-Donut Ninjas!
If anything comes to mind, be sure to mention it at Homecoming!
<3 Jono
Monday, August 22, 2011
Homecoming
Join URF for food, stories, strange dancing, gender bending, new friends, old friends and probably a cake. Just in Village J starting at 7! Help us start the year off well!
<3 Jono
<3 Jono
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