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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

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

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

Hey, Summer?

So I'm chilling here trying to think up stuff to work on in URF this year, and for the sake of this blog I will definitely post the Weekly Update as well as mail it. That should help keep the information flowing.

Hope everyone is enjoying summer!

<3JN

Bard URF Returns!

URF is going to come back next year! We have been approved for three suites in Village J and things are only starting to get crazy! Our updated list of residents are below:

Adam Bowman

Jay Barett

Matthew Cosgrove

Matthew Hughes

Sarah Longstreth

Diana Crow

Rachel Finkelstein

Becky Lipnick

Victoria Konopacki

Izzy Filkins

Samantha Rosenbaum

Julia Koerwer

Tiago Moura

Myan Melendez

and me! Jono Naito!

We also look back on a year of amazing work and saying goodbye to some of our residents. Still honorary members who always have a home with us, Ben Sobine, Bart Robello and now CJ Sulze are on our list of fabulous and unforgettable alumni.

*Holds up champagne* here is to crazy art *clinks*

Spring things

No idea if anyone even reads this! But I'm rolling in anyway.

Aside from playing Pokemon White and festering in the hell on earth that is cub scout related activities, I have spent much of this break glued to TCM. The next screening I've enlisted our little community movie theater for is "Shortbus," in an effort to trample my house with the queer brigade (a little more). Good idea, Bard deviant sexual maniacs--stop by; I think it's in two weekends (update when I get back, and I'm sure I'll facebook spam it).

Anyway, after that I'm going to vote to instate a "fuck new media" feature and foist film noirs and other old stuff on these people. Just as many old lesbians in these as anything else, not to mention sex and murder.

Upcoming things! To do my job, Contemporaneous has a show on April 1st in Hudson with some Bard composers and fabulous premieres. If you're able to go, don't miss it; these guys put on a hell of a show and this is a hell of a program.

BUT MORE RELEVANTLY TO US WE HAVE OUR APRIL FOOLS' ROCKY SHOW THAT NIGHT (first Friday after break) AT MIDNIGHT IN WEIS AND IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME. Way different from our normal offering too--edited movie with various hilarities and funny costumes and Gaga galore. Be there!

In the performance art sphere, look out for our "Caged" collaboration with the social justice dorm upstairs, coming this spring to follow up our wildly successful Dark Dining meal (below; expected to return next year, as, hopefully, are we). And stop by Village J first floor any time to get active (by which we mean sit on our couch and watch stuff)!

Still not on our mailing list? Email sl4629@bard.edu and I will HOOK YOU UP.