Elderberries Library: 2024-11-27 Meeting

People Running the event

Nathan Elling & Dan MacKay
Kitchen Help: [ ____________ ]
Moderator: [ ___________ ] Renée Clark is not available

Place Names Discussion

Defining Moments Canada (DMC) has a project called Proud to Be: Queer Canadian Histories of the 1960s-1970s. They are creating a map of queer spaces across Canada for young people - junior and senior high school I think.

Topic: Places, spaces, that were important to the Q community in the 1960s and 1970s.

I anticipate inviting about 15 people. We will make it clear that we have limited room and will be creating a specificically diverse room.

Invitation list goals: representation from:

Old folk who were there
Diversity: Men, women, drag queens, PoC
Academics
Invitation list is below

Invitation

High Tea, Spaces & Places Discussion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If you are, or you know of someone who has a really good memory for LGBT spaces and places in Halifax and Nova Scotia in the 1970s, please read on.

Elderberries is hosting a "high tea" -- a substantial mid afternoon meal -- with a discussion about which spaces and places should get included in a short list to be published in a national LGBT history resource for young people.

The event is on November 27th from 2:00 to 4:00 with social time after, in the south end of Halifax.

We're tempting you with gourmet food; your chef will be Elderberries member Nathan Elling, former owner of Mana Cuisine in Los Angeles. Nathan worked for 10 years in LA catering large events and private parties.

We'll have limited space at the table. If you are, if you know someone with a good memory for places, please contact us or encourage them to.

Food

The food is our bait, our reward for participating. Menu - Afternoon Tea

Cucumber sandwiches with cream cheese [cold]
Smoked Salmon sandwiches with watercress dressing [cold]
Egg salad sandwiches [cold]
Curried chicken in puff pastry [warm]
Lavender cookies [warm]
Strawberry scones with clotted cream [warm]
Fresh fruit (melon, pear, apple and grapes) and white chocolate/mango “leaves”
Crudités with hummus

Budget

Space- UU Church	150
Food	200
Cook - Nathan	100
Moderator	50
Writing, Dan + Nathan	100
Materials - Maps etc	50
Unallocated	100
Total from Defining Moments	$750

A/V

I’d like to have a couple maps up — one of Nova Scotia and one of Halifax
and put Post-Its on the map as people talk about things.
Maybe people vote by the number of Post-Its.
Have Post-its pre-prepared with all the places we know about

Methodology

fifteen dots per participant (225 dots total)
11•17" sheet; front: Halifax, back: Nova Scotia
2 x 8½•14" sheet: place names with room for the dots and blank spaces

Agenda

1:00 or so: Nathan & Dan show up and set up the space
1:30: moderator arrives
1:45: People start trickling in
2:10: Moderator or I call people to order and explains what’s going on for the day
: Land acknowledgement
: Building acknowledgement: 52 years less two days ago, this church, the board, offered the LGBT community a place to meet once a week - forever, at a time when we weren't even considered human
2:15: Round of introductions
2:35: Blue sky listing of places.
3:00: Bio break
3:15: Discussion of each place and voting.
3:45: wrap up and social time.