Elderberries Library: 2024-11-27 Meeting

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

Invitation list goals: representation from:

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

Food

I think it would be really good to have finger food in a buffet style, stuff that people could just load onto and refill salad plates or even small things that they could eat with a fork like quiche.

I think the criteria should be:

easy for you
not too expensive - say…. ten bucks a person? 15?
more savoury than sweet, considering old people’s diabetes, and filling, as if we’re giving them a deccent meal
and, I think the challenge: a nonalcoholic drink to pair with it. Maybe Costa Rica pear juice which I have a lot of.

The food is our bait, our reward for participating, so if you’re cooking, I will need a sentence or two about your experience.

Budget

Space- UU Church	150
Food	300
Moderator	50
Writing, Dan + Nathan	100
Total	$600

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

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
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.

Invitees

Elderberries
ACQH members
Ginger
Robin
Rebecca
Turrent Society people
Turret Memories people
Walter-jij
Nathan's friends Bruce and Deryk

RSVPs

RSVP's get put here with numbers.