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

Invitation

Former owner of Mana Cuisine in Los Angeles. Worked for 10 years in LA and for a number of different kitchens including Grub (Betty Frasier and Ilan Hall - now at Ramen Hood, were both on Top Chef) as chef de partie (various); Bread and Butter Catering (Michael Brooks has been catering for the American Film Institute, the Hollywood Foreign Press and celebrity clients for over 40 years) as chef de partie (various); Bites Catering (Elizabeth Goal has catered private celebrity events for over 20 years) as line cook; Joe Bastianich, as line cook/garde manger for American Idol; Boston Group LA (now Wolfgang Puck) as line cook, grill and garde manger for large events. I am self-taught.

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

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

1. RSVP's get put here with numbers.