GSA Invitation

This is the text to be sent to teachers, organizers of GSA orgs in theirs schools, inviting them to invite us to come.

Inviting Q Elders To Talk At Your School is easy!

The Nova Scotia Elderberries has a sub group called The Speakers Bureau. We’ve been doing this free of charge, for a long time: we have a record of us — not the Elderberries, but the grandparent organization, GAE -- doing something exactly like this in September, 1982! and we were probably doing it long before!

Travel costs for the Elderberries are paid for by a sponsoring organization; you don’t have to pay for anything.

possible graphic: historical request

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How Do I Get Some Q Elders To My School?

possible graphic: Elderberries at a school:

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It’s possible for us to operate within a 1-hour time slot if necessary, but 1.5 hours or 2 hours works much better.

First, pick a time when you’d like us there. It’s much easier for you to pick a date and check with us rather than asking when we’re available -- we’re almost always available. Email your suggested date & time to AtlanticCanadaElderberries@gmail.com and we’ll try to get back to you promptly.

If you need to know exactly who’s going to be actually showing up, we can tell you a few days in advance.

Then, a couple days before, ask your students to submit questions. We much prefer to get them on recipe/index cards, and this lets your students submit them more or less anonymously. Don’t worry about offending us: we were over getting offended before you were born. You don’t have to send the questions to us ahead of time.

If you have a specific topic you’d like us to address, please do tell us ahead of time if you can.

What happens?

We’ll show up, you can introduce us as a group (we can supply the text if you want) give us the deck of questions, and hand things over to us.

We’ll introduce ourselves and sort the deck of questions and use up about 3/4 of the time answering them.

Then we’ll open the floor - that is, ask the students students for questions, either fresh or followup.

Then we all thank each other and we head home!