Editing 2024-11-20 Meeting

November 20, 2024 Speaker's Bureau appearance at Spencer House, Morris Street Hosts: Brittany Lambert <connect@spencerhouse.ca> & [another] Allison (invitation below) Speakers Bureau: Dan & Allison Brewer This came out of a chance meeting when Kaitlyn & Dan went to Spencer House for a Quaker meeting. Spencer House nicely provided lunches for Allison and I. Besides Brittany and Allison, there were six Spencer regulars around the table, including Ginger, who Barend recently interviewed. One named Janice, ran a group very similar to the Elderberries in the 1970s (and said she'd join.) We got there at 12:30 and left at 3:00; it was an extremely pleasant afternoon. Format of talk: * Dan's & Allison's self introductions * Introduction to Allison * Doing history work - why and how * An introduction to the Elderberries * And a storytelling round table which I recorded: topic: “The LGBT Folk in my community when I was growing up.” ===Invitation=== Brittany: I'm just writing to confirm that upcoming Spencer House and Elderberries collaboration as well as your Lunch and Learn time speaking about your work as a historian. I have you scheduled in for next week and there are some members who are very excited. It's due time we start recognizing our queer members formally in our programming so I'm very excited to see how this goes! "The topic can be anything at all! I'm more interested in everyone having fun and enjoying themselves than ensuring it's a "wellness" activity because building community is wellness! You can invite as many Elderberries as you like, the more the merrier. I think the room fits about 35 people seated and even after that we'd make it work if we needed to. The only presentation I think we'd like to see is on what The Elderberries are/what they do and how to get involved. I would hope that this event not only introduces the Elderberries to Spencer House but also Spencer House to the Elderberries! We could plan a game or come up with a storytelling/sharing prompt if you think that might be a good idea? "

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