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Hey guys. Here's the minutes for last Thursday's class, sorry it's late. Let me know if I've made any mistakes that need modifying.

Minutes for Literary Journal/Thursday 7th March 2013

In Attendance
Claire Alexander
Gemma Auld
John Campbell
Jennifer Carr
Jenna Couston
Kathleen Coyle
Marissa Dacey
David Finnighan
Kerry Ann Kerr
Anthony Lydon
Rachel MacDonald
Edan MacKenzie
Callum McSorley
Michelle O’Donnell
Melissa Reid
David Rush
Dean Turner

Minutes Recap
The workshop began with a recounting of last week’s minutes, read out by Jennifer Carr, to make sure that most of the action points set out the previous week had been accomplished:
- David Finnighan and Claire Alexander were finishing up editing submissions before looking into starting a “Flux” blog.
- Kwaku Adjei never got back to them following their request for financial aid.
- Melissa Reid will pay less than the £20 deposit, as she has already covered the fonts for the posters
- Kathleen Coyle attended a book-reading of Alan Bisset and he may attend some of our future events. She also talked to the president of the Scottish Pen – he will help to spread the word of our journal.
- No official responses from teachers (apart from Lucy Burnett) on submitting material for the journal
- Michelle O’Donnell has posted a list of reading events we could attend on the forum
- The “Flux” website will be up and running by next week (from 11th March)

Finance
There have been problems with the bank account at the Student Union, for reasons unknown, though we believe our application was processed incorrectly. As such, we discussed the idea of setting up an external account, preferably with RBS. Rachel MacDonald will oversee this.
We also discussed the possibility of visiting the alumni again, to see if we could request the money that remains from the amount that last year’s journal (Maement) borrowed. We agreed that we don’t need a significant amount, perhaps just £2000 to go alongside whatever funds we manage to raise. We agreed on the possibility of asking David Kinloch for help in this area.
After this, we had a discussion on what we could do with our profits. Most class members agreed that making a donation to a local charity would be a good idea and the Beatson Oncology Centre at Gartnavel Hospital procured the most votes. This will also be good to put on the blog.


External Submissions
David F confirmed that, at the moment, we have received no external submissions yet. However, Kathleen mentioned that, at the reading event she attended, she met author Mary McDonagh and she had expressed interest about submitting something for our journal, as well as agreeing to trace other authors who may be interested.
Afterwards, we discussed why external submissions may not have been forthcoming. Rachel and Melissa suggested making modifications to our posters, making the deadline date more visible, putting them up in other areas of campus (Livingstone tower, lifts, staircases), while David Rush suggested making “Strathclyde students” more prominent on the posters, as well as maybe sending out an email on external submissions to all students. Callum McSorley suggested printing off posters and placing them in rehearsal spaces around campus. We all agreed, to save on printing costs, to print off a number of copies each.
Melissa and David R also agreed to maybe send out requests for submissions to the Arts mailing list of the Strathclyde Telegraph.
David F and Claire will contact Ewan Morrison over the possibility of him contributing. Kathleen will contact Rodge Glass with the same aim.

“Broadcast” event and Roles
We then discussed our upcoming fundraising event at “Broadcast” on Tuesday, March 19th. The event is up on Facebook, with a number of confirmed guests. We have also agreed to place “donation jars” around the venue, so people can donate money to our funds if they so wish. We allocated the following jobs:
Kathleen/Jenna Couston: Will sell entry tickets, priced at £3.00 a head.
Gemma Auld: Will buy raffle tickets from the Pound Shop. Strips of five tickets will be sold for £1.00.
Claire: Prizemaster – will announce the winners of the raffle.
Marissa Dacey/Kathleen: Will sell raffle tickets. Kathleen will sell them at the door, while Marissa will sell them inside.
Dean Turner: Compaire.

Action Points
- Further discussions on the “Broadcast” event, allocating decorators, transport supervisors, stage/band detail, prize managers, etc.
- Investigate “Weegie Wednesdays” and see who is available to attend them.

Aww I'm gutted I missed this home baking chat otherwise I would have made some too!

I was also wondering if my name could go in as suggesting the charity thing please x

Hey guys. Sorry this is way overdue. Won't be so late next time.

Minutes for Literary Journal/21st March 2013

In Attendance

Claire Alexander
Gemma Auld
John Campbell
Jennifer Carr
Jenna Couston
Marissa Dacey
David Finnighan
Kerry Ann Kerr
Anthony Lydon
Rachel MacDonald
Callum McSorley
Michelle O’Donnell
Katharina Prokopp
Melissa Reid
David Rush

Apologies

Kathleen Coyle

Discussion of the Launch Event – Michelle O’Donnell suggested either The Lighthouse or Sloan’s as a possible venue, with the latter being appropriate as the oldest pub in Glasgow, tying into the theme of time. She also suggested the idea of handing out goodie bags on the night, filled with bookmarks (which Claire Alexander suggested we hand out instead of flyers because they are more appropriate to reading material and customers are more likely to keep them) pens and notepads with the “Flux” logo.

Pre-Launch Coffee Morning – Suggested in order to get news of “Flux” around and secure more buyers. Suggestions as to where this could be held included The Priory, the Ramshorn Theatre and The Butterfly and the Pig.

Funds from Fundraiser – Jenna Couston put the entry fee money, bake sale money and totebags money into our RBS bank account. In the event of a second raffle at another fundraiser, Melissa Reid suggested getting buyer’s addresses in order to send them prizes should they leave before the winners are announced.

Finances – David Finnighan announced that the printing costs and the payment of the “Broadcast” venue and the illustrator have been taken care of, but the alumni will not grant us extra funds until we have accurately cost everything out. If they won’t give us a loan, we will go back to the previous plan of having every class member donate £20 into a pool. The class voted against the use of colour within the journal as a cost-saving measure.

Continuation of Class – Once the semester concludes, we agreed to continue meetings until the journal is completed. Since we are a society at the Union, we decided to ask for permission to use the Debates Chamber for further meetings. The agreed time will be 1-hour workshops at 12pm on Mondays, starting after Easter break on April 8th. If this isn’t possible, we will meet instead in Library discussion areas.

Also... Just to add, we also chatted about whether we need colour in the journal and voted no unanimously I think. Also, my suggestion for raffles was to start selling raffle tickets a few weeks before the event - maybe selling them in work, and giving people we know a couple to sell to people they know etc.