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ARTS COMMITTEE
MEETING NOTES
December 6, 2007

Thanks Laura and Charlene who provided us with some very tasty snacks for that evening.

We discussed quite a few things last week which I will recap below, but primarily we need to focus our attention on getting garden homes and holiday homes set up for 2008. Our next meeting will be held in February, so please bring names of people who might be interested. Ive already asked Sharon Gammell (owner of Thayers B&B) who might be interested in the garden tour, but she hasnt committed yet.

Other topics of discussion:

Using the AHS Auditorium

We would like to use the auditorium at the high school for some other potential events. Laura will be trying to get a meeting set up with our group and the woman that heads up the performing arts center in Cokato to see what they do.

Summer Concerts (and drawing more crowds)

o       Dawn and I discussed this awhile ago, but we were wondering if any local business owners would possibly donate signs to use to advertise our summer concerts. Im going to talk to Wade at Sign city in the next couple of weeks, but if anyone knows anybody else, please follow up with them. Signs could be either laminated canvas to hang between poles or sandwich board signs, etc.

o       Along the same lines of getting the word out we talked about some or all of the different lake associations including concert information in their newsletters.

o       Another suggestion was renaming our concerts to a PIP series which stands for Performances in the Park where we could have other performers like jugglers, cloggers, comedians, etc. rather than always having concerts.

o       We also discussed having an Annandale Idol or Annandales Got Talent contest next year. Out of the 6 Fridays of performances, 3 of them could be related to the Idol contest which could draw more people and get them accustomed to coming on Fridays, it would also save us money so that we could possibly afford a bigger name act (like Tonic Sol Fa) to perform.

Fundraisers

o       Need garden owners and holiday home owners

o       We talked about splitting up poster and prize patrol. We are going to split up all the participating businesses for donations around the different team members and team members will be responsible for hanging posters and getting prizes for their sector.

Next meeting: Thursday, February 7th at 5:00 at the Snooty Fox.

Wendy Webb