Sep
17
On the call: Manish Mishra (President) Danielle DiBona (Vice President), Hafidha Acuay (Communications Coord), Leslie Takahashi-Morris (MultiRacial Caucus Liaison), Robette Dias (Recording Secretary), Elandria Williams (GA Coordinator), Mel Hoover (2nd Vice President), Denise Hall (Youth and Young Adult Liaison); and Guest: Wade Price (for first half of call relevant to Fall Conference planning)
Fall Conference Planning
Wade reported conference registration materials are ready to go, Hafidha will post to the website.
Steering Committee will meet at the conference on Friday during the day, the conference will start at dinner time. Manish arrives in Denver on Thursday around 2PM. Would be nice for us all to have dinner together. Manish will invite Laurel Hallman (potential candidate for future UUA President) to meet with SC on Friday for a follow up conversation (to the meeting that happened at General Assembly).
Denise talked about publicity, getting the word out to the district so that the DEs, etc. can do publicity within the district for the conference.
Need to work on: airport pickups; meals (dinner Friday-lunch Sunday) Denise suggested Natalie (yay!) Denise will check it out. Joseph Santos-Lyons volunteered to help Natalie if she is chosen. Local MDD DRUUMM chapter (about 12 people) can help with food and transportation. Denise will work with the Church and Wade around securing the whole space for use during the conference. Denise will coordinate chaperones for youth staying at the church. Denise and Wade have been talking regularly, will begin talking at least weekly from now on. Diana Mapes at the Church is the person to talk to about the kinds and sizes of the rooms that will be available for our use.
Conference Programming
Bill Sinkford (UUA President) wants to come to Fall Conference, do we want him to have a specific role? Julie needs to make travel arrangements for him. Chit chat doesn’t seem particularly effective. Mel mentioned capital campaign, suggested having conversation about supporting programming for POC. Changes in youth programming, how is youth of color going to be nurtured with restructuring. Manish suggested Bill meeting with break out groups, targeted roundtables, interest groups something like that on Saturday. Opportunities for more informal conversations with Bill, Elandria suggested people writing questions on note cards on Friday.
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Sep
17
Registration forms and parental release forms are available now for download. Register today for the DRUUMM annual conference, to be held in Denver, Colorado over Veteran’s Day weekend (9th to 11th). Click the links below to download and print off the forms. Attendees under the age of 18 will need to complete and send the parental release form.
DRUUMM 2007 Conference Parental Release Form
DRUUMM 2007 Conference Registration Form
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