2024-12-21 Christmas Salon Soirée/Organizing

To Do
To do on this wiki-page: ☑ draft project outline ☐ add more information and updates ☑☑ design flyers ☑☐ promote this event Contact Jason@Projex.Wiki 519-903-0560 or Emma with help, ideas, suggestions, etc.

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Christmas Salon Soirée
Saturday, December 21, 2024,
2nd of 3 reminder flyers.

Organizing

Contact Jason@Projex.Wiki 519-903-0560 or Emma with help, ideas, suggestions, etc.

Main-event wiki-page: 2024-12-21 Christmas Salon Soirée

The Organizing section was relocated to this sub-wiki-page from the main-event 2024-12-21 Christmas Salon Soirée wiki-page so we may share the main page and folks won't be confused and distracted with unnecessary noise.

Christmas party food

Who's bringing what?

Let's add your name, what you're sharing, what's noteworthy (ie. gluten-free, warnings for alcohol, nuts, pot, etc.), and Jason will print up nice signs.

☐ Colleen: cupcakes?

☐ Popeye: spinach

☐ Yentl: lentils

Christmas party projects

We need folks to lead and/or help on these projects:

Activities

☐ activities for adults

☐ activities for children

☐ look up Christmas party activities

☐ look up Christmas party ideas

☐ look up Christmas party organizing

☐ look up Christmas party things to do

Art

☑ Fire play performances by Jason

☐ need to find leather strapping, bought but misplaced

☐ need to buy lamp oil, kerosene, and/or white gas

☑ Musical performances by Mike McCourt

☑☑☑ Illustrations by Currie Soulliere, Bruno Romanzin, and Peggy Curley

☐ Video by Jason

Christmas carol lyric rewrites to be freedom-focused - to be collected and printed as a page or few.

☐ look up Christmas carols that have been re-written

☐ look up Santarchy/Santacon/Santa Rampage carol booklets (often crass and rude)

☐ Decorations

☑ Christmas tree? (Secret Santa gifts can go under it.)

☑ Jason has a bunch of random Christmas stuff but it may not be enough

(Also, Jason is seeking paying and/or charitable Santa gigs. Friday and Saturday evenings already taken.)

(Also, Jason is collecting Christmas stuff to decorate a Santa Libertas podcast set.)

☐ Mistletoe

Donations box ?

Determine discretionary use and/or transparent accountability, and at what level?

For party expenses (food, drinks, ice, plates, decorations, lights, etc.) ?

For development of Projex.Wiki and LeverMind.net and other domains (Welcome.Wiki, WEFreedom.ca, etc.) ?

For future meeting expenses (ie. hall rental) ?

For development of the 2025 May WE Awaken event ?

☐ Csaba drive? or more anonymously "lawyer fee drive for the freedom trucker(s)"?

☐ Food drive?

☐ Toy drive?

In Our Thoughts, memory corner will be to honour folks and remember those who have passed, think about those who are not well, and consider helping those who need our support.

Ride-shares, car-pooling, designated drivers

☐ demand RSVP to participate

☐ Bruno will coordinate?

☐ Bruno will mention in emails?

Secret Santa

Everyone that wishes to participate may bring an anonymous wrapped gift that's under $20. It can be freedom-related, funny, handmade, sentimental, witty, or whatever. Avoid boring junk.

Audio/Visual

Audio + Video

Jason's audio + video to do list:

☐ borrow large speakers from Winton

☐ bring 1 large monitor and some small monitors

☐ bring 3 computers to play audio/video

☐ bring cables

☑ get 2 speaker systems from storage

☐ set up the day before or earlier

Lighting

Jason will light all areas: basement, garage, main floor, and the yard.

Jason's lighting to do list:

☐ borrow immersive light from Winton

☐ borrow light strings from Winton

☐ borrow floodlights from Winton

☑ bring lighting gear

☐ buy laser lights?

☑ buy lighting gels

☑ buy floodlight stands?

☑ get strings of lights from storage

☑ get coloured bulbs?

☑ get light fixtures and stands?

Live music

☐ To be determined. Know someone talented?

Music playlists

To be played in the basement, garage, and/or main floor...

☑ YouTube playlist, compiled by Jason : ♪♫ Unconventional Christmas Music ♪♫

☑ YouTube playlist, compiled by Jason : ♪♫ Vintage Christmas Music ♪♫

Recommendations are welcomed!

Recommendations to add to the playlist:

• Bessie Smith's 1930s Christmas music
• Nightmare Before Christmas tracks
• Spirit Of The West Home For A Rest

See also:

• ♪♫ PICNIC MUSIC ♪♫
• ♪♫ Hallowe'en Shoundz ♪♫

Jason to do

Design ASAP:

☑ design WEFreedom.ca logo

☑ design Welcome.Wiki logo

☑ design Christmas Salon Soirée flyer v2A + v2B

☑ design Christmas Salon Soirée flyer v3A + v3B

☐ design WEFreedom wine labels

☐ design WEFreedom.ca signup sheet printable document (better than the rushed "2024-09-21 Million Person March + Windsor ACTION Group + LeverMind Signup.odt" LibreOffice document)

☐ design WEFreedom Welcome pamphlet v1

☐ design Button/Pins + print

☐ promote 2025 May WE Awaken concept

☐ join, ☐ need help, ☐ support,

☐ update + add images to Big Stuff Sale

☐ design WEFreedom flyer templates

Jason December 2024:

Tue 10 : ☑ decorate basement

Wed 11 : ☑ Winton's carpet + ☑ get stickers + ☑ Media Centre (chairs, tables, rods, curtains)

Thu 12 : ☑ Winton's carpet + ☑ lighting arrived + ☑ design flyer #3 + ☑ design Welcome.Wiki logo

Fri 13 : ☐ Santa

Sat 14 : ☐ wine bottling + ☐ Santa

design ☐ button/pins + ☐ signage + ☐ sign up sheets + ☐ wine labels

draft ☐ pamphlet content + ☐ outlines

design ☐ pamphlet content + ☐ outlines

fix ☐ SSL

Sun 15 : set up ☐ audio, ☐ video, ☐ lighting + ☐ meeting

Mon 16 : ☐ design + write

Tue 17 : ☐ printing starts

Wed 18 : ☐ --- + ☐ Media Centre?

Thu 19 : ☐ printing finishes

Fri 20 : ☐ --- + ☐ Santa

Sat 21 : Salon Soirée

Print jobs:

Salon graphics should use the Georgia bold-italic font within an ovoid shape.

☐ 2025 May WE Awaken event concept

☐ "A Taste Of Freedom" wine labels x40

☐ artist names:

☐ Bruno Romanzin

☐ Currie Jean

☐ Jason Carswell

☐ Peggy Curley

☐ button/pin designs:

laser vs inkjet?

check Downloads folder and Screenshots

☐ Freedom!

☐ FREE & DUMB

☐ Guy Fawkes masks

☐ Julian Assange

☐ LeverMind.net

☐ Max Headroom x2

☐ Projex.Wiki

☐ Protect Children!

☐ Protect Freedom!

☐ Protect Health!

☐ Protect Nutrition!

☐ Protect Savings!

☐ Protect Speech!

☐ Quotes:

☐ "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong." ~ Frederick Douglass

☐ If I can't dance, I won't be part of your revolution.

☐ If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it.

☐ "There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are 'going to' do something and those who actually do it." ~ Thomas Sowell

☐ "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." ~ P. J. O'Rourke

☐ "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." ~ Benjamin Franklin

☐ Why must I accept trans folks for who they are, when they can't even accept themselves for who they were?

☐ You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing.

☐ REED MOAR!

☐ Santa Libertas

☐ Stand Up Windsor

☐ (The) media (is) the enemy of the people

☐ TRUCK FUDEAU

☐ Umbrella Movement

☐ Voluntaryism

☐ WEFreedom.ca

☐ Welcome.wiki

☐ directions:

☐ Christmas Tree ^ + Propaganda Room v + Freedom Clubhouse <

☐ Christmas Tree ^ + Propaganda Room v + Freedom Clubhouse >

☐ Freedom Clubhouse

☐ Propaganda Room

☐ Druthers:

☐ Druthers available in the Freedom Clubhouse

☐ collated Druthers collections

☐ help yourself to Druthers back issues

☐ sign up for the Druthers ACTION list

☐ LeverMind.net concept - ask Jason or stay tuned

☐ Logos:

☐ Umbrella Movement logo

☐ WEFreedom.ca logos

☐ Welcome.Wiki logos

☐ Signs:

☐ Button examples (please do not take, but please sign up for orders and/or requests)

☐ Button making (please carefully feel free to make your own.)

☐ In Our Thoughts

+ photos:

☐ Alan Kadman

☐ Dawn Mulcahey

☐ Derrick Soulliere

☐ Donald Rumsfeld

☐ Theodore Odrach

☐ Max Headroom

☐ Offer ideas and recommendations for propaganda, counter-propaganda, stuff to print out, and buttons/pins.

☐ Sign up for our communications (email / text messages) and to be in our contact book we'll eventually print and share.

☐ Trivium Method logo

☐ Watch your head x4

☐ Sign up:

☐ Offer ideas and recommendations for propaganda, counter-propaganda, stuff to print out, and buttons/pins.

☐ WEFreedom sign up sheets (we may not have your email and/or phone)

Promotion

☑ We'll progressively roll out 3 or 4 flyers over 3 or 4 weeks, each containing more and more information

☑ 1) Name of the event and save the date.

☑ 2) Same, plus some more details - ask for RSVP.

☐ 3) Same, plus most/all details - demand RSVP to get address.

1. ☑ Jason will design the WEFreedom logo and share it on Projex.Wiki.
2. ☑ Jason will design reminder flyer #2 of 3 and share it on Projex.Wiki.
3. ☐ Jason will design full-info flyer #3 of 3 and share it on Projex.Wiki.
4. ☐ Jason will draft up WEFreedom event templates anyone may use.
5. ☐ We will settle on the final versions.
6. ☐ Everyone may share on Facebook and beyond, reaching out to fringe groups like Leamington, Maidstone, Puce, Sanctuary, London Druthers Boys, etc.

Space preparations

Santa For Peace Too!
Photo by Todd Morneau.

Four logo variations for the new WEFreedom.ca domain.

Basement : Propaganda Room

Propaganda Room (WEFreedom Zone) will include:

☐ ask around for area carpets to borrow for the basement

John Jones will lend his living room carpet

formerly installed carpet can be cut to size and to stop mess edges can be duct-taped

☑ button-pin making machine to learn how to make your own

☐ computer and printer for special requests?

☑ Druthers, current and back issue compilations

☑ banners, decorations, posters, V for Vendetta masks, etc.

☐ bedsheets to divide room?

☐ furniture

☐ bed for Bruno to pass out on

☐ chairs?

☐☑ long tables (Kathy + Jason)

☐ present-wrapping table?

☐ WEFreedom developments:

☐ new meetings?

☐ new plans

☑ new web domains (Welcome.Wiki, WEFreedom.ca)

☑☐ new logos (Welcome.Wiki, WEFreedom.ca)

☐ WEFreedom pamphlets, as is developing on the Welcome page

☐ invitations to everyone to help develop future pamphlets in the planned series

☐ Windsor ACTION Group

☐ 2025 May WE Awaken event project in May

☐ other freedom information and stuff

☐ political book library

☐ setup wifi?

Garage

Hot box smoke room (and dance floor?).

Big stuff will be relocated to John Jones' garage for a week.

☑☑ chairs + table

☐ coolers?

☐ decorations

☐ setup audio (+ video?) + lighting

☑ space heaters

☐ setup wifi?

Main floor

☐ chairs + tables

☐ coolers?

☐ decorations

☐ food + drink

☑ Jason get picture frames from storage

☐ Jason get red velvet and velour curtains from storage

☐ Jason get Santa's chairs from storage

☐ music + video screen

☐ paper plates

☐ setup audio/video + lighting

☐ setup wifi?

Yard

☐ chairs? + tables?

☐ Jason get tables from storage?

☐ coolers?

☐ decorations

☐ setup lighting

Weather conditions

We may consider various scenarios that may impact preparations.

• Blizzard / Wet

  ☐ Jason: get 3 (or more?) wet-shoe mat-trays from storage

• Cold

  ☑ Jason: get 2 space heaters

• Dry
• Warm

Shopping to do

☐ not done

☑ done

Wrap up

everyone helps clean up as we go

? get festive coloured paper/plastic dishes and utensils ?

☐ Jason: get 4+ garbage pails from storage