2024-12-21 Christmas Salon Soirée
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This is the official main page for the 2024-12-21 Christmas Salon Soirée event.
Currently this wiki-page is all about organizing this event. Eventually the organizing content will be relocated to another dedicated wiki-page so this wiki-page will be dedicated to promoting the event with all the related information. After the event media galleries may be added.
Flyer
What
Christmas Salon Soirée
Potluck & BYOB
When
Saturday, December 21, 2024
5:00pm+
Where
Drouillard Road, near Tecumseh Road.
- More soon.
Noteworthy
- Artists will present some of their work (perhaps some is for sale?)
- Currie Soulliere - illustrations (in town December 7th onward)
- Emma Odrach - will read from Wave Of Terror, her translation of, her father, Theodore Odrach's book
- Jason Carswell - Janglers demo reel of animated television commercials, graphic design, and fire poi performance
- another artist needed? (sell your art!)
- another musician or musical group needed?
- another performer needed?
- got a talent or skill to share?
- You or someone you know? Let us know!!!
- December 21st is the solstice.
- Santa will visit from 5pm to ~9pm.
- Then Santa will then change into civilian clothes and dance with fire poi.
- "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.
Organizing
- Contact Jason@Projex.Wiki or Emma with help, ideas, suggestions, etc.
- More soon.
This section will soon be moved out of the way to 2024-12-21 Christmas Salon Soirée/Organizing so the public won't be confused and deterred 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 ???
- ☐ 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?
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
- ☐ Bruno will mention in emails, and maybe coordinate?
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 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
To be played in the basement, garage, and/or main floor...
- YouTube playlist, compiled by Jason : ♪♫ Unconventional 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:
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.
- ☑ Jason will design the WEFreedom logo and share it on Projex.Wiki.
- ☑ Jason will design reminder flyer #2 of 3 and share it on Projex.Wiki.
- ☐ Jason will design full-info flyer #3 of 3 and share it on Projex.Wiki.
- ☐ Jason will draft up WEFreedom event templates anyone may use.
- ☐ We will settle on the final versions.
- ☐ Everyone may share on Facebook and beyond, reaching out to fringe groups like Leamington, Maidstone, Puce, Sanctuary, London Druthers Boys, etc.
Space preparations
Basement : Propaganda Room
Propaganda Room (WEFreedom Zone) will include:
- ☑ 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)
- ☐ WEFreedom pamphlets, as seen 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
- ☐ 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
Gallery
- More soon.