2024-12-21 Christmas Salon & WEFreedom Soiree

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 with help, ideas, suggestions, etc.

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This is the official main page for the 2024-12-21 Christmas Salon & WEFreedom Soiree 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 & WEFreedom Soiree

When

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Time to be determined. [1:00pm to 1:00am - or - 7:00pm to 1:00am ?]

Where

Drouillard Road, near Tecumseh Road.

More soon.

Noteworthy

Santa Libertas' logo.

Santa For Peace!
Photo by Todd Morneau.

• 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 be there from [1pm?] to [9pm?].

  Then Santa will then change into civilian clothes and spin fire poi (if all goes well).

• "Memory Lane" will be a corner 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 & WEFreedom Soiree/Organizing so the public won't be confused and deterred with unnecessary noise.

Christmas party ideas

☐ look up Christmas party activities

☐ look up Christmas party ideas

☐ look up Christmas party organizing

☐ look up Christmas party things to do

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

Santa For Peace Too!
Photo by Todd Morneau.

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

☐ Activities

☐ activities for adults

☐ activities for children

☐ Art

☐ Fire play performances by Jason

☐ Musical performances by ???

☐ Illustrations by Currie

☐ 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 now has a bunch of random Christmas stuff rom Vicki, Winton's wife - but it's not remotely enough

(Also, Jason is seeking paying and/or charitable Santa gigs.)

(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 Lane will be a corner 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

☐ 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 spotlights from Winton

☐ bring lighting gear

☐ buy laser lights?

☐ buy lighting gels

☐ buy spotlight 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:

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

Promotion

1. ☐ Jason will draft up WEFreedom event templates anyone may use
2. ☐ We will settle on the final versions
3. ☐ 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.

   ☐ 4?) Address included?

4. ☐ Everyone may share on Facebook and beyond, reaching out to fringe groups like Leamington, Maidstone, Puce, Sanctuary, London Druthers Boys, etc.

Space preparations

Basement : WEFreedom Zone

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 table (Kathy?)

☐ 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

☐ setup wifi?

Garage

Hot box smoke room (and dance floor?).

☐ chairs (+ table?)

☐ coolers?

☐ decorations

☐ setup audio/video + lighting for Janglers and more?

☐ 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.