In attendance: Ashley, Jackson (moderator), Sammi (moderator), Ty (secretary)

Meeting Start: 7:00 PM

1)Upcoming Events: The Beehive Collective is coming tomorrow! Ashley will call Tyler tonight after the meeting to make the final preparations. We have most everything ready to go, though!

2) Band: There’s a band who wants to play here! We’re free when they want to play, but Ashley’ll ask them questions to see whether they fit the usual band criteria.

3) Meeting: Ashley and Jackson have a Doane presentation next Monday, so next meeting will be cancelled.

4) Website: Our website has crashed! Ella has set up a page with our other methods of contact, and she’s working hard to get it back up again. New website will be done in the next couple months!

Meeting adjourned: 7:34 PM

In attendance: Ashley (moderator), Jackson (secretary), Sammi (moderator)

Start time: 7:01 PM

1. Event Review – Our Isreal/Palestinian conflict discussion was on Saturday. Turnout was a little low, but the conversation went well. We may not do any more of these discussions at night.

2. Upcoming Events – We have the letter-writing to prisoners event on Tuesday; Ashley is ready for it. We also have Trekkies coming up on Friday; Jackson is ready for that.

3. Buttons – Ashley had a suggestion that we possibly take our LGBTQ flag buttons to Ty’s top surgery benefit next week and split the donations between Black Cat House and Ty’s surgery fund. Jackson believes this to be a conflict of interest. Idea is tabled to next week for further discussion.

4. Books – Jackson offered four books to the library that he found at a yard sale over the weekend. We approved all four for the library. Jackson also asked for $4 to reimburse him for paying for the books, after noting he would donate the books either way. Reimbursement was also passed unanimously.

5. Bands – A riot-folk band wants to play here on Sunday, November 16th. They’re acoustic and political, so we’re cool with them playing. We also got a Facebook message today from an indie-rock band wanting to play here, but they’re probably not political and definitely not acoustic. Ashley will send them the “thanks, but no thanks” message tomorrow.

6. LSH reschedule – Only two of the five core members of LSH were able to attend the scheduled quarterly meeting last Thursday, but we can probably get four of us in the same room for this Thursday. We agree to reschedule the meeting for this Thursday.

Tabled: concert/First Friday, police zine, networking, website, buttons

Meeting adjourned: 7:30 PM

In attendance: Ashley (moderator), Ella, Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:05 PM

1. Upcoming Events – The pasta feed is coming up! We’ll get all the rest of the supplies on Wednesday, and we have extra tables and crock pots on the way. Brian from Lincoln Atheists confirmed that he’ll bring a dessert, and we need to ask Brian from Lincoln Secular Humanists whether he’s still got the garlic bread down. Otherwise, things are lookin’ good! Jackson will lead us in a traditional Pastafarian prayer.

2. Book reimbursements – Hope In A Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture came up to purchase, and we decided it was worth going for. Jackson will buy the book for $4.45, and we agreed to reimburse him for it. Jackson also wants $2.69 for mailing out a different book to swap.

3. Mail – There was a person who mailed us forever ago, and Ashley wrote him a letter back! Packaged in some zines and pronoun buttons too. We agreed to reimburse shipping for sending it to them.

4 – Beehive Collective – The Bees are coming on September 30th, and we need to give them info on what art project we want to work on during their event. We want it to be something that really affects the local community in a specific way. We spent some time brainstorming some pretty solid ideas for topics that would help the community. They also asked for the demographics of the people who come to the House, which is ages 20-30, and gender spectrum is pretty varied. The Bees will be bringing most of the supplies necessary.

Tabled: calendar, police zine, speaker stipend, networking, website, buttons

Meeting adjourned: 7:42 PM

In attendance: Ashley (moderator), Jackson (moderator), Tati (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review: The BDS did not have as much turn out as we expected, but it was still a very moving event. We’ll be doing a similar event in the fall calendar, and Ashley will make a flier for it. The movie night went awesome! It seems like our science fiction showings have been doing really well. It didn’t illicit much of a discussion, so it might not be worth repeating in upcoming years.

2. Upcoming Events: What are… Animal Rights? is on its way! Brian’s been bringing it up to his animal rights activist contacts, and we need to read up on talking points. We will also have vegan snacks. We also had a request from Sammi to be Skyped in, so we’ll facilitate that.

3. Zine Drop: We have a ton of zines concerning Columbus and why Columbus Day shouldn’t be celebrated. Ashley thinks we should leave them at locations along with our regular fliers in order to educate people on the issue. We think that’s a solid plan.

4. Wholesale Buttons: We didn’t establish a price for when we sell buttons in bulk to other organizations in town. We think 50 cents a button, for an order of 10 buttons or more would be reasonable. We also discussed selling them online and what the prices will be for that, but we decided to table that discussion for now.

5. Calendar Revision: On the current list of events for the next calendar, it says “Anti-Columbus Day Protest.” This is inconsistent with how we usually have it, as “Abolish Columbus Day Protest.” Ashley will be revising this in the past minutes.

6. Pasta Feed: The Lincoln Secular Humanists are having their Pastafarian Pasta Feed Fundraiser on September 4th, at 6 pm, co-sponsored by the Lincoln Atheists. It will be by suggested donation. We’ll prepare spaghetti, fettuccine, and whole-wheat penne, have alfredo and marinara sauce, and both veggie and meat mix-ins to the sauce. We’ll have garlic bread as a side and cupcakes as a dessert. We’ll ask other people if they’d like to bring sides and desserts as well. Tati will ask around his family for additional pots and serving bowls. Ashley will acquire crock pots to keep the sauce heated.

7. Library: Since updating the website has been delayed, we’ll be resuming adding books to the library database.

Meeting adjourned: 7:43 PM

Tabled: Speaker stipend, Networking, Website, Buttons

In attendance: Ashley (moderator), Jackson (secretary), Tati (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Upcoming Events – We are hosting a BDS discussion on Thursday. All that Charles needed from us was a projector, which we have. We’re also showing Godzilla on Saturday night. No problems there, either.

2. Reimbursement/Website – Fatcow has renewed our hosting for another year, and Jackson needs reimbursement for $148.36. We’ll be on their hosting for another year. Jackson also sought, and received, reimbursement for $1.07 for printing button papers last week.

3. Calendar correction – Ashley forgot to add the letter-writing to prisoners event to the calendar last week. Here’s the updated schedule:

Lincoln Secular Humanists Pastafarian Pasta Feed Fundraiser Sept 4th @6
Lincoln Secular Humanists Meeting Sept 11 @7
What is… the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Sept 13th @7
Writing Letters to Political Prisoners Sept 16th @3-6
Trekkies for Humanism: “Who Watches the Watchers” (TNG) Sept 19th @7

Abolish Columbus Day Protest (16th and O) Oct 13th @5
Zine Making Workshop Oct 18th @2
Trekkies for Humanism: “Catspaw” (TOS) Oct 24th @7

Movie Night: (A)sexual – Nov 8th @7
Trekkies For Humanism: “Critical Care” (VOY) Nov 14th @7
How to Organize Protests Nov 15 @1
Writing Letters to Political Prisoners Nov 18 @3-6

4. Books – We spent some time looking at books that have been offered to the lending library.

Meeting adjourned: 7:20 PM

In attendance: Ashley (secretary), Jackson (moderator), Phoebe, Sammi, Tati (moderator)
Start: 7:00

1. Event review: the feminist discussion group went well, even through the turn out was a bit low because Ashley didn’t get the event up soon enough.

2. Button: Ashley made some designs for buttons, anarchy flags and identity flags. We look at the rough designs, and agree to do a test batch. Ashley will send those to Jackson this week. We also decide that we’ll sell our buttons for $1. Sammi also drew some ideas for BCH buttons, Ashley will see if she can make them into buttons.

3. Beehive Collective: Tyler sent us another email, giving more details about the event. He’s making progress getting things ready at UNL, and he’s decided how the events are going to look. He’s wanting to do a brainstorming session here on Friday, and then do the actual graphics making the next. He sent us some questions to ponder before the event.

Are there currently existing, ongoing, or proposed public art projects
in Lincoln? (not necessarily “official,” just publicly viewable)

Are there issues/campaigns/events that you/your group could use graphics
for?

Are there issues in your community that are very multi-faceted?
something that would benefit from diverse perspectives coming into
conversation?

Do you have graphics/flyers/logos/whatever that could benefit from a
group rethinking and redesigning them?

Does your space allow for hands-on art-making mess? ie screen-printing,
stencil-making, or other stuff that may leave behind stains, plus we
also will need multiple tables and big sink, etc

4. Calendar: Ashley talked the collective into letting her organize a zine-making workshop.

Lincoln Secular Humanists Pastafarian Pasta Feed Fundraiser Sept 4th @6
Lincoln Secular Humanists Meeting Sept 11 @7
What is… the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Sept 13th @7
Trekkies for Humanism: “Who Watches the Watchers” (TNG) Sept 19th @7

Anti-Columbus Day Protest (16th and O) Oct 13th @5
Zine Making Workshop Oct 18th @2
Trekkies for Humanism: “Catspaw” (TOS) Oct 24th @7

Movie Night: (A)sexual – Nov 8th @7
Trekkies For Humanism: “Critical Care” (VOY) Nov 14th @7
How to Organize Protests Nov 15 @1

Jackson wants to add an off-calendar Trekkies for August, Enterprise’s “Stigma”. We’ll do it on the 22nd.

End Time: 7:58