i ♥ SF!

Marina and Norma met up with Crystal's at her lovely home for a super happy awesome productive meeting! With us we brought ideas for the i ♥ SF! visual treasure hunt and a list of things that need to be done in order to successfully pull this off. These are listed here in order of importance:

Finding a Gallery Space to Host Our Party
Homework assignment: Get following info from these galleries for hosting the opening party.

• What are the going rates for a night/ week?
• Can we do it for free if we give them the bar profit?
• Do they have capability to do film projection? music setup? bar?
• What is their general contract on commission for sold art? (for future reference)
• What is their general vibe as a gallery space?

Date of treasure hunt and opening party: July 17th
Date of winners circle closing party: July 27-28th

GALLERIES TO CONTACT:
Space Gallery http://www.spacegallerysf.com/
Cell Space http://www.cellspace.org/new/
Million Fishes Arts Collective http://www.millionfishes.com/
The Red Poppy Art House http://www.redpoppyarthouse.org/
The Women's Building http://womensbuilding.org/content/
SUB-Mission (formerly Balazo 18) http://www.sf-submission.com/


Treasure Hunt/ Opening Party: July 17th
This schedule is TBD.

• 12pm-6pm: Treasure Hunt
• 6pm: All entries have been uploaded
• 8pm: Opening Party- Viewing Show and Voting
• 10pm: Voting Closed- Dance Party!

The Winners Circle/ Closing Party: July 27-28th

• On a weekday, expect less people.
• Winners will be announced and prizes given.
• Prizes: coffee table book of winning and favorite entries to all winners, a trophy to first place, and a photo spread in August issue of inGEN (Norma to propose idea to inGEN.)
  
• Sell extra coffee-table books for profit.
• There's a chance here to have the winning entries printed, framed and shown for this party, but that is TBD depending on cost.

Ideally, the closing party happens about 1.5-2 weeks after the opening party to give us time to tally up votes and have these coffee table books printed. Research printing companies for books: Walgreens, etc.


i ♥ SF! Treasure Hunt
Divide into categories per difficulty (for voting). easy/medium/hard.

Items for the visual treasure hunt:

1. yoda statue
2. a specific heart (sf art heart)
3. jellyfish
4. public urination
5. favorite water feature
6. an absurd expression of a san francisco stereotype
7. a miracle
8. laughter
9. i ♥ sf because...
10. cross-dresser

Teams are encouraged but not required.
Buy in for each entry: $5 per individual person, $10 per team




Promotion/ Press-Release

• Advertise in the July issue of inGEN. - Norma
• Online flyer - Norma
• Advertise online: Going, SF Weekly, SF Gate, SF Station, Funcheap, Artkrush

To Do

• Find gallery space.
• Come up with press release/ description of event.
• Write up a contract for entries: they agree to render all rights of the photos uploaded to our website to WAM for showing and reproducing. Also agree to have their photos used in inGEN if they win.
• Set up sign in feature in WAM website for creating a new account and entering the contest. Entry into contest is given upon payment through Paypal link. (Also add to WAM website.)
• Set up FTP upload option to WAM website for this treasure hunt. We will have to come up with file naming specs for each team, or different log-in setups for the organizing of files for viewing and voting.
• Marina to set up WAM Paypal account.

NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, May 4th | 7pm @ Quetzal