More notes on the Still Life Aren.a
Seb/Kai, Thur Mar 24, 2022
- Taxes!
- Firehouse Docs - https://www.are.na/block/15497059
- Replacement budgets
- Income
- Scan pyramid for Kai
- Community-services (paid for by City), Programs (paid for by program fees)
- “summer camp is the cash cow”
- Pyramid: everything at the bottom is free community benefits; the top funds the bottom
- Related to DisCO idea of care work vs. work work
- What’s their revenue yearly?
- $355k all salaries ... total profit yearly, supposed to make $130k?
- ACF Meeting (3/23) - discussed challenge of grants because of LLC/cooperative status
- Fiscal sponsors for 501c3 funding
- Question: how does POWERPLNT break down payroll, staff vs. freelancer, etc?
- Kai in Bay Area? Signed a 2-month sublet (May/June) for self-directed writers retreat + July (Italy, Provincetown, Pittsburgh)
- Fort Plain Site Visit: April or before/after May 14th, April 9-10 Fort Plain Visit, or other April weekends — Kai could bring car!
- Good to figure out “goals” of visit.
- Place to stay is OK if we have week’s notice. Possibly Seb’s friend’s cabin, “Mad Duck Pond,” otherwise could crash w/ Bruce and Alfonso (?)
- Seb in Fort Plain — arrives in NY next week, living at Tolga (?)’s place
- going to meet Ni Hubbard (?) librarian, starting to launch prototype programs at Fort Plain Free Library
- library “run by young hip person who is spread so thin she says yes to everything”
- will probably offer weekly drop-ins, couple hours in weekend
- benefits of using others’ space — trust already built, sometimes (e.g. Chinatown community fridge using Canto community org space)
- Seb living at Fort Plain full time after arriving? Not sure when that starts?
- Revenue models for Still Life? How can we make this more self-sustaining, not just a couple hours per week, but every day.
- Angela Davis had 2 apts in San Diego/LA - bi-location for organizing - and affordable! on grad student salary https://twitter.com/touchfaith/status/1274035403855519744
- Workshop Menu: DJ, Coveillance, Decolonial/Anti-Racist
- “Project management”
- 3mo, 6mo, 12mo projection for Still Life.
- Ideal scenario, goals.
- e.g. “We’ve connected with 20 teens, hosted X pilot workshops.” — see “work plan” tab
- Project Management software: Notion “Board”
- Alec Resnick + Powderhouse: good person to talk to answer hard questions from parents
- Recurse Center: Get paid from tech companies who hire employees from their alumni pool - $10K / hire [probably even more these days] —- so it’s a retreat center where a lot of unemployed developers hang out. Vibes? Nice, but nerdy (feels like WeWork) — “getting hired by virtue of hanging out”
- NYU ITP, SFPC, School of MA (Machines, Making, Make-Believe) — similar-ish in terms of people finding jobs through this, revenue stream (paying for classes → access to alum networks)
- Redistributing funds from tech: tech companies will pay anything to keep their employees happy bc salaries are so high — tech retreats could be an interesting revenue stream
- Magical facilitators (Seb from Hawaii)