Minutes of Student Representatives’ Meeting

Nightingale-Bamford School

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Discussion of Service Saturday

Service Saturday: Saturday October 24

• Discussed Pros and Cons of Service Saturday
• Discussed suggestions for next service Saturday
• Kate Suhr from God’s Love We Deliver gave a brief presentation and thanks

Pros of Service Saturday

• Cards were a good idea: felt personal, true community service
• People seemed to enjoy making the cards
• Not much effort was involved
• Good location

Cons of Service Saturday

• Not enough people showed up
• Wasn’t enough to do
• People would make one card, then leave
• Time may have been wrong

Suggestions for Next Service Saturday

• Hopefully sometime in the spring
• Maybe a weekday afternoon (though difficult due to conflicting sports schedules)
• Instead of making cards, something more active and that requires more attention
• Could also be on a Sunday instead of a Saturday
• Could start later
• Suggestions for making the next Service Saturday more active: volunteering at a soup kitchen, Meals on Wheels, Safe Haven
• Meals on Wheels & Safe Haven have been successful in the past

Holiday Carnival

• Now scheduled for January 9, attendance of schools has changed
• Nightingale no longer able to attend, need to find a school to cover for them
• Stations have stayed the same as last year for the most part
• Hewitt no longer doing freeze dance, need new station
• Need volunteers from each school
• Need volunteer photographer

Browning Event

• February 20
• Browning gym available for event
• Decide whether or not there should be a theme
• Committee of 4-5 should start meeting ASAP to plan this event
• Try and get more students to come
• Always difficult getting attendance
• Coffeehouse?
• Battle of the Bands
• Open Mic
• All of the above have been discussed, people generally agree that it should be a music-geared event, think that this would draw more attention to it
• Will this be too much like Independent Voices? Make it less formal, more music than poetry and open mic
• If we do this, start raising awareness in our schools and seeing if people would perform or not

“FEAST” Festival of the Arts—possible Browning event

• Upcoming (spring) Arts Festival
• Dates undecided: could be the February 20 event at Browning or possibly March, if location is available
• Could plan for next fall, may be hard to work out this year
• A festival where students auction off or show their art and either people buy it or pay an entry fee
• Money goes to charity
• Still need to figure out whether the art will be auctioned or just shown
• Figure out a space, date
• New acronym
• Try and e-mail students at each school for an estimate of how many people would submit art

Next Meeting: December 10^th at Columbia

                              4 West 93^rd Street