September 20th Artists for Social Healing Potluck Dinner notes

9/20 Artists for Social Healing Meeting notes

• People volunteered for positions that will assist the group in its growth.

• We discussed where we wanted Arts for Social Healing go and what we want it to be.

• Participants said they would be willing to come together to put art out into the world under a particular topic or focus.

• Participants are leaning toward Inter-medium art collaborations

• Suggestion:

o Put young peoples art in places where perceptions of youth are negative; showing young people are viable and productive
o The art would be an advocacy tool
? Location Suggestion
• Municipal Court buildings

• How do we address the term “Social Healing”
• The term sends people down different roads
• Artists want to use Artists for Social Healing as a validation for their work and “community building”
• Should we have a mission statement?
• Lots of networking
• People willing to listen to other artists goals and assist them and or direct them to other groups with a similar focus.

Who volunteered -

Elizabeth – describe the potluck, post it on the www.socialhealingarts.org forum

Rochelle – host the next potluck, in January.

Andrea and Zhaleh – make invitation to the potluck and email it out to the listserv (and hopefully other places)

Lisa – facilitate an arts process during the potluck to help us explore and articulate the purpose of getting together

Molly – write up contact list and send it to all who attended; contact Diane and call people who said they wanted to volunteer with Zing

Anne and Zhaleh – write up a brief description of what the group is for; post it on the listserv and the website.