April 28, 2009

April 28, 2009

Meeting called to order 5:31pm ATTENDING: Bill Ritch, Chair David Benedict David Carter Cyd Hoskinson Daniel Kiernan Sketch Macquinor Nancy Skidmore Daniel Taylor Hal Wiedeman ABSENT Ron BOARD MEMBERSHIP Jonathan Strickland has resigned from the board. The next highest vote getter from the last election was Nancy Skidmore, who was voted on to replace Jonathan. CONTRACTS The next step awaits Doug Kaye’s opportunity to assign points. GOALS ASSESSMENT Q1 Cassettes are disposed of, even cassettes of products that have not been released on CD. Research specific grants: Bill has done some research Think of and take steps to get out of the mail order distribution business. Make selected live recordings and special studio projects easily available to any radio station that wants them, whether Internet based or over-the-air. (To start in Q1, but ongoing.) Q2 Rent studio time as needed. Pangaea is u$40 / hour. David B originally budgeted $600 for studio time (15 hours). When David comes back from 3-week vacation, he will be ready to proceed withJohnny Raven. Bill believes time can be made available to rehearse (although prep for Liberty will be proceeding as well). Educational video / how-to book for radio drama – show some progress. Bill suggests that we do not actually HAVE to do this, and let it go. Document essential procedures and define “essential documentation”. Production goals Rory Rammer (Q2) (very close) An Atlanta Christmas (Q2) (could happen) Throne of Shadows (Q2) OVERALL STRATEGY (LIVE SHOWS VS STUDIO RECORDINGS) Received report from Cyd: L A Theater Works does about ten live studio recordings per year. Once a month, they rent a Lecture Hall for an entire week. They rehearse there and perform Wed-Sun. This would give them five recordings of the live show. They have NOTHING written down (re our proposed how-to-do-radio-drama book). They would be very interested in an information-sharing project, perhaps a shared Wiki. Need to attract more audience. David B is working on ads and publicity. We are in need of guidelines by which we can measure success or failure. When we get people in the seats, we need to track them: count them. Pass around a mailing list. Can we direct actor resources or production resources to do five performances in one week every month (like LA Theater Works)? And to assemble this material into a salable show? David B: Whether we do live, or podcasts, or studio, we need to do MORE. Potential contacts with Connecticut School of Broadcasting or ITC: David B has tried to establish ongoing contacts with students, without success so far. CHANGE TO SOP More timely response to e-mail discussion from affected parties. “The board has told DB that they want him to make them feel rushed.” CHANGE TO SOP Membership for the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts is a permanent part of our marketing strategy. Unless our business expands tremendously, our dues will remain $150. http://atlantaperforms.com/ http://atlantaperforms.biz/ We will make this decision at the next meeting. UPCOMING MONEY-CREATING OPPORTUNITIES (summarized by Bill) 1: Charles Hammill Foundation, for “Don’t Forget to Smash the State.” 2: We have applied to Charles Hammill Foundation to adapt several SF novels to audio drama for a total of $170,000 3: Bid for a contract for $35,000 to produce a series of two-minute health spots to run on the radio and their website. ARTC will receive some money, most will go to actors, producers and directors. ARTC LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Daniel Kiernan has asked if we wish to award it this year? Consensus is yes. When? DragonCon. To whom? We have previously decided to ask the previous recipients to vote on new nominees henceforth. Only one of them responded to last year’s solicitation. The engraver no longer has our master. It will cost us about $150 for startup, plus about $50 for one plaque. We need to locate a sample plaque and circulate it to solicit bids. MOTION Sketch/Hal that if we do not have three competitive bids by the next board meeting, that we move with our current plaque vendor. PASSES unanimous less one abstention. NEXT MEETING June 14, 3pm. Daniel Taylor ARTC Corporate Secretary