Icarus Staff Call April 24th

Madigan, Ashley, Sascha

Agenda Items

Intern Guy from Germany –

madigan:. he would be an intern for fountain house and then do work with the icarus project nyc local, at he moment it’s not really clear what it would look like. elliot and donnie lee are the FH point people. he’s been ccing lauren and ashley – in his last email he said he needed really specific papers. sept through march?

we needed to be in better communication

**Madigan will reportback next week about the situation

NYC Office and Local

there’s a mystery check – **Ashley will talk to Alicia about it

**Sascha will email Jeff and Alan about van Am and mention that Ashley’s coming down next week

Mads has been in touch with Alex about NYC local doing an event on the summer solstice (thursday june 21)– a skillshare and alternative healing in the daytime and then performances in the evening

**Mads is going to get back in touch with Alex to strategize about making the FH office more accessable to NYC folks

The Fall Tour

Saturday May 5th (2pm est?) additional monthly meeting for the tour –

mads: we need to inspire people come out of the woodwork!

mads: part of the tour planning is that we need an estimated budget soon!**

questions about geography – regional tours (like a NE tour and a West Coast tour) or one big national tour

it would be amazing to have parallel tours on both coasts

schools, community center, clubhouse stops

**Ashley and Madigan are going to co-bottomline the route strategizing

**Sascha is bottomlining college outreach for the tour

Madigan has a minivan, Ashley has a truck

mads: maybe we can rent a veggie van and a driver friend to go with it!

New Art New Art!!!!

let’s put a callout to our friends to make us art and come up with storylines for new comics

Christy Road, Sarah Quinter, Becky Cloonan, Sophie Crumb...

Personal Bipolar/Costal Schedules

Ashley wants to take a month off this summer, fantasizing about California

**she’ll check back in about it next week

Madigan is interested in representing Icarus National at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair.

She feels like it’s appropriate for her travel expenses to be covered but Ashley raised the issue that Maryse is already planning to be there representing Icarus. is it a national/local question?

**Let’s all check in about it next week when Will’s around

 Drug Guide

Looking good!

Financials/501c3/Oryx’s Role – he can take over general bookkeeping may 15th. ash wants to visit him up in western mass. next step: a written working agreement with him/welllness policy/email policy.

**ashley’s going to bottomline this. mads says: kristen his partner should be involved in the process

**Let’s check back in next week about this.

Event’s/Planning Update:

Social Forum

Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (middle of May)

Allied Media Conference in Detroit  - Ashley wants to go and present

May 5th is the tour meeting!!

Ittleson Evaluation –

Sascha’s gonna do a first pass and pass it to Ashley and Madigan and then turn it in.

NEW MEETING TIME:

Wednesday 3pm EST (next week: May 2nd)

next week:

 let’s have a planning section about new icarus materials and which ones we want to make in which order

what is the icarus project – brochure

announcement for the tour

package to send out to schools who want us to speak