Whyt Whey Commons - January 8, 2004

Attending:
	AEllin				Anne Murphy
	Alexandre d'Avigne		Jeff Berry
	Anne White			Marge Whitehead
	Ervald				Zorikh Lequidre
	Eularia	Trewe			Lorree True
	Jibril				Dale Frederick
	Sancha				Jessica Valadez
	Sean				Sean Sullivan
	Tamara				Tamara Bedic
	Tom Puppeter			Tom Tafero

Continuing Business:
1) February Commons will be at 552 RSD, on the 12th
	
2) Tamara has tentatively scheduled a sewing circle at her place
	on Staten Island for Jan 25th at 1PM.

3) A cooking/foodie get together was scheduled for Jan. 14th at
	Alexandre's. (Upstairs, not in the basement.)

4) A mention was made that the Medieval Supper Club seems to be
	getting started again.


Officers Reports:

1) Knight Marshall:  Jibril talked about possibilities for
	a year round fighter practice site - Union Square,
	although it has advantages, is only part of the year
	and outside.  Anne White talked about the possibility of
	a school becoming available in the Bronx.  Ervald
	mentioned that one outcome of the demos for the 
	Brooklyn Childrens Museum might be space.  (In either
	case, they would not be Whyt Whey sites, technically.)
	A visit had been made to PS191, 61st and Amsterdam,
	and although there was some problems with the space
	it had potential.  Jibril is still looking into
	whether we can actually get the space.

	He also mentioned getting a database on the website of fighters,
	for Army organizational purposes.	
	
	
2) Mistress of A&S: Tamara reported that although she found the
	person who bought all the period patterns, they don't 
	want to sell them, so that was a dead end.
	The idea of putting pictures of some of our A&S stuff on
	the web was batted around and seemed like one that people
	liked.

3) Web Minister: Not in attendance, no report.

4) Exchequer: Data from the event was passed on to Sean who
	will get his report out as soon as possible.
	The BoD proposal to prohibit Barons/Baronesses from
	also holding the Exchequer post was mentioned, as was
	the fact that the BoD is inviting comments from the
	membership.

	Ervald said the check from the Fort Tryon demo had
	arrived and will go to Ian for deposit, for our credit.
	

5) Herald: Continue to submit to Sancha!

6) Seneschal: Mostly quiet.  His quarterly was safely in on time.

7) Chronicler: The Cheesecloth is out.  Send more stuff for By the Whey.
	We got another subscription.

8) Historian: Absent. No report.

Recent Events:

1) Alexandre was up at 12th Night and thought it was OK.

Upcoming Events:

1) There are several demos coming up at the Brooklyn Childrens'
	Museum.  
	Feb. 1st "block party," Ervald is in charge
	Feb. 7th-8th, Ervald is in charge
	March 28th, Puppy is in charge

	They'd like us to do maybe one weekend a month on single
	topics - smaller classroomy things - for at least April
	and May.

2) There are three cons coming up.
	Ubercon, Feb 27th - 29th, in  Secaucus
	LunaCon, March 19-21
	ICON, March 27 and 28th

3) 	Big Apple Con, the 24th and 25th of Jan has a panel
	on the history of martial arts in movies and TV that
	Zorikh put together.

4) We decided to try for a small event on Sat. June 19th (with the
	26th as a fallback date) at Mimi's place.  The idea
	is for an evening ball event, no feast, with a dessert
	sideboard.  Eularia, Medb, Anne White, Tamara and Sancha
	all are on the staff.  More detail will be forthcoming.


Submitted by Alexandre d'Avigne