Board Meeting

Pick date/time for weekly board meetings: Sundays at 5:30pm or Tuesdays at 8:30pm.

New mailing list = “Barnstormers Members.” Send BCC.

FOAs

• Make Facebook event for FOA Auditions on September 9.
• Talk about Tech next week.

O-Show

• Reimbursements given to Business Manager.
• Sign ups for Breezway.
• Sign ups for Front of House.
• Come to Final Dress with notes.
•  Advertise! 

First GA Meeting

1. Icebreakers. Freshmen introduce themselves + best theater-related experience.
2. Order pizza. Potluck.
3. Agenda Items 

• Intro to Barnstormers
• Intro to Exec Board. New ideas for upcoming year.
• Invitation to come onto Exec Board.
• Announce Mainstage
• Discuss new website (Meeting Minutes, Suggestion Box)
• FOA Auditions. Board Members could not vote on their own FOAs.
• Membership consists of having been involved with a show (auditions & builds count).
• Quorum
• Suggestions?
• Announce Tech Interest Meeting
• Sign up for Mailing List!

SAC Fair

1. Costumes
2. Sign ups to man the table for Board and Members.
3. Push O-Show, FOAs, 1st GA Meeting. Sign-up sheets for Acting/Tech. Give out Candy.
4. Tory will make a Banner.

New ideas

• Monologue Competition in late Spring. Sykes to meet with DBH and Witness. To be further discussed on September 18 meeting.

• Monthly movie nights. Combine with GA.
• Trip to Centerstage or Hippodrome. Sykes will look into it.
• Barnstormers-specific calendar on website.

Things we talked about in the past to keep up with for this upcoming year
1. Secretary

• Upload Meeting Minutes to website
• Keep Barnstormers Members List on excel file. New Mailing List. Please give Lien audition sheets and names of people who come to builds
• Homewood Arts calendar to avoid conflicts

2. Publicity Manager

• Look into advertising with Baltimore Newspaper and Centerstage
  
• Show banners on the breezeway
  
• Rehearsal pictures to facebook and website
  
• Show blog
  
• Poster design competition
  
• Look into ordering a banner. Logo competition.
  

3. Business Manager

• Grants and Fundraisers 
  
• Keep a working budget
  

4. VP Studio

• Googledocs to keep track of budget
  
• More pro-team meetings
  
• Next year’s O-Show: auditions before school ends? So elections have to be early.