Lauren and Jenna, along with our transcendent meeting facilitator Sara Yukimoto-Saltman, are planning the NEH Chairs Award-funded ZineCat Planning Meeting to take place at Barnard College on August 5th & 6th, 2024. The in-progress goals for the meeting are:
- Review, revise, and potentially pass a team structure proposal for ZineCat.
- Collectively brainstorm Caticorn Glaring and Fast Horse Committee work for the next 12-18 months.
- Choose into ZineCat roles based on our own unique gifts and talents.
- Brainstorm goals and a timeline for each committee for the next 12-18 months.
- Build trusting, joyful relationships with one another!
Participants are drawn from three countries and from a variety of zine libraries and archives including academic, community, and public. Two attendees also serve in the Zine Thesaurus Collective, as the two projects are aligned and friendly.
Zinecats, Convene!
With our fan-cat-stic and transcendent facilitator, Sara Yukimoto-Saltman, we’ve drafted an agenda to guide our work over the two days we’re together. More details will be shared during our opening session, but here’s the…
Outline:
Sunday, August 4 (optional)
5:30 Barnard Library Tour
Monday, August 5
10:30am – 11:00pm: Welcome and Opening
11:00-11:45am: Tributaries Activity
11:45-11:50am: Break
11:50-12:25pm: All about ZineCat!
12:25-12:55pm: Team Structure Proposal
12:55-1:00pm: Preview Lunch Options
1:00pm – 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm – 3:00pm: Proposal Editing
3:00-4:00pm: No Bad Ideas Brainstorm
4:00pm-4:15pm: Break
4:15-5:15pm: Committee work for next year
5:15-5:30pm: Closing
6 facilitated hours on Monday
Tuesday, August 6
10:30am – 11:15am: Welcome and Opening
11:15am-12:00pm: Unique Gifts and Talents and Peer Coaching
12:00-12:15pm: Break
12:15-12:55pm: Roles Sign Up
12:55-1:00pm: Preview Lunch Options
1:00pm – 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm – 3:00pm: Goal Setting and Shareback
3:00pm-3:15pm: Break
3:15pm-4:00pm: Closing
4.5 facilitated hours on Tuesday
What to expect after the convening:
We’d really like to get a strong foundation of commitment to carry this work forward over the next 6-12 months, so we are hoping that all participants will consider committing some time and labor to this next phase of organizing the project. We have a few “tiers” of “cat-mittment” that we are hoping for:
- High tier – co-chair of a “caticorn glaring committee” and serve on “cat herders” core group
- Mid tier – co-chair of a “caticorn glaring” committee (aka working group)
- Low tier – one “caticorn glaring” committee or participate on the advisory board or on a future ad-hoc committee convened by the cat herders and/or caticorn glaring working groups
Communications post convening:
- If you can’t cat-mitt to anything after the convening, we totally understand, but we’ll still keep you informed through regular email communications and updates to the ZineCat Blog.
- If you do cat-mitt to a working group and/or the core group and/or the Advisory Board, we will be communicating via email and blog, but we’ll also be regularly convening as a group virtually and expecting to be co-working in documentation and other areas of development for the project. Lauren and Jenna will work with Sara to coordinate the post-convening facilitation more strategically!
Get to know ZineCat some more:
To prepare for the convening, we’ve put together some highly recommended reading to (re)familiarize yourself with the project. We’re not going to say required, but we really do hope you have a chance to review these materials! We also highly encourage you to do this while curled up with your cat or favorite furry creature of choice!
- Shared Authority Zine (PDFs) v. 1, v. 2 (capstone edition with Jenna + Lauren’s MA Digital Humanities paperwork), v. 2.5, v. 3
- ZineCat’s GitHub
- zinecat.org and blog.zinecat.org
- Grants:
Covid Precautions
We realized recently that we haven’t shared any details about the Covid precautions we’re planning for. We’re taking our cat-cues from ZLuC but here are a few more specifics:
- Masking is strongly encouraged. Cat themed masks are even more encouraged!
- If possible, please test each day (we’re working on getting tests, but if you have your own, please use them).
- If someone tests positive, or is feeling like they’ve contracted Covid – let us know, then we will switch to a remote convening. Laptops/workstations will be available in the Barnard Library, but bring your own–not a tablet–device if possible!
Even More Information
We need some info from you, too!
We have a few points of information we want to get from you, so we would love for you to fill out (yes, another one) form to share this information with us. We appreciate you doing this so much! Like really, really appreciate it!!
Getting around NYC and Barnard
There are a few more getting around / getting to know Barnard details we wanted to share too. A lot of info was also shared in the slide deck from our July 3 email.
- Transportation
- Taxis to/from airports – ask for requests and cost estimates
- Subway details (to get between NYU and Barnard) Take the 2 or 3 (express) or the 1 train but MUST SWITCH TO 1 AT 96TH to avoid a LOOOONG and hillllly walk from 116th and Manhattan Ave.
- Bus? Does anyone need mobility-friendly directions? Let us know!
- Additional details about getting to Barnard in slides
- Building access logistics
- How to get into dorms (see slide 9)
- If you are attending ZLuC, Jenna and Lauren will have your keys! We can give them to you before you depart for uptown.
- If you’re not attending ZLuC, you will check in with a housing rep from Barnard. {More details to be added to this post as soon as we have them}.
- How to get into library – the address is: The Milstein Center, 3009, Broadway, New York, NY 10027
- How to get into dorms (see slide 9)
We think you’re all fabulous for taking the time to read all this! Let us know what questions you have!!
xxoo Lauren and Jenna 😻😻
