September 10, 2010 Meeting Notes!

First of all I would like to thank everyone who attended the meetings this week!

 Working within the Media Arts Club!

• The next meeting will be Tuesday, September 14, 2010. During this time we will be electing officers for the new school year. If you can not make the meeting please see Kerry, Veronica or I to cast your vote. Also if you would like to be nominated for a position please email me before Sunday at 5pm. Good Luck to everyone running for officer!
• Our goal for the club this year is to Brand the Media Arts Club! This means we will create a logo, t-shirts (for productions & creative shirts to sell), promotional video, brochures & more! Everyone start designing & have the chance to feature your design as the official branding for the Media Arts Club! 
• One of our newest members Tara has offered a space to hold gallery shows and video exhibitions. We can think of some creative topics and hold our very own Show! Thank you Tara!
• We will be looking over scripts at the next meeting to shoot a short video. We can then enter the film into film festivals! Also we will be able to have the video screened at the Ilfield Auditorium during Cineflex night!
• The club will also be raising money to attend events throughout the school year! Our main goal is to attend Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 for five days!

Working with the community! 

• The Fine Arts club will be holding a yard sale saturday September 11, 2010 from 8am - noon in front of the Fine Arts building. Stop by and show your support!
• The club will be creating a short 30 -60 second promotional video for the department.  To begin everyone start writing scripts and we will vote on which one will be put into production! also mentioned was if anyone could come up with a creative 3-5 minute video for the department we would put it into production as well!
  
• The will be assisting with the New Mexico Association of Museums conference.  Dates and times will be posted once they are finalized. Also information on what we will be assisting with will be posted once it becomes available.
• City of Las Vegas & LVSM Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring the Las Vegas Grandes Celebration Weekend. This event celebrates Las Vegas 175th Birthday! We will be volunteering to help for this event & participate in one of the events. It will be mandatory to attend this event. Dates and times will be posted once they are finalized.
• The club has applied to be a part of Student Membership Business Discount Program by the LVSM Chamber of Commerce. This program allows us to get student discounts and be eligible for student promotions for the club.
• The club will be holding a bake sale during Homecoming week. So everyone start baking! Dates and times will be posted once they are finalized.
• The club will be selling Homecoming T-shirts during Homecoming week. I will inform everyone when we receive the t-shirts.
• The club will be teaming up with the movie club to hold a block party. Think of ideas and ways we can make this a fun and creative block party!  Dates and times will be posted once they are finalized.

Once again thank you to everyone who attended the BBQ meeting today! It was a great turn out and look forward to working with everyone this year!

~Virginia Marrujo
~Media Arts Club President