WiS Meeting Minutes – July 18, 2020
Meeting Time 10:00 – 13:30
Meeting Place – Online with Zoom
Chair and Zoom Moderator: Andrea
Minute Taker: Jim
Attendees: 12 Attendees: Andrea Ariman, James (Jim) Palik, Jadi Campbell, Hannah Kontos, Barbara Gilchrist Feyl, Erica Applezweig, Katharine Schmidt, Cindy Halbert-Seger, Vora Kleeb, Ayomide (Ayo) Fatunde, Shalini Rao.
10:45 – Meeting started
10:15 – The prompt: What happened during the blackout
The following people shared their prompt stories: Barbara, Cindy, Shalini, Ayo, Erica, Jadi, Katharine, Vlora, Hanah, and Andrea.
12:00 – Readings:
- Barbara – Two Poems.
- Jim – WorkFlowy, an addiction. How trying a software system to stay focused and organized took over and became first a compulsion and then an addiction.
- Ayo – a science fiction play about Covid-19 and how humanity’s creators were trying to develop a cauldron that would work like a vaccination to save humanity.
- Cindy – Coronavirus comes full circle. How the Coronavirus relates to botany and other forms of life and nature keeps the ecosystem in balance. Very different and introspective.
- Erica – The Corona Room – a surreal dream, and The gorilla in the box – a story about a toy gorilla in a cage that sings two stanzas of the Macarena.
Business:
- Andrea introduced the WiS special reading for the DAZ in October … Christiane will give an introduction. The October meeting is still planned as an online meeting. Ayo explained the concept – Either in ZOOM or similar to ZOOM – A group discussion followed. Youtube, and Facebook streaming is possible. If Youtube or Facebook are used for live streaming we could leave the event and readings online for a limited period of time. One week was discussed.
- Eight people may give readings at the DAZ event. So far, Andrea, Jim, Jadi, Katharine, Cindy and Barbara have committed to writing stories for the DAZ event.
- The DAZ will have another simultaneous event for the October anniversary meeting taking place at Hospital hoff.
- August 22 was set for the next meeting.
- Note: Katharine will not be able to chair the August meeting. She will be in Florida visiting her parents.
- The first half of the meeting will be discussion (replacing the prompt) with the last half of the meeting member readings and critiques.