[WXBH-Discuss] This Thurs. 5:00 - Forecastle Concept and Planning Meeting

[Aron Conaway]

Time is short and Forecastle is right down the road.

WXBH is going to use this as an opportunity to make a loud local presence 
and by default this is going to be to be our real “Kick Off” event to let 
everyone know that we are out here and ready to be listened to.

I’ve been working with JK (Forecastle organizer) and Ohio Valley Creative 
Energy http://www.ohiovalleycreativenergy.org/ (OVCE) on a concept to set up 
a WXBH recording studio at Forecastle on the Belvedere, allowing Forecastle 
attendees to DJ and speak about whatever they like, live on the air. We will 
be setting up a wireless network, streaming to the world and feeding our 
content straight to Fern Creek to broadcast live on the air. JK is very 
excited about this possibility to have the festival on the internet and on 
air.

A preliminary concept drawing (open to change) can be seen at my website:
http://www.hallieandaron.com/forecastle/forecastle.htm

For background… OVCE is a group of Louisville artists that are working to 
build an art-making (glass, metal, ceramics) facility in Southern Indiana on 
a landfill that runs off of methane gas. Seeing that both local grassroots 
media and alternative fuel use are elements of sustainable development it 
made sense to team up at Forecastle. A large geodesic dome is going to be 
constructed by OVCE volunteers and we will share this space, out of the sun, 
with them for the two days on the Belvedere. They will blow glass all day 
and we will make local radio happen.


For this event WXBH will need:

***To conceptualize a message and design signage that explains how important 
Community Radio is.

***To create a one-page handout with instructions on how to interview 
someone (with FCC cussing guidelines), including several leading questions 
that could be asked of the activist organizations at Forecastle.

***Volunteers to find volunteers to interview the activist organizations, 
asking them to talk about what it is that they do.

***People to work around the booth and hand out brochures, program proposals 
and to discuss WXBH’s mission to our community.

***A mobile studio to setup downtown. (I can likely provide 90% of this)

***A local business sponsor (underwriter?) to help pay for equipment, 
printing etc. for this WXBH project (if you find this person/ business you 
get a million cool points)

***Other stuff not yet thought of…

First off, I must say that I obviously can’t do this myself and need  
several other individuals to step up and help make this thing amazing. I 
will be gone for a week from July 18th to the 25th (bad timing I know), so 
getting a lot of the legwork done for this is gonna have to be done as a 
TEAM. So the question is, "Can we pull this together and make it a HUGE 
SUCCESS?"

I would like to have a meet at 5:00, this Thursday, at the Atomic Saucer on 
Oak and
Swan Streets with all those interested in participating and volunteering for 
this event.
Can anyone make it?

Anyone have ideas to contribute and discuss right now...?

This'll be really amazing, if we really put our hearts into it.

-Aron


If you are interested in working on a committee for this event, please let 
me know. We have a lot of work to do by July 27th and 28th. Thanks!

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