Events Committee Meeting

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

 Attendees:  Francesca de Freitas, Marisol Santos, Emily Kennedy, Liam, Brianne

Decisions

• Draw for monthly co-op star award vouchers
  https://avcoop.igloodigitalworkplace.ca/resources/resources_wiki/star_awards
  Winners: Peter (star) Brianne (nominator)

 Discussions

• Reviewed and reported on action items from the previous meeting

  • Kristie is ready with the coop photo composite and Francesca has the frame

  • Kids book club will keep themes as they enjoy making them up

  • Next Quiz Night: Saturday, April 17, 8pm

  • Shane has volunteered to do a Zoom/virtual egg drop or just watch on the breezeway (March 27)

  • Shawn organized a Mario Kart game night but had little participation (possibly from it being last minute)

  • Francesca is working on the calendar that will go on the elevators and online and Emily volunteered to update the one in the elevators

• Thank you’s for events in the last month

  • Valentine’s Day card exchange

  • Kids book club

  • Eve for organizing the Adult book club

  • Shawn for the Mario tournament

• Weekly challenge draw (make yourself to a drawing): Marlene

• March/April Events

  • Weekly challenge - Pi Day

  • Weekly challenge - figure out something for St. Patrick’s Day

  • Weekly challenge - favourite Beatles songs

• Easter Events

  • Egg hunt and egg drop will be organised by Shane (March 27) - $60 for prizes

• We may do a spring celebration instead of Easter, possibly in late April or May when restrictions are lifted and we could all gather outside

• Could we do a singalong in the breezeway as we did for the Christmas carols?

• We are giving about 6 gift cards as prizes and may need a more sustainable way to provide prizes while still supporting local businesses

  Action Items:

• Francesca and Brianne will work together to use Kahoot for a possible monthly quiz show

• Mikaela will work on kids Kahoot game (possibly spring break or summer)

• Francesca to look into getting the mural updated

• Liam to create posters for the quiz night in April

• Francesca to change Zoom setting to remove waiting room

• Francesca to put the weekly draws at the bottom of the calendar for now and monitor if more people will start participating

• Emily will look into a spring celebration, possibly late April or May when restrictions are lifted and can all gather outside (may include a photo scavenger hunt)

• Francesca to talk to Dave Keeney about leading the spring singalongs on the breezeways (Beatles?)

• Francesca, Emily and Brianne will look into online gift cards