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Hi,

Surprisingly, we are still not booked for the 22nd!
Our rates are divided by before 6pm and after 6pm.
private rates are:
before 6pm, $75 for the first three hours and $10 for each additional hour until 6pm.
After 6pm, $150 for the first three hours and $25 for each additional hour.

community(non-profit) rates are:
Before 6pm, $50 for the first three hours and $5 for each additional hour until 6pm.
After 6pm, $75 for the first three hours and $10 for each additional hour.

We also ask for a fully refundable security/cleaning deposit of $75 if no alcohol is served, $100 if there is alcohol. We ask for separate rent and deposit checks made out to WERC-- we will not cash the deposit checks unless something goes wrong and the contract to clean and secure the hall is not met on your end.

If you'd like to speak with a real person, ask questions or get a tour of the Hall, we're in the office M//F 5-7pm, W 6:30-8:30pm. Stop by and take a look!

Thanks,
Trillium

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Does anyone know where I could get a rolling rack- collapsible, cheapish?


Also- I wanted to let everyone know where I got my postcards and business cards made- they came back great with high quality images: www.OvernightPrints.com
I get my catalogs printed at www.colorvisionmedia.com

I have to admit I am not that stoked on the logo- I was thinking of something less chickeny. But thank you to the guys who worked on it. Logos are tricky and designing one that pleases all 9 of us will be even trickier I suppose. We will discuss.

trunk show...

i don't think we need a budget yet, we are creative and spontaneous!
i also don't think we need to change the date.
we may need to change the location to a place where we can just show up and set up.
as far as the logo and banner are concerned i think it will take us longer to decide on a logo, but we can discuss a font at the next meeting and print out a temporary banner that just says "fashion fight club" on paper, at kinko's for a few dollars, i will be in charge of doing that.
also, i thought we did start dividing up tasks at the last meeting. we have enough time to pull this off and to do it well if you all still want to....
i have had some people working on our logo as well and I will show you all the drawings at the next meeting.
also i was making this......

FFC Minutes!

Hey all, here's what we talked about at our last meeting on Wednesday the 28th of May.

• Lindsey made us a myspace page. You can go to www.myspace.com/fashionfightclubpdx to see it.
  
• We need to get a logo and font together!
• Emily Kingan is going to help us all out by giving a bookkeeping workshop! YAY! This is going to happen sometime in the not too distant future.
• The last week of July, sometime in the afternoon Tracey is going to give us a little lecture on repping our clothing.
• We decided to work on getting press by doing smaller events for a while, holding off on a big fashion show event until people have heard our name a few times.
• We talked about doing the Junk to Funk fashion event again (happening in November)...this time we thought it might be better if we made our recycled outfits as a group, instead of trying to force ourselves to use up all our scraps alone.
  
• In regards to the Pool Show, here's what we discussed:

1. We need hang tags
2. We will get 2 racks each in our spacious booths
3. It's a good idea to have a design feature in your booth. ie. hanging a large print of a photograph, putting up drawings, etc.
4. The bigger the line you show, the more interest you will attract to your booth
5. It's important to show all colorways, not just bring samples of other colors your clothing comes in.
6. We're going to rent the biodiesel bus to take to Vegas for the event
7. We're going to do a practice runthrough of Pool before the big day
8. FFC t-shirts, sashes, buttons, cards, totes, etc.etc. merch! We are going to sell it on our website
9. Make postcards (takeaways) of your line for buyers and interested parties to have to remember you

• We learned about the cool iphoto function that allows you to make your own cool catalogues!!
• Some Portland label/notions places:

1. Rose City Textile
2. NW Tag and Label - 11th and Division
3. PCB labels (online)

• Our warehouse party:

1. Scheduled for June22nd
2. Beyonda and Equestrian are on board for dj-ing
3. Sara Moskovitz from the Willamette Weekly will put out our press release!
4. Let's get organized.

Much love from your loyal stenographer -
Hey Trey

Overstock Sale

Alrgiht, Zane has taken a go at our logo. Have a look see and see what you think!

On a second note, I sat down to write the proposal for the landlord to let us use the space. I quickly became overwhelmed by all the details we didn't really discuss. While its important for us to be underground, we also have to be prepared for folks to come see us. FCC might be underground, but none of our businesses are, so I feel that it is in our best interest to throw a professional party/sale.
here is the list of things that need to be taken care of before any press release is written.
1. We need a sound system for Beyonda ($)
2. The space in the where house needs to be cleaned up-
3. Drinks, either we get a sponsor our we purchase a whole lot of them ($)
4. We need a logo finalized, a picture says a thousand words
5. Sponsors would be ideal to cover the cost of sound system drinks and advertising
6. We need to divide the jobs for the sale ie who is writing the press release, who is designing the flyer to contact folks with, clean up, rental of sound system, general lackey

Its a lot huh?! Perhaps we should give ourselves another month to get things together. Ideally once we do a lot of this stuff once, the next one won't be so much work. All I know is that I would love to make these sales frequent and the only way to get people to keep coming, is to make the first one as clean and streamlined as possible.

I'm going to post this to the blog, so lets take our conversation over there instead of filling up our mail boxes.

Happy Friday girls!
XOXOX
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