What I got from last weeks group discussion with Jason Reed

"feasibility study"

The following are my ideas from what we talked about last week with Jason Reed. I know we have already decided a few specifics, this is just what ideas I would like to contribute.

Title: Mapping Baybrook: Main Street Memories

Logo: Outline of Main Street (sort of like the NYC skyline)

Mission Statement: "To bring together the community of Baybrook by remembering the past, documenting the present and looking towards the future (with an attention on main street)"

Event Discription:
       1) Main Street "memories"- have old photos of main street next to current photos of each location, mapped out. Each current locale on main street will be invited to set up a booth at the Polish Home Hall to help the community know who works in the neighborhood/ on main street. Each booth will be set up in the same way with a photograph of a historic store front along side a current photo of the store. The rest of each booth will be left up to the discretion of the store owner. (All stores are welcome to bring sample food but we will not pay them for the samples. Another idea would be to make each booth space cost 5$ to increase revenue for the event since we cannot expect the store owners who have booths at the event to pay to get into the event).
       2) Artwork/ silent auction - UMBC art students' artwork will be on display and a silent auction of the artwork (if approved by artist) will be held with all proceeds going back to the community.
       3) Entertainment - invite the entertainers that live in the community and children at the schools to perform. Hopefully they will be willing to come for free, if not we need to decide how much they will be paid.
      4) Food - if enough food stores on main street bring samples, we can lower the amount of food we prepare to help save money on the event.
      5) Reflection - set up a table with "guest books" and a donation box so that the community members can not only tell us how we did for the event but also leave notes on what they would like to see changed in the neighborhood so that the AMST 422 in future semesters have something to start from instead of feeling like a chicken with its head cut off in the beginning of the semester. Another type of reflection book could be a memory book that would be turned into a link on the Mapping Baybrook website.
     6) Debut of Mapping Baybrook website - determine a specific time of day that the website is presented by a speaker to whoever is at the P.H.Hall in between entertainers.
     7) Raffle- invite main street shops to donate baskets of product to be raffled off at the event (ask other companies too even if they aren't on main street to increase the number of baskets). Raffle tickets will be an extra cost, but each person to buy a ticket to get into the event has an automatic ticket into the raffle. Extra tickets will be 2$(?).
    8) Arts and crafts table - ask kids/anyone to express with art what the community means to them, artwork will later be displayed in the community garden. It will be a small section of the event.

Committee Structure:
     - budget: Katie
    - secretary: Alex
     - PR/outreach: ensure that the event is well publicized.
    - Fundraising:
     -Entertainment: find entertainers within the community willing to perform
 I am willing to be in any and all committees as I like to work with people to get something done. I feel that I will do best working on publicizing the event, even though I am very shy when something needs to be done, when I need to reach out to people I am very good at speaking up.

Revenue Producing Products:
   * Tshirts- to be sold for 6$ more than the cost of production per shirt.
   * Buttons- to be sold for 2$ more than the cost of production per button
   * Bake sale- cookies, brownies, cupcakes, lemonade- cost to be determined.

Feasibility Statement:
     After discussing projects in class on the 19th, the main street idea seemed more feasible than an artwork idea since the event will be in December and it will be cold. Having a small children's corner/artwork area seems a plausible compromise since the kids may need to do something to keep themselves busy during the event. Asking main street shops to participate is a great way to bring more guests who are curious as to what stores are located on main street.