1) I have posted the results from a survey of your classmates that my education class created last year. I think this will be helpful for you all, especially as we plan our program with Hawk Circle.
2) Following up on today's conversation with Ricardo, here is a quick summary of our discussion and our next steps.
Goals: 1) Create a powerful personal experience; 2) Immersing experience; 3) Source of creativity, source of inspiration; 4) Other?
Date and Time: April 19th, 11 am to 4 pm
Location: Front Lawn and Yager Museum
Program ideas:
Yager Museum location-Bead making; container decorations; and refreshments
Front lawn- Camp fire; food activities (meat drying, pumpkin stew, syrup boiling); pinch pots; charcoal making; making string; necklace making; bone polishing; drumming; and flint napping
Next Steps:
Post on the following topics:
1) Your ideas for our program goals.
2) Your preferences for our program. Keep in mind we will have activities going on in two locations. Once we have sorted this out, we will begin our discussion about budget.
3) Post your ideas for our program theme (what ties this all together?)
Posts need to be made by Tuesday
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1)Ideas: I think having a sign up for a hike like mid-way through like 2pm (and we could advertise this) would be really great because its both social and people would be more likely to go if their friends go
2)Preference: Inside: Bead necklaces...i don't know about pottery painting...to time consuming??messy? something people won't keep after? not sure
Outside: Camp fire for sure and i think the syrup making would be really interesting although the process would only partially be seen...def. food. Drumming i think is also good b/c it could be demonstration and/or participation for either level of 'involvement'. i think music is a good way to attract attention
3)thematic: i hear a lot of people say around here, "i can't wait until spring is here" so i think it should be like a celebration of spring, good weather, a time to be outside and do something with friends, a comfortable atmosphere.
This is somewhat related...the emails keep going into my junk email box...i guess i'll just keep checking that because i don't know what else to do.
1)Your ideas for our program goals.Not quite sure I understand this question. The program should engage a larger college audience and show that the museum has a presence on campus--possible targeted to first year students, since we are getting support from that area.
2) Your preferences for our program.
Inside: bead making(and necklace making?) in the museum
Outside: Camp fire, Syrup boiling. What exactly does flint napping require?
Some type of musical activity-drumming, other?- whether demonstrated or participatory or both. Also, like the idea of a nature hike.
3) Post your ideas for our program theme (what ties this all together?) I like what Peggy said of this as being a celebration of spring. It takes into account the nature aspect, while not driving students away by seeming too academic.
1. Goals: I think that the goal for this program would be to get students geniunely interested in the Yager Museum after coming to this program. And hopefully after coming to the program they would see what the Yager Museum stands for and be enticed to see the exhibits.
2. Preferences for programs: I agree with Peggy and Anna, I think we should have the beading activities inside and def. some kind of refreshment ( I think having pancakes or waffles would be good to incorporate the syrup, and everyone likes pancakes and waffles). And, as Peggy and Anna both said, the fire is an awesome idea, I think that along with music would def. attract students to stop by and see whats going on.
3. Theme: I like the idea of celebrating the change of season, but, I think we should also tie Yager in there somewhere. I was thinking some like Ooze fest but more like Yager fest 2008. Maybe not that exact name but something like that so we could incorporate the museum and Yager himself.
so... I think a good feasible goal for this first annual come into the museum fest (i promise that i'll have a better idea for a name at the end of this comment...) would be to give another reason as to why the museum is important, and to add another personal connection/dimension to the items in the collection.
beading is the perfect laid back activity down in yager, also there's less chance of a mess that isn't able to be cleaned up, like paint on carpet.
having the fire to draw a crowd is a great idea... is it possible to have the syrup demonstration run perhaps twice or three times at posted times, as it is only a demonstration with water and such. i personally think that flint napping, with a hike to get your own piece of flint as the bigger event, perhaps with a signup or at least a definite one time big leaving trek, would work well as a "big thing". the string making, as we all know, is an easy way to try something out, especially for those who only plan on staying a little bit, or are passing by, as it takes minimal instruction, and lends itself to a medatative spacing-out. If they wanna get super hardcore, they can make string outside and then come inside to decorate with beads. oh, and of course since the syrup demo will most likely not have real syrup, we should load it on downstairs.. maple candies, syrup and one of my fav. maple products is maple tea, which is good iced and warm.
as far as the theme of the day goes, and work with me here as i try to orate this and reach some conclusion... we're trying to show what the museum holds for the college population, and a big thing that Ricardo brings up is that we're all native, so learning these processes are a way of getting back to our ancestral roots, no matter what exactly the exact genealogy may be. its an event to break down any barrier between the average interested student and the museum, and to encourage at least a peek inside every now and then at the new exhibit before jumping on the elevator.
ooh, if we get really creative for the name, we can name it something long and ridiculous that shortens to an applicable acronym. having it titled M.U.S.E.U.M. (for example) creates natural curiosity about what it stands for, and helps people remember to come. the word can be something simple to remember and relate to the event (Y.A.G.E.R. or N.A.T.I.V.E. etc) and explain a bit more through the other words used to describe the purpose of the event.
sorry about making you all read so much, but i'm a bit verbose...
Hi Everyone,
Like the direction this is going..... The hardest thing about designing a program like this is choosing the direct goal or result you would like to have, so that all of the resulting ideas that we discuss can be weighed against the goals or mission.
As for the name, I personally don't like Anacronyms, so if you can avoid those, it would be better, in my opinion. Again, the name should be an extension of the goals or mission, so if we start with those, we can find a way to create the program and then name it as the last piece.
Sometimes we can get ahead of ourselves in terms of programming, naming and activities, and then it is confusing and hard to sort through all of the excellent ideas that are coming forward.
Goals/Mission+ Ideas/Programming-Those that don't fit the theme=Event, which we can then find a name!
Anyway, just to add to the idea mix, another way to get people to discover the Museum might be a scavenger hunt as part of the museum displays and store, with some prizes for the team that finishes first, or whatever. Not sure what the prizes might be (Free admission to the museum, he he he! Just kidding) but it could be a fun way to get people to get inside and try to figure it out. And it would have to be hard, too....
Anyway, I hope this helps!
Ricardo
Im a little bit concerned with the date of the program. there is an "Aid To Ethiopia" concert taking place on Frisbee field that afternoon, as well as box city that evening-night. Maybe the Hartwick college office of civic engagement could schedule these for the weekend beforehand at the beginning of Civic Engagement week? the concert during the day will consist of bands from SUCO, hartwick, and the surrounding community trying to raise money for an orphanage in Ethiopia a Hartwick Student worked at last semester in her Study abroad, and she was very adamant that it was going to take place on Frisbee field. maybe something can be arranged so that the concert can take place on the atrium outside of Anderson, and our events can take place on Frisbee field? that would take away a huge part of our potential audience and severely limit the amount of time we can conduct activities outside until because the box city setup begins around 4 with building the fire on the lawn and setting up the boxes.
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