Program Board Blog

meeting minutes, 11/12

2007-11-12T19:39:00.000-08:00

I'm tired, so these may be devoid of humor and verbosity...

THE PROGRAM BOARD OFFICE IS NOW A TROPICAL JUNGLE! NAME THE PLANT!
Possible winners:
Puh-lant
Judas

COMMITTEE REPORTS
Archivist - Pictures from Moor Room
Performing Arts - Moor Room happened. Fries in office. Mayonnaise overdose. Diabesity.
Visual Arts - Hanging for Photo Hunt sometime soon. Jamie wasn't here. Bread pudding.
Membership - Sweet apartment? Be y (our) friend. We want to use you.
Publicity - Brenda absent. Hats. Kyle is irresponsible.
Student Arts - Coffee House Friday. Bring your friend Bailey.
Lectures - Nothing going on right now. Jamie is tall.
New Music - Show: These Are Powers, Acceptor (sp?), Blues Control + 1 more act. Meeting Thurs at 7 at Coles rock climbing wall. Bring comfortable shoes and your sense of vertical adventure.
Pre-Release: CHINA IS SASSY TONIGHT.
Concerts: The Mountain Goats have Deerticks starting Nov. 29 at 8pm. Publicize about it. Meeting Thurs at 7 pm. How do you feel about Girl Talk?
Film - Retro moves. Raising Arizona wins. Thursday movies (I made a face at this point).

SECRETARY & TREASURER ELECTIONS

Deb and I are graduating (THANK GOD). Who wants to fill our shoes? Here are the nominees:

Secretary:
Lauren Birnie
Mary Bullock
Mallory Greitzer
Marya McLaughlin
Allie Nudelman
Daniel Nicolas
Kristen Barry
Ray Luna
Pascale Blain

Treasurer:
Lauren Birnie
Mary Bullock
Mallory Greitzer
Marya McLaughlin
Allie Nudelman
Daniel Nicolas
Kristen Barry
Ray Luna
Pascale Blain

You can nominate other people over the mailing list. All nominations must be seconded.

UPCOMING THINGS

Film Series: 300 tonight. Talk to Me next week. Sicko the week after that.
SXSW Applications due next Monday, November 19th. Just fill one out.
Student Arts Coffee House on Friday at Starbucks
Mountain Goats / Deertick on November 29
-Ben

PB general meeting minutes, 10/29

2007-10-30T05:43:00.000-07:00

So Deb sent the minutes out really fast last week. Now, of course, I have to
live up to these new standards and, consequently, give up my Monday night
tradition of falling asleep before 9 pm. Leave it to a sternie to outdo you,
then make you pay dearly for your inadequacy.

First things first: somebody stole our Program Board "Membership mASScot of
the Month" from the wall by the publicity rack. What gives? Jamie Hammer
EARNED that spot in our office. Now all we have is a Fat Joe / Bra Model
hybrid. To the thief: I hope you're happy.

Now, on to the meeting:

We started out with a visit from Patrick (uh...I think that was his name),
an NYU alum (again, I think) and magician. "Aces of Magic 4" was happening
tonight, so he wanted to remind all of us that magic sure as hell isn't as
cool as it was when we were kids. He did a card trick with Jamie.S, whom he
described as "someone who marches to the beat of her own drum." This was
because she was wearing a hat.

The Kinsey Sicks event was tonight, so Liz wasn't at the meeting. Her
Absolutely Not Magnetic Poetry event was last week and it turned out cool.
Except for the burns on my retinas. Old school projectors will blind you,
kids. Just like laser pointers. Never forget it.

Also, Kudos to Marya for managing the Kinsey Sicks event. It takes some
pretty huge man yams to wrangle a bunch of singing drag queens - a truth
with which I am all too familiar.

China says thanks to everyone who helped out with American Gangster. Also,
Bee Movie is tomorrow at Loews at 3rd and 11th. Sign up to work! After the
working list is full you can sign up for the guest list. If you're working,
be there by 6:45. If you're on the guest list, be there NO LATER than 7:30.
The movie is about Jerry Seinfeld eating bees.

Brenda is working with our new webmaster, Aditi, on "revamping" the website,
despite the fact that it was never vamped in the first place.

Student Arts Committee Report...
AMY: "Last Friday we had a coffeehouse co-sponsored with Gallatone records."
LILY: "Will you be having another one?"
AMY: (firmly) "No."

Kyle threw a kick-ass pumpkin carving party last Thursday. This involved
carrying a birch beer keg from Hoboken. This has earned him the right to
"not thinking about Program Board for the next few weeks" - a right he
proudly announced his intent to exercise at tonight's meeting. Basically,
he's going to be phoning it in until the holiday party.

That brings us to a very special announcement: IF YOU HAVE A SWEET
APARTMENT, YOU SHOULD VOLUNTEER TO HOST THE PB HOLIDAY PARTY!! THERE ARE
BENEFITS!!

Mike Crowley would like you to know that the url for the PB blog is
http://programboardblog.blogspot.com. He would like you to send him your
pictures of PB events.

Jamie.F had a terrible day. The film from her cameras was not processed on
time and, to make matters worse, she was badmouthed in Mandarin by the women
working at the photo shop. She understood every word of it, and arrived at
the Program Board meeting dejected and emotionally fragile. It broke my
little heart. Also, she is planning the exhibition for the "Photo Hunt"
project and the opening party. Keep your eye out for an email about a
meeting.

Mad G is bringing the Mountain Goats on Nov 29. She's starting to plan
publicity. However, no contracts are signed yet, so if you tell anyone about
the show, you didn't hear it from us.

Raisa's film committee screened Grindhouse last week (with costumes!) and it
went very well. No film tonight. Next week, see John Travolta as the woman
that he always wished Xenu would have made him in Hairspray. The week after
that, 300 is playing. That's about the time I KICKED ASS at last year's
bowling party.

Jamie.S is having a meeting on Wednesday at 3:30 to try to come up with
ideas for her next event, which isn't until next semester. She got a little
sassy and told us all to "make a sacrifice" and push back our Halloween
night plans a bit so that we can come to her meeting. I think she was just
pissed off at that magic guy for labeling her.

Performing arts is having an Event on Sat, Nov 10 on the 8th floor of
Kimmel. Mary and Meredith need your TVs!! If you have old ones that you
aren't using, give them to them! If you have one that you can lend to them
briefly, do it!! There will be cupcakes at their event (made from TVs)!!

There was a New Music proposal for a show with Excepter and Blues Control to
be held in E&L on Thurs, Dec 6th. Kyle described them as ambient noise
bands, along the lines of Hella. The proposal was passed.

And, finally, the winners of the Strawberry Fest Committee Co-Chair election
are....

...Allie Nudelman and Ashish Garg

I won't be around this year to be the Strawberry, so start casting now.

Nighty night,
Ben

Iron Chef Picture Post

2007-10-29T15:55:00.000-07:00

Yo homies! Iron Chef was totes dopecity, USA! We got free foods (mmmm hummus) and even board games! Except more like bored games because my friends and I attempted to play it when we got home and it was pretty slow moving and just left us feeling hungry. BUT some lucky ones got nice aprons with sweet Iron Chef graphics on them to look fierce in the kitchen. The drawing for that was pretty cut throat because there were only 4 aprons, and about 40 PBers who longed for them. The show was good, the food was good, all in all I would give the event a 6.8 out of Awesome.
xo - Mallory "the awesome" Greitzer

YEAHA

HOPE HALLOWEEN IS FUN

Tearing Apart Politics-- Poetry in Action.

2007-10-16T12:58:00.001-07:00

Alright, snitches (poets, writers, and all around artsy folks too), PB is cominatchya with Tearing Apart Politics: Poetry in Action.
Join us as we break down historical and political speeches, transforming them into poems to be projected for all to see.
Not to mention, there will be cake.
It will take place in Kimmel, room 802,
between the hours of 6:30 and 8:30.

Historic, sans facial hair.

-Alex

Retreat Picture Post

2007-10-15T18:00:00.000-07:00

Here are those previously promised pawsome pictures of the programboard retreat into the woods...

suiting up

looking up

looking down

zip

crow and kyle

brenda preps

elementary backstroke

just out of reach

leap of faith

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Don't be Frigtened, It's only a Lesson...

2007-09-26T14:57:00.000-07:00

In Zombie Survival...

Max Brooks, Author of The Zombie Survival Guide, Complete Protection from The Living Dead is coming to NYU!!

This is something your mother can't teach you... so be there dudes.

Wednesday October 3rd
7:30 PM
Kimmel 802
$4 W/NYU ID
$7 General Public

Tickets@Ticket Central

Survival of the Fittest Kids,
Brenda Malvini

*Images not associated with Max Brooks, it's just a coincident okay?

Never Have I Ever...

2007-09-26T13:15:00.000-07:00

This is where the program board executive council stayed for 2 nights, just a couple weekends ago. We didn't go to farm camp, but we stayed at the place that holds the farm camp: Frost Valley. It was cooooooooooold. We did team building activities, administrative junk, made smores, bonded with one another, hung out with the trees, did a ZIP LINE and high/low ropes course, and got lead around by this funny guy who made an awesome helicopter imitation noise. It was fun!, and if you run for the e-council or the e-board, then you get to can go next year...

As soon as I get some pictures from Adam EBnit, you'll get to see some PB faces, not just the face of a godzilla-sized lamby.

-mikocrowlo

The Beginning

2007-09-19T13:08:00.000-07:00

The Program Board is a student-run organization dedicated to providing affordable, quality entertainment and special events for the entire NYU community. The Program Board reaches out to the university community by co-sponsoring major events and theme months with other clubs and departments. As an important part of the Office of Student Activities, the Program Board provides a wide variety of diverse, educational, cultural, and community-building programs. Past events have included concerts by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moby, Talib Kweli; lectures by Harvey Pekar, Jim Carroll; a popular weekly film series; and panel discussions featuring Rich Stevens, Jon Rosenberg, and Matt Chapp (which were, by the way, awesome).

Membership in Program Board offers opportunities to gain worthwhile experience while working with professionals in the arts and entertainment fields. Program Board members are responsible for every step of the event planning process, from booking of talent and contract negotiation to technical production and publicity.
Committees include: Archivist(committee running this blog!), Concerts(bigger shows, more $$$, artists peeps know), Film, Lectures, Membership, New Music(smaller shows with more emerging artists), Performing Arts, Poets & Writers, Pre-Release, Publicity, Student Arts, and Visual Arts.

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The Program Board Blog is space for publicizing upcoming events, archiving past happenings(events and non-events), and commenting on/praising/critiquing past events (no hating please!). My name is Mike Crowley, and I'm the archivist chairperson, so I'll be updating this thing all the time, but soon hopefully other members of PB will take up some responsibility and help me out!

UPCOMING EVENTS!
-Monday 9/24
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
showing at Cantor Film Center
$2 NYU
$3 Non-NYU with I.D.
starts at 6:30pm
DRESS UP AND YOU GET IN FOR FREE!!!

-Wednesday 10/3
A Lesson in Zombie Survival by Max Brooks
Shorin Auditorium (802) 7:30pm
Tickets available at ticket central (2nd floor of Kimmel, 60 Wash. Sq. South)
$4 NYU, $7 Non-NYU with I.D.
DRESS THE F UP! it'll be crazy if mad peeps are in zombie constume

more to come!
-mike(archivist chair)