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Fall 2024 Kickoff GBM
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There was a large difference in our estimated vs. actual attendance numbers because we did not predict such a large influx of attendees who attended from hearing from us during our Library Walk tablings and active community. I've recognized that our online community is very welcoming to new members and that people interested in our club will feel more open to be involved with our in-person events just from that.
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The goal of our event was to share more details about who runs the club, what kinds of events we will be hosting more in the future, and to give attendees and members an opportunity to talk with one another and socialize.
I believe that this event was a massive success because we heard positive feedback from multiple attendees after the event about how they enjoyed our planned social activity and were able to meet new people who had similar hobbies.
I believe our most valuable resource for this event were the officers who have helped during the event and to help us set up. Our officers helped a lot in alleviating any pressure that came with the large attendance of our event and helped whenever attendees had any issues.
I think that largest complication was our large attendance. We changed our room layout to originally fit 40 people to 60 people at max. Even though we did this, we still had an over attendance for the capacity of the room. So while we did not want to turn people away, we encouraged attendees to talk with us outside of the room, join for other events happening in later weeks, and come in when other attendees left.
I think for next event, we will try to get a larger meeting space, and be more strict on allowed attendees when the room reaches capacity.
I believe that we could post our announcements earlier so our members could prepare for our event, and be open to attendees online about having reached room capacity.
Being an art organization, it is hard to find ways we can use A.S. programming funds in a productive way that helps support our club specifically. While having food and flyers is nice to have for our attendees, we don't find that to be our main focus when trying to look for event funding. I understand that asking for what can be considered "permanent" items is difficult to change within A.S. guidelines, but this is not supporting educational clubs like ours who plan to use these funds in academic ways to help teach artists who are not being supported in that way by the current UC visual arts department. I understand a lot of the policy is this way to restrict clubs/organizations from misusing the funds, but this policy should not have to be the same for all clubs, since each one is different in their own way, and require funding in their own ways as well. This was extremely difficult to come to terms with after reviewing the updated version of the guide. Therefore, if you want to better support our organization and other art organizations on campus, please fight for us to fund our events in productive ways that help support our artists' art education. Thank you