Josh Schwebel & H9 Meeting Notes: November 30

Hi Josh,

Hope Berlin is treating you well this Monday evening. 

Please find below our meeting notes from November 30; note that we’ve highlighted two questions for you.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

All the best + talk soon,

mark

The Employee

Discussion:

• Next steps from last time: Josh to provide re: The Employee (reminder, over email is fine)

• H9 access to Google Drive when he’s ready

• outline of who the writers are, how many essays there will be, how long the essays will be

• Production and design budgets + deadlines so we can orient ourselves 

• Dimensions: perhaps letter-size, 8.5x11in, to echo office work. Might also consider legal (8.5x14) and/or folded tabloid (11x17)

• The Employee will be organized along a chronological timeline of grant funding applications

• Each file would have its own tab in the book

• Josh wants to also include applications they didn’t send, along with annotations as to why they weren’t applied for 

• Josh to share spreadsheet with chronological list of grant applications

• Josh to revise spreadsheet so that it includes all pertinent dates of the project, not just applications

• All of Camille’s notes will also be included 

• Perhaps a book would be better than a box

• There should be a table of contents

• Josh has finalized the list of writers 

• Unsure of how to categorize/put into order rolling deadline grants; maybe screencap the rolling deadline applications that weren’t sent in

• How do we make something visually cohesive when all the grant applications look so different?

• Greyscale or colour? Documentation of performances to be in colour, but documentation can be in greyscale

• Videos:

• Josh is still uncertain of how to include the video performances

• Flipbook idea still exists

Budgets:

• What is the whole budget, including production?

• Publisher will be Art Metropole… Just giving the logo and distribution

Next Steps for H9:

• Reverse-engineering a timeline and then come up with deadlines (DONE)

• Farah and Louis to discuss preliminary ideas

Question for Josh: 

• Does Jan 3 feel realistic for content to h9?

Deadlines:

• Publication: Mid-may 2022 (May 18 launch in Gatineau)