Notice of Change of Venue for
meetings of Mid Island Weavers and Spinners Guild
February – June 2019 6pm – 8pm
Trial Period
The monthly guild
meetings will be held in the Big Meeting room of the Harbourfront Branch of the
Library for Feb – June, 6pm – 8pm.
Background pre-amble
Concern that with the
current size of our membership and low annual fees most of our money was going
to rent for a facility, St Paul’s Anglican Church, that does not offer us any
advantages other than space and time (no closing time).
We also need to
increase our visibility in the community to attract new members, and to be able
to plan workshops.
I contacted the Harbourfront
Branch of the library and received a very positive response. Steinunn Benjaminssonn,
Customer Services Librarian, Adult Services , asked if she could come to the
meeting in January. Yes, of course.
Major Concern – reason for the
trial run.
Raised by several folk
at the meeting: If we give up the Church
meeting room we may not be able to get it back.
Solution suggested by
Liz H-K. We do a trial run.
We pay the rent for
the Church for the first half of the year (we normally pay in two parts) but we
meet in the library until the summer.
January 2 2019 meeting
Long very active discussion
and debate with the 9 members in attendance with Steinunn Benjaminssonn.
Points: For and Against
St Paul’s has been the
venue for many years and prior to the renovation was ideal. However, with loss
of the storage things have changed. The
library cannot solve the storage issue.
The location in the Old
Town is good. This is true for the Church
and the Harbour Front Library.
The library would not
be charging us rent. The Church $600 a year.
We would have the use
of the Large Meeting Room upstairs; tea and coffee can be made. Potlucks can be
held in the room.
Meeting times:
Ist Wednesday of the month for
meetings
St Paul’s 7pm – 9 pm although recently the meeting has ended somewhere around
8pm to 8:30pm
Library: to get two hours: 6pm-8pm the library closes at 8pm.
Bookings: The meeting
room can be booked for three months at a time. We would not need the room the
summer (July and August).
The Large Meeting room
has the ability to project from a computer to a screen and has recently
acquired an Apple TV projector addition.
Parking:
There is underground pay
parking at the library (75 cents for 2 hours)
Parking is free after
5pm in the Bastion Street Parkade and is a walkable distance from the library via
Skinner St.
