Two and a half years since the last post, approaching three years without an event.
Oyez Roslyn! is still alive, but not kicking (as in kicking out events), for now.
There have been two ongoing “challenges”:
1) It has been a struggle since our inception to find a venue that meets our criteria: available on a weekend night for free or a very minimal fee, provides food and drink, seats at least 30 (we average close to 50 folks+), and (of course) has some corner we can use to set up a podium or minimal performance space. IN ROSLYN.
2) Volunteer gusto. Everything we’ve done has been all-volunteer: scheduling, figuring out a mix of interesting people who are willing to present for a nominal honorrium. A mix of local and regional, a mix of intersts and ways of presenting, etc. Setting up and taking down. Doing the PR. Etc. Everybody who does volunteer events knows the drill.
Those of us who did the Oyez Roslyn! drill needed a winter season where we were not pre-commited to a full weekend of work once a month.
We are brooding, like hens, for now. Perhaps single events. Perhaps outdoors. Just not right now.
Wishing you patience, compassion, and courage as WInter Solstice launches us into a new year.