Camp Quixote One Year Celebration

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Camp Quixote One Year Celebration

Submitted by Rob Richards on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 9:36pm.

I'm organizing a community event for Camp Quixote on their one year anniversary. I need some help raising money for a space at the Olympia Center and to buy supplies. The space is around $600 up front, we have to pay when we reserve it, so I need to come up with it soon. Also, I remember someone mentioning making a plaque to present to the camp for being picked "OlyBlog Person of the Year". Is anyone willing to bottomline that?

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PLEASE SUPPORT THIS !!!!!!

Submitted by Thomas 27 on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 9:59pm.

I'm going to be there, the camp I do support, and always will!!

Check with the camp first, please

Submitted by Paul on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 9:52am.

Rob, please check in with our happy campers before you schedule anything. I believe the camp is starting to plan their own gig to take place some time in February. St. John's Episcopal Church is available on certain dates through the month, including the kitchen, and I can assure you it won't cost anything close to your Oly Center quote. The space should be more than adequate. - P

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. - Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil

I wouldn't dream of not involving the campers.

Submitted by Rob Richards on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 10:32am.

The campers are excited about an event on the actual "birthday" of the camp, J-mar and Randy are going to help cook. The Olympia Center is across the street from the lot we set up on and is a fitting venue, money is nothing, it will come from the universe.

no offense

Submitted by amnesiac on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 5:19pm.

but maybe you should think of including all the advocates that have been working on Quixote SINCE last February in your planning. Also, volunteers from the "progressive/activist" community would be great. Its great you want to throw a 600 dollar party for Quixote (even though that money could- if raised- be donated to the camp instead). But why not volunteer also? Just an idea to consider!

none taken?

Submitted by Rob Richards on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 5:56pm.

I don't really know where you're coming from here.

I've been posting call-outs pretty regularly here and other places and the response has been somewhat mild, but it's growing. When I talked to my friends at the camp they were all excited about it. If you know people who have been helping out at the camp and want to help set up this event then you should have them contact me. There's plenty to do.

Between my work with Bread and Roses, the Peoples Legal Defense Fund, the Poor Peoples Union, and other groups, I don't have a lot of time leftover, or energy. Hope to see you on the 1st, and bring your checkbook to make a donation to the camp.

I am not sure who you talked

Submitted by amnesiac on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 10:50am.

I am not sure who you talked to at the camp but I deeply urge you to go to one of their weekly Sunday night meetings and speak to all of the residents. I think they are happy that you want to honor them, but I urge you to use extreme caution when raising money in the name of quixote unless you have a consensus that that is okay with all the residents.

Thanks for the advice,

Submitted by Rob Richards on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 11:50am.

but I do a pretty good job organizing things, and I usually cover all my bases. As far as I know Tony and J-Mar and Randy have mentioned it to the other campers and all of the responses I've heard so far have been positive. I'm getting excited, those folks deserve a fun night of food and music where they can stop and think about all of the really spectacular things they've accomplished, and also pause and give thought to how it got started and the chance a few people took throwing up some tents on an empty lot.

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