March 10th, 2009 MEETING

First order of business is the Durham Bulls jersey design competition. Once a year the Durham Bulls design a novelty jersey that the whole team wears and then they are auctioned off for charity. It is great because it will be one of the first times that someone other than the Durham Bulls organization will be designing their annual novelty jersey's. It will be worn for one game on July 26th. After the game, the players will sign their jersey and then an auction will be held. The jerseys in the past have auctioned off anywhere from $90-1,000. We have the opportunity to choose a charity of our choice that the proceeds will be donated to.

You can only choose up to four (4) colors for cost purposes and the Durham Bulls logo (abt. 8") that goes on the left side of the chest has to be included. Our own AI logo cannot be used but we do have the ability to choose the piping, sleeves, and button styles. The jerseys will have the number of the player on it but not the players name.

The top three will be judged by Miss Jessica, Brian (the Durham Bulls head of merchandise), Monty, and maybe another teacher. It is a great opportunity for our school, Moda Guild, and for the winner! Not only are you raising money for charity but your jersey will hopefully be framed in the school, it is a great resume builder, and you get to see a whole baseball team wearing your design!!! If you don't win, you still get a free ticket to a exciting game! The designs are going to be due around mid May and they will go to print at the end of May.

We need to choose a charity within the next week or two.

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The week of April 19th, all of the Art Institutes are going to try to help out their local towns. Moda Guild had already thought of the idea to do a clothing drive, but this would be the perfect opportunity to get the ball rolling. We have chosen to do the drive the week of April 20th through the 24th. It will be great to have Moda Guild as the first club at the school to get involved in the community. We need to chose a charity for this event as well as the Durham Bulls jersey contest. We need to chose by next week so we can get it organized before we all leave for spring break. If anyone has an idea about what charity to donate all the clothing items to, please share your ideas. There are so many shelters and great organizations that we can help! We will need some people to volunteer to sort the clothes, drop them off at the charity site, and help make posters to let everyone know about the event.

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We have decided to leave on Friday March 27th for the Charleston Fashion Week and will come back home on Sunday the 29th. For anyone that wants to go and has not confirmed, PLEASE contact Joshua or Katie right away. We have about 6 people so far and it should be a lot of fun! A ticket for all day Friday is $45 and Saturday is $30. We've looked at a couple of hotel options and it would be around $40-50 per person if we split rooms. I would estimate the total for the weekend to cost around $175-200 per person.

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This weekend is the Redress Raleigh fashion show. It is geared towards changing the way Raleigh thinks about fashion, the environment, and Humanitarian Relief. The designers for the show are students at State so it should be pretty interesting and very educational for us all! The show is on March 14th starting at 5:30 p.m., which is this Saturday, and will be a long day starting at 6am for set up. For anyone that has volunteered, you should get an email shortly from the women running it about your job and details. If you didn't volunteer, you should still attend this great event that is being held at the Hillsborough Street Renaissance Festival. For more information ask Joey or go to http://www.redressraleigh.com

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The Southern Women Show is coming up in late April Friday the 24th, Saturday the 25th, and Sunday the 26th. Six (6) volunteers will need to be selected (maybe more if we have a lot of people that would like to help out) to work on one day out of the three. Two (2) people will work one whole day which will be about 8 hours long so be prepared to work if you would like to help out! If you are volunteering, you will not only have to show up the day you are assigned, but you also have to attend the dress rehearsal on Thursday, April 23rd. The volunteers might do jobs like being behind the scenes. That would probably involve getting the models lined up and ready to go out onto the runway. You might even have the opportunity to M.C. and introduce the designers and their lines. How fun!


Here are the potential volunteers so far: Lindsey, Katie, Leandra, Mo, Jackia, Lynell, Sophia, and Ana.

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I know some were wondering if they could edit the blog themselves. If the password is shared and passed along between people, it might cause some problems. For right now, before we decide on a way to let others edit postings in a safe way, I suggest either telling me (Katie Ives) your changes or at the end of every blog posting their is an option to leave a comment. If you want to just comment on the posting for any suggestions that you might have, I will do my best to make the changes as soon as I receive them.

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Heather Long, the lovely owner of Catch 22, involves her boutique with First Friday. Every Friday we might be able to display our fashion projects in her store and get AI and Moda Guilds name out there. Very nice of her!

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REMINDER: Anything that has our name on it such as posters have to be approved by Jessica first before they are put up anywhere. "Moda Guild" should be placed on anything we put up in the school so that people know who we are and associate us with the name.


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Attendance: Jessica Palmer, Katie, Lindsey, Joshua, Leandra, Mo, Nikita, Sarah, Ana, Jackia, Lynnell, and Sophia. If I left any ones name out, please let me know so I can document it.