[617] in UA Senate
Re: the Sweat Lodge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Jenks)
Mon Apr 12 14:18:19 2010
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004121259300.11926@scrubbing-bubbles.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:18:12 -0400
From: Tim Jenks <trjenks@gmail.com>
To: UA Senate <ua-senate@mit.edu>
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The few things that I've seen about this event publicize this event as an
interaction between students or the MIT community and the artists. So if
this is what we're debating on funding, why is a photographer and
videographer necessary? I fail to see the benefits of spending $1500 on a
photographer, when he doesn't relate to the experience the students or
community would receive from attending the event.
Also I think we should consider the FPRC guidelines and some of the things
we talked about with the MassCPR bill. (minutes:
http://web.mit.edu/ua/minutes/UAS41/2010-03-29.pdf)
--Tim
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Nicole D Teague <nteague@mit.edu> wrote:
> In addition to the points Keone has mentioned\\, the LEF/ARCADE turned do=
wn
> this event because of the huge amount of money being budgeted to publicit=
y
> ($1000) and photo and video documentation ($1500). These are unnecessary
> expenses whose total exceeds the amount they requested from LEF.
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Keone Hon wrote:
>
> Here's the application submitted to LEF/ARCADE, since you guys asked.
>> Also see the PDF, which is a bit more descriptive than the one
>> attached in this thread before.
>>
>> The event was turned down by LEF due to timing issues (it is Fri May
>> 21, the last day of finals week) and questions about whether they
>> could really draw 1000 attendees as claimed, especially during that
>> time.
>>
>> Although some events do take place during/after finals week, but they
>> are typically related to finals week (Medlinks), or are very small,
>> tight-knit groups (BGSA). The events that take place after finals
>> week are held in grad dormitories, which essentially eliminates the
>> draw concern.
>>
>>
>> Board: LEF
>> Event name: Sweat Lodge
>> Sponsoring group: SOCS
>>
>> Total attendance: 1,000
>> MIT student attendance: 65%
>>
>> Funding request: 2733
>> Total budget: 6700
>> Other funding sources:
>> 2150 from Council for the Arts
>> 1484 from de Florez Humor Fund
>>
>> Date: 5/21/10 Time: 36 hours
>> Location: In the courtyard beteween the Media Lab and Medical Buildings
>>
>> Other information:
>> * met with SAO
>> * location IS reserved
>> * WAS held previously
>>
>> Event description: Sweat Lodge
>> Graduate and undergraduate students from the ASA club Society of
>> Creatives (SOCS) and MIT's programs in Architecture, Art, Culture, &
>> Technology, and Media Arts & Sciences are organizing a month long
>> inflatable intervention on the MIT campus this spring. Happening over
>> three themed days, "Construct," "Experience," and "De-Construct,"
>> Sweat Lodge will be a nexus of performances, happenings, structures,
>> workshops, lectures, discussions and experiences focusing on social
>> and sensory perception. Sweat Lodge will be a platform for MIT
>> students pursuing independent creative work to showcase that work to
>> and collaborate with the communities of MIT, Cambridge, and Boston.
>>
>> Sweat Lodge will not actually be a sweat lodge in the native American
>> or Nordic sense! The name is a metaphor for the types of sensory and
>> social experiences we are interested in engineering, and a pun on the
>> fact that inflatables tend to get hot and stinky inside when occupied.
>> The traditional sweat lodge is a place for individuals to come
>> together and share in a collective experience through which community
>> is constructed. Our conceptual focus on social and sensory perception
>> in relation to public performance, society, and the built environment
>> will facilitate similar experiential opportunities for the
>> participants. Sweat Lodge will create social, collaborative and
>> community opportunities for the MIT campus to actively explore
>> creative practices and activities facilitated by artists, designers,
>> engineers, and scientists.
>>
>> Promotion
>>
>> Sweat Lodge will be inflated during the last weekend of May (Friday -
>> Sunday) in Richard Fleischner's "Courtyard" (the lawn and walkways
>> between the E25, E23, E15, and E14). This location was chosen to
>> maximize our potential audience of passersby due to its high volume of
>> pedestrian traffic from the Kendal T station to central campus.
>> Engaging serendipitously with a broad cross section of campus is
>> fundamental to our mission of flattening barriers between departments,
>> disciplines, and people.
>>
>> In addition to creating the potential for serendipitous interaction,
>> many of our collaborators have audiences they are already engaged with
>> who will attend the events. Publicity to these groups is a two-fold
>> strategy of beginning the collaborative dialog, then using
>> word-of-mouth and social media to spread the word. To this end a call
>> for proposals to SOCS, MIT's School of Architecture + Planning and the
>> organizers' social networks in January has engaged creative thinkers
>> from the community to submit ideas for projects. The process of
>> calling for and collecting proposals will continue till April 1st,
>> when we will make curatorial decisions about which proposals to follow
>> through on. Following this, we will use face-to-face interaction,
>> digital invitations, web site documentation, and FaceBook groups to
>> promote the event to our respective audiences and the public. We are
>> also engaged with faculty in the Art, Culture & Technology program who
>> have promoted the project to undergraduate and graduate students in
>> their classes.
>>
>> Promotion will continue during Sweat Lodge through the distribution of
>> a self-published pamphlet. The pamphlet will be given away for free on
>> site and will contain information about what the Sweat Lodge is, a
>> schedule of its events, and descriptions and artist statements about
>> the activities taking place.
>>
>> Happenings
>>
>> Sweat Lodge will kick-off with "Construct", a series of events about
>> physical and metaphysical constructions. We'll be running free and
>> public events on inflatable techniques for large objects; discussing
>> the politics of appropriated spaces and societies; producing digital
>> maps with helium dirigibles; fabricating tensegrity structures for
>> pedagogy; building tools for public wireless networks; and
>> collaborating to produce a human scale knit object, to name a few.
>>
>> The following day, "Experience", Sweat Lodge will become a nexus of
>> public performance, sound, video, installation, and media events,
>> which will create a variety of experiential environments for audience
>> participants. Proposals for this day are still being gathered, but we
>> have received promising submissions from members of the Society of
>> Creatives (SOCS); students in Antoni Muntadas' Public Art class;
>> students in the program in Media Arts & Sciences; students in the
>> program in Art, Culture, & Technology; and community members from
>> Boston and Cambridge. More details of individual proposals can be
>> provided by request.
>>
>> The final day, "De-Construct", will feature a participatory public
>> deconstruction of the pavilions involving workshops dealing with
>> positive alternatives to Ant Farm=92s (pioneers in inflatable
>> architecture and comedic performance-art) advice to =93burn it=94. Publi=
c
>> presentations will be staged on site about sustainable material use in
>> art production; re-purposing, re-use, and re-cycling of inflatable
>> objects; multi-media documentation of the prior days' goings-on; and a
>> round table panel discussion with the collaborators, curators and
>> community to critique: "What just happened?"
>>
>> Approvals
>>
>> Sweat Lodge consists of a set of single and multiple occupancy modular
>> inflatable pavilions ranging from 3'x3'x9' to 9'x9'x9' (under the size
>> threshold for building permits) made from fire-retardant plastic. The
>> pavilions will be inflated each morning of the event and deflated for
>> storage each evening. A member of the project management team will be
>> monitoring the installations full-time while they are inflated, and
>> ballasts will be devised to buoy them in place. After the exhibit the
>> pavilions will be stored for future use, donated for re-purposing, or
>> recycled with a vendor. Approval from MIT's EHS office are still
>> pending, but we have already initiated the approval process and are
>> actively working with them to gain approval. Additional site visits
>> are being conducted by MIT's Council for the Arts.
>>
>> Project Management Team
>>
>> The Society of Creatives (SOCS) is a newish (founded Feb 2009)
>> student-run organization for people engaged in creative practices that
>> exist between the boundaries of Art, Science, Design, and Engineering.
>> We organize events like lectures, workshops, art happenings,
>> critiques, exhibitions, and field trips, with the goal of building
>> community across creative disciplines. Sweat Lodge is by far the
>> largest event we have organized to-date, but it is not without
>> precedent. Currently, we run a weekly peer critique group at the Muddy
>> Charles Pub called Negative Feedback, for students who are working on
>> independent creative projects to present their work and receive
>> critical feedback from a multi-disciplinary audience. This semester we
>> inaugurated our second regular event, MIT Creatives, a bi-weekly
>> lecture series about creative thinking and practices happening at MIT.
>> Finally, last spring, SOCS's founder and past president, Ryan O'Toole,
>> produced a similar event in the same location for Antoni Muntadas's
>> Public Art class called Public Art Bath. Sweat Lodge is a continuation
>> of that work, but much more grandiose in scope and deeper in its
>> collaborative effort. The principal organizers of Sweat Lodge are Ryan
>> O'Toole (MAS '10) and Amanda Moore (ACT '11) supported by the work,
>> ideas, participation, and good will of many other students and faculty
>> involved staging the happenings: David Robert (MAS), Sam Kronick
>> (BSAD), Sara Witt (ACT), Mary Hale (ALUM), Brandon Roy (MAS), Nadav
>> Ahrony (MAS), Antoni Muntadas (ACT), Ute Meta Bauer (ACT), Gedeminas
>> Urbonas (ACT), Noah Vawter (MAS), Noah Feehan (MAS), Jeff Warren(MAS),
>> John Buck (LVAC&MassArt), Hannah Perner-Wilson (MAS), Sean Folmer
>> (MAS), Kathryn Payne (MassArt), and others to be announced.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Miscellaneous:
>> Acct# : 2721289
>> Available_funds : 0
>> Performer_Speaker? : no
>> Group_email : sweatlodge@mit.edu
>> Contact : Ryan O'Toole
>> Collaborating_Other_Groups : Students from the programs in Media Arts
>> & Sciences, Art Culture & Technology, and Architecture.
>> name : Ryan Michael O'Toole
>> email : rot@mit.edu
>> Contact_email : rot@mit.edu
>> Past_date : 5/15/09
>>
>> --
>> Keone Hon
>> President, Association of Student Activities | MIT Class of 2011
>> Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Dept. of
>> Mathematics
>> keone@mit.edu | (407) 536-6346
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Ashley Nash <ashnash@mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Here's the budget. Whoops
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Ashley Nash <ashnash@mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I didn't send this out earlier. I meant to, but then life
>>>> happened. Anyway, the Sweat Lodge is a new event for MIT. It's a
>>>> three-day
>>>> event (each day over a different weekend) where students can showcase
>>>> their
>>>> work. They can install stuff or perform, and this is really awesome
>>>> because
>>>> lots of students like doing cool things, but they don't have the time =
to
>>>> do
>>>> their work, and do art and do the bureaucratic stuff they need to do t=
o
>>>> perform, getting the appropriate licenses, dealing with MIT EHS (safet=
y
>>>> office) applying for funding, etc. This event will give students the
>>>> chance
>>>> to do cool things and someone else, the event organizers, are doing al=
l
>>>> of
>>>> the paperwork and stuff that the students don't have time to do
>>>> themselves.
>>>> We haven't been spending all that much this term, which translates t=
o
>>>> people aren't doing as much, and so I think that if we could help a ne=
w
>>>> initiative get off the ground, it would be 1. an awesome thing for
>>>> students
>>>> and 2. would encourage more people to come up with awesome things for
>>>> students.
>>>>
>>>> I attached their budget below. One funding source is listed as ???
>>>> They
>>>> told me who it was, and I forgot, so I put in ???
>>>>
>>>> If you have any questions or information you want, let me know so I ca=
n
>>>> try to make sure it is available before/at Senate.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Ashley
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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The few things that I've seen about this event publicize this event as =
an interaction between students or the MIT community and the artists.=A0 So=
if this is what we're debating on funding, why is a photographer and v=
ideographer necessary?=A0 I fail to see the benefits of spending $1500 on a=
photographer, when he doesn't relate to the experience the students or=
community would receive from attending the event.<br>
<br>Also I think we should consider the FPRC guidelines and some of the thi=
ngs we talked about with the MassCPR bill.=A0 (minutes: <a href=3D"http://w=
eb.mit.edu/ua/minutes/UAS41/2010-03-29.pdf">http://web.mit.edu/ua/minutes/U=
AS41/2010-03-29.pdf</a>)<br>
<br>--Tim<br><br><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at=
1:03 PM, Nicole D Teague <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:nteague@m=
it.edu" target=3D"_blank">nteague@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; borde=
r-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">In addition to th=
e points Keone has mentioned\\, the LEF/ARCADE turned down this event becau=
se of the huge amount of money being budgeted to publicity ($1000) and phot=
o and video documentation ($1500). These are unnecessary expenses whose tot=
al exceeds the amount they requested from LEF.<div>
<div></div><div><br>
<br>
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Keone Hon wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; borde=
r-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Here's the application submitted to LEF/ARCADE, since you guys asked.<b=
r>
Also see the PDF, which is a bit more descriptive than the one<br>
attached in this thread before.<br>
<br>
The event was turned down by LEF due to timing issues (it is Fri May<br>
21, the last day of finals week) and questions about whether they<br>
could really draw 1000 attendees as claimed, especially during that<br>
time.<br>
<br>
Although some events do take place during/after finals week, but they<br>
are typically related to finals week (Medlinks), or are very small,<br>
tight-knit groups (BGSA). =A0The events that take place after finals<br>
week are held in grad dormitories, which essentially eliminates the<br>
draw concern.<br>
<br>
<br>
Board: =A0LEF<br>
Event name: =A0Sweat Lodge<br>
Sponsoring group: =A0SOCS<br>
<br>
Total attendance: =A01,000<br>
MIT student attendance: =A065%<br>
<br>
Funding request: =A02733<br>
Total budget: =A06700<br>
Other funding sources:<br>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 2150 =A0from =A0 Council for the Arts<br>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 1484 =A0from =A0 de Florez Humor Fund<br>
<br>
Date: =A05/21/10 Time: =A036 hours<br>
Location: =A0In the courtyard beteween the Media Lab and Medical Buildings<=
br>
<br>
Other information:<br>
* met with SAO<br>
* location IS reserved<br>
* WAS held previously<br>
<br>
Event description: =A0Sweat Lodge<br>
Graduate and undergraduate students from the ASA club Society of<br>
Creatives (SOCS) and MIT's programs in Architecture, Art, Culture, &=
;<br>
Technology, and Media Arts & Sciences are organizing a month long<br>
inflatable intervention on the MIT campus this spring. Happening over<br>
three themed days, "Construct," "Experience," and "=
;De-Construct,"<br>
Sweat Lodge will be a nexus of performances, happenings, structures,<br>
workshops, lectures, discussions and experiences focusing on social<br>
and sensory perception. Sweat Lodge will be a platform for MIT<br>
students pursuing independent creative work to showcase that work to<br>
and collaborate with the communities of MIT, Cambridge, and Boston.<br>
<br>
Sweat Lodge will not actually be a sweat lodge in the native American<br>
or Nordic sense! The name is a metaphor for the types of sensory and<br>
social experiences we are interested in engineering, and a pun on the<br>
fact that inflatables tend to get hot and stinky inside when occupied.<br>
The traditional sweat lodge is a place for individuals to come<br>
together and share in a collective experience through which community<br>
is constructed. Our conceptual focus on social and sensory perception<br>
in relation to public performance, society, and the built environment<br>
will facilitate similar experiential opportunities for the<br>
participants. Sweat Lodge will create social, collaborative and<br>
community opportunities for the MIT campus to actively explore<br>
creative practices and activities facilitated by artists, designers,<br>
engineers, and scientists.<br>
<br>
Promotion<br>
<br>
Sweat Lodge will be inflated during the last weekend of May (Friday -<br>
Sunday) in Richard Fleischner's "Courtyard" (the lawn and wal=
kways<br>
between the E25, E23, E15, and E14). This location was chosen to<br>
maximize our potential audience of passersby due to its high volume of<br>
pedestrian traffic from the Kendal T station to central campus.<br>
Engaging serendipitously with a broad cross section of campus is<br>
fundamental to our mission of flattening barriers between departments,<br>
disciplines, and people.<br>
<br>
In addition to creating the potential for serendipitous interaction,<br>
many of our collaborators have audiences they are already engaged with<br>
who will attend the events. Publicity to these groups is a two-fold<br>
strategy of beginning the collaborative dialog, then using<br>
word-of-mouth and social media to spread the word. To this end a call<br>
for proposals to SOCS, MIT's School of Architecture + Planning and the<=
br>
organizers' social networks in January has engaged creative thinkers<br=
>
from the community to submit ideas for projects. The process of<br>
calling for and collecting proposals will continue till April 1st,<br>
when we will make curatorial decisions about which proposals to follow<br>
through on. Following this, we will use face-to-face interaction,<br>
digital invitations, web site documentation, and FaceBook groups to<br>
promote the event to our respective audiences and the public. We are<br>
also engaged with faculty in the Art, Culture & Technology program who<=
br>
have promoted the project to undergraduate and graduate students in<br>
their classes.<br>
<br>
Promotion will continue during Sweat Lodge through the distribution of<br>
a self-published pamphlet. The pamphlet will be given away for free on<br>
site and will contain information about what the Sweat Lodge is, a<br>
schedule of its events, and descriptions and artist statements about<br>
the activities taking place.<br>
<br>
Happenings<br>
<br>
Sweat Lodge will kick-off with "Construct", a series of events ab=
out<br>
physical and metaphysical constructions. We'll be running free and<br>
public events on inflatable techniques for large objects; discussing<br>
the politics of appropriated spaces and societies; producing digital<br>
maps with helium dirigibles; fabricating tensegrity structures for<br>
pedagogy; building tools for public wireless networks; and<br>
collaborating to produce a human scale knit object, to name a few.<br>
<br>
The following day, "Experience", Sweat Lodge will become a nexus =
of<br>
public performance, sound, video, installation, and media events,<br>
which will create a variety of experiential environments for audience<br>
participants. Proposals for this day are still being gathered, but we<br>
have received promising submissions from members of the Society of<br>
Creatives (SOCS); students in Antoni Muntadas' Public Art class;<br>
students in the program in Media Arts & Sciences; students in the<br>
program in Art, Culture, & Technology; and community members from<br>
Boston and Cambridge. More details of individual proposals can be<br>
provided by request.<br>
<br>
The final day, "De-Construct", will feature a participatory publi=
c<br>
deconstruction of the pavilions involving workshops dealing with<br>
positive alternatives to Ant Farm=92s (pioneers in inflatable<br>
architecture and comedic performance-art) advice to =93burn it=94. Public<b=
r>
presentations will be staged on site about sustainable material use in<br>
art production; re-purposing, re-use, and re-cycling of inflatable<br>
objects; multi-media documentation of the prior days' goings-on; and a<=
br>
round table panel discussion with the collaborators, curators and<br>
community to critique: "What just happened?"<br>
<br>
Approvals<br>
<br>
Sweat Lodge consists of a set of single and multiple occupancy modular<br>
inflatable pavilions ranging from 3'x3'x9' to 9'x9'x9&#=
39; (under the size<br>
threshold for building permits) made from fire-retardant plastic. The<br>
pavilions will be inflated each morning of the event and deflated for<br>
storage each evening. A member of the project management team will be<br>
monitoring the installations full-time while they are inflated, and<br>
ballasts will be devised to buoy them in place. After the exhibit the<br>
pavilions will be stored for future use, donated for re-purposing, or<br>
recycled with a vendor. Approval from MIT's EHS office are still<br>
pending, but we have already initiated the approval process and are<br>
actively working with them to gain approval. Additional site visits<br>
are being conducted by MIT's Council for the Arts.<br>
<br>
Project Management Team<br>
<br>
The Society of Creatives (SOCS) is a newish (founded Feb 2009)<br>
student-run organization for people engaged in creative practices that<br>
exist between the boundaries of Art, Science, Design, and Engineering.<br>
We organize events like lectures, workshops, art happenings,<br>
critiques, exhibitions, and field trips, with the goal of building<br>
community across creative disciplines. Sweat Lodge is by far the<br>
largest event we have organized to-date, but it is not without<br>
precedent. Currently, we run a weekly peer critique group at the Muddy<br>
Charles Pub called Negative Feedback, for students who are working on<br>
independent creative projects to present their work and receive<br>
critical feedback from a multi-disciplinary audience. This semester we<br>
inaugurated our second regular event, MIT Creatives, a bi-weekly<br>
lecture series about creative thinking and practices happening at MIT.<br>
Finally, last spring, SOCS's founder and past president, Ryan O'Too=
le,<br>
produced a similar event in the same location for Antoni Muntadas's<br>
Public Art class called Public Art Bath. Sweat Lodge is a continuation<br>
of that work, but much more grandiose in scope and deeper in its<br>
collaborative effort. The principal organizers of Sweat Lodge are Ryan<br>
O'Toole (MAS '10) and Amanda Moore (ACT '11) supported by the w=
ork,<br>
ideas, participation, and good will of many other students and faculty<br>
involved staging the happenings: David Robert (MAS), Sam Kronick<br>
(BSAD), Sara Witt (ACT), Mary Hale (ALUM), Brandon Roy (MAS), Nadav<br>
Ahrony (MAS), Antoni Muntadas (ACT), Ute Meta Bauer (ACT), Gedeminas<br>
Urbonas (ACT), Noah Vawter (MAS), Noah Feehan (MAS), Jeff Warren(MAS),<br>
John Buck (LVAC&MassArt), Hannah Perner-Wilson (MAS), Sean Folmer<br>
(MAS), Kathryn Payne (MassArt), and others to be announced.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Miscellaneous:<br>
Acct# : =A02721289<br>
Available_funds : =A00<br>
Performer_Speaker? : =A0no<br>
Group_email : =A0<a href=3D"mailto:sweatlodge@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">sw=
eatlodge@mit.edu</a><br>
Contact : =A0Ryan O'Toole<br>
Collaborating_Other_Groups : =A0Students from the programs in Media Arts<br=
>
& Sciences, Art Culture & Technology, and Architecture.<br>
name : =A0Ryan Michael O'Toole<br>
email : =A0<a href=3D"mailto:rot@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">rot@mit.edu</a>=
<br>
Contact_email : =A0<a href=3D"mailto:rot@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">rot@mit=
.edu</a><br>
Past_date : =A05/15/09<br>
<br>
--<br>
Keone Hon<br>
President, Association of Student Activities | MIT Class of 2011<br>
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Dept. of Mathematics=
<br>
<a href=3D"mailto:keone@mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">keone@mit.edu</a> | (407=
) 536-6346<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Ashley Nash <<a href=3D"mailto:ashnash@=
mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">ashnash@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; borde=
r-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Here's the budget. Whoops<br>
<br>
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Ashley Nash <<a href=3D"mailto:ashnash@=
mit.edu" target=3D"_blank">ashnash@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; borde=
r-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
Sorry I didn't send this out earlier.=A0 I meant to, but then life<br>
happened.=A0 Anyway, the Sweat Lodge is a new event for MIT.=A0 It's a =
three-day<br>
event (each day over a different weekend) where students can showcase their=
<br>
work.=A0 They can install stuff or perform, and this is really awesome beca=
use<br>
lots of students like doing cool things, but they don't have the time t=
o do<br>
their work, and do art and do the bureaucratic stuff they need to do to<br>
perform, getting the appropriate licenses, dealing with MIT EHS (safety<br>
office) applying for funding, etc.=A0 This event will give students the cha=
nce<br>
to do cool things and someone else, the event organizers, are doing all of<=
br>
the paperwork and stuff that the students don't have time to do themsel=
ves.<br>
=A0 We haven't been spending all that much this term, which translates =
to<br>
people aren't doing as much, and so I think that if we could help a new=
<br>
initiative get off the ground, it would be 1. an awesome thing for students=
<br>
and 2. would encourage more people to come up with awesome things for<br>
students.<br>
<br>
I attached their budget below.=A0 One funding source is listed as ???=A0 Th=
ey<br>
told me who it was, and I forgot, so I put in ???<br>
<br>
If you have any questions or information you want, let me know so I can<br>
try to make sure it is available before/at Senate.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Ashley<br>
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