Sun. Jan. 18, 2025

Discussing Lunar New Year’s Celebration

calling it Cooking and Crafts Workshop event

Anyone interested in leading the tanghulu workshop?
- Eileen will head this.
Arts & crafts
- Tammy.
Harrison will handle the dumpling-making things.

Registration/Sign-up Introduction

Sign-up for the event on new MCYC website. Ppl can go on there to sign themselves up. Will get a qr code and will be scanned in at the event.
We will ask everyone to pay upfront at the time of registering to ensure we have the numbers and the money to buy what we need
Fundraiser to make a profit or at least break even.
Registration is mandatory. Cut off for two days before so we can get all of the supplies before that.

Discussion of Required Items and Ingredients

Tammy and Harrison will be shopping for the supplies for the event.

Posters and Marketing

Posters are done, excluding the website. If Harrison provides the link, Eileen should add it to the poster afterwards.
Two poster types based on when they will be posted:
- Registration is opening tmrw!
- Registration is now open for ppl to be able to register.

CTV WCCCC (+MCYC) Interview

Jimmy, Harrison and Nina. Jan. 29 CTV wants to do a live bit on Lunar New Year’s live at wcccc. Starts at 6:10 am. First segment they will be on is at 6:37 am. We have five time slots. Four out of five time slots have already been suggested by Jimmy and Nina. 2 min 40 seconds per time slot.
Idea for fifth time slot: Have two people, one cantonese speaking and one mandarin speaking. Present the new year’s greeting phrases: gong hay fat choi, etc. and then explain what they mean.
One could say a phrase and the other could give a red envelope and go back and forth between the two like this.

The current list of segments look like:

Segment 1: Explain the significance of the upcoming year of the snake
Segment 2: promotion of upcoming events at wcccc
Segment 3: maybe the great wall will dance
Segment 4: someone from mcyc to discuss what we’re doing for lunar new year
Segment 5: Saying different phrases in Chinese.

Any volunteers to help be on the segment? If you have a segment you think will work for any number of people, you can suggest this to Harrison. The segment is for 7:27am-8:38 am on Wed. Jan. 29, 2025 at WCCCC.

Next MCYC Member’s Meetup

Where they would like to see it happen and what/where/when? This is for an internal social meet-up.
Celebration for finishing the Chinese New Year, member-only social meetup.
Bubble tea, karaoke, hot pot, korean bbq (IGI). Feb. 15 or 23 maybe.

Website Summary and Use Case

Executives will have the option to make/create events/posts. All members can create their accounts.
Contact form where ppl will put in their info and it will go to a new email account.
Linking posts on website to the discord.
Announcements and updates, on meetings, for example. Etc.
Blog posts.
Newsletter

Background Operations

Applying for MCYC to become a provincially recognized nonprofit. This means we would not need to charge tax on these things.
We’ll also get perks from Google like a google drive storage, a higher level for email business account
Bank that will identify us as nonprofit. Can apply for provincial level and federal level grants.
Right now we have access to some local grants and funds, like the WCCCC
University of Manitoba club. Doing their own U of M meetings. Have all of the forms basically. They just need at least two more U of M members interested.
More access to grants and access to booking rooms at discounts or for free.
Send student email and student number to Sophie or Harrison (who will forward this to Sophie).

Backup plans in-case Venue doesn’t Work

If the cooking thing doesn’t work out: Minute to win it games at the WCCCC instead. Looking into other possible venues. Sort by cheapest and best for this.
At least a few hundred willing to spend on renting a venue if we need.
Benefits to reach a different audience
Location and price- Southwest of winnipeg. Or south east. Generally just closer to the south. And reach out directly.
Direct them to wcccc website if we need.

Ecole South Pointe

MCYC New Year’s Celebration from Ecole South Pointe
Dance group could perform on behalf of MCYC.
MCYC how it stands for in the website and in general. Stick to the same terminology. Club or committee.

Future Items

Discussion of Possibility of creating a new executive position, benefits or disadvantages of having this position, if it’s worth having or not.
End of meeting: Demo of how to sign up as a member on the new MCYC website.
Members and executives uploading profiles onto this new website.

Sun. Jan. 18, 2025 Meeting Minutes