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My first board meeting with Coco was last night. It was really impressive. There’s been a huge amount of transition in the last two years so there have had a lot of challenges. The staff is incredibly on the ball and there’s at least two people on the board that I’m really impressed by - Jane, the executive director of the amazing Santropol Roulant who had the really tough job of replacing Vanessa and Marlo - the ED from Head and Hands, a nonprofit in NDG with 22 staff (!). Both of these women are young (my age) but uber professional and efficient and I expect to learn a lot from working alongside them.

On the way back from a meeting today, on McGill Ave I saw guy walking around with a red 5 foot mat. He was laying it down in front of him, walking over it, and then picking it up behind him and placing it out in front again. It was pretty funny, but no one was watching. I like public art, and although he was scruffy and dirty, he looked more like young artist than homeless and crazy, so I went up to him. Turned out that he was rolling out the red carpet for himself between home and school as an art piece for his fine art class at concordia. I helped him across de maisonneuve, watched him talk to a few people and get sworn by a driver. He didn’t know what psychogeography was, though. Too bad MK’s not around to mentor him (for the price of a few beers).

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oh - and these two posts. I’m really jealous of tracey for checking out this exhibit. And Ethan did a good job of summing up an Adam Greenfield talk.

(As I’m editing this I’m appreciating the amount of work that Ethan does blogging - not just documenting the information, but making an effort to introduce it and make it comprehensible to an uninitiated audience. It’s always hard to tell the effect of these things, but I think he’s making a difference in getting these ideas and discussions out there.)

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