18th july
this is the most recent low-res draft of the flier (ignore venue info details). this should obviously be at the bottom of this discussion, but you can’t post images as comments:
what do you think?
15th June:
a while ago we had talked about the compexities of getting leaflets printed – and it was surprising how many issues there were. leafleting was seen as a good way of letting people who might be looking for us find us, especially those not on-line, but there as a fine line between sign posting and ‘evangelising’. if we decided to do something at greenbelt we would need leaflets too. but how would we fund them? we have tried to run at no real cost to memebers and don’t want to gpo down the route of bank accounts or threshold ‘owning’ anything.
i have an idea for a leaflet, and I’m sure others do, and I’ve had an idea about paying for them. i thought we could have a ‘buy a pint’ box at meetings. then individuals who wished to could ‘buy a pint’ for the leaflets by contributing the price in the box when they were buying drinks. how many pint you wished to buy, if any, would be entirely up to the individual. over several meeting we might get enough money to pay for the printing, and any extra could be used to buy a round at the next threshold meeting. i think this would give everyone the chance to contribute, but to their own means and preference, in an easygoing, non-coercive way.
my idea for the leaflet is a medley of photographs and text boxes. the photos would be of different ‘thresholds’, and each text box contain one of our core principles. i’m imagining a green filter over top, the colour of the international fire exit signs, so the photos are ‘green and white’ (akin to black and white) and the texts are in a white font on a green background. on the back of the leaflet we could have the description of the group from the website/spirited exchanges profile: threshold is a bristolian community…. and contact and website details. I think we could add labels to this basic design for different purposes, e.g. we could print labels about times and date for greenbelt beer tent reflective and stick them onto the leaflet.
i know everypone will have lots of different ideas, and as a creative group we’ll end up with loads of options (both how to pay and designs). I just wanted to get the ball rolling on a discussion, and seeing as this is a ‘agenda’ it didn’t feel right to bring it up in the social, and it’s not reflective, although a session on designing the leaflet does have potential to be. so i thought this was the best place to have this discusion.
lindsey kh
