Tuesday 10/03/2023
In the two hours before the writers meeting, I edited the video from last night’s concert into five shorter videos. One for each of four performances (cello solo, cello duet, violin solo, piano solo) that I uploaded to dropbox. Sent links to them to Nancy who had organized the concert, to share with the performers. Then I did a short, 2-minute video showing what all I had done with our new video equipment, and shared that with the AV team and other interested parties.
Then it was time for the writers meeting, for which I hadn’t written anything. The theme was “a day to live over or differently” and as you might expect there were some harrowing personal experiences.
At 3pm I joined Patty on the 11th floor where she was supervising the set up for the Heritage Circle annual donors reception. She wanted the lecternette in the middle of the floor and other changes. The reception actually started at 4, and it was fancy with lovely little shrimp cocktails and deviled eggs each with a little blossom on top, and other fancy nibbles all from our dining services.
The big announcement would normally have been about taking proposals for a new round of grants, but instead it was the announcement that various projects funded before had not been completed because of rising costs (including the auditorium AV upgrades) and this year they would skip a grant cycle and just use available funds to complete these projects.
At 7pm we had a movie; the first using our new projector. The movie was All Is True, Kenneth Branagh’s look at the final days of Wm. Shakespeare. Which were not happy days it seems. Rather uncomfortable indeed. Very slow play about unhappy people. Do not recommend.
Codgerville 