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So, although I haven’t talked much about what I’ve been doing so far with the IAC Initiative…I can, finally, reveal some of it.
Monday, December 10th, at the 5:00 City Council Meeting…
The Columbus City Council will be adopting a Resolution to officially declare Columbus as the Independent Art Capital of the World. The resolution is sponsored by Mary Ellen O’Shaughnessy, with a lot of hard work from Lelia Cady, her legislative analyst.
I have to tell you, walking the corridors of City Hall today…and seeing multiple cutouts of the IAC logo from the website on doors and bulletin boards, was simply amazing! As I was introduced around, I don’t think anyone needed an explanation as to what we were talking about…they knew, even if they didn’t know the specifics, what the IAC was.
There’s a lot more to come, but this is the first in the line of announcements and the most official of them, so I’m pretty excited!
p.s. Sorry Dan, I couldn’t get the shirts first, but I’ll grab them from you this week still and we can present them at the actual meeting.
OMG…wha-wha-[color=red:e7e3e8607f]WHAT?
Heck yeah!!!!
WOW.
Congratulations on getting this put into play!
very impressed!!!
Buy you a drink at the next CU hangout.
awesome! great job core!
OH! Almost forgot, since you’re the youtube guy ;)
We will get a DVD of the event, the speech, the presentation, the whole shebang.
OH! Almost forgot, since you’re the youtube guy ;)
We will get a DVD of the event, the speech, the presentation, the whole shebang.
I’m outed on CU as that YouTube guy? I’m calling my lawyer.
I’ll be on vacation on that Monday (figures!). There’ll be a presentation!? Dang. Several others can easily stick it on YouTube. Press?
I’ll be on vacation on that Monday (figures!). There’ll be a presentation!? Dang. Several others can easily stick it on YouTube. Press?
Yeah, apparently I’ll speak (or whoever…), there can be a few of us up at the actual podium, then Councilwoman O’Shaughnessy will hit some speaking points as well, followed by a reading of the actual resolution, and then presentation of the big formal scroll like thing :)
it is televised, on one of those CSpan type deals, but we’ll get a DVD too.
BTW guys, this goes hand in hand with some other really amazing stuff, more tangible things actually benefitting the artists, but I’m just not to the point I can put them out there yet.
Thanks Core. I appreciate your efforts. They will do us all good.
Core rock on with your bad self. Altruism and just making the world a better place….love to you!
A great display of how it’s about each of us doing our awesome part in our own unique way.
Truly inspiring.
That’s the spirit of this whole thing. And I know some of Core’s forthcoming details and they are awesome too.
:D
And each of us can do something equally awesome and fulfill on the promise of what it means to live in and create Columbus as the Indie Art Capital of the World.
The Columbus City Council will be adopting a Resolution to officially declare Columbus as the Independent Art Capital of the World. The resolution is sponsored by Mary Ellen O’Shaughnessy, with a lot of hard work from Lelia Cady, her legislative analyst.
Good work Core! Although I still think it should be Independent Arts Capital…
Way to go, Core. Amazing!!
wow very nice work. A very nice cornerstone to provide some legitimacy to the title. :-)
Nice work, Core!
:D
hells yeah! :D
Look forward to the coming announcements. Good Job!
On Monday December 10 at the 5:00 PM city council meeting, Council member
Maryellen O’Shaughnessy will introduce a resolution declaring Columbus the
Independent Art Capital of the World. Please join us for this historic
moment.
What: Resolution of Columbus City Council declaring Columbus the
Independent Art Capital of the World
When: City Council Meeting Monday December 10, 2007 5:00 PM
Where: City Hall 90 West Broad Street
City Council Chambers 2nd Floor
The resolution will be presented toward the beginning of the meeting and
visitors may park FREE in the city hall surface lot at Gay and Front Streets
at 5:00 PM and after. Bikes and scooters welcome! Walk around to the Front
Street entrance and go to the second floor, city council chambers. There are
plenty of seats and visitors are always welcome.
Council meeting will broadcast live on Columbus cable channel GTC-3 and will
re-broadcast in rotation for at least one week. The meeting begins with
customary formalities followed by resolutions of expression. I’d like a
photo op with the council member(s) and all the IAC people if we can manage
it. We have a photographer and feel free to bring your own camera, this is
serious but it’s also supposed to be fun. City council has a TV, e and radio
newsletter and I plan to include the IAC resolution as an opportunity to
talk about art and its role in civic life.
Maryellen has been busy with arts this year. She was appointed to the board
of the Greater Columbus Arts Council and began to explore artist work/live
space using seed money from council’s sustainable development fund. She
worked with Mayor Coleman to appoint the Columbus Art Commission (see:
Columbus City Codes 3115). Now she has the honor of sponsoring the IAC
resolution.
Maryellen O’Shaughnessy was elected to city council in 1997 and serves as
chair of the development committee and the public service & transportation
committee. She is political & policy advisor at Ohio AFL-CIO and is a
funeral director at her family business, the O’Shaughnessy Funeral Home on
historic East Town Street. She and her son, a senior at Columbus Alternative
HS, and their two dogs live near Goodale Park. Maryellen is an avid runner
and nationally ranked triathlete. She owns a moped but wishes for a Vespa.
Thanks for the opportunity to work together, and please contact me with any
questions. See you Monday!
Lelia Cady, Legislative Analyst to
Maryellen O’Shaughnessy, Member
Columbus City Council
City Hall: 645-8509
Cell: 327-3321
lecady@columbus.gov