It's almost time for some fair trade dancing! Our 3rd annual ball is coming February 7! Click here for a flyer to share!
The Enlightened Hippogriffs - Columbus, Ohio Chapter
Showing posts with label yule ball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yule ball. Show all posts
Monday, January 27, 2014
Friday, September 14, 2012
Hippogriffs in the news!
Hey everyone, our Yule Ball is featured in an article on the Equal Exchange website! Check it out!
http://www.equalexchange.coop/faith-and-fair-trade-inspirations
And yay Barbara Taylor for the awesome article! By the way, Barbara needs volunteers this Sunday - let her know if interested!
p.s. It's Friday, Dec. 7 this year for our 2nd annual Fair Trade Chocolate Yule Ball! Mark your calendars!!!
http://www.equalexchange.coop/faith-and-fair-trade-inspirations
And yay Barbara Taylor for the awesome article! By the way, Barbara needs volunteers this Sunday - let her know if interested!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Next Meeting: January 8, 2012
Hey Hippogriffs!
First, just wanted to say again a big THANK YOU to everyone involved in the Yule Ball! I thought we had a great turnout and lots of fun! Also guess what? We made a little profit! This will be a great start to our new year and help us fund our activities. Thanks everyone for all your planning, hard work, and for making it such a blast!
Now on to the new year!
Our next meeting will be Sunday, January 8, 2012 at First UU, 12:30-2 pm.
Please bring some DRY BEANS to the meeting. Any kind you like (make 'em edible!) and as much as possible. We're going to channel our inner House Elves for a fun activity! You'll see!
Also let me know if you'd be interested in a field trip to the food pantry in Athens County on Martin Luther King day (Jan 16) - and let's plan a carpool down there during our Jan 8 meeting.
We're also going to go over a plan for the upcoming year at this meeting. I have lots of ideas and I'd love to spend some time brainstorming about them!
Finally, we've been invited to have email pen pals from other Harry Potter Alliance chapters. Most other chapters are made up of older students - high school and college aged - so they will be looking to mentor our younger members (parents, we can use your email addresses if you'd prefer to monitor your kids' emails.) Or those of us who are adults can also have pen pals and do our part in mentoring these young adults in return. Think about whether you'd like to do this and if interested, let me know what address to use, or sign up at our January meeting if you want.
Looking forward to an awesome year! Happy holidays!
~Lynne
First, just wanted to say again a big THANK YOU to everyone involved in the Yule Ball! I thought we had a great turnout and lots of fun! Also guess what? We made a little profit! This will be a great start to our new year and help us fund our activities. Thanks everyone for all your planning, hard work, and for making it such a blast!
Now on to the new year!
Our next meeting will be Sunday, January 8, 2012 at First UU, 12:30-2 pm.
Please bring some DRY BEANS to the meeting. Any kind you like (make 'em edible!) and as much as possible. We're going to channel our inner House Elves for a fun activity! You'll see!
Also let me know if you'd be interested in a field trip to the food pantry in Athens County on Martin Luther King day (Jan 16) - and let's plan a carpool down there during our Jan 8 meeting.
We're also going to go over a plan for the upcoming year at this meeting. I have lots of ideas and I'd love to spend some time brainstorming about them!
Finally, we've been invited to have email pen pals from other Harry Potter Alliance chapters. Most other chapters are made up of older students - high school and college aged - so they will be looking to mentor our younger members (parents, we can use your email addresses if you'd prefer to monitor your kids' emails.) Or those of us who are adults can also have pen pals and do our part in mentoring these young adults in return. Think about whether you'd like to do this and if interested, let me know what address to use, or sign up at our January meeting if you want.
Looking forward to an awesome year! Happy holidays!
~Lynne
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Celebrate Human Rights Day with Fair Trade!
Hey, it's Human Rights Day! What a perfect day to celebrate with a dance party for Fair Trade!
http://celebratehumanrights.org
http://celebratehumanrights.org
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Meeting tomorrow - October 9
Greetings Hippogriffs!
We're having our October meeting tomorrow, October 9, at 12:30 at First UU. Look for us in Room 7, one of the meeting rooms next to the courtyard. Remember to bring a nut-free lunch or plan to eat before or after the meeting.
Last time we met, we talked some about fair trade chocolate and brainstormed some great ideas about ways we could get involved with the "Not in Harry's Name" campaign of the HPA. One of those ideas was to have a fair trade chocolate costume party for Halloween. I love this idea, but since October is already upon us, I don't think we have enough time to plan it, but I'd like to think seriously about having a Yule Ball in December!
I've contacted the church to see about getting a date to use Fellowship Hall for a costumed dance party hosted by the Enlightened Hippogriffs. We've also got a few possibilities for the dancing and music in the works. We're also going to be the focus of a Justice Sunday at First UU in November, where we can get the sunday school kids to help us with maybe some signage or other ideas. Lets focus our discussion tomorrow on everything else we need to do to get this going.
To help organize things a bit, I'm going to randomly sort you into the four Hogwarts houses. If this works well, we can do this at every meeting, so don't despair if you don't like the house you're in tomorrow, you'll likely be in a different house next time. Each house is going to plan a different aspect of our Yule Ball:
Gryffindor (because you're brave): think of ways to promote fair trade at the ball. Some ideas: chocolate as food at the event? get everyone in attendance to sign the petition? get people to purchase fair trade chocolate, or bring a donation (canned goods etc) as their admission price?
Ravenclaw (because you're clever): come up with a plan to advertise the Yule Ball. Ideas: posters, announcements at First UU, other churches? Press release in newspapers? Flyers at schools?
Hufflepuff (because you work hard): plan the logistics for the event itself: decorations, food, dancing, music, favors?
Slytherin (because you're powerful): are there ways to partner with other groups? Maybe other HPA chapters in Ohio? Other social justice groups at First UU? School groups?
These are just a starting point for discussion. Please give all these ideas some thought and we'll try to come up with an action plan!
See you tomorrow!
~Lynne
We're having our October meeting tomorrow, October 9, at 12:30 at First UU. Look for us in Room 7, one of the meeting rooms next to the courtyard. Remember to bring a nut-free lunch or plan to eat before or after the meeting.
Last time we met, we talked some about fair trade chocolate and brainstormed some great ideas about ways we could get involved with the "Not in Harry's Name" campaign of the HPA. One of those ideas was to have a fair trade chocolate costume party for Halloween. I love this idea, but since October is already upon us, I don't think we have enough time to plan it, but I'd like to think seriously about having a Yule Ball in December!
I've contacted the church to see about getting a date to use Fellowship Hall for a costumed dance party hosted by the Enlightened Hippogriffs. We've also got a few possibilities for the dancing and music in the works. We're also going to be the focus of a Justice Sunday at First UU in November, where we can get the sunday school kids to help us with maybe some signage or other ideas. Lets focus our discussion tomorrow on everything else we need to do to get this going.
To help organize things a bit, I'm going to randomly sort you into the four Hogwarts houses. If this works well, we can do this at every meeting, so don't despair if you don't like the house you're in tomorrow, you'll likely be in a different house next time. Each house is going to plan a different aspect of our Yule Ball:
Gryffindor (because you're brave): think of ways to promote fair trade at the ball. Some ideas: chocolate as food at the event? get everyone in attendance to sign the petition? get people to purchase fair trade chocolate, or bring a donation (canned goods etc) as their admission price?
Ravenclaw (because you're clever): come up with a plan to advertise the Yule Ball. Ideas: posters, announcements at First UU, other churches? Press release in newspapers? Flyers at schools?
Hufflepuff (because you work hard): plan the logistics for the event itself: decorations, food, dancing, music, favors?
Slytherin (because you're powerful): are there ways to partner with other groups? Maybe other HPA chapters in Ohio? Other social justice groups at First UU? School groups?
These are just a starting point for discussion. Please give all these ideas some thought and we'll try to come up with an action plan!
See you tomorrow!
~Lynne
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