##VIDEO ID:MnavTMKbrZ8## and to the Republic stands one nation under God God indivisible Liberty and jcece all thank you very much uh we're gonna have an attendance um Ela present uh Brian uh present and now our new member Sarah present good Rob I'm sorry Rob's going to join us in just a few minutes he's on a work call and he's just wrapping up sure so so what I plan planned on doing tonight is not having an agenda just to uh go through some introductions and see what you guys have been up to for the last uh three months that we've been on uh sabatical or whatever we've been on so um I'm going to start with uh Sarah and I'm going to have you introduce yourself and tell tell I I know you've done this in front of me but you haven't you haven't done it in front of the um the the members so um I would like you to introduce yourself and just tell a little bit about yourself and why you you want to be on this uh commission sure um it's really good to finally be here um let's see I met Laura Christopher uh through my work um or through a colleague rather at my work I work at the Boston Society for architecture on Congress Street um adjacent to the sea port and we had a uh Symposium on spatial Justice and I was um taken to Shirley a and introduced to Laura Christopher and um ended up one of the community um events for the park that's going on over there Y and um that's where I met L and you know my background is um in art education so I was a high school art teacher but I also you know taught K through 12 really um and I am a big promoter and supporter of you know art in the public sector um I'm always drawn to murals and um you know getting local artists involved in whatever we can do um I yep oh um so I have a little bit of you know we do some grant writing and um I have a little bit of um report through work on that if that's something we wanted to do um and I'm just really excited I think you know listening to um what's happened over the course of the last several years I did get to meet Blake while he was in process um with the underpass and got to see his mural down at clean Joe which is unbelievable um I'm trying to keep in mind knowing that this was coming up you know re um kindling some relationships I have with artists in the area um but I'm very intrigued by I live right by the Rita something Bridge with the yes okay I live right by there and um and I did do a driveby of the the firehouse as well I think maybe mayor Keith had mentioned the firehouse to me but I I forget I don't remember um so I'm interested to hear about those projects and where they're at um and to understand better you know where the lines of DCR start and R begin um because I know there's a lot of potential down by the beach maybe but maybe not um yeah thank you Sarah welcome thanks um I think I think we all should give a little history of of uh ourselves so Brian I'm gonna throw it to you to be welcome welcome Sarah it's pleasure to meet you um grew up in Rivier left for about 30 years in the music industry Insurance investment Industries came back and recognized that there was a need to have a some sort of rever Arts pushed on that spoke with Joanne eventually Brian origo got into it we got the r public Arts commission started as we all know anything takes a little bit of time and it's a process to get people to be involved with it move on so I started the r art community we're now about 240 members strong it's a nonprofit that is based down in the shirle ab district and we've gotten to the point now where building relationships with management groups Community groups developers individual business and artists that were pushing to get a designation in the city rever and I processed it all the way up to where we're talking with the city planner El's boss about what we're going to do and how we're going to do it that's going to be supported by the riv art community the neighborhood association Santa some developers and we're always looking for people to help and assist and working towards that because all it's going to do is eventually get the designation and a space for Arts and Cultural in the shirle AV District we'll be able to take it apply for uh Massachusetts designation of an Arts and Cultural District along Shirley AV and that provides a lot of positive things from anywhere from the Arts that it's going to help to the economic development that can be occurred and marketed through that designation in that District so with that a lot of my focus has been on that but on the art side I've been doing a bunch of crazy stuff I'm involved in a group right now Joanne that's in uh Cologne Germany and I'm doing virtual interactive immersive art pieces that are abstract that you go in with a viewer and you go through these things it's pretty crazy looking so hopefully in the next popup show we're going to do down on Shirley AV and I'm hoping it it'll be at the end of March beginning of April we're going to take and film some of that stuff and show it on the walls the glass walls from different businesses down there like we've done with the Rivier art and I'm working right now and any input on this would be helpful from anybody is I'm going to do an art project with the riv Historical Society we're going to project onto the glass from their windows from the building that's sort of the stuff I've been doing can't hear you how how does that work Brian so on the glass in what particular like particular storefronts right what I've done is neon light is it an image that's just projected onto the glass how does that how does that work I have material that I can place in a window that it can be projected on from the interior and it'll be seen on the interior side but it'll also be seen outside I'm a member of the forth Point art community and I've curated and done about 10 shows down there at The Gallery at uh you know where the Barking Crab is right across from that is the seport hotel anyone younger the bar Up on the Roof they'll know what that is we're not allowed to enjoy you can visit during tourist hours all right but we've projected and I the last real big show I did there was 125 Street photographers from the Greater Boston area 1,800 images and it took an hour and 18 minutes at 5 Seconds a flash to watch a sequence go through of all the images that were in it so when you walked by it was a 30 foot stretch of wall 10 foot high and it was all images on it so it looked like a jewel box from like the seport bridge when you're in AC cross now we can do that and I've done that down on Shirley AV so uh what's his name I can has the uh chiropractor he's got two perfect windows right across from B coast the restaurant so we're going to take cover those up and shoot on those images but we can do the same thing at uh public I me the r Historical Society so I'm looking to get access to some historical imagery because I want it to basically be R based even if it's just about us rather than the artists it's just pictures of r folks that's okay it's the first time we're introducing it people get a concept of what that could be about I think that's a wonderful idea uh rever folks and I just want to say that I I was one of the participants with my photography uh in one of Brian shows at the Four Points in Boston and it was that was a fun time yeah that was the that was the first one and and it was marvelous because people were it was a summer day and people were wai waiting to get into the Bing crab and they were outside and they could see the images uh from the outside too so they're they're reflected on the inside but they also go on to the outside too so it was wonderful I was really very happy that he asked me to be a part of that and I hope in the future I will have the time to put some of my photographs my new photographs in and uh I could be a part of your shows well everyone is welcome and you are always welcome thank you Brian thank you any more specific questions L material can be anything from that could be really clear that you know with a squeegee type thing you put on if it's going to be permanent or it can be I've got a stuff that's like imagine um okay like a rubberized sheet but thinner and it's it's designed to be projected on and then there's some that are clear that you can put up that and there are ones that'll raise up down so there's a whole Myriad of those type of products out there but I've discovered that I bought a big long roll of it cut it in window size stuff so I could turn it sideways or turn it you know portrait ways up and down and fill the space with it because we did a show down at Sandler where we had Acoustics in the Square rather than art on the A and we had guitar players play acoustic and we had four spots where you know ground chicken uh Capri the rever business business socii uh office whatever it's called forgive me and uh chocolate and we projected on all those I could have put a screen up in the thing but I figured let's let the acoustic people have their space for that and that one well we'd like to try to continue to do those and different events like that so we're looking to build a base it happens to be in shle because it's where I live but it's the best place to have things happen where artists can perform artists can create and people that are new and are like maybe I could come try no one's going to judge you and you get a chance to do it great so those things I've been doing any other questions on that all no thank you appreciate it you're welcome who we missing El do you want to talk a little bit about yourself can you hear me I can I don't but yeah I will you don't have to I'm kidding so I um I tell about yourself I've been working for the city for 10 years um I started out as neighborhood organizer and basically working with residents to figure out ways that we could improve their neighborhood and their area their space their open space their living area activities that they were interested in and that sort of I really liked it it was sort of a total career change for me so I stayed with the city and I went back to school and got my masters in Community Development and then I moved up to the Community Development Department and I've been there ever since so I I at one point I was doing a lot of the park Renovations throughout the city and um also wanting to see how we could improve the underpasses so this is something that's like still like from day one still trying to get these underpasses improved um one they're dark two they're completely unappealing um they're a blank cvas for beautiful artwork and we're still just trying to hitch on to the wagon and and get them done so at this point um I want to say I can't remember what year we did Sergeant Street but we we were able to contract with a local artist she lives in sagus she's also been very involved with the sand sculpting Festival um Deb catuli and she started doing um this project for us and she painted all of the historic I was also working with um Riviera Society for historic own cultural preservation so when we had the neighborhood groups I started this thing five fun facts so when would have a neighborhood group would do five fun facts about the history of your neighborhood so people that had just moved there no idea what was like a 100 years ago and then also um folks that have been there forever were able to sort of open up and share their stories and it was sort of a great way to kind of bridge the gap and to learn more about the spaces that people were living in so I did that with Bill REI I don't know many years ago and so that kind of morphed into well we're going to we wanted to under improve the space in the underpass on Sergeant street so we were able to secure funding for that and we contracted with Deb catuli who was also an artist that participated in many of the sand sculpting festivals so she went to the Rivier History Museum and she looked through all uh not all but many of the photographs that we had of old Wester R and she basically took a comp compation of all of the historic elements and put them onto these mdo boards which she was literally painting in her living room bring one at a time and then two at a time and then bringing them back and we were able to hang those up um under the mot owned Bridge um now I think it needs I just I drove by it earlier today ironically but we it needs some love like the extra space that's around it because these are MD boards that are planted you know secured onto the concrete underpass and around it we've painted it a few times but it sort of frames the artwork um so I'd like to kind of put that forward as sort of an initiative as soon as the spring hits that we can get out and paint that oftentimes I've also been involved in the graffiti wipeout so there's many areas in the city that have been plagued with graffiti the rollers and things like that and then just planning a Saturday or a couple Saturdays and going out and just painting over the graffiti but often times that just invites more because we're you know then we get a blank canas for more graffiti but doesn't always happen I mean if we stay on top of it and there's been some a lot of people in the community that have been you know they drive around with a can of paint in their trunk just to you know make sure if they see the graffiti to get it off within three days so we had we had a a pretty substantial working group at one point which has sort of dwindled over time but um I'm really still passionate about getting all the underpasses improved in one way shape or form whether that be with a mural or if someone has another idea or if we can do creative lighting um I've gone through the process years ago of having pricing for all of the underpasses to be lit up in a creative way um some of the lighting would be just to display the work that we'd be doing there for example in Sergeant street but unfortunately having the funding to be able B to move those projects forward hasn't been as forthcoming um and also it's a challenge getting the permits through Mast doot in order to do the work and the underpass so we have Sant street we have the work done we have the work done at the Northern Strand Trail um that was just recently completed that you're aware of um the route 1A underpass that's been completed this past year we have so if you recall the Rita singer bridge when you go underneath it it has these perfectly framed inlets like Outlets inlets um that are painted black so they are actually painted black to be the frame for the work that we've already had printed and produced we are waiting for the mass do permit which has taken years and right now thanks to Joanne um um she's been working with mass do to help along the permitting process so in the midst of this they changed their home permitting um they ended up getting a platform then they ended up changing then we were right on the verge of it and then somebody retired so we've just had sort of a lot of stops and starts with this but at the end of the day we have the work to hang it's been completed we're just waiting for the permit which I feel like I can't even say this one more time it's just it's been taking way too long four years yeah but thanks to Joanne it's um it's moving it's it's not moving fast enough yeah so we're at a stand still right now we're waiting for the DPW engineering department to make an update um the LA on Final comments from mot on the traffic plan for the installation um so I'm still waiting for that document so when we have that we can resubmit that and Joanne will be involved in that final round of requesting permission so you've been busy it's there it's you know it's I mean it's not something I'm working on every day so it's you know but why don't you talk about too why don't you talk about the electrical boxes that you so we also did a project we did two rounds um of what do we call that switch boxes um oh the artwork theme is one is then and now so one side is current day Rivier Beach and the other side is then so it's it's historic Rivier Beach and those photographs were obtained from Rivier Society of historical cultural preservation to answer your question and the the challenge L is is that the then ones and the now ones the now ones are like sort of then it's been so long I mean they're pretty current though I mean it's still like the Kite Festival the sand sculpting Festival I mean they are all present day things as opposed to things a hundred years ago yeah they're you know so and we did get a grant in order to print all those out and the switch boxes that was another project so if you'll notice throughout the city some switch boxes are painted um we did a an initiative to do 10 and then we did another 10 so we have a lot of local artists participated in that actually Council McKenna's nephew is a wonderful artist and he painted all the ones that are super detailed and beautiful and historic he did a lot of those ones he did um one right in Beachmont at the Beachmont school it actually looks like a monument but it's actually a switx it's beautiful it really is beautiful he did some amazing work so um we have had an interest there's been a couple people randomly in the past maybe four months that have reached out and said oh we running into program for that so that might be something we might want to look to fund again and then I just created like a small committee we had four people that would review the artwork pretty standard um you know had to be original artwork nothing that was commercial or that would require copyright anything like that um obviously not nothing offensive and um yeah we got some great um turnout for that was a lot of it was actually really fun project so I just want to say that my nephew redid the one down in Beachmont Square uh underneath the train station because they had graffitied it and he thought it was um he just so he made it really bright it just says beachon on it but what he did was and I thought this was kind of cool he put um and but I who knows he put all the people um in Beachmont or reier I don't know uh that have passed he put their names on them so um I think it's just Beachmont people but uh he put his their names on it so if you get down there and look you'll see the names written on on the switch box and I I ended up funding it because um you know I just he wanted to do it so badly and uh you know the program was over so um so that's it so yeah just go down and see it it's um like a baby blue and uh White that's all it is two colors so yeah that looks great his work is highly distinctive yeah he's great he's no he's uh currently going to mass College of Arts so um my Al Mada so um he's taking over where my what where I left off I'm grateful for everything he's done he's done some great work sure I'm sure he's waiting for something to open up so um whatever it is um I want the the other thing we did was we did the um the little libraries so we had um little libraries in every neighborhood and we did an event so I think we launched I think 17 at the same time so we had people come in and we did like a sketch night and then we did a paint night and then we did like a second paint night because it wasn't finished so everyone paint the little um the little libraries that would be placed in their neighborhood or local park and um yeah so that was that was a fun project too now we're going through the round of they've been out in the weather for a number of years so a lot of them were replacing and just because of I mean unfortunately we're not replacing them with wood structures again we're using like the more durable resin structures just because the maintenance has turned into sort of a lot of Maintenance the the window were getting broken they were the doors weren't closing they were rotting a little bit so as we're replacing them unfortunately they're less of an art installation but it still does give access to free books and we have a number of stewards throughout the city that refill them to make sure that there's always Books available some of them are closed right now because of the winter season we usually close for a couple months they get wrapped up and then they reopen around March one thing I have to say about the little libraries it's really nice I mean there is there has been a just minimal uh uh vandalism but usually everybody just loves them and there's no um no one's really you know knocked them off or I mean they've been secured pretty much and the kids haven't touched them they haven't been graffiti they haven't been written on they haven't been anything so uh I know a couple of the glasses broken in a couple of them and and so on but I mean I figured you know the kids would destroy them and they haven't they respect them so that's really good and uh I just want to touch on another Point uh I made a motion in December for you l um to put Lighting on every single underpass in Beachmont uh not Beachmont in Rivier so um hopefully uh they heard me and and what the mayor's doing now which hasn't been done in a long time is when you put a motion in he'll get back to you and say it's approved or it's not approved for this reason and I I haven't seen anything come back to me but uh I'll ask him I think I think it was a proof that they were going to go ask DCR and MDOT wherever uh you know the underpasses were that they were going to put lighting under there so uh hopefully that will be done I mean and I I hope we can get those uh uh murals up for the reingle bridge this uh summer at some point so go ahead what could we Circle back to uh the Northern Strand bike trail for a minute sure we should do an event there we should we should celebrate this success the thing is gorgeous he did a great job on it I've had a lot of positive things about it you know when it gets warm when it gets warm do something I just want to say and just to give him a shout out David Pali um sorry not David Anthony pale someone wrote on it and because we have that um material that the anti- graffiti material he went out and washed all the graffiti off of it um thank you yes so I give a shout out to uh Anthony pale for doing that um it was really nice of them and I think I told you all right I should yeah that that was incredible that he went out and took care of yeah he went out and did it himself so um he works for the DPW in Malden or Everett or something he had the the material to get the graffiti off so uh kudos to him um I'm just going to introduce myself just basically uh just so Sarah will know because Sarah and I have uh we have um the same kind of background I was um K through uh eight teacher for eight years at Rivier in Rivier and then they pushed me up the high school to teach photography so I was in um the Rivier public schools for 33 years teaching art and photography and uh then retired in 2015 and ran for Ward one counselor and I've been a w one counselor ever since so um and it's been wonderful it's just the whole my whole career has been wonderful but this is this um public Arts it's been tough getting it off the ground but slowly but surely we are we're doing little things here and there and here and there and as you heard Brian and El I mean they're really working hard to you know get this off the ground so um and I think it is getting off the ground I I know um for the first couple of years we were kind of like okay you know but now I everything to come to fruition so um just stick with it Sarah and we can use your expertise and your your knowledge and whatever you have um that you can uh give to this uh commission so that's that's what I have I haven't really done anything uh ell and I have put um Ella is the best I just have to say she's the best thank you God I don't even want to leave C the council because she's done so much for me just to get things off the ground I've had ideas and she's brought them into uh reality so um and I could go and tell you what we've done together but I'll just tell you what we've done uh that's art uh oriented uh we got um a bidder to um do the uh roof of the Beachmont uh fire station so and that's not going to be the Beachmont art community center it's going to be the riv Community Center so we have to start calling that um so it sticks um and I also asked the mayor if he could do if he could do uh the frontage of the um facade of the front of the building uh because it's in deplorable shape I mean it it needs a paint a CO of paint and needs some uh structural work and he said yes so we'll see what happens um with that um I just wanted to tell you El that that communication for the $75,000 coming up uh this um meeting so we should I I received an email from Rich okay today and I've already responded to him with to respond to all his questions so um I just said let me know if he has any other questions I sent it pretty much right before I left the office today so I'll Circle back with him tomorrow make make sure he doesn't need anything in addition but should be good to go so um I just want to just end this but um I just want to tell Brian that Brian we started I got Robin niss remember Robin Nome yes yes well he's into music and I got him uh connected to the historical um uh Toby pearlstein is it pearlstein yes and they're coming up with they're going to have a section in the historical um uh building of music and all the all the people in rier like uh you know Vernon West and all those guys uh awesome they're gonna have a yeah a historical um uh venue of of all the uh R uh rock stars singers there were a few of them in their day that's for sure oh I know I mean West name just yes they should they should have been uh on the radio they should have I mean they were so good that all had to do with the cars and all that and the and the promoter that was at that label at the time but anyways I just wanted you to know that so maybe if you have some historical um you know history you have history you you in the music business for what 30 years yeah you know you can um contact to be proin and see what you can do put some stuff in there so you can be a part of that Historical Center we can give it that a shot thank you you welc great again let's do something set a date for celebrating the Northern Strand let's celebrate a victory we had can we do that by the next meeting yes let's do that yes so we gonna how so how are we gonna continue these meetings so we're going to meet every three months that's uh I mean they'll bring us to March we can meet again third week in March okay March is good so let's set a date now March do have calendar do we want to do you want to start um who wants to work on this event so then when we regroup we can have we'll already have a plan and we'll basically be reporting out could I interrupt just um open meeting law um I read the packet you know I did all the things and there seem seemed to have been a moment in time maybe when it was first introduced that it was creating more problems than Solutions in this meeting so I you know there's mention of like Google Docs and um now we're talking about the the celebrating of the Northern Strand so I just want to make sure um you know besides watching the YouTube archives I really am coming into this not knowing much and I would like to know as much as possible um I don't know if there are some resources at Rivier City Hall I could um kind of go in person and open a big binder not really we're the first to do this so I mean everything is new it's new for us too although we've been meeting since 2021 we you know it took us a really long time to get off the ground we're just starting to get off the ground now but the there's it there's never been a a commission uh before this so this is brand new so there's really nothing you can go and look at you know years ago because it never existed this is so you're you're a part of a new you know yeah I wrote the ordinance with Ashley based on like how do we get more things done should we have some sort of commission and I worked with um Bob Mara was a big part of that um back in the previous administration and you know it it took a while to get it off the ground I think we had a draft for about a year and a half or two before we were able to even get a commission and then we had a commission and then we weren't quite sure how we could get things done or get funding so I feel like all of that buildup I think that we've really got more done in the past year than we did previously in all the years pre prior um so I'm excited to have you on board and have you know fresh ideas and you know different you know new energy and maybe different experiences lived experiences way to get things done um but I think so what we've done we decided instead of meeting every month was sort of it we weren't really getting very far so what we decided to do instead was to just create these subcommittees but we've since had some people leave so that's you know slowing down a bit again but we would just kind of regroup every three months and then would have working groups so as long as you don't have a quorum we can still have working groups um sort of subcommittees if you will that would go off and like kind of get these projects underway so Rob and I worked on the Northern Strand Trail um and you know we had many check-in points working with Blake and going forward getting the funding get you know getting everything sorted out so able to kind of get that on the wall same thing Rob and I worked on the rout pass we got that kind of out the door um been working with Joanne to try to get this um this bridge done she's been great with um having contacts there and you know having them revisit it and kind of open it back up again so you know we've kind of had some more success with that and Brian's been working with the Shirley AV group and you know doing some of the art installations there so that's been that's been successful and then we regroup here to kind of you know bounce more ideas and see what we can put some wheels on to bring to fruition so feel free to reach out you know if you want to reach out to me if you have some ideas and you know if we want to call another meeting you know bring the whole group together we can certainly do that um we're not limited to meeting only once a quarter but we just found that it was I don't know perhaps more productive meeting it was repetitious all the every meeting it was kind of the same thing over and over again so um but uh and I do think that meeting every three months we have a lot more to talk about instead of the same old uh seven things that we have on the agenda we get Traction in between time when we're able to take and do what we need to do the biggest challenge do we have Sarah is people committing to assisting after we're done with the meeting what we need to do where Iselle works with Rob you know so I person think we need more people on the board oh we definitely so that it raises the Quorum number so that more people can meet under that number to be able to do actual stuff right it's as simple as that so I put three people's names into the city already through the process to add to the board and um if the mayor needs to change it we need to change it cult council's got 19 let's get as many as we can get the number raised and get people underneath to do stuff with a the real mechanics of what goes on happens I think we have a qu a quarter of 11 is that true um we can raise it it's nine or 11 but what we should do is just at least get those seats filled to start with right right and then Chang thank you for coming yeah well and um if we need to push a little bit on that Northern Strand get together day get Riv TV I'll contact my friends with Jared bone all right we could talk about that we could get what's his name Blake from uh California on a zoom thing to talk on it and we've created a little bit of a buzz and a history about ourselves that shows us we're doing stuff we should be doing that with all the the victories that we gain in the things that happen in our city you know every time it's a political thing the journal is right there to take pictures of it why isn't it doing that with us and again I'm going to ask very politely and nicely L I want to get access for us to that screen on top of the Wonderland T where we've got 30% of the time on that thing we should be programming our messages and programming our images up and down that Highway every time we can is there also a social media I found a an Instagram page that I'm not sure is active or it's very just we have not done a lot of things how I how I think of it was before we started we made a bumper sticker this big after we started we got two murals up we got projects going so it's a whole different world than what we were and the other thing is we had a setback because we had um this building that we thought we could do a gigantic mural on and we had all these artists uh submit their artwork and then come and we had a um a vote and we selected three and then we selected one and then when it came to a time to do the mural it was owned by I think is it DCR or uh National Grid MBTA was the MB and they wouldn't let us paint on it so it just it it died you know what I'm saying which we should have gotten permission in the beginning but we we just figured that it was a city- owned building and then we could do whatever we wanted to it and then we found out no it wasn't and they didn't want anything on it so we did know ahead of time and we did write to MBTA it just took them so long to get back to us that oh is that what it is okay we knew was an mandatory 90 days before they response or some crazy rule like that we did all this work and it just it it and we had these beautiful gorgeous ideas of these artists they were beautiful um and you know it it just it just fell it fell and we tried to find another location to put them but there just was nothing really suitable tried to do it at the Wonderland Ballroom um reached out to the owner they weren't interested they they didn't want to they didn't want to deal with the maintenance of it or you know if any would put up it gets graffiti they didn't want to deal with that so um so that was a noo and then we just couldn't really find another place we drove around we took pictures we reached out to people we were like can we put on your building we really tried everyone put their heads together to come up with locations but we just couldn't find another suitable location it was such a cool picture it was like a it was like a wormhole into it was 3D it was like you was stepping through it into the beach and on the other side was the clock you know where the clock is at the end of the Marquee Bridge was beautiful it was amazing and was actually Blake Whitaker's which is why we selected him to do the work on the Northern Strand Trail because we had he had been selected by the community as an artist but then unfortunately we couldn't um bring that project to fruition for permitting purposes but but we did with The Strand so let's promote we did yeah but yes we got one we planted the flag for a fine art piece in an exterior place it's Unique it's unusual yes is one up the road is nice but that looks very communitybased artart this is a piece of art that you walk through and it's like what is this and it's lit up I've got pictures of people pulling their cars down there I've already talking to Mr deeno about this where they're coming down and taking pictures of their car inside of that space at night and that's not a public I mean that's not a road to drive but are doing that uhuh it's a very cool thing so we should pick a date when it's warm and promote it plain and simple this is what we're about and we'll get some local press we'll get what's his name from bz to come down and do his little twom minute little piece about it and we'll get the TV and all that and S if you go on to Facebook I know it's an older platform but this is where we reach people and find the r art community you want to join that all right I noticed you uh sunk in today there l so I'm asking is there a way to make that public that you don't have to sign up to see what's on it that it can just be visible it seems less accessible that way some people don't want some people won't ask to be a member of something because they they don't want to do that so I was just curious about that they' have Facebook is set up they sort of locked when they first began I can go through a process but I've learned with other groups is having completely open you get a lot of stuff and you got to do maintenance on it taking stuff out that doesn't belong or submitted and that sort of stuff true that's true there's a lot of that whereas when I ask if I see someone press the numbers DW s233 as an answer I know they want to go push their car cleaning or their you know uh ventilation cleaning systems onto the page so it eliminates a lot of that but I can look into it but it for maintenance and being the person behind the scene to clean it up it's a lot easier not to have that and it tends to be the people that are in at work with it and you just push it onto other social media pages and people see it and will reach over and join especially with the lifestylist city of Riv page where they do all sorts of stuff on that you know okay well uh I'll push for that for our next meeting so that in March we can say this is what we can do this is the social media this is the real life media TV radio type stuff that we got that can do it and just get the city rever get the r Journal do a piece on it and we can ask um what do you call it um The Advocate they're always good for coming and doing something then we got a little hype for ourselves and it helps to show us as being more than just you know it a zoom meeting um all right so uh I'm going to say March 18th will be our next meeting and um I mean I I'm gonna be running a campaign so I don't know what kind of time I'm gonna have but I will I will um if there's someone else that will join me I will try to put something together I think there should be at least three people to help me I'll I'll join whatever moving forward what is it you want help with Joan um to to organize a um celebration for the Northern Strand oh I just said that I would help with that oh okay I didn't hear that I'm sorry okay so so you want it at the three of us to do it sure okay so um Sarah you'll have to send me your my uh send me your telephone number and I can uh we can meet at for coffee or something um I just have to uh you know go around my schedule so um we can meet at Liberto or tetta or wherever uh Brian is that all right with you yeah I surely have area any surely have whatever okay then when we're all done we're all done with it we give it to L to do the work this she's got enough work especially from me but uh anyways all right so we'll say March 18th and then Sarah and I have Brian I have your phone number we'll uh get together maybe in the next I'm Le uh well I shouldn't say this but uh I'll be back uh I'm I'm going to Florida so I'll be back the 17th of um I'm going for uh a week so I'll be back the 17th of February so um so at maybe after that um and have some plans done by before March 18th yeah that's sounds good absolutely and we could talk about it on March 18th Sarah if you have any other like thoughts or ideas that you want to like send my way okay anything thinking you w to anything thoughts ideas things we can try to move forward um please don't hesitate to reach out quick question Joanne are there any businesses I'm not familiar with Northwest Riv West Riv at all so there any business associations anything like that up there not that I know of no nothing we can tap in and say hey how about when Ricky a little something when Rick Ricky Serena was in uh office he had a a community um you know it was a community uh whatever there's a North Rivia neighborhood group oh okay a group yeah it hasn't really been meeting consistently for quite some time but if you you know we could try to bring it back together now isn't that up where like that easy High pizza is in all those places yes yeah we want someone to help sponsor a little bit of this so we need to reach out Easy Pie might be interested or anyone in that Plaza there's um the Harley-Davidson is there Easy Pie that would be a great thing they bring a couple of bikes V room it'd be a fun thing kids look at the motorcycles there more we could put together the market this the better it is uh what else in that area lynen block but I think that's on the Malden line that's it no well I mean there's still like West Ni does the bridge um Bridge Three Bridges what's it called The Rose be place not the new bridge it's across from the gas station right in front of Right Where the new condos are and then there's um all the pizza places that are right there in Washington place a hot dog place there's a few different things there Y and then I mean there's a chamber of commerce could reach out oh that's that may be a very helpful thing to help find those so yeah I think so right because we're making it for the community but the community come and participate in the celebration of it great so if you were to have a celebration is it like on a Saturday afternoon what's typical I would say that yeah definitely people work unless it's a unless it's a holiday weekend but people go away anyway so um I would say Saturday definitely yeah early midday to you know early afternoon type thing where it's sunny 12 or 10 to 12 or whatever it's going to be whatever yeah simple thing yeah all right so you guys reach out to me and then I'll make a plan I'll look at my schedule and and then we can make a date and then we can get something together and then at March 18th we'll U submit it to the uh the council the members and uh right I'm just GNA reply in the email chain to all and put my cell phone number it's it's for everyone okay yes my wheels are turning thank you so much Sarah one one one last question what type of art do you create I I so I was a teacher I I know how to do every medium Under the Sun and are you Brian right I'm Brian yes okay mix is a long story yeah so I mean from from earn wear clay to painting to you name it I can do it many medium oh yep well as a teacher as an art teacher Brian you have to go through every single medium that um that they you know so you can teach the kids everything so like for an as an a teacher I didn't know what I was teaching every year it was different it was Clay it was Ceramics it was calligraphy it was you know um painting it was drawing it was portfolio so you really have to have a a wide range of knowledge in in the Arts uh to be a teacher you know for a teacher yes so yeah so like her I can do like Sarah I can do all that stuff too because that's what we had to do I don't know where you went to school but Mass College you had to take everything you know you had I went to where University of Vermont which had a great art program when I went I don't know if what it is now um but to be able to just have access to all the materials and mediums and printing presses and kils is like you you get to be a better artist than let's say you know Joe Schmo that's just working out of his apartment you know you have that access um and that's really Priceless so what art do you create now um I would say I'm not really a practicing artists right now you know life takes over I know is that allowed L is that allowed we can change gotta come be part of the riv art community and show your art deal I I think I've liked all the Facebook p uh pages and answered the questions hey it's not that bad if you can't answer yah or no or no and give someone four answers about what you're about then you're not really you don't want to be part of this it's that simple it really is and it just it protects from being crazy people attacking the page and stuff that's how I look at it but I'm real glad you're here hopefully we'll have more people Joanne there's couple of people coming through I know I tried to get lar Logan but uh Linda stole her for the cultural council do you remember lar from uh Kiss radio no back in the 80s no oh I know you I know you know your music you do yeah you definitely listen to her but she's gonna go to the conso but uh I've got a couple of other people that have applied and I've got one other people that may apply and the more we get I think the better it is that sounds I'm the uh commission I'm the uh appoint appointment commission uh commissioner so um so I'll say yes to everybody uh that's on the ODS so all right I'm gonna end it here at seven o'clock and I'm gonna say thank you uh welcome s and uh it was a great meeting I like the talk I like the talk and not the agenda uh but um so reach out to me March 18th is our next meeting and this concludes the Rivier public Arts commission uh thank you for all joining us tonight and thank you guys for coming on and participating good night than everyone tonight thank you bye bye Kitty