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-====Arts Programs====
-If we play our cards right, it might be possible to reorganize the orchestra in less than a decade. But we have to play our cards right.
-We need to pay Julia enough that this can be her full-time job. We also need at least four part-time musicians. (That includes Ariel.) Where possible, we should try to hire instrumentalists who can also be section leaders. Emerson is **heavy** into instrumental music; we need to leverage that.
-The outer back walls of the sanctuary would really benefit from some acoustic treatment. Ideally, we would hang round diffuser / absorber panels, 3 on one side, 4 on the other. I have an idea for building some art pieces that would be acoustically what we need, and also art.
-===Collabs===
-This is actually the biggest thing I want to spend more hours on, after the sanctuary mic party is done.
-  * If there's a friendly steel band in town, it's worth paying money to have them show up.
-  * Erin of TXUUJM has a band; we could host them.
-  * Organ festival for Pride Month. (C'mon...)
-===Emerson Players Needs To Pivot===
-The chancel is 24", which is not very tall. There's a wall over the outer 2/3 of it. There's a massive lectern on one side and an even more massive pulpit on the other side, both of which are immovable. In this room, which is basically flat, there are only three places where you can stand and be seen by the whole congregation: the lectern, the pulpit, and when we have the stage set up for Guitar Houston, that gives us a third spot from which the whole congregation can see you.
-I heard that a lot of work went into the props for last year's play. I'm not a short guy and I wasn't sitting that far back and I couldn't see any props. Or legs. Or Charlie unless he was up on something.
-We should make music videos. Video productions. (Can I say 'propaganda'?) Stuff we can share. All under Creative Commons license.
-===AI Content Policy===
-Because of the way AI models got created, there is no way to use them to create art that is not copyright-encumbered. Policies and laws are likely to be in a state of flux for a long time while we recalibrate to our new reality, but at the end of the day, there is no counterargument to "AI models are built on theft". If we use AI tools to create content, we are participating in that theft.
-I don't feel passionately about this. I don't hate AI. If anything, I'm disappointed in myself for not seeing through the hype sooner. I hit this point hard because it's a moral landmine that's really easy to not step on, and for practical reasons, it would really help me out if we could just never step on it.
-==Sunday School Organ Session(s)==
-Patty Smith (I think?) was asking me about this. She suggested a sunday school session about the organ.
-  * Who are the two people named on the plaque on the organ?
-  * A bit about the organ: pipes, manuals, pedals, stops, yadda yadda... //and here's what it all sounds like...//
-  * [[organs::emerson|Stop list]] FIXME this needs information about the pistons