Tonight at Black Sheep we will be hosting the second of this year’s monthly roundtable meetings. The meeting will be taking place tonight at Black Sheep at 7:00 pm. Everyone and anyone is welcomed come, even if you feel you might not have anything to contribute. We plan on continuing our roundtable meetings on a monthly basis to discuss things we can do to improve our venue and music community.

or a recap of how the last roundtable meeting went, check out this post. Also check out our get involved page on our site to see what else you might be able to do to get involved with the Southtown community.

The time has come to plan the next Black Sheep roundtable meeting, after a successful one took place last month. We plan on continuing our roundtable meetings on a monthly basis to discuss things we can do to improve our venue and music community. The next roundtable meeting will be help this upcoming Wednesday at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to join us, even if you feel you don’t have anything to contribute to the discussion.

For a recap of how the last roundtable meeting went, check out this post. Also check out our get involved page on our site to see what else you might be able to do to get involved with the Southtown community.

Yesterday evening we hosted a roundtable meeting at Black Sheep in light of Kevin Bradford’s big announcement that he will be stepping down from Black Sheep last week. This was the first roundtable meeting we have hosted in a while, and the turnout was great. Discussion went on for a while and then we all split up and picked up trash around the neighborhood. Here are some main points that were addressed at the meeting:

– We need HELP from everyone! Not just everyone who was at the meeting!
– We talked about the current state of Black Sheep and Dumb Records, including show attendance and sales.
– George gave us a rundown of his recent property changes and talk of an upcoming kickstarter and non-for-profit organization.
– We went into specifics with what areas we need help in- including managing Dumb Records, editing for the Black Sheep Radio Show, help booking and running shows, help promoting shows, and help with this website.
– We talked about the importance of promotion and reaching out to younger high school crowds, promoting things on the internet, and flier distribution.
– A promotion team was organized as well as a website team, a team to put together Battle of the Bands.
– We brainstormed alternative types of events that could happen at Black Sheep such as open mic nights, more art shows, and even comedy shows.
– We talked about the possibility of hosting workshops and meetings during the day.

We also agreed that roundtable meetings like these should continue at least once a month. We should also keep the discussion going with ideas and progress on the Black Sheep facebook group.

It has been a little WHILE since we have hosted a roundtable meeting to discuss things related to Black Sheep and the Southtown businesses. In light of Kevin’s big announcement this past week that he will be stepping down from Black Sheep later this spring, we are hosting a meeting and discussing more of the future of the venue and Southtown.

Everyone is welcome to come to this- we encourage all of you wanting to become more involved or wanting to help out to come out even if you don’t have anything to say. At the meeting we will be discussing plans to continue the venue and we will also be having a brainstorm session on ways we can improve. The meeting will be help at 7:00 pm inside Black Sheep. At some point we also plan on having a group trash pick-up around the neighborhood! Possibly come early if you are up to help out with that.

As you may, or may not, know we are always here to make things fun for you! We are always open to ways that we can change things up and love to hear the things you already like us doing.

So if you want to talk about everything Black Sheep and Dumb Records, come to the second Roundtable Meeting of the year this Saturday at 2:00 pm. We are going to meet at Dumb Records, 1107 South Grand Ave, and it will be perfect for anyone who wants to come help us out with the behind the scenes work at Black Sheep and/or Dumb Records. Plus we will have fliers that need to posted all over the place.

After the Roundtable Meeting you can come back to Black Sheep at 7:00 pm for a cool show with bands from Springfield, Champaign, and St. Louis.

If you are unable to make it to the meeting but want to help out be sure to check out our get involved page. There you can find a long list of things you can do to help us out and support things going on in South Town.

It’s been a little while since we have had a Black Sheep Roundtable Meeting. Usually we come together and have these meetings to brainstorm new ideas and ways to improve our space. Plenty of great things and ideas have come out of these meetings, including a lot of the work behind Dumb Records, The Black Sheep Radio Show, this website, and more.

This Saturday, February 1st we will be having our first roundtable meeting that we have had in a while. This time we will meet inside Dumb Records (which is located at 1107 South Grand Ave for those of you who do not know). We will be meeting at 2:00 pm. We will be talking about how the record store is going, upcoming show ideas, and whatever else there is to talk about. Then we will split up big time and go on a Black Sheep street team run to hang up upcoming show fliers around town. Don’t forget there is also this great show happening at Black Sheep on Saturday at 7:00 pm!

If you are unable to make it to the meeting but want to help out with the behind the scenes at Black Sheep or Dumb Records, be sure to check out our get involved page. There you can find a long list of things you can do to help us out and support things going on in South Town.

This week we are taking our roundtable meetings a step out of the usual Saturday afternoons that we have been doing. This week we will be meeting on Wednesday (October 23rd) at 7:00 pm. We are mixing up the meeting time this week because there are some big things that have been bubbling around in the behind the scenes at Black Sheep. Come out to the meeting so that we can tell you what’s been happening and you can offer us some input!

The meeting is at 7:00 pm Wednesday at Black Sheep. Anyone and everyone is welcomed to come. If you can’t make it and would like to offer some help don’t worry! You can check our get involved page for when the next meeting will be and a list of other things you can do to help or volunteer.

On Saturday a few of us met at Black Sheep and had another one of our roundtable meetings. We met up with and talked to Skank Skates owner George Sinclair to discuss a few things, and that was followed by painting some serious art and doing some serious flyering for upcoming shows around town. For those of you who weren’t at the meeting here is what you missed:

– We discussed some possibilities of what could become of some open spaces around South Town.
– We put up fliers.
– We painted.
– We are also still looking on leads for a roofing contractor so that we can figure out our heating and cooling situation for this winter. If you know of anybody that would be able to help us please don’t hesitate to get ahold of us at blacksheepspringfield@gmail.com.

That’s about it! Our next meeting will be held on Saturday, October 19th at 1:00 pm. Looking for other ways you can get involved with the Black Sheep community? Check out our get involved page for a list of plenty of ways you can help!