Time: Dec 12, 2021 3- 4:30 pm EST
Location: Zoom Meeting
Attendance
Ralph Knag (zoom host), Andre Ribero, Esme Herrero, Peiyou Chang (meeting planner), Yuki Daly, John Thompson, Alan Yip, Bin Li, James Binkley, Lawrence P Kaster, Marilyn Wong, Mingmei yip, Andrea lioy, Juni Yeung, Shuengit Chow, Stephen Dydo, Shushan Yu
Agenda
A. Conversation with new member candidates: Yuki Daly , Lawrence Kaster and Yan Yan Zhu (absent)
Esmie, Andre and Marilyn brought up some questions for Yuki and Lawrence.
B. Membership Payment methods : Personal check and Paypal. ($26)
C. Yaji program plan and schedule
There was a discussion about whether we should do a one day event or two days events for the Chinese New Year and Full Moon Festival, due to the impossibility of accommodating every member’s time zone including friends in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The result is a one day event. The west coast members will have to get up a little bit earlier, and friends in Hong Kong and Taipei will have to stay up a little late.
For Yaji Subjects, Andre and Jim submitted great suggestions:
Andre: “About the Program Plan for 2022, I’d like to propose expanding one idea that happened before: qin learning! Can we hold a seminar on qin learning from the perspective of each one of us? Since we have different visions, backgrounds and teachers, it would be great to put them side by side, sharing the experiences that defined us. I mean individual presentations on essentials and principles guiding us as teachers and performers.”
Jim: “1, Maybe a panel discussion about teaching qin in the modern age? 2, Or just a round of “talk story” about tales of qin life? Invite people to “talk story” about guqin encounters with other players …. in my case when Wang Huade came to PDX or when I met Li Mingzhong in Xian. Life with Zhongping as a teacher? John T. talking about visiting Ye Shichiang? Dydo visiting London and hanging with Zeng Chengwei. Alan could talk about life in Shanghai studying with Gong Yi. 3, A yaji devoted to dapu?”
D. Other Suggestions
Andre asked about “open events to the public” during the meeting, and later he wrote “… the main point of the general audience for one of the Yajis is about publicizing the society among people who have a previous and authentic interest in Qin culture. However, I don’t know the NYQS’ original guidelines; if the institutional constitution provides this form of public opening…”
Peiyou answered via email:
Thank you for explaining further again regarding “open to public”. I have listed the following questions to clarify some issues:
1. To promote every one of our yaji programs? – We have been doing it by posting event info on our official website and Facebook page. And let people who are interested in joining the yaji to contact info@newyorkqin.com
2. Giving the zoom link to the public so everyone can log in? – We still prefer to control who we know will join our zoom meetings. It is like inviting guests to our home, and we need to know who they are.
3. Open to the public of all our youtube recordings? – Yes, most of them can be seen on our official website, the “event” page.
4. Invite more people to be members of NYQS? – We are welcoming new friends to join our membership as long as we follow our society agreement ( http://newyorkqin.com/agreement/ that is a member nominates a candidate –> another member seconds it –> and the candidate submits their bio–> and attends at least three of the yaji, so most of the members get a chance to know them –> then we proceed voting.)
5, Invite non-members to perform and talk in our Yaji? – Yes, I have been trying to do that, but I would welcome help from members to invite more interesting friends to join us. Guests can be paid or non paid, or if the event needs to charge the public or not, which need more discussion accordingly. Naturally, we need to discuss the terms before any formal invitations are made.
The meeting ended around 4:30 pm.
ON-LINE YAJI SCHEDULE of 2022: 壬寅年網上雅集日程表
- Sunday Jan 9th, 3-5pm EST – Guqin Learning Experiences, Stories and more
- Sunday Feb 6th, 9am EST (10pm Taipei/HK) Celebrate Chinese New Year
- Sunday April 3rd, 3pm EDT – Guqin Learning Experience and Stories
- Sunday May 15th, 3pm EDT – Dapu 打譜 (Reconstruction of Ancient Qin Melodies)
- Sunday July 17th, 3pm EDT – Panel discussion about teaching qin in the modern age
- Sunday Sept 11th, 9am EDT (9pm Taipei/HK) – Celebrate Full Moon Festival
- Sunday Nov 13th, 3pm EST – Modern And Traditional Qin Music
- Sunday Dec 11, 3pm EST (Tentative) – Annual Official Meeting