ARTSCO Bake Sale, Mural Painting & Leadership Board

On Saturday, September 6th, ARTSCO did a cupcake decorating event at the PTO picnic. Unfortunately, I couldn't be there (due to the family challenge being the same weekend), but I heard that it was a success. We set up a table with icing, decorations and cupcakes and opened it up for people to make their own designs. We also had a table with paper and pencils for arts and crafts and were painting a mural. Our mural is of elephants, and is made up of a collage of other pictures.

The ARTSCO members said that when doing our next fundraiser it would be useful to organise who was bringing what a little better, and assign time slots more effectively. I acknowledge that I wasn't the best at organising this event, but hopefully things will be more effective when I can actually attend myself. Regardless, we raised 15,700 shillings, 5000 of which was given to HeArts (due to their help in our stall).
I have also planned for us to meet next weekend to finish off our mural, which hopefully won't take very long. I am eager for those who did not have a chance to do this at the picnic to take part during our next painting.

Finally, today during our meeting we did elections for the ARTSCO leadership board. I did my best to promote democracy, asking for a personal statement before the candidate was eligible to give a speech (to ensure that only those committed could apply). Candidates gave speeches and then we voted as a whole club. This is the new ARTSCO leadership board:

Secretary: Shanti Zschocke
Treasurer: Hannah Duiker
Public Relations Manager: Nidhi Ranjalkar
Vice President: Annisstar (11th grade)

I am very pleased with the new leadership board, and I truly believe that this group of people will be effective in charge of the club. I am also really glad that the vice is in 11th grade - this means that they can take charge of the club whilst I am in exams, as well as transfer to president next year. We will meet every week 2 (the week the club doesn't meet) to discuss plans for ARTSCO. We are now seriously thinking about the talent show, and have brainstormed theme ideas as a club. Here some ideas we came up with as a club:

- Country
- Bollywood
- Disney
- Fantasy
- Cartoons
- 1980s or 1960s
- 70s GOM
- Food fest
- Britain’s got talent
- Hollywood
- International/cultural mix/around the world
- Under the stars
- Hawaii
- Hogwarts
- Casino
- Black and white
- Celebrities

Before advertising begins we must make a concrete decision regarding this theme, however.