For those who are new: the Annual General Meeting (AGM) is for Hand Eye Society members to discuss and vote on the direction of our not-for-profit arts organization. We also use it as an opportunity to brief new folks on what we’re up to and how they can get more involved. We’ll have coffee and snacks.

Sat. Jan. 31st at 1pm
Storefront Theatre
955 Bloor Street West, near Ossington Station

All are welcome to the first half of the event.

We will open with the premiere of our webseries pilot about Toronto game culture, YYZ Gameshow. This 25 minute program we’ve been working on with Curio and Bell Local will feature some of Hand Eye’s projects as well as showcase some of the other amazing game projects that happened in our fair city last year. Check out the trailer!

Following that, executive director Jim Munroe will lead a presentation of our 2015 slate of activities, and we will hear some progress updates from some of the project coordinators.

After some community announcements, there will be a chance for people to chat — this is a great time to get to know the coordinators and other volunteers for the individual projects.

After the discussion break, we will register members and issue membership cards. Anyone who has contributed 10 hours of volunteer time to ANY game culture project in the city (not just Hand Eye) in 2014 is eligible for membership in 2015. Then comes the formal AGM open to Hand Eye members only, but minutes will be made available to the public. For minutes from previous years, please see handeyesociety.com/about/ (this is where our bylaws live as well).

Annual General Meeting Agenda

• Call to Order
• Introductions
• Approval of the Agenda
• Overview of Organization and Review of 2014 Activities
• Presentation of 2014 Financial Statements
• Approval of 2014 Financial Statements
• Appointment of Accountant and Exemption From Audit
• Election of Directors
• New Business
• Adjournment

This year we have four nominees for the four board positions available: Adam Axbey, Chris Gehman, Sara Grimes, and Cindy Poremba. If there is a majority voting yes for each candidate, each will be elected to the board. Current board member Emma Scratch’s two year term is up this year, and both Miguel Sternberg and Alex Jansen have one more year left in their current term.

After the AGM adjourns, we will have “The Airing of the Grievances”, the third year of this fine Seinfeld-and-Raigan-Burns-inspired tradition. This is a time for people to voice concerns about the organization that they feel would benefit from a member-wide discussion.

We anticipate wrapping up around 3 or 4pm.