Vegan Pizza!? Extra Post- October

- I walked into the venue that I'm doing my mentorship at. It was October 13th, a pretty cold day. My mentor Kevin text me and asked me to come to Bridgetown to help out with a show. I got there around 6:30 and helped the bands inside and sat around until the show started. Meanwhile, my mentor and a friend of ours went to go buy a huge, and I mean, HUGE, vegan pizza. A lot of the people there are vegan. I'm actually not vegan, so when my mentor came back with the pizza, I was really curious about it. The dough was made vegan, so no milk or eggs. The cheese was also vegan. I think that would be obvious. Anyways, vegan cheese is very heavy on the stomach, so I only took one small slice. To my surprise, the pizza was really good. The only taste difference there was, was the cheese. It tasted a lot like mozzarella cheese, and it was thick and had a different taste to it. Nonetheless, the pizza was awesome. The whole reason I decided to share this was because, since working at Bridgetown I've come to encounter a ton of new things. I've been introduced to new music scenes, and now even a new life style when it comes to food choice. I might consider going vegetarian and even vegan one day. We'll see. It's a good thing vegan pizza is a thing, I love pizza!

Blog 8: Research and Working EQ

1.  What is your working EQ?
-What does a person need to do in order to successfully open and manage a live music venue?
2.  What is a possible answer to your working EQ?
-EQ: What does a person need to do in order to successfully open and manage a live music venue

•  Take classes that show you how to run a business(accounting, business management etc.)
• Shadow multiple venue owners for a period of time to see how they go about running their venues.

3.  What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?
-If working at the venue counts as a source, I would say that. If not, the book I am currently reading for Research Check has shown me great information that has guided me to the more technical business side of this venture. It's called "Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide". So far this book has shown me what a Non-Profit business needs to do in order to start off and how to keep itself running, and how to apply for tax exempts, as well as getting a good insurance policy.

4.  Who is your mentor, or where are you volunteering, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?
- My mentor is Kevin Lopez. My mentorship is taking place at a venue called "Bridgetown DIY".  It relates to my EQ because it is a live music venue. I'm getting hands on experience and learning what needs to be done in order to run successful shows, how to book bands, how to sell ticketst/entrances and enforcing the venues policies to keep it a safe place.

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

- For my 30 hours of independent component, I plan to continue doing hours at the venue I am currently doing my mentorship with. Some things that I will do are, working the door, booking and running 2-3 shows and running meetings at the venue. When I help out at a show, I get to the venue half an hour before, clean up the venue, take any trash out, bag the recycle, count the money in the register and fill out a sheet of paper that has all the details of that nights show. When I'm done with all the pre-show prep, I will open the door and let people come in. When they come in, they'll hand me money and I'll stamp their hands for evidence of paid admission! As for booking and running the 2-3 shows, I'll get in contact with 3 or 4 bands, put a show together then propose it at the meetings we have at the venue every other monday. After that is all set in stone, the band will come in the day of their set date, I'll help set up the PA system as well as work the door and do all the other things I do when I help work a show.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

- To prove that I did my 30 hours, I'll keep a log on my blog. That log will have the hours I was there and a discription of what I did. I'll also have my mentor keep a log for himself. For the days that I host my own shows at the venue, I'll take pictures of the flyers the bands make to promote the show, I will promote the show on my social media websites and screen shot them to show as some evidence of promotion, have someone take pictures of me working the door at the show and setting the PA system. 

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

- I'll be able to actually set up, book, and run my own show. Which I actually have no experience of doing so. I'll learn what to do from my mentor. This is a big deal because not just anyone can run/book a show at the Bridgetown venue. I'll learn hands on how to do these things.