meeting dry/wet fifty fifty

Quatorzereport tentatieve monument avs 14 juillet 2010

Well, that went well... there was some doubt if the weather would allow us to meet in Angel’s red & yellow tentative (new) monument... Laetitia called early from down south (normally she should have been on her way to France but postponed specially... and warned us that weather-watch was on code orange... in Antwerp the sun was shining innocently enough, so we proceeded.
The monumentent was a perfect location, and for the first part of the session all was well – the wind picked up and soon buckets of water were falling out of an angry sky, but this could not diminish our determination to continue our most important discussions... The crew was mainly francophone Brusselites – some arrived dry, others arrived dripping wet, so already we had a fifty-fifty situation... wet ones and dry ones... as the afternoon went on more Antwerp consessionaires came along, and after the main bulk of the storm subsided we had our president for life & instigator Wout arrive...
So all in all, a good showing – Laurence and Isi provided the historical connection to the ‘Salto d’Arte’ tent on the place Flagey in the seventies, Angel the connect to cafés here & there & over the years, Emilio did his bit explaining the project for argos (finally the date has been set at 10/10/2010 which is a fine fifty-fifty configuration, and Carlos made cheer to get this Spanish mondial-cup festivity on rollers – so aside from the nitty gritty of cutting edge negotiations we also had fun – appearance of a D-K multiple and a pair of historic archival 50/50 books made it all very worth while, Lise kept detailed minutes, so this time no one can say they didn’t know what was going on...
The storm created a bit of a shortfall in as much the second part – moving to a tent in the north of town – didn’t materialize... but that was just about the only down side... our little tent held steady and is still standing today...

People present:
Veronique Boudier, Yves Grenet, Emilio Lopez Menchero, Marc Rossignol, Martin uit den Bogaard, Lise Duclaux, Carlos Montalvo, Toni Geirlandt, Marc Van Tichel, Sylvie Janssens de Bisthoven, Hilde Wildiers, Leo Reynders, Isi Fiszman, Laurence Tacu, Loa & Tartine, Viviane Klagsbrun, Lieve Lambrecht, Charlotte van Buylaere, Patrice de Maeyer, Pieter Goudriaan, Liliane Dewachter, menno Meewis, Harry Heirmans, Laetitia Yalon, Thomas van Lierde & entourage, Wout vercammen, Guche Vercammen, et quelques irregistrees...