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Proposal for new event – transFormal 2010 May Katoomba
Ok Girls
…. I’ve been looking for some time for a signature event for the TR community that we could host in Sydney….And I think I now have a proposal that is worth testing in the market!Here is the flier – have a read and then click on the poll to let me know if this idea is going to go anywhere.
Please note that the details have yet to be confirmed.
If you are a “definite” please can you post a reply on this thread with any comments/suggestions/support you have.
Because….
a) I would like to give those attending some input into any detailed planning
b) unless we get something like 40 ‘definite’ girls the event will be too risky to put on.
Flier deleted….
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35 Replies
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on today’s count, 7 of of the required 40 have put up their hands.
including yourself and partner, amanda, kicks it up to 9. early days yet, but still a mountain (no pun intended) to climb.
comments – go for it, girls, make an effort. it looks like a perfect event to get out and about, and meet up with like minded people without the sleaze of, say, taxi club (apologies, joanne, but some of the patrons are a little on the creepy side … .not that that has anything to do with management … i guess it’s a part and parcel of the trans scene). there is life outside the chat room!
and please excuse the ignorance, but i’m not sure what a charles buffet is. did a google and got a linkedin page. please explain.
suggestions – well, kylie minogue, madonna and the beatles would be a good warm up. not another drag show, surely? i guess it’s hard to please everybody, so you have to go middle ground, which is not some old geezers playing rsl music. if it is to be drag, then the 2009 stepping out entertainment was a pretty good measure (courtney act).
support – a bold plan, amanda, and i hope it is successful. if the trans community can’t go and and have a good time for a very reasonable cost (as offered here), then i guess you have done all you can to encourage that. the community deserves what it gets if it doesn’t back this type of initiative.
that’s my $0.10 worth anyway … just another opinion in the wind, dudettes …
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Quote:and please excuse the ignorance, but i’m not sure what a charles buffet is. did a google and got a linkedin page. please explain.Sorry V – just the marketting gloss from the Carrington Hotel. I want to go for a good buffet meal rather than one of those alternate serve fish/meat jobs. Why? Because that way everyone gets up – moves about – has a chance to chat with others, can eat what they actually want to eat, and can even just rotate and sit down and eat where they want.
The buffet I got a quote for isn’t rock bottom cheap but also isn’t a budget breaking seafood extravaganza. It has soup, 3 cold dishes (prawns, smoked salmon, chicken), 3 salads, 3 hot dishes (beef, chicken, fish) with rice & veges, deserts and coffee/tea.
Champagne Charles was some guy in the past history of the hotel – hey might even have been Charles Carrington…..Idunno.
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This is a Fantastic idea. At a fantastic resort. I’ll be coming for sure.
Now what to wear ?
Huggs Linda
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I’m all for it Amanda!
Let me know when “provisional” is amended to “confirmed” and i’ll get my ticket!
CLARE.
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Hi Amanda
I think you have a ” snowball ” event here….Caroline and Annette are IN
Great Idea!!Ill have to look around for a long piece of silver fabric for a Priscilla photo on one of the sisters with all of us
What a sensational photo that WILL be !!!!!!!!!!!
Caroline
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Thanks to all those early adopters who have said they would support this event. After the first day we have about 25% of the pledges needed to avoid Amanda heading off to the bankruptcy courts.
Now I need you to continue this momentum for the next 3 days!Consider….
This has the potential to be an event with style in a venue that doesn’t have the impersonal feel of a modern international hotel
(well the plumbing might be a bit noisy and the lift is a museum piece…but I said style!)If we sold 90 tickets (the target) then we could virtually take over the hotel (it only has 65 rooms). I’m negotiating to see if we could take a block booking for all the rooms on the budget TRaditional floor – that way the party would continue before and after the dinner. What better way for someone feeling nervous about their first event of this type than to be swept along by the other girls staying close by.
Walk out of the front door and the parking is right there, the station is right there (2 hrs/$12 to Sydney), and the main street of Katoomba is right there – with restaurants and boutique shops.
And we haven’t even mentioned the scenic sightseeing opportunities (well I don’t want to promise the weather on 1st May).
Oh and did I say… there will be no Drag acts !
This is a tricky moment in the birth of an event – because if everyone just wants to wait and see – then they will see nothing.
Go on… Can you do it? Do you want to do it?
Amanda
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Hi,
I put me down as a maybe, having a think I will attend if it proceeds. I am unable to change my vote on the poll.
So remove one vote from maybe and add one vote to purchasing one ticket
Hope it happens
Anthea xx
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I’d love to attend but as well as working most weekends, those coming from interstate, it will take a lot more working out how to get to Katoomba and back.
Melissa
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Quote:Actually the date I have provisionally chosen (1st may) is a long weekend I think north of the border?? If so i expect to be swamped by Queensland girls who want to find out how T-life survives at under 20 degrees! -
All we need is Dangerboy for the entertainment and it’d be perfect! lol
I’m in!
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Quote:Already on the short-list – but all that is subject to selling enough tickets to actually pay for a top-class entertainer like Danger-boy!! -
Another 2 cents worth. Katomba is a very progressive commnity, and the main strret alone has lots of fantastic shops ( clothes ) cafes and art galler’s ect. And also a fantastic leather clothes shop for those interested.
I’m starting to think that two days in Katomba won’t be enough !
Huggs Linda
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Hey Mel, it’s Katoomba, so by under 20C she actually means -20C.
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Please put me down as a maybe at the moment. I am looking to attend more events this year and will give a definite in a week ot two. I am tingling with anticipation…..
Helen
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Quote:Maybe’s are nice – but will do’s are needed to get the event off the ground. So keep that anticipation tingling! -
Quote:All we need is Dangerboy for the entertainment and it’d be perfect! lol
I’m in!
Yeah, if Dangerboy is there you can count me in as well…ha ha…
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Quote:Quote:All we need is Dangerboy for the entertainment and it’d be perfect! lol
I do appreciate the positive ideas for entertainment – keep them rolling…BUT…
at the moment with 15 tickets pledged I’d have to CHARGE DangerBoy to attend if I was going to break even on the deal I have from the hotel. I doubt he would want to pay over $1500 to be with us (again!)
So first of all I need to be convinced I won’t be left carrying the financial can – or at least not to the tune of a few thousand dollars.
So tell your friends and if they are on TR get them to join you and make a commitment to attend.
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not that helpful, but i have two more “maybes”.
@ linda
Quote:a fantastic leather clothes shopmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm … leather …
@ caro
Quote:a Priscilla photomaybe we can organise a bus …
@ melissa
Quote:how to get to Katoomba and backsee bus idea above
@ amanda
Quote:a good buffet mealthere ain’t nothing like a good buffet (and as you say, a chance to mingle – omg does that mean we have to actually engage in conversation???) 😆
@ amanda
Quote:3 hot dishes😉
