New committee elected

Our AGM was held last night. Many thanks to outgoing committee members Les, Kat, and Pizzo. Welcome to incoming members Munro, Niko, Andrew.
Regardless of the "formal" committee, all Bi community volunteers are welcome to come along to bi-monthly planning group meetings - contact admin@bi-nsw.org.au

SBN pub night needs a new venue

Our usual venue for monthly drinks, the Bank Hotel in Newtown, is currently closed for renovations. We need to decide on a venue for Oct/Nov/Dec drinks.

Preference is in Newtown, and somewhere that has a reasonably quiet bar on a Sunday night where we can sit and chat comfortably.

Suggestions urgently needed!!

Celebrate Bisexuality Month

Well in case you missed it the Bi-NSW committee helped put on a whole swag of Bi related events during September. The intention was to have enough variety in type, location, day, etc that everybody in the extended Bi community could find at least one event to come along to.

I'm pretty sure that at every event we had some new faces turn up. Of course the adverts we took out in LOTL and SX helped raise our profile in the queer community also.

So a successful month with lots of effort from a range of volunteers - congratulations to all.

What were the events? - Trivia, Biversity, Sydney BiFem, Media Whoring workshop, Sydney Bi Youth, BiFusion, Queer Picnic, Sex on Premises visit, Spanking booth.

Can we do it again? Are there other events we can hold? Do we have to wait for next September?

Of course we have the postponed "Getting Bi" book launch coming up in November and we hope to stage the Qart exhibition during Mardi Gras month.

Ideas anybody?

Graham

Biversity parties - where to from here?

I'm still astounded that I've been involved with the running of 13 Biversity parties given that I knew absolutely nothing about the organisational side before Michael W. took the bull by the horns and made it happen.

Biversity 13 was held at Rogues which seems to be a great venue but it needs at least 300 people to be there to make a go of it. Unfortunately we only got around 200. Of course that still rates as the biggest gathering of openly Bi and Bi-friendly folk you'll find in Oz so as a community event it was a success, but financially we made a loss.

So here's the forum to give some feedback on what you think. There are a whole lot of variables to take into account and believe me the various Biversity organisers have thought them through but of course what really counts is what the partygoers and the Bi community think of the parties.

Should they be bigger or smaller?
Should they be more frequent or less?
Should they be more widely marketed or kept within the Bi community?
Should we vary the music/DJs or concentrate on one genre?
What is an acceptable ticket price?
When should they start and end?
Should we continue to rely on volunteer effort?
Do we want more shows/entertainment or less?
Is Oxford St the right locale?
How do we keep the party something special for Bi folk?

Have your say.