Hello Burns Park Players,
The Board has updates for you. We wanted to let you know the following:
1. Publicity and Marketing Subcommittee.
We are forming a new subcommittee of the Board - the Publicity and Marketing Subcommittee. A primary goal for this year is to increase our ticket revenue without increasing ticket prices - in other words, to sell more tickets/sell-out all of our shows. Given the loss of the Ann Arbor news, which has traditionally been one of our primary way of communicating with the public, we want to be very creative about are marketing strategies this year. We want to tap into the creativity and expertise of BPP membership in our planning. So... if you are
interested in serving on the Publicity and Marketing Subcommittee, please let L. Harris know.
2. AnnArbor.com
The Burns Park Players will have a presence on the new AnnArbor.com. Jay Pekala will be our official "contributor" to the Community section blog. So watch for us when the site goes live on July 20th!
3. Facebook
We also have a new Facebook group ("Burns Park Players") - so sign up!! Margaret Punch is the Facebook administrator of the group.
4. One more producer!
Debi Haller has officially joined the Producer team for Guys and Dolls. She has always offered her expertise literally and figuratively behind the scenes, and now we are making it official - so welcome aboard!
5. Ann Herman memorial bench and garden.
As you know, we lost a dear Burns Park Player last year, Ann Herman. A memorial bench and garden is being created by a group of her friends to honor and remember her. Cindy Blum is
organizing this effort - please be in touch with her directly if you would like more information, or would like to contribute perennials or other things to this effort. The garden will be on one of the traffic islands in Ann Arbor Hills, near Ann's home. Though this is not a Burns Park Players project per se, we thought that many of you would like to know about this, and hope you will forgive our use of the BPP mailing list to inform you.
6. Election of officers
Officers (President, Secretary, Treasurer) were determined at the June Board meeting, and are unchanged from last year: President – L. Harris; Treasurer – Margaret Punch; Secretary – Aprille McKay. The remaining Board members at large are Tom Bourque, Deb Odem Stern, Jay Pekala and Jim Wallace.
