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Zoë Presidents report for 2010 AGM, FYI

Zoë Community School

 

Annual General Meeting May 27^th 2010

 

Presidents Report

 

I obviously have to accept in these past few years that the committee have really been otherwise engaged and are acting merely as caretakers in a very passive way. What strikes me as I look back over previous years since '02 is the amount of time and energy that I and other members had for the project and how that has actually waned as we have been growing in other directions with families, careers and other projects.

 

This said, the Zoë Community School indeed appears to have a life of its own and its own destiny and the job of the committee members is not to intrude into all affairs, but to ensure that the aims of the association are being accommodated and furthered.

 

Fortunate, then, was the arrival of Jacquie and Brett on to the scene, with their project focus and action orientation. A new celery top deck, an abundance of gardens and workshops galore, not to mention a baby born here in the woodwork area last spring! It really is my pleasure to see all the activities underway and to formally welcome their residence and introduce them to the committee.

 

Faridah has also continued to quietly and creatively inhabit the "music room" as an art studio and her presence and work here are appreciated.

 

Over the past year or two we have had discussions with several groups about providing a long-term space for educational, creative or conservation based projects. This distancing from the committee has been in response to the withdrawal from on-site activity I mentioned.

 

On these terms we offer our support to Jacquie and Brett.

 

I'd like to repeat something I wrote for an AGM report 7 years earlier. (What a shock that so much time can pass!) This to me has some power and is precious, as an idea, and I hope you might consider it as we continue because I believe it is the essential thing.

"Zoë was something unique to each of us, something we could never explain, something unusual in the world, that was good, and belonged to each of us, was part of each of us. Something from childhood, that should have been a dream but wasn't."

In May 2010 the project of Zoë continues to empower people to live and achieve on their own terms, to educate as radicals, as anarchists, as human beings, aware and alive.

 

Thank you to all who participate!

 

- David Painter