Meeting Details

Meeting Date: 22 April 2026
Time: 5:05 - 5:28 PM
Chair: Anenya Kale
Minute-Taker: Marana Akkaranithi
Attendees: Marana, Anenya, Minthy, Ariq, Stella, Emma
Apologies: Nozi, Aria

Acknowledgement of Country

The ANU BIPOC Department acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, and pays respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

BIPOC Officer Report

Officer report

• SRC tonight - sent through an apology but anyone else is welcome to go in my stead

• Reiterate importance of publicizing events this term - need to keep attendance up

• Continue to promote zine submissions!! Open until 31st so please get your submissions in asap.

• Working with IARC on their residential staff training modules

• Racism report 5th edition survey questions have been formatted - get emma to look over and then survey will be released

• Party will be held in Week 9, presumably at One22 - more on that from Stella

• Reminder that I will be meeting with Joan on the 10th - please send through any queries/concerns you would like included on the agenda.

• Ball planning update

Secretary Report

Zine event during the holidays was great, while not a lot of attendees as expected for the holiday break, but the feedback was good and got some art into the zine. 

• Re: Panel for Emma what is the set date for the panel so i can send messages to Indigenous Staff network. I can also possibly get in touch with NECTAR ( early career academics  at the ANU) ?

Social Officer Report

Sem 1 Party:

• Collabing with the ISD 

• Confirming One22 as our venue 

BIPOC DJ Workshop with Kirana Collective

• Beginner hands-on workshop to learn the basics on how to mix and DJ

• Wednesday 29 April, with Kirana Collective at BIPOC base from 3-4:30 pm

• Free tickets, as there is a limit of 8 spots, we're asking participants to secure their spot with a $10 deposit which will be refunded upon attendance. 

• Princess: please see if you regularly schedule story posts and maybe a reel of the graphic and some music. Pls message Amber if you need to regarding this.

• I've made and published a registration link on Humanix, so please advertise that on all our social media. We need to make sure we get at least 8 people as we are paying they djs for their work, to make it worthwhile.

General 

• For bigger events please print posters so we can stick them up around campus; all exec, please help out

  • Also creating a reel-format promo would be really great. It doesn’t have to be complicated content; just a graphic animation and music could work too.

• Please check out the event calendar I created, lmk if you dont have acces yet and keep an eye out. 

• I would also appreciate it if everyone in the exce team could help out with hosting some events

  • I want to run weekly study sessions but I work fortnightly so I need volunteers from exec to run events that I can’t attend 

  • If you see question marks in the coordinator column, please volunteer yourself and add yourself in 

Advocacy Report

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Publicity Report

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Treasurer Report

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Web Designer Report

The website is updated

• Would it be possible to do a study smash event next week?

• How does pictures work? Is there a specific person who takes them, and do we have cameras etc, since looking at the album there seem to be lots of pictures, etc

• Do we have any recent pictures of Bipoc team- I want it for the website

BASC Rep Report

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First Year Rep Report

What is the budget for panels and who needs to do the food order? 

• For Emma (a possible panelist) is the Director of the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), Professor Sujatha Raman - I can ask my lecturer for any further information to get in touch with her

• For first year rep stuff I was thinking about a "First Year Sleepover/Slumber Party" starting with a craft activity then a movie in base - Was wondering if this is a decent idea and what last year's first year events looked like

General Report

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