Thanks everyone for your offers of help. I must stress that we are all volunteers and while I'm doing the majority of the organising, I'm also trying to work full-time elsewhere. It's impossible making business calls during the day - and then I have so much to do when I get home. So if you have any non-urgent questionsit would help if they could wait until next week when I will be in Christchurch and tightening up on the organising and knowing more myself about the location etc.
Roster is here (to view) - contact Jacqui if changes need to be made, jacqui@monarch.org.nz.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvQPKx09c14jdGZEeFp0bDZHcDk4WTRsODZ4emludkE
Duties 1-4 are people living in the accommodation. 5 and 6 are "local" people who may have indicated they could do a half day, or if you're in as Duty 5 AM and PM (or 6 AM as well as PM) then you've been scheduled for a full day. The museum opens at 0900 and closes at 1730 so a half-day is basically 4.5 hours, being there ready to go before 0900 and finishing about 1315 (or for those in the afternoon, 1245 to 1730-ish).
The roster is very flexible - not set in concrete. As you can see we've still got some holes. Four people each day would be fantastic.
WHO'S WHO
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JK Jacqui Knight, Auckland
MT Margaret Topzand, Auckland
KY Kate Young, Hamilton
YA Yvonne Andrew, Thames
SS + CS Stan & Carol Swan, Wellington
JC + PH Jane Carver and Peter Herbert, Palmerston North
JJ Jill Jones, Whangarei
DFLF Dean & Lois Farrow
ML Mary Lyall
SL Shirley Lynch
FYNG Fay & Nev Gray
BL Bev Laing
WM Wendy McLintock
BB Bee Bryant
DM Denise Marshall
Margaret and I arrive in Christchurch on Monday. We're staying at Classique Lodge for two nights (Blenheim Road). Then we move into Braemar Apartment, Cnr Armagh St and Cranmer Square. The phone number there is 03 377 8964 - Jacqui's mobile is 027 481 4811.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
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While the exhibit is at the Canterbury Museum we envisage that we will be doing the following:
* Crowd control – encouraging people to move along, look at other parts of our display etc. There will be a PowerPoint presentation playing outside the “aviary”. Inside the aviary (where the butterflies will be flying) people will be able to take a cotton bud with sugar on and hopefully a Monarch will perch on it and they will be able to observe feeding.
* Children will be able to tag paper Monarchs – but this will be outside the live exhibit. Helping people by demonstrating tagging. The plan is to have some paper butterflies.
* Explaining to people about how to care for butterflies, metamorphosis) although there might be official educators from the Canterbury Museum there as well).
* Shop – taking money and handing over items from our stock. This will be relatively simple, everything will have a sticker on it and will cost an even amount (e.g. $5) so it will be a matter of removing the sticker and pocketing the money besides keeping the products neat and tidy.
* Handing out brochures.
* Tidying – making sure that the exhibit is tidy, picking up dead leaves, watering the plants (last thing at night)
* Banking, fetching coffees, teas, relieving while at lunch or for toilet breaks. First thing in the morning and last thing at night we will do a tidy up, remove to ‘safe storage’ butterflies that are keen to depart etc.
More detail will be explained to you at the beginning of your first duty. (And there will be other things that I haven’t thought of.)
It will be similar at the Ellerslie Flower Show although there will be no formal school visits which there might be at the Canterbury Museum. It will also be ‘outdoors’.
DRESS:
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New T-shirts have been designed and are available here. Please order them in the royal blue colour.
nzbutterflies.printmighty.co.nz/en/products
Thanks Kate for organising that! Order them now and you should have them within a week, to be worn with dark (pref. black) trou or skirt. If you can't afford a T-shirt please email me and we might be able to work something out.
PUPAE
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These can be sent to J Knight, C/- Reception, West Fitzroy Apartments, 66 Armagh St, Christchurch on 13 or 14 February. Please also send an email with delivery details in it so we can follow it up.
Thanks a lot!
Jacqui
