Theme
The Classic novels, since the release of the wizard of oz has come about at a great time, we hope to show off a little Victorian flare and that touch of the bizarre fun that came from the era, so enjoy a little old fashioned fun dress up or dress mad.

Saturday 9th February

Before 12pm - meet up at Manchester Piccadilly Train station

Please meet up with the group at the train station before 12pm (we don’t like waiting for stragglers). The group is outside platform 1 & 2 and near the large departure/arrival signs.

When in doubt, have someone’s mobile number

The community liaison Stuart Otterson is there to help and welcome all new attendees or those needing a helping hand in socialising.

After 12pm - head to Crunch on Canal Street

The group will wander over to Crunch, our host venue. This month we have the ground floor, the upstairs will be just a fursuit changing area and cool off point. You’ll be greeted by Lone. If you have a suit you can ask him about the day’s suiting orientated activities, where changing areas are and when they are available.

At that point the day is yours to spend as you see fit. Go out with a group of your friends to the city centre, stay inside the venue, sit in the nearby gardens, head to the cinema and so forth.

If you have an activity you want to organise (e.g. trip to bowling alley, or seeing a film), let us know and we can post about it here and help you.

At around 1pm people will be splitting off to head for food. Some go to the nearby pizza take away, some head to the sushi restaurant, some head to the Arndale food court, this is your own choice.

Activity sessions at the back of Crunch

After the trial last month we will be continuing on the activity sessions with improvements and tweaks. We have organised different activities to entertain attendees should they feel lost with what to do at the meet and don’t have their own plans. We politely ask that attendees not participating to be mindful of not taking up seating space that participants want to use.

We are currently tweaking the times of when the activities begin, we will post the times on Wednesday and there will be leaflets in the venue.

3pm - Fursuit walk
Lone

If the weather is good (HA! ~ editor) a fursuit walk shall happen at 3pm. Fursuiters are advised to use common sense, change early before 3pm so you don’t get left behind and queue patiently to use the limited space designated as the changing room area.

Activities
& Stuart

Throughout the day there is be a number of activities, times are yet to be confirmed but the activities include:
Drawing challenges      (provided by Stuart)
Pub quiz                      (provided by Stuart)    
Improv                         (provided by Lone)
Video games                (Provided by Lone, games include Kinect adventures, star wars, black ops 1&2,left for dead, fruit ninja, garden of Eden, power up heroes)

5pm-7pm - Cinema Trip
Lone
The wizard of OZ will be premier in the UK this week, looks plainly like a good film.
The trailer is linked below and please contact Lone or make a mention here about your interest for numbers. So those who want to go. So please feel free to note us your name contact and Preference on 2D or 3D.


Sunday 10th February

Sunday will be relaxed day, Stuart will be taking charge here leading you through the wonders of Manchester. 


Donations
Lone

We accept donations. We are keeping it as transparent as possible and you can always enquire about what we do with donations, how we handle it and give us suggestions on how to make it more transparent and what we can invest it in.

December we had a number of very generous individuals, , we are now in the positive figures by £15.30 after paying off all the previous new goods you may have noticed, all of which will go towards helping the Manchester mini meets better in any way we can find it possible.  If you want to get a detailed account of spending ask Lone for the spreadsheet.

If you wish to donate you can come up to a MancFurs staff and ask about the donation box, which is sealed until the end of the meet where witnesses watch the money being counted. Lone is the treasurer and puts it into a Lloyds's TSB account.

You can alternatively donate via PayPal to manchesterminimeets@hotmail.com