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Aerialist Parent Association

The APA is a community-driven group made up of dedicated InFlyte parents and guardians who want to be more involved in supporting the studio and its flyers.

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The APA plays an important role in helping strengthen our InFlyte community by assisting with fundraising efforts, supporting events, and creating opportunities that enhance the overall experience for our aerialists. Whether it’s helping organize studio events, contributing ideas, or building connections between families, the APA helps bring our community together in meaningful ways.

This group is designed to operate with a strong sense of independence, giving parents the space to collaborate, share ideas, and take initiative, while still having guidance and support from InFlyte leadership when needed.

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At its core, the APA is about connection, support, and building something special together—for our flyers, our families, and the entire InFlyte community.

What happened at the 5/7 Meeting?

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Notes:

  • Attending: Aya, Amy, Corrie, Emily

  • Goals: building community

  • Does Hudson have a cultural council to get involved in or let them know about events? (i.e Discover Hudson)

  • Do we want APA to have an "advisory board"? Or have this be more appealing to other parents

  • APA merch: having BEFORE the performances or shows, having merch on hand to sell in studio

Possible event ideas:

  • Rent a Locker Space (ongoing fundraiser, waiting on new carpeting first for Flyer's Lounge)

  • Parents' Night InFlyte - get to know the other parents, snacks, drinks (alcoholic or non), try an apparatus after (multi or rotate)

  • Educational nights

    • what to know as parents or learning more about a particular aerial thing i.e. rigging or comp/performance team and what's involved, etc.

  • Movie Night + flying

  • Do we charge for these events?

    • i.e. making sure instructors get paid or are they volunteering their time, treat them as fundraisers for InFlyte

  • Vendor rental space at the studio or at performances

  • Sip and Shop event

  • Have a sign up sheet for volunteering for an event or performance such as FOH for Nutcracker, HudsonFest, etc.

  • NEXT EVENT TO CONSIDER: Parents' Night InFlyte

Action Items:

Aya is going to talk to Steven about the following:

  • Will Steven be sending communications out to all parents for the future events?

  • What do we (Steven/InFlyte) want or expect from the APA?

  • Have a quick agenda with different topics and then open discussion

  • What are we currently doing to inform the community of aerial ins and outs?

  • Emails to parents: events to volunteer/sign up, showing up doesn't mean you are forced into APA, sending out idea suggestions of what they want to see

APA's next meeting will be on

Thursday, June 4th at 7:30pm through Teams!
 

Microsoft Teams meeting link will be posted soon.

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