Finally, we had our meeting. Kelly, Grace and I met today to discuss PuppetArt establishing a working relationship with Children's Hospital. We discussed:

What PuppetArt had to offer the hospital;

How we could establish a program with the hospital;

What other nonprofits have done at the hospital in the regards of art;

A possible long term working relationship with the hospital.

Going forward Kelly, Grace and I are going to look at setting up a performance after the holidays, where the performance would focus on a selected group of children. We discussed having it interactive, so that children who are unable to attend the performance, may watch it from their rooms. After the performance it may be possible for the puppets to visit the children in their rooms and deliver puppet kits to them. At this point it may be possible to have service learning students available to assist the children in the making of the puppets. The performance could also be taped, so that it could be watched at a later time by the children in the hospital.

Further we discussed that after one performance we could work to find grant funding and move to establish a regular program at the hospital on a regular basis.

So as you can see our meeting today was extremely productive and it appears that PuppetArt will be establishing a working relationship with the Children's Hospital.