Good Go Philim! Sorry I missed the grand event and sorry to miss you. but it is wonderful to see you alive and well here online. And just for the record, we here in Washington DC (or close to it) are at the tail end of the largest snowfall ever recorded in this area. Outside my door there are 35 inches of snow on the ground. A few miles away there are over 40 inches. That is a lot of snow anywhere. Thank goodness I had invested in a serious snow blower which has totally be put to the test and passed with flying colors -- or is it snow? And just to make things more interesting the power went missing. Temperature in my bathroom got down to about 50 -- and the forecast for next week is for just above 0 -- and that isn't centigrade. But thanks be to the Great Spirit, the power has been restored. fun time for all!
ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA Phone 301-365-2093 www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Phelim McDermott Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 8:37 AM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Devoted and Disgruntled 5 Report Dear OS List friends. It's amazing but it is now five years since I first dived into Open Space after reading Harrison's book. At that time I had never been to an open space event had no idea what it looked like but knew it in my bones.Since then we have done Devoted and Disgruntled 5 times and done one in Scotland, one Brazil, one in in NYC and one in Newcastle will be doing another one In Newcastle in the coming months. Been asked to set one up in LA etc.. its become a growing community of people who are devoted to theatre and want to use the fuel of their disgruntlement to change. I remember that the thing that really inspired me to read the book in the first place was Harrison's intro saying OS belonged to everyone and would never be certified/owned/contained etc we should all just do it. It reminded me of my own feelings about Impro and its relationship to the many attempts to categories, teach, quantify it. In the end Impro just was and would appear where it wanted. It also reminded me of Robert Le Page's advice to "Mummenchance" theatre that they must "Give away the recipe." He was referring specifically to the recipe for their squidgy changing putty like masks. But he meant this as a wider metaphor to look after our own creativity. We must gift the recipe not guard it. In this spirit here's our fifth annual report on the state of people who are passionate and responsible about theatre. The event is an annual 2.5 event on third day we reopen the space for whatever people want to still talk about and do. So here's the report http://devotedanddisgruntled5.blogspot.com/ and here's a visual representation done from the report by wordle which i love. It's a big theatre word sitting in a nexus of other issues! I think it gives a better feeling representation of the event than the report. http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1630581/D%26D5 Yay!!!! love and thanks for your support to do this in the first place. Phelim * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
