Hi Phelim, Matilda, Jon and Romy,
What a great initiative. This year, I did not
make it to Berlin. I do plan to make it to London
in 2012, even though it is still far away. And I
have marked 6 and 7 November on my calendar. I
would like to contribute to the preparations, so count me in.
Best wishes,
Koos
At 22:36 27-8-2010, Phelim McDermott wrote:
Dear All,
This is a message to fill you in on the current
state of play for WOSONOS 2012 in London. Below
is an invitation to an initial open space in
November on how to make this happen. Please feel
free to pass on this invite to anyone you feel
may be interested and may want to be part of the
open space to create our World open space! By
the way Matilda and I are currently in San
Francisco and are meeting up with Lisa Heft shortly.. Yay!
Lots of love
Phelim and Matilda
Opening space in the UK for WOSONOS 2012 London
How will we make it happen? Do you want to be part of it?
In May of this year, at the close of the Berlin
WOSONOS, we made an invitation, which was
accepted for WOSONOS 2012 to take place in
London, for the first time. It will be the 20th
World Open Space on Open Space since they first
started in the States back in 1982.
While it was Matilda that made the actual
invite, it came on behalf of the whole of
Improbable, and with the support of the other
U.K. facilitators present Romy Shovelton and
Jon Harvey. First a brief bit about Improbable,
for those of you that dont know:
Improbable create theatre, opera, site-specific
work and since 2005, Open Space events for the
arts community and others, both in the UK and
throughout Europe and the States. The companys
research into and application of Open Space has
broadened our reach and purpose, developing an
approach to grappling with complex issues that
has not only caught the imagination of the arts
community but has also had a huge and very
significant influence on Improbables working
practices as a whole. We now use Open Space to
run our company meetings and to create our
theatre shows. You can look at other Improbable
things at <http://www.improbable.co.uk/>www.improbable.co.uk.
After the Berlin WOSONOS, Matilda and Phelim
(from Improbable) met with Jon and Romy, and
together we decided we wanted to use Open Space
to help us facilitate the coming together of a
UK WOSONOS 2012 host team. We want to ensure
that anyone in the UK that wants to participate
is able to do so. We see this is as a fantastic
opportunity for UK OS facilitators,
practitioners and participants to meet one another and connect.
There are many different areas to be considered
in hosting a WOSONOS and so numerous different
kinds of skills and roles are required: websites
to be designed and run; venues and accommodation
to be found; food to be planned; social events
to be cooked up, and more
Please come and
contribute your ideas, passions, thoughts,
concerns, dreams, questions. All are welcome.
We will meet on the weekend of November 6th and
7th to open space for a day and a half on our
question: WOSONOS 2012 London UK: How will we
make it happen? Do you want to be part of it?
As yet we do not have a venue confirmed but
please save the date and the full details of
place, time and Saturday night social will
follow ASAP. On Saturday the day will run from
11am till 6pm, and on Sunday from 10am to 1pm.
We very much look forward to seeing you there.
From all at Improbable together with Jon and Romy
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