Soo Cool, thanks for keeping us posted! On 9/6/12, Phelim McDermott <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Open Space friends, > > I write to you as we pass the half way mark on our open space roadshow. Over > the last months I have been on tour around the united kingdom. We have > opened space around the same theme of "the future of theatre" in 11 > different cities and towns. From Enniskillen Northern Ireland to Plymouth, > Bristol, Edinburgh Scotland and many more. We are in Inverness tomorrow. > We have been capturing the reports from > each open space on this website here. > http://www.devotedanddisgruntled.com/reports/ As you can see this means we > have effectively done 20 days of continual open space technology around the > same question in different regions. It's the biggest rolling conversation > about theatre that has ever happened and it's been happening in open space. > > We've been printing out the document of the reports as we go and it's a > mighty tome. There are 253 reports online which cross reference their > themes. (Related reports come up if they have been tagged.) > Some are video reports, some are words, some are pictorial. > > If course there have been many more sessions than reports. Some Places we > have had around a hundred participants and at one we had just three people > over our two days. (more actions came out of that one than you’d imagine!). > > Nearly a thousand people have signed up to the site to create reports and to > read them. Do join the site if you are interested in theatre in any way at > all, audiences are just as welcome as makers. > > http://www.devotedanddisgruntled.com/profiles/ > > As the person holding the space on these events I can tell you after the > half way mark that even now I hold a privileged position. I know more about > the state, temperature and psychic atmosphere of British theatre than most. > > I can tell you what the, vitality or not of each particular region is. > I can tell you about the quality of engagement in each area and how > connected the theatre community is or isn't. I can tell you where people are > cowed by lack of funding and hierarchies and where the theatre spaces are > really engaged with their communities or not. I can tell you the places > where people are already "highly literate" with open space and know how to > use it like hungry people returning to a feast. It's been simultaneously > exhausting and exhilarating. > > As a large scale social intervention it will be interesting to see what > unfolds from it in years to come. And how we will follow up on it in the > future. > > Meanwhile we hurtle towards The end of our tour with another 9 cities ending > in Stratford upon Avon at the Royal Shakespeare Company.. 12 more days of > open space and then straight onto WOSonOS 2012 in London which is looking > very exiting! I'm going to write a separate email for that so do look > forward to hearing about that. > > Best wishes from a small break in the OST road! > > Best wishes > > Phelim x > ----------------------------- > I generally pick up emails only at the beginning and end of the working > day. I am currently aiming to respond the following day. If it is urgent > please call me on 07956 187298. > ___________________///////////// > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >
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