dear friends,
my name is mia konstantinidou from berlin-kreuzberg (in germany) and after
almost four years of considering to join this list i made it a couple of days
ago! i think it was spending time with funda oral from istanbul who was so
passionately talking about reading and writing in this space that the right
moment all of the sudden appeared.
quietly reading all these diverse perspectives on osonoses i would like to
add mine. although i haven't had the opportunity to join an ("international")
osonos yet, i love to just know that it's happening every year in some place
somewhere on this planet, listening to the stories people share...
considering the diverse situations people live in makes me feel the
importance of the i-osonos wandering around the world. starting conditions
differ already in the access to visa - for example that most of the people
from eastern europe, asia, africa don't get a visa for the european union, the
us of a, canada etc.- , then in the fact that many people from all over the
planet don't have the money to travel so far and in addition to pay the
participation fee or many other reasons. having the i-osonos on different
continents and in different countries taking place gives the locals as hosts
the opportunity to take part with less effort, to welcome and meet people
from other places on this planet and different backgrounds (who are able to
travel) whom they maybe would have never met otherwise and vice versa.
another point is the experience of the effort taken in the open space
community to fund some people's participation, thanks to the access queen and
all the other invisible queens and kings out there (!) and then there is the
responsibility people take for organizing the i-osonos.
and after all the i-osonoses add moments of peace to our lives. peace in the
sense of coming from different places and coming from the same place at once.
acknowledging the diverse situations people live in because of borders maybe
this is a way of meeting and sharing despite borders. getting connected in a
personal way maybe makes us stay connected, get more creative in handling
borders.
there simply is passion and responsibility for this event. and if there is
passion for an osonos in the us there'll be an osonos. probably this, too, is
a way of handling borders within the community - opening spaces and
opportunities.
hope to meet some of you in moscow!
a beautiful and peaceful day to all of you,
mia
Efthimia (Mia) Konstantinidou, boscop e.G.
Dresdener Str. 13, 10999 Berlin
++49(0)163-38 121 39
[email protected]
International Open Space Technology Training November 2-9, 2006 in
Blossin/Germany - check it out:
www.boscop.de
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