phelim, interesting indeed!
i remember chris corrigan posting a long time back about an island music festival that also shared most of the elements of an ost meeting. i live in a land famous for its music & arts festivals. some have "gone corporate" and become more engineered, while some have maintained a deep sparky spontaneity over many years. i am in dialogue with one of the latter types of festival about using ost in the planning stages and integrating a big agenda wall under a tent for the festival itself, with an staff-focused and a participant-focused area.if this adventure happens, i can't wait to see what we've learned when we debrief. on a related large other topic, i am deeply interested in the overlap between ost and ceremony in indigenous traditions. festival life, which culminates on a specific piece of land for a specific period of time, has some fascinating resonance with ceremonial space/time. a topic to explore another time. cheers, chris -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Phelim McDermott Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 8:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Edinburgh festival.. an Open space event I had a realisation... that the reason the Edinburgh fringe festival was such a successful event (Perhaps not anymore) was that it was created operating on open space principles.. a group of people gathered together and convened various shows.. in one city and it was "self organised". Whoever turns up are the right people and often that means no one turn up to your show. "Maybe its a great show way ahead of its time!" The programme is one big bulletin board for which you sign up for more than you can possibly see. Often the show before have not struck their set so you have to be open to whenever it starts is the right time. The city is full of people "bumble beeing" and butterflying... and of course the bars and coffee breaks are the real reason for going.... where the real juice of the festival happens. Most of all the law of two feet is supported by the whole event because people can always leave any conversation because.... "They have a show to get to!" Of course as the controllers...("Producers" moved in and organised it much more) it has got less and less interesting.. just a small thought but think its of interest that open space created the worlds biggest arts festival. phelimx * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
