I'm new to this list but want to thank those of you who responded to what I added to Michael's OSWorld about the OS-based symposium in Ithaca, NY April 25 & 26 - If you'vwe already seen this forgive the duplication; would love to hear from any of you using OS with the arts. It will be the base for the UN-related project as well - INVITATION GREENING THE ARTS, a symposium using Open Space to explore collaborative ways to increase involvement with the arts across the sustainability movement, invites artists, educators and activists to gather in Ithaca , NY , April 25 & 26, 2008. Part of the participatory design/start-up stage of a global initiative ARTS AT THE HEART OF A SUSTAINABLE WORLD, linked with the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and International Earth Charter this event will review the current state of thinking and activity, and lay groundwork for local/regional (NYS) next steps, and for an international gathering in New York City in Spring 2009. For information and registration, contact artsatthehe...@yahoo.com, If you cannot attend, we invite you to send your own thoughts as an MSWord attachment to be included in the 08 program, and in planning for 09.
Tree Fitzpatrick <therese.fitzpatr...@gmail.com> wrote: The Open Space Institute/USA has a happy mission. We hold space for open space. Today I have the wonderful task of announcing to the Open Space listserv that one of the ways the Open Space Institute/USA holds space for open space is giving financial support to help a few people attend a WOSonOS event. I love this work, the work of helping to make it possible for someone to travel internationally, to join in a circle of OS colleagues from all around the world and to experience OS. Right now, each person reading this letter has now joined our circle, now each person reading this is also holding space to fund some colleagues to attend WOSonOS in San Francisco this July. If you are reading this letter and find yourself wishing that you could attend WOSonOS in San Francisco this July, 2008, but you are hesitating because you don't see how you can fund it, please read on. To revisit our funding criteria: ::: 1 - Projects that serve underserved areas of the world ::: 2 - Leveraged efforts that reach multiple people, especially in training or other sustaining sorts of ways ::: 3 - Situations wherein other groups or individuals have already made investments so that OSI-USA augments rather than initiates projects ::: 4 - Project sponsors and facilitators who will do good work and bring the story back to the larger OS community ::: 5.. We ask that you please wait 3 years or more before you make another request for funding from us, so that others may also have a chance to use these resources. This is a flexible criteria. We are sitting in inquiry about how to best manage our resources. If you wish to submit a proposal to the Open Space Institute/USA for partial funding to WOSonOs 08, which will be in San Francisco in July, the deadline for proposals is May 6, 2008. Please send the proposals to me, at my email address: tree.fitzpatrick#gmail.com. I will circulate them to all the members of this board. We will decide which proposals, if any, we can fund this year at our May board meeting and notify the parties involved immediately. Very truly yours, Tree Fitzpatrick, for the OSI/USA board Gabriel Shirley, Karen Davis, Doug Germann, John Engle, Peggy Holman, Lisa Heft, Christine Whitney Sanchez, Phelim McDermott, Ed Laboy * * ========================================================== 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 - fostering sustainable community through collaborative initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old democratic spirit of the Danish Folk School --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. * * ========================================================== 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
