It's been a long, tiring and wonderful journey ... having you and your friends as co-jorners is a delight. Which continues. Thanks! And by the way are they ever going to release a DVD of your most recent opera? Probably the only way I'll lever see it and could be a marvelous tribute to the millions who are suffering and dead.
Harrison On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 1:55 PM Phelim McDermott via OSList < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello Dear Open Space friends. > > Over the last few weeks we at our theater co Improbable have been on a > fast track journey of learning how to open space for our communities > online. This has involved facilitating events for some of the many > communities we are connected to: Arts centres, artists support networks and > the wider UK theatre community. As you may know we’ve been opening space > for 15 years at our Devoted and Disgruntled gatherings in embodied space… > www.devotedanddisgruntled.com > > We have so far done a number of pilots and four public events. Each of > these have had about 80-100 participants. Our first events filled fast in > 48 hours and we are now scaling and scheduling another next Tuesday 2nd to > accommodate the waiting list of over 250 people. The theater community here > is challenged and needs urgently to have spaces where meaningful > conversations can happen in a more hierarchically fluid way as our theatre > buildings and freelancers are in crisis We are just at the beginning of > this and there is much more to discover. > > All of this would not be possible without the incredible help and support > of this open space community. > > I am and always have been in awe of the generosity of spirit that this > group of people has. Special thanks to Suzanne Daigle, Tom Brown, Paul Levy > and many others on the OS hotline and elsewhere forgive me if i forget. > But most of all Lucas Cioffi who has been incredibly supportive in helping > us ratchet this up as the need has been so urgent. Lucas has been ever > present often in the background, guiding us to find our way of using QIQO > simply and effectively with our own style. > > We are going to do an interview about our events and use of Qiqo for our > D&D events for Lucas but I just wanted to mention a few moments in closing > circle which have been truly touching. Many of our participants have > already been on zoom for hours and in many meetings online in these weeks > as we have had to navigate lockdown from our homes. > Despite this people have reported such things as.. "This has felt like the > first time I have been out in a public space since lockdown." "This is the > first time where I have felt energised and hopeful rather than drained by > an online meeting" and "This is the first time I have been in a truly > creative space since all this happened." > > We will be publishing the first three reports from last week at the > beginning of next week and will keep people posted as we continue to open > space for our theatre community which obviously considers gathering to be > at the heart pf their lives and practice and have cruelly had this > possibility stolen by circumstance. > > I mention the generosity of the people here and of course I know this all > arises from the wellspring of spirit which was Harrison's original gift of > letting us know about what he and his fellow conspirators had discovered > when they first came upon Open Space Technology. From a tired and energised > open space friend > > lots of love > > Phelim > > www.improbable.co.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > Past archives can be viewed here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
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