OS at the core of arts/sustainability gathering in May '09?
Harrison Owen
hhowen at verizon.net
Wed Aug 6 13:23:05 PDT 2008
Wonderful! The secret I think -- is don't make it too complicated, don't try
and explain it -- just open a lot of space/time for wonderful art. There is
a lot of tradition about this, starting more than 10 years ago when a good
friend conducted an Open Space for the Arts Councils of America (a project
of the Pew Foundation) -- 2 days in Open Space with a theme something like
Bringing Art to America. When people announced their sessions at the opening
they often did it in their own art form. Dancers danced it -- singers sang
it, and musicians made the music. There were no "special performances" --
everything was performance. And it truly rocked! And it was also very
substantive with careful attention the sorts of things that Art's Councils
need to pay attention to -- but there was no distinction between art and
life. It was all one glorious unity -- which is what true art is all about,
I think. Lots of details and connections if you want. Phelim and Matilda --
where are you???
Harrison
Harrison Owen
189 Beaucaire Ave
Camden, ME 04843
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Haines
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Subject: OS at the core of arts/sustainability gathering in May '09?
ARTS AT THE HEART OF A SUSTAINABLE WORLD, a global initiative grounded by
the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and Earth Charter
USA, is starting to plan for a three-day gathering in New York City in early
May, 2009.
The purpose of this event will be for participants - artists, educators,
sustainability activists - to share information, energy and inspiration
about how they are calling on the ARTS as a catalyst for addressing the UN
Millennium Goals and Earth Charter ethical/action agendas.
Arts at the Heart grew out of an Open Space in Raleigh, NC in March '06,
hosted by the US Partnership for the UN Decade - facilitated by Steve
Cochran and Chris Weaver, who was amazing and remains a vibrant inspiration
for all this project is doing now and growing toward.
I want the May '09 gathering to have another Open Space at its core - though
we'll invite participants to offer performances, poetry readings,
exhibitions of their art work, hands-on workshops, collective music and
dancing too.
My organization (the Level Green Institute - which has guest rooms if anyone
ever wants to visit Ithaca, ny) will be organizing the event, but it will be
co-hosted by Earth Charter USA and the Youth Caucus of the UN Environmental
Program. We're in conversation about possibilities for space at the UN
itself, as part of UNEP's 3-week meetings in May.
We're also working with the Danish Consulate in NYC to call on the Danish
Folk School heritage as another frame for our goal to mobilize the arts as a
catalyst for building a sustainable world. Little is known about the Folk
School in the US, but the movement started in the 1840s as part of the
grassroots democracy movement that enthralled all of Europe at that time -
and everything began with singing, music and embracing the richness of
distinct cultural identities. No matter what the particular focus, and each
School had its own unique approach, there were intentional connections with
host communities, and music and dancing woven in with the most-often
action-oriented curriculum. By 1900 it had spread around the globe, very
quietly providing a framework for community-based, non-credit,
non-degree-related interdisciplinary, residential explorations of what
experiencing full humanity - in the context of responsibility to community -
can mean for active
democratic citizenship. The past 20 years or so have seen a resurgence of
folk school activity everywhere in the world - including in the US - but US
initiatives haven't been included in the growing world network.
I'll be starting funding searches in early September - anyone interested in
working with me to organize this Open Space? we'll need an experienced
facilitator (or two), who will be written into the budget.
I didn't do well with the Open Space I myself facilitated in April, at
Ithaca's symposium on Greening the Arts - there weren't enough people, and
none of them knew about or were prepared for the challenge that Open Space
offers.
I really need your help to make this work - and I'd love to hear your ideas
of how we can make this gathering as effective and heart-inspiring as the
March '06 Open Space that sparked the vision in the first place.
Thank you - Patricia Haines, Ithaca, NY (607) 339-9472
PS: does anyone have contact information for Chris Weaver? the email I had
is no longer working, and the phone on the only web presence is cut off.
Thanks -
LEVEL GREEN - fostering sustainable community through collaborative
initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old
democratic spirit of the Danish Folk School
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