OS at the core of arts/sustainability gathering in May '09?

Thu Aug 7 07:50:59 PDT 2008

I have been wondering recently about the possible overlap of Open
Space and a growing city arts form Pecha Kucha:

http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

The name comes from the Japanese word for the sound of conversation.
The pattern was created as a way for young designers to share their
work and has spread through out many cities internationally.

Perhaps it may have some application for what you are invisioning
Patricia?  Also, I'd be curious to hear if anyone else has witness or
imagined this connection?

How I've experienced Pecha Kucha is as a very simple open call at a
contemporary museum's free public evening....artists arrive a few
hours earlier to get on the schedule...it is a clear simple
pattern...each artist/designer/architect is allowed 20 slides to show
for 20 seconds each....how I've seen it, it all happened in the same
auditorium...but I kept imagining it happening more in the OS grid, in
different rooms, where the physical environment even could become part
of the presentation (as in site specific dance improv)

There is something I think quite lovely about the clear yet open
pattern of 20 slides/20 seconds.  It provides grounding and comfort
for the viewer/audience, and creates a sense of continuity, yet allows
for the artists to share and shape their presentations still with a
lot of integrity and originality.

An Open Space might follow a Pecha-Kucha?  Providing a common
experience to explore?  Or one or two Pecha-Kucha sessions might be
embedded within a larger Open Space?

Would be curious to hear the outcomes of any experiments...

Holly

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On 8/6/08, nata marchuk <nata_marchuk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> It is amazing!
> Just joined the group and first post to receive was about something that
> boils in my mind and can not find solution yet, but is so close to my heart!
> I am part of Russian Folk Group here in northern California. We started as a
> group of parents that wanted to help kids to keep the language. The
> initiative grew bigger and deeper to not only celebrate holidays with songs
> and dances, but include other art forms: painting, costume making, clay
> work, beading, etc. Then some of members explored different meanings of
> songs and games, as well as the effect of vibration when you sing with your
> "chest" voice. Me in particular is very interested in effects of folk
> singing when pregnant and raising a child (ren), as well as in joyful or
> grieving periods of life. A lot of cultures use songs and circle
> games-dances as a "clearing" of the place, ice-breaking, opening of chakras,
> spiritual work...
> The burning thought was, I see it in collaboration with OS, but have no idea
> where to start from! The feeling is that it is so close, so big and
> wonderful (I mean our future project oo using OS in Folk and folk in OS)
> And here is the post of Patricia Haines and others about the same thing!
> Thank you guys, we will create something!
> Warmly,
> Nataly
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> --- On Wed, 8/6/08, Chris Corrigan <chris at chriscorrigan.com> wrote:
> From: Chris Corrigan <chris at chriscorrigan.com>
> Subject: Re: OS at the core of arts/sustainability gathering in May '09?
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 4:56 PM
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> Lots of Open Spaces with arts organizations showing up on my radar these
> days too.  Ran two in the past year with the Arts organizations here in
> British Columbia and I know Phelim was around here in Vancouver in January
> running an OST that a dancer friend of mine was at (and she loved it and
> him).  It certainly seems like it's Open Space in a full blown sector now,
> to add to government, health, education and business...
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> Chris
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> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Wonderful! The secret I think -- is don't make it too complicated, don't try
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> and explain it -- just open a lot of space/time for wonderful art. There is
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> a lot of tradition about this, starting more than 10 years ago when a good
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> friend conducted an Open Space for the Arts Councils of America (a project
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> of the Pew Foundation) -- 2 days in Open Space with a theme something like
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> Bringing Art to America. When people announced their sessions at the opening
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> they often did it in their own art form. Dancers danced it -- singers sang
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> it, and musicians made the music. There were no "special performances" --
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> everything was performance. And it truly rocked! And it was also very
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> substantive with careful attention the sorts of things that Art's Councils
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> need to pay attention to -- but there was no distinction between art and
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> life. It was all one glorious unity -- which is what true art is all about,
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> I think. Lots of details and connections if you want. Phelim and Matilda --
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> where are you???
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> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Patricia
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> Haines
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 2:05 PM
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> Subject: OS at the core of arts/sustainability gathering in May '09?
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> ARTS AT THE HEART OF A SUSTAINABLE WORLD, a global initiative grounded by
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> the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and Earth Charter
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> USA, is starting to plan for a three-day gathering in New York City in early
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> May, 2009.
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> The purpose of this event will be for participants - artists, educators,
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> sustainability activists - to share information, energy and inspiration
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> about how they are calling on the ARTS as a catalyst for addressing the UN
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> Millennium Goals and Earth Charter ethical/action agendas.
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> Arts at the Heart grew out of an Open Space in Raleigh, NC in March '06,
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> hosted by the US Partnership for the UN Decade - facilitated by Steve
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> Cochran and Chris Weaver, who was amazing and remains a vibrant inspiration
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> for all this project is doing now and growing toward.
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> I want the May '09 gathering to have another Open Space at its core - though
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> we'll invite participants to offer performances, poetry readings,
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> exhibitions of their art work, hands-on workshops, collective music and
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> dancing too.
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> My organization (the Level Green Institute - which has guest rooms if anyone
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> ever wants to visit Ithaca, ny) will be organizing the event, but it will be
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> co-hosted by Earth Charter USA and the Youth Caucus of the UN Environmental
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> Program. We're in conversation about possibilities for space at the UN
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> itself, as part of UNEP's 3-week meetings in May.
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> We're also working with the Danish Consulate in NYC to call on the Danish
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> Folk School heritage as another frame for our goal to mobilize the arts as a
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> catalyst for building a sustainable world. Little is known about the Folk
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> School in the US, but the movement started in the 1840s as part of the
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> grassroots democracy movement that enthralled all of Europe at that time -
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> and everything began with singing, music and embracing the richness of
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> distinct cultural identities. No matter what the particular focus, and each
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> School had its own unique approach, there were intentional connections with
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> host communities, and music and dancing woven in with the most-often
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> action-oriented curriculum. By 1900 it had spread around the globe, very
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> quietly providing a framework for community-based, non-credit,
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> non-degree-related interdisciplinary, residential explorations of what
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> experiencing full humanity - in the context of responsibility to community -
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> can mean for active
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>  democratic citizenship. The past 20 years or so have seen a resurgence of
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> folk school activity everywhere in the world - including in the US - but US
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> initiatives haven't been included in the growing world network.
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> I'll be starting funding searches in early September - anyone interested in
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> working with me to organize this Open Space? we'll need an experienced
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> facilitator (or two), who will be written into the budget.
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> I didn't do well with the Open Space I myself facilitated in April, at
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> Ithaca's symposium on Greening the Arts - there weren't enough  people, and
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> none of them knew about or were prepared for the challenge that Open Space
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> offers.
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> I really need your help to make this work - and I'd love to hear your ideas
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> of how we can make this gathering as effective and heart-inspiring as the
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> March '06 Open Space that sparked the vision in the first place.
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> Thank you - Patricia Haines, Ithaca, NY (607) 339-9472
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> PS: does anyone have contact information for Chris Weaver? the email I had
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> is no longer working, and the phone on the only web presence is cut off.
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> Thanks -
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> LEVEL GREEN - fostering sustainable community through collaborative
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> initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old
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> democratic  spirit of the Danish Folk School
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