Devoted and Disgruntled 5 Report

Sat Feb 6 17:48:11 PST 2010

Sending you some warmth from the desert.  Sure wish I'd had that snow  
blower when I got snowed in at my brother's cabin a couple of weeks ago!

Christine
Christine Whitney Sanchez
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On Feb 6, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:

> Good Go Philim! Sorry I missed the grand event and sorry to miss  
> you. but it
> is wonderful to see you alive and well here online. And just for the  
> record,
> we here in Washington DC (or close to it) are at the tail end of the  
> largest
> snowfall ever recorded in this area. Outside my door there are 35  
> inches of
> snow on the ground. A few miles away there are over 40 inches. That  
> is a lot
> of snow anywhere. Thank goodness I had invested in a serious snow  
> blower
> which has totally be put to the test and passed with flying colors  
> -- or is
> it snow? And just to make things more interesting the power went  
> missing.
> Temperature in my bathroom got down to about 50 -- and the forecast  
> for next
> week is for just above 0 -- and that isn't centigrade. But thanks be  
> to the
> Great Spirit, the power has been restored. fun time for all!
>
> ho
>
> Harrison Owen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of  
> Phelim
> McDermott
> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 8:37 AM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Devoted and Disgruntled 5 Report
>
> Dear OS List friends.
>
>
> It's amazing but it is now five years since I first dived into Open
> Space after reading Harrison's book. At that time I had never been to
> an open space event had no idea what it looked like but knew it in my
> bones.Since then we have done  Devoted and Disgruntled 5 times and
> done one in Scotland, one Brazil, one in  in NYC and one in Newcastle
> will be doing another one In Newcastle in the coming months. Been
> asked to set one up in LA etc.. its become a growing community of
> people who are devoted to theatre and want to use the fuel of their
> disgruntlement to change.
>
> I remember that the thing that really inspired me to read the book in
> the first place was Harrison's intro saying OS belonged to everyone
> and would never be certified/owned/contained etc we should all just do
> it. It reminded me of my own feelings about Impro and its relationship
> to the many attempts to categories, teach, quantify it. In the end
> Impro just was and would appear where it wanted. It also reminded me
> of Robert Le Page's advice to "Mummenchance" theatre that they must
> "Give away the recipe." He was referring specifically to the recipe
> for their squidgy changing putty like masks. But he meant this as a
> wider metaphor to look after our own creativity. We must gift the
> recipe not guard it.
>
>
> In this spirit here's our fifth annual report on the state of people
> who are passionate and responsible about theatre. The event is an
> annual 2.5 event on  third day we reopen the space for whatever people
> want to still talk about and do.
>
> So here's the report
> http://devotedanddisgruntled5.blogspot.com/
>
> and here's a visual representation done from the report by wordle
> which i love.  It's a big theatre word sitting in a nexus of other
> issues! I think it gives a better feeling representation of the event
> than the report.
>
> http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1630581/D%26D5
>
>
>
> Yay!!!!
>
> love and thanks for your support to do this in the first place.
>
> Phelim
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