[OSList] Devoted and Disgruntled Roadshow Halfway!

[David stevenson]

Soo Cool, thanks for keeping us posted!

On 9/6/12, Phelim McDermott <phelim at mac.com> wrote:
> Dear Open Space friends,
>
> I write to you as we pass the half way mark on our open space roadshow. Over
> the last months I have been on tour around the united kingdom. We have
> opened space around the same theme of  "the future of theatre" in 11
> different cities and towns. From Enniskillen Northern Ireland to Plymouth,
> Bristol, Edinburgh Scotland and many more. We are in Inverness tomorrow.
> We have been capturing the reports from
> each open space on this website here.
> http://www.devotedanddisgruntled.com/reports/  As you can see this means we
> have effectively done 20 days of continual open space technology around the
> same question in different regions.  It's the biggest rolling conversation
> about theatre that has ever happened and it's been happening in open space.
>
> We've been printing out the document of the reports as we go and it's a
> mighty tome. There are 253 reports online which cross reference their
> themes. (Related reports come up if they have been tagged.)
> Some are video reports, some are words, some are pictorial.
>
> If course there have been many more sessions than reports. Some Places we
> have had around a hundred participants and at one we had just three people
> over our two days. (more actions came out of that one than you’d imagine!).
>
> Nearly a thousand people have signed up to the site to create reports and to
> read them. Do join the site if you are interested in theatre in any way at
> all,  audiences are just as welcome as makers.
>
> http://www.devotedanddisgruntled.com/profiles/
>
> As the person holding the space on these events I can tell you after the
> half way mark that even now I hold a privileged position. I know more about
> the state, temperature and psychic atmosphere of British theatre than most.
>
> I can tell you what the, vitality or not of each particular region is.
> I can tell you about the quality of engagement in each area and how
> connected the theatre community is or isn't. I can tell you where people are
> cowed by lack of funding and hierarchies and where the theatre spaces are
> really engaged with their communities or not. I can tell you the places
> where people are already "highly literate" with open space and know how to
> use it like hungry people returning to a feast. It's been simultaneously
> exhausting and exhilarating.
>
> As a large scale social intervention it will be interesting to see what
> unfolds from it in years to come. And how we will follow up on it in the
> future.
>
> Meanwhile we hurtle towards The end of our tour with another 9 cities ending
> in Stratford upon Avon at the Royal Shakespeare Company.. 12 more days of
> open space and then straight onto WOSonOS 2012 in London which is looking
> very exiting! I'm going to write a separate email for that so do look
> forward to hearing about that.
>
> Best wishes from a small break in the OST road!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Phelim x
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-- 
David Stevenson