<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Somewhere the chat a few weeks back about micro open spaces led me to believe that there could be a virtual parallel in forming micro-networks among 5 to 9 people who feel deeply about an issue, and need to get to trust each other in co-planning how next to involve many others in changing something huge <BR>
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Anyway this knits well with my belief that email is a miracle (for self-organising & co-organising) if we learn to use it each to find our own 10 (say) best lifelong mentors; and that email and open space are complimentary miracles (email can link worldwide diversity with gravity, and keep such people in touch, whereas open space is the way to get deeply networked/iteratively innovative and humanly respecting each other however far apart geography may put you the rest of the time)<BR>
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I'd be happy to discuss the generalities of the above concept if anyone wishes, but I hope you also will not mind if I occasionaly check out with you on a specific context<BR>
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As a starter, here is a lady who has spent most of her career deeply committed to the performing arts in Canada, Toronto in particular I bel,eve, and this is the network of 5 she is looking for in the first draft she sent to me<BR>
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If anyone would like to connect with her to see if they might be a perfect component of her micro-network of 5 please email me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk with a cv or indeed anything you'd like me to relay on<BR>
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cheers<BR>
chris macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, www.valuetrue.com <BR>
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Network of 5 appeal on behalf of Linda R.<BR>
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Here's the cluster of issues that I am interested in discussing that relate to my life and work:</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">How do we fund the arts in order to ensure that they are sustainable? What is the correct balance of state support and marketplace support for maximum health of each discipline? Once that is established, how do we get buy in from governments and voters to support arts funding? How do we counter the pressure to let the marketplace decide, which demonstrably leads to only the lowest common denominator surviving as saleable art?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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