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background-color:>Dear Chris and all,</DIV>
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background-color:>catching up on reading recent mails I read yours today. I can
sense that the combination of art and OST you describe had a special energy and
power. What I didn't get fully clear is how exactly both parts where combined in
terms of the form of the event itself.</DIV>
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background-color:>Who invited them to create the piece of art? Was the creating
part of the OST or done before?</DIV>
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background-color:>I am very interested in investigating if and
how other, less intellectual expressions of who we are, can be
combined with OST ~ and for me the experience with Silence intentionally being
used in OST, which was shared on this list recently, goes into the same
direction.</DIV>
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background-color:>I know there have been several conversations on this list
regarding combining other activities and OST ~ or not do anything but
pure OST and leave every input to the participants.</DIV>
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background-color:>I would be very happy to hear how you view your experiences in
the light of these former conversations? And have you ~ and other people reading
this ~ learned something regarding combining OST with other forms that
changed your perspective?</DIV>
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background-color:>Thank you for sharing.</DIV>
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background-color:> "Chris Corrigan" <chris.corrigan@GMAIL.COM>
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Colleagues:<br>
<br>
Here to report on an OST meeting that I did on the weekend for a really
interesting project which got youth to monitor violations of the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child..<br>
<br>
The project was the brainchild of a number of organizations in the City
of Vancouver, who came together to ask about how the UN convention
could be used to draw attention to some of the pressing issues faced by
children and youth in Vancouver. These issues included
experiences in the child welfare system, poverty, lack of equitably
funded education opportunities in poor neighbourhoods, safety and
treatment by police, transit security and others in power.<br>
<br>
The project lasted over two months during which youth facilitators
working with a team at the City of Vancouver set out to hold focus
groups to educate youth about the Convention, and to gather information
from youth themselves on rights violations. More than that
though, the youth were also invited to create visions for the future
and for the City that they wanted to see, and these visions were
harvested through words and pictures.<br>
<br>
All of this work through local neighbourhood organizations culminated
this past Friday and Saturday. Thirty five youth gathered on
Friday, to meet one another, build community and most importantly,
reflect on their experience in the process and create a performance
piece that would express a summary of what the project had
learned. The performance itself involved the construction of a
mural, some spoken word and rap, music and playback theatre.
Parts of the performance were in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew
and Russian.<br>
<br>
Saturday morning, leaders from various levels of government and
organizations were invited to join the youth in Open Space to figure
out where to go forward. The project was officially over on the
Saturday, and so we wanted to create a space in which the messages
would get sent and an invitation made from the youth to the adults to
work together to keep alive the spirit of what was happening.
Fifty five people gathered Saturday morning, and the youth did their
performance which kicked off a short and intense Open Space.
There was some significant power in the room, including two Members of
the Provincial Legislative Assembly one of whom is the the provincial
child welfare critic. Topics raised included what to do to help
youth live independently and in safe conditions, stopping police
harassment of Aboriginal and Latino youth by working with the police,
and educating youth and adults on rights. All of the groups were
composed of both youth and adults and the feeling in the room was one
of possibility and optimism, despite the huge nature of some of the
changes that were being discussed. To have provincial politicians
sitting in the room with street youth, working together to move forward
the learnings from the project was a powerful experience. <br>
<br>
Increasingly I am seeing the possibility involved in bringing creative
expression into play with youth working in Open Space. I know
there have been many conversations about playback theatre here over the
years, but, being a little slow on the uptake sometimes, I'm just now
beginning to see how it integrates with OST work. The creative
pieces, and the process of creating something together, is another
practice ground for passion bounded by responsibility, and youth find
their voices in many different ways when they are invited to work
together to create art which is used as an invitation for action.
There are a number of places in which I think this can be a significant
combination and I'll be looking for opportunities like this over the
next little while. In the meantime, if you have had experience
combining youth, creativity and Open Space together, let me know so I
can continue to expand my horizons on this a little bit.<br>
<br>
I have a photo gallery from this event at my Flickr site, for those that want a more visual taste of the day. <br>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31354844@N00/sets/1509187/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/31354844@N00/sets/1509187/</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
Chris<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>CHRIS CORRIGAN<br>Consultation - Facilitation<br>Open Space Technology<br><br>Weblog: <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot">http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot</a><br>Site:
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