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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=3 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>Thank you both Harrison
and Anne <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=3 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>for sharing your
inspiring words about those heart warming experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=3 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>What you both describe
sounds truly wonderful and yet this is exactly the problem I am facing right
now, having to convince a small group of artists to try to use the Open Space
for the purpose of generating a shift in the orientation within the artistic
community towards a more inclusive and more democratic process for creating a
momentum for change, allowing a harmonious work as a group, in a context of a specific
art project and also more generally, creating the conditions to let go of the
constant relying on donations and rich patronage sponsors as the only source
for funding those projects.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=3 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>So it seems that while
I am complaining about the exclusion of artists from the democratic decision
making, creative problem solving and future planning, artists themselves have
lost the capacity to share within their own community and consequently with the
rest of the society at large.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>Josef Ralt</span></font><font
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lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Harrison Owen</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, August 23, 2006
11:26 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: OS with Artists</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Further to Anne's posting. . . but in a little different
vein. some years ago the Arts Councils of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region> had annual meetings to sharpen
their trade. These meeting were the usual talking head, special sessions, etc
-- and each year the people went home frustrated, bored and sometimes mad. On
the last meeting (this was a 5 year grant program from the Pew foundation),
somebody found Open Space. Pew almost had a fit because it sounded totally out
of control, and in fact they tried their very best to stop it. Failing that
they insisted that at least the program start with a panel of speakers.
Presumably they were "experts" b ut it was the usual -- however they
did not draw the usual response. Three quarters way through a large black man
stood up in the rear of the auditorium and said something to the effect -- I
don't know what Open Space is supposed to be -- but this is fuckin-A NOT open
space. And he left. The place was reduced ed to pandemonium -- and the sponsors
quickly turned to the facilitator (not me) and said Help!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The circle was formed, space opened, and 250 highly gifted
artists (graphic, plastic, musical, and whatever) -- went for it -- Enhancing
the Arts in the Communities: Issues and opportunities.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>God knows how many sessions were proposed, but few were
announced in the "standard way." Dance sessions were
"danced," music sessions were Sung/drummed/played, etc.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>And then the fun began!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The closing session
(which I have only seen on a very bad video) was incredible. 250 artists
co-created, in the moment, an impromptu of major proportions. <br>
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HO</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Harrison Owen</span></font></st1:PersonName><br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">7808 River Falls Dr</st1:address></st1:Street>.<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Potomac</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MD</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">20854</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region><br>
301-365-2093<br>
207-763-3261 (summer)<br>
website <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</a><br>
Personal Website <a href="http://www.ho-image.com">www.ho-image.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:annestad@comcast.net" title="annestad@comcast.net">anne stadler</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>To:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
title="OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Wednesday, August
23, 2006 4:25 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> OS with
Artists<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>First: if this comes to you twice on the
OSListServe it is not because I posted twice. It is something which
happens elsewhere. So I am SORRY.<br>
<br>
Re. OS and artists: I have often had circles in which artists
participate. They offer their work (be it musically, visually or
whatever...) in the marketplace, and sometimes as convenors. The crucial
and only issue is “take responsibility for what you love” and do it
fluently as a gift to the community, within the minimal formal context provided
by the OS patterns. If the artist is a convenor, he/she participates
fluently as an equal of the person responsible for OS facilitation, offering
whatever comes, whenever it is timely. And when convenors meet for
attuning before the gathering, or during it, he/she participates as an equal
listener and voice.<br>
<br>
For instance, visual artists offer marketplace sessions. Once we had a
gallery of sculptures people made during a marketplace session, which everyone
in the circle (of 500+ people) was invited to tour. (That was amazing:
all the sculptures were made from rolls of aluminum and found objects!) <br>
In the closing circle, visual artists show their own interpretations of
energetic exchanges they are witnessing or whatever they are inspired to
create. Dancers dance their interpretations of our subject. (This
happened once in Dharmshala at an OS on the subject: “Creating Value out
of Values”. It was awe-inspiring!)<br>
People have read poems that came to them as we were together. Musicians
have sung songs, played instruments as they were guided.<br>
Etc. etc. etc. <br>
<br>
One of my most profound experiences was at Spirited Work. We arrived to
find that very large, tall sculptures had been erected on every post in the
large room in which we had our circle. There were eight of them.
They were like totems, made of found objects, and each had extraordinary
power. It was as if a group of archetypes had graced our space. All
weekend we interacted with them. Two small children who were part of our
group periodically gave people gifts of candies which came out of a hand-like
space of one of them. On Saturday night we always had a special
celebration dinner, to which we invited the artist (who was a neighbor).
After supper he told us the story of his life which had blossomed
completely after he left everything he’d believed he needed and simply
trusted God to guide him. What a fantastic inspiration!! And it was
totally on the money, given the season and the method of OS!! Talk about
synchronicity!<br>
<br>
All of us have the capacity to speak, listen, write, move our bodies, create
theater, draw, paint, create sculpture, make musical sounds. AND it is
sublime having all those gifts present and expressed in any space we inhabit in
order to gain maximum inspiration in my humble and enthusiastic opinion.<br>
<br>
Blessings to all, Anne<br>
<br>
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