<div dir="ltr">Lots of Open Spaces with arts organizations showing up on my radar these days too. Ran two in the past year with the Arts organizations here in British Columbia and I know Phelim was around here in Vancouver in January running an OST that a dancer friend of mine was at (and she loved it and him). It certainly seems like it's Open Space in a full blown sector now, to add to government, health, education and business...<br>
<br>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Harrison Owen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Wonderful! The secret I think -- is don't make it too complicated, don't try<br>
and explain it -- just open a lot of space/time for wonderful art. There is<br>
a lot of tradition about this, starting more than 10 years ago when a good<br>
friend conducted an Open Space for the Arts Councils of America (a project<br>
of the Pew Foundation) -- 2 days in Open Space with a theme something like<br>
Bringing Art to America. When people announced their sessions at the opening<br>
they often did it in their own art form. Dancers danced it -- singers sang<br>
it, and musicians made the music. There were no "special performances" --<br>
everything was performance. And it truly rocked! And it was also very<br>
substantive with careful attention the sorts of things that Art's Councils<br>
need to pay attention to -- but there was no distinction between art and<br>
life. It was all one glorious unity -- which is what true art is all about,<br>
I think. Lots of details and connections if you want. Phelim and Matilda --<br>
where are you???<br>
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Harrison<br>
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Subject: OS at the core of arts/sustainability gathering in May '09?<br>
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ARTS AT THE HEART OF A SUSTAINABLE WORLD, a global initiative grounded by<br>
the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and Earth Charter<br>
USA, is starting to plan for a three-day gathering in New York City in early<br>
May, 2009.<br>
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The purpose of this event will be for participants - artists, educators,<br>
sustainability activists - to share information, energy and inspiration<br>
about how they are calling on the ARTS as a catalyst for addressing the UN<br>
Millennium Goals and Earth Charter ethical/action agendas.<br>
<br>
Arts at the Heart grew out of an Open Space in Raleigh, NC in March '06,<br>
hosted by the US Partnership for the UN Decade - facilitated by Steve<br>
Cochran and Chris Weaver, who was amazing and remains a vibrant inspiration<br>
for all this project is doing now and growing toward.<br>
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I want the May '09 gathering to have another Open Space at its core - though<br>
we'll invite participants to offer performances, poetry readings,<br>
exhibitions of their art work, hands-on workshops, collective music and<br>
dancing too.<br>
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My organization (the Level Green Institute - which has guest rooms if anyone<br>
ever wants to visit Ithaca, ny) will be organizing the event, but it will be<br>
co-hosted by Earth Charter USA and the Youth Caucus of the UN Environmental<br>
Program. We're in conversation about possibilities for space at the UN<br>
itself, as part of UNEP's 3-week meetings in May.<br>
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We're also working with the Danish Consulate in NYC to call on the Danish<br>
Folk School heritage as another frame for our goal to mobilize the arts as a<br>
catalyst for building a sustainable world. Little is known about the Folk<br>
School in the US, but the movement started in the 1840s as part of the<br>
grassroots democracy movement that enthralled all of Europe at that time -<br>
and everything began with singing, music and embracing the richness of<br>
distinct cultural identities. No matter what the particular focus, and each<br>
School had its own unique approach, there were intentional connections with<br>
host communities, and music and dancing woven in with the most-often<br>
action-oriented curriculum. By 1900 it had spread around the globe, very<br>
quietly providing a framework for community-based, non-credit,<br>
non-degree-related interdisciplinary, residential explorations of what<br>
experiencing full humanity - in the context of responsibility to community -<br>
can mean for active<br>
democratic citizenship. The past 20 years or so have seen a resurgence of<br>
folk school activity everywhere in the world - including in the US - but US<br>
initiatives haven't been included in the growing world network.<br>
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I'll be starting funding searches in early September - anyone interested in<br>
working with me to organize this Open Space? we'll need an experienced<br>
facilitator (or two), who will be written into the budget.<br>
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I didn't do well with the Open Space I myself facilitated in April, at<br>
Ithaca's symposium on Greening the Arts - there weren't enough people, and<br>
none of them knew about or were prepared for the challenge that Open Space<br>
offers.<br>
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I really need your help to make this work - and I'd love to hear your ideas<br>
of how we can make this gathering as effective and heart-inspiring as the<br>
March '06 Open Space that sparked the vision in the first place.<br>
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Thank you - Patricia Haines, Ithaca, NY (607) 339-9472<br>
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PS: does anyone have contact information for Chris Weaver? the email I had<br>
is no longer working, and the phone on the only web presence is cut off.<br>
Thanks -<br>
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LEVEL GREEN - fostering sustainable community through collaborative<br>
initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old<br>
democratic spirit of the Danish Folk School<br>
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