<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Friends,<div><br></div><div>When I first experienced open space I remember siting similarities between an open space event and the Edinburgh festival the biggest open space theatre event in the world. Over the years the festival has continued and of course has had varying degrees of open and closed space as big business around shows and comedy moves in. This year Improbable held an open space at the Forest fringe over two days. An amazing venue that reanimates the spirit of the original fringe with its open schedule of free performances and not charging its performers any hire fees. </div><div><br></div><div>The event was exciting with great discussions about how to keep the spirit of that venue going and sustainability but also as we saw our own OS include performance as double bookings meant great discussions were happening whilst performance was happening in the same space! </div><div><br></div><div>At the end of the festival we were invited to the Total theatre awards and were presented with a "Significant Contribution award" The award is for taking work into interesting areas however specifically mentions our work with Open Space and our Devoted and Disgruntled events which have contributed to supporting theatre artists.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; line-height: 15px; "><i>"Their use of open space and the introduction of "Devoted and Disgruntled: What are we doing about theatre" over the past four years has empowered artists and theatre makers to address challenges facing the sector. They have collectively shown a determined effort to reflect on and change the world of theatre making and the world in which theatre is made."</i></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Hurrah! We Also secured the finishing touches to the connections which means we will be definitely doing a Devoted and Disgruntled in NYC this coming January. Our big two day open space is about to cross the pond and will be happening midtown. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Exciting..</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Phelim </span></font></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><br></div></body></html>*
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