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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><font size="2"><span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">Dear all</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’m involved in a large-scale community project in Bristol,
UK, based on OS. As well as local OS events across the city, it culminates in
large (1500 people) OS event in February. I’ll put information about the project
below, if you’re interested.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">No doubt I’ll be coming to the list quite a few times over
the next months, but just now I’d really appreciate some help about…</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 39pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-style: normal;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">Whether anyone has a large event coming up (in the UK or
Europe) that might be possible for some of our project team to attend</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 39pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-style: normal;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">Whether anyone has done something like our project and is
willing to share any learning</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 21pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">And, starting to think about the process detail for the big
event (which is in a big theatre with additional breakout space in a large
modern extension so has limitations on flexibility)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 21pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 39pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-style: normal;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">We know we’re going to need masses of additional wall space
and wondering how best to achieve this - we’ve seen/heard of people using
portable stands, cardboard walls etc – what’s out there?</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 39pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-style: normal;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">What about people signing up or not signing up – what’s lost
if they don’t do this and just go to the conversations? The ‘traffic’ is going
to be a challenge, and this would be one less thing to do.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 39pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-style: normal;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">Our plan is to have separate sections of wall for the
different session times – but within this, any thoughts about whether, given
the large numbers of people, it’s best to use a grid or free-form posting using
post-its? </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 39pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-style: normal;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">Experience of using large video screen(s) so people can see
what’s going on the wall?</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 39pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-style: normal;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">Thoughts about convergence in very large events?</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 39pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-style: normal;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">Anything else that you think of that might be helpful….!</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">With many thanks in anticipation of help</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">Liz </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">Liz Martins</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="mailto:lizmartins2@gmail.com"><i>lizmartins2@gmail.com</i></a></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">+44 (0)7977 932066</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<h1><font size="2"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bristol Open Space Project - Part of EY2010: European Year for
Combating<span> </span>Poverty and Social Exclusion.</span></i></font></h1>
<h1><font size="2"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">A Better Bristol For All</span></i></font></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(36, 64, 97);"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Open Space project is part of a larger European project
(EY2010). Key aims are to give voice to those experiencing poverty and social
exclusion and also to raise awareness of how we need to work together as a
society towards equality and inclusion. Bristol’s response to EY2010 is a
series of events and projects around the whole city under the heading of
“Working Together for Positive Change”. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Open Space project,<span> </span>A Better Bristol For All, aims to support
better contact and flow of creativity between local grassroots social and
community action groups within the context of the whole of Bristol.<span> </span>Each neighbourhood is being invited to put
on an Open Space event to look at local connections and creativity and then
culminate in coming together in February 2011 in one mass open space event.
This will bring together the ideas, creativity and inspiration that has been
sparked locally, so that Bristol comes together, to be more in contact, more
creative, and move to a Better Bristol for All.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">The project starts with forming a project team of about 16
people keen to learn about facilitating OS meetings and using it in their
future work in communities. The aim is to grow ‘OS’ facilitation as a resource
for the city. Most of these people are already signed up. There’s a one-day
training in OS for them in September with more during the project.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">The flow of the project is to start with a central focus
involving key people, then out to local communities, and then back to the major
event in February. In October there’s an OS day with about 100 people from the
council and Bristol city neighbourhood partnerships, grassroots community
groups, service users etc. This event will provide the impetus for taking the
project out to the local areas. In Nov/Dec/Jan there will be 12 local
neighbourhood OS events across the city, funded by the project and facilitated
by people from the project team, working with local organisers. Then, in
February there will be the final big OS event bringing together people from
across the city who have been involved in the neighbourhood events, and others,
including from European cities twinned with Bristol.<span> </span>The key themes that come out of the project will be taken forward
and presented to local and national government. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’m holding responsibility for the OS process, with my
colleague Vivian Broughton who had the vision for the project initially. We
will be training and supporting the project team and facilitating events
ourselves or supporting project team members to do so. The logistics, budget,
PR etc and everything else are being held elsewhere, though we will be involved
where it impacts on the OS process. Vivian and I both have experience of
facilitating OS, and Vivian was at the big 2000+ event in Germany facilitated
by HO and Michael P, but we haven’t done it like this before, at such scale. We
expect to be very surprised!</span></font></p>
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