<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Fabulous!!!!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m particularly drawn to:</div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">We have spent our lives following our curiosity, trusting the unlikely, believing in the quirky, the subtle, and the irritating, giving time and space to all the improper things that are usually dismissed or discarded in a creative process. We are also all these things ourselves: improper, quirky, irritating. We are not always easy to live with.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="">Peggy<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 20, 2021, at 7:31 AM, Harrison Owen SR via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Thank you!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Harrison</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 8:05 AM Alan Halford via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Fabulous!!!!!<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">On 20 Nov 2021, at 8:42 pm, Phelim McDermott via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class="">
<div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello lovely space openers. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wanted to share something. Firstly it’s about a job advert but also about how stuff we do at Improbable has been changed by the practice of invitation. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First off I’m sure my wife Matilda won’t mind me sharing this story. She formed and co-runs an organisation called “Mothers who make” it’s an online and offline support group that grew out of one of our own open space events. It supports the idea that we need to open more space into our work and life spaces so that the the roles of both mother and maker are not separate or marginalised by the other. </div><div class="">Check it out you might want to take part. You can join from anywhere in the world. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.improbable.co.uk/job-vacancies" target="_blank" class="">https://www.improbable.co.uk/job-vacancies</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway a few years back Matilda put out a job advert for a Producer role at MWM in a traditional way. Job specs, salary, responsibility etc.. she got at most a handful of replies. So she decided to create an informal advert. An invitation. She spoke from her heart and from her passion and vulnerability with real honesty about what the job would be and what it would involve. Raw. She got 100 applicants. A real indication that it’s not just the sessions called but the original invite that need passion and responsibility to give it grip. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.improbable.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.improbable.co.uk/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So Improbable (link above) is a company that makes shows and opens space wherever we can are currently looking for a new executive director. We put out the formal job advert a few weeks ago and shortly afterwards we put out our informal invite which is below..</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please spread the word and notice that we are hoping to ensure no one should exclude themselves from the possibility of interviewing, especially if you don’t work in theatre. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes this might be you. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is the Invitation:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.improbable.co.uk/posts/executive-director-informal-job-ad" target="_blank" class="">https://www.improbable.co.uk/posts/executive-director-informal-job-ad</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s the text so you don’t have to click a link! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">“A POEM ABOUT A JOB.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An invitation to Join us. A poem about a job. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On our Gathering blog, <a href="https://www.improbable.co.uk/posts/the-gathering" target="_blank" class="">https://www.improbable.co.uk/posts/the-gathering</a></div><div class="">you may have read that we’re looking for a place to belong and to create belonging. We've been gathering clues, seeking out places, talking to people, in our quest for a home for the company. We have also just put out a call for a very particular, key collaborator - last week, we announced that Improbable is looking for a new Executive Director. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our Executive Director will, of course, be helping to take care of Improbable - what it is, what it does, what its unfolding vision is, and what it may be. However, one vital focus of this person's role will be helping to make The Gathering, our home for Improbable and our practice, happen. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can read the formal job ad here. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.improbable.co.uk/job-vacancies" target="_blank" class="">https://www.improbable.co.uk/job-vacancies</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It does what job ads have to do – it talks about tasks, responsibilities and qualifications. There is a heading called 'Person Specification' which lists things like: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Excellent written and oral communication skills</div><div class="">Excellent project management and time management skills</div><div class="">Experience of line management and excellent people skills</div><div class="">An understanding of funding systems and track record of fundraising from a variety of sources</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Etc.....</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What it doesn't and can't talk about is spirit. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Spirit Specification. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So we want to do that here. Not to list the spirit needed by the person in the Executive Director role because the specific thing about spirit is that it does not belong to anyone. It exists between people. An understanding of this is at the heart of the company's practice, that the brilliance of the work, be that an Opera, an Impro, or an Open Space event, does not lie in any one person's singular stellar performance, but in the atmosphere between the players, even amongst the audience - between all the participants, it emerges. Much like in a poem, the meaning unfolds from the combination of the words and their particular clustering, their constellation. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here then, below, is a kind of poem. A list poem. It shares something of who we are, and of our spirit.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is our 'Spirit Ad':</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are Improvisers. Performers. Directors. Writers. Artists. Facilitators. Parents. Partners. Friends.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are leaders. We are listeners. </div><div class="">We are tricksters.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have spent our lives following our curiosity, trusting the unlikely, believing in the quirky, the subtle, and the irritating, giving time and space to all the improper things that are usually dismissed or discarded in a creative process. We are also all these things ourselves: improper, quirky, irritating. We are not always easy to live with.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are often… Sad. Overwhelmed. Furious. Funny. In despair. In hope. Determined. Devoted. Disgruntled.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We believe that Improvisation can save the world. </div><div class="">We are wildly ambitious and not attached to the results. </div><div class="">We believe in the power of vulnerability.</div><div class="">We are committed to celebrating and holding space for the marginal. We mean those marginalised by race, sexuality, gender, class, (dis)ability - all of these things - and we also mean the marginalised in ourselves: the dreams, dilemmas, accidents, odd impulses, uncanny images.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are Improbable, seeking a home, and, right now, seeking a collaborator, otherwise known as an Executive Director, to help us make it all happen. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If the spirit of this speaks to you... </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you care, not only about theatre but the way in which theatre is made...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you believe grief has as much value as gold...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you believe poetry is as hard as nails...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you believe spirit has as much leverage as a plan...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you believe leaders are followers...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you believe silence is as eloquent as words, and that listening is as important as speaking…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you believe that dreams are as real as the real...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you’re happy to step out before the ground has appeared...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If there’s one thing that you know and it is that you ain’t learned nothing yet...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And, in a time of despair, if you believe the story of the artists is not over just yet...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then, maybe, you should apply for this job.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Formal invite here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.improbable.co.uk/job-vacancies" target="_blank" class="">https://www.improbable.co.uk/job-vacancies</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And, as we say when we are Opening Space - after that moment of silence when we are waiting to see whether everyone is done calling their sessions - if you are thinking maybe you should, maybe you shouldn’t, maybe you should......</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">People from diverse backgrounds, in every sense of the word, are encouraged to approach us. Unlikely, implausible and improbable applicants, are, by definition, extremely welcome. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lee, Phelim and Matilda</div></div><div class="">————————————-</div><div class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Love </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Phelim X </div><div class="">---------------------------</div><div class=""><span class="">___________________/////////////<br class=""></span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class=""></span>Sent from my iPhone</div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">OSList mailing list<br class="">To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" class="">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br class="">To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" class="">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br class="">To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br class=""><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br class="">Past archives can be viewed here: <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" class="">http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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