Correction to that last message: The Access Queen Fund was able to provide support funding for… Six “Askers” in 2002 and six in 2003! Thanks again to all, LisAccessQueen ________________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA +01 510 548-8449 lisah...@pacbell.net -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Lisa Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 3:35 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Access Queen Thanks You All... (long) Hello, dear colleagues – Now that I’ve returned home and settled, I wanted to share with you a post- OSonOS “Swenmark” report – the story of how some of you bravely and with faith asked for support to get to this year’s OSonOS, and how some others of you creatively and generously offered your resources to actualize their dreams. [a little disclaimer here – please forgive me if I’ve spelled your name wrong or made a little error below – there were so many names and faces to learn at once in Swenmark, though I’ll never forget your personalities, faces, generosity and energy…!] - - - A little background - - - As many of you know, Access Queen is a way to raise funds for people who wish to get physically to one of our annual global gatherings. I think of the Access Queen fund as similar to the folktale, “Stone Soup”, where a traveler comes to a small village and creates an amazing soup with just a ‘magical’ stone and some water. He does this by inviting the townspeople to each contribute a little bit of something — a potato, a carrot, some chicken. The money that you contribute to does not provide all the money for these traveler-askers –just that little bit that makes the difference – such as pocket money for someone where the value of currency at the OSonOS site is much higher than their own home currency. Access Queen also raises *resources* by sharing who needs and who has – such as frequent flyer miles, homestays at the OSonOS location, or a someone who can buy accommodation for two and share it with an Asker for free. The Access Queen Fund was able to provide resources and a bit of support money to 6 “Askers” at OSonOSinOZ 2003. Pretty good for it’s first year, eh? thanks to many generous people. - - - Since OSonOSinOZ 2002 - - - This year *before* OSonOS the “AQFund” already had in it some money raised by Alan Stewart (Australia)’s sales of his book at the 2002 OSonOSinOZ Global Village Marketplace tables (this is where OSonOSers bring art, books, poetry and more from their homelands to sell to raise money at the OSonOS for their own travel costs and/or for the Access Queen Fund). Later during this year the AQFund received thoughtful and generous contributions from Open Space Institutes of Australia and Canada, donations from the sale of Kerry Napuk and Eddie Palmer (Scotland)’s new book, contributions from delightful Ashley Cooper (US) and from the sale of Florian Fisher (Germany)’s poetry. - - - At OSonOS Swenmark 2003 - - - *At* OSonOS (Swenmark) we had our Third Annual Global Village Marketplace, which had everything in it from ornamental eggs to poetry. We also had our First Annual Silent Auction – where OSonOSers brought handmade items like Michelle Cooper (Canada)’s hand-made book cover and Judi Richardson(Canada)’s hand-knitted teddie bears, home-made Turkish music cds (Nuran’s husband Halil, Germany), videos and cds donated by the Open Space Institute of US, Mikk Sarv’s Estonian cranberry wine, our Haitian colleagues’ work-in-progress of an upcoming video on Open Space and discussion circles in Haiti, home-cooked items, jewelry, poetry, services and more – and whomever over two days offered the highest amount of money ‘won’ the item and contributed the amount to the Access Queen Fund. Thank you for your ‘winning’ bids Antti-Juhani Wihuri (Finland), Inge Stuck Jorgensen (Denmark), Koos de Heer (The Netherlands), Hannah Himan Pessah (Israel), Erich Kolenaty (Austria), Rob Chappell (England) and Marianne Matsgard (Sweden), among other generous souls (and if I’ve missed anyone from my hastily hand-written notes just name yourselves so we can thank you! Wonderful people like Gail West (Taiwan), Eva Swensson and Agneta Falk (Sweden) just pressed money and items into my hand for the Fund. And even more amazing and creative things rose out of all that energy – Alexander Schilling gave capoeira lessons (a Brazilian mix of martial arts, acrobatics and dance), Koos gave massages, Jessica Nilsson (Sweden) gave salsa dance lessons, and Agneta Setterwal (Sweden) even found a ring and when it wasn’t claimed bought it to raise money for the AQFund! - - - Who the Access Queen Fund was able to help - - - With all this support and nutrition, dreams and resources this year’s AQ fund helped 6 people with just the extra funding they needed to get to “Swenmark”, lower-income individuals from US, Germany, Canada, Sweden and Demark! Total raised pre- and during OSonOS Swenmark for AQFund was $1,778 US which equals (in honor of where we’ve been and where we will be next year): €1,778 ± 13,197 Danish Kroner ± 16,207 Swedish Kronor ± 88,409 Indian Rupees - - - Seed money for OSonOS Goa 2004 - - - After income and expenses, 2004 OSonOS Goa AQ Fund has a grand total remaining of $430 US equals €430 ± 2,934 DK ± 3,605 SK ± 19,672 Indian Rupees …in the Fund for Askers hoping to go to Goa! - - - So: What comes next - - -- It’s going to take the same kind of energy and creativity to build the AQ Fund for Goa. I am sure that some of you are starting to count your rupees now to build your own funds. Now is the time to set your intention – that’s part of the way to achieve your dreams, as Marei (Germany), Inge and others did in the center of our closing circle in Swenmark, saying “I’ll see you in Goa!”. If you sell anything; if you have frequent flyer miles building up; if you are funded by healthy funding sources such as a business or a rich, rich lover… ;o) Feel f-r-e-e to send money to the AQ Fund at any time from now to Goa. Contact me directly regarding this. If you are in touch with organizations which can provide resources (plane flights or funding) please contact them directly and raise some money for Askers in your own marvelous ways. Or do as our colleagues Jessie Yen Ju Skian and and Shu-Fang Tsai are doing in Taiwan – start a regional Access Queen Fund and tell us how it goes! Whether electronically or in-person, our support is shared and it is felt in very real terms, as you know. Whether next year you are in Raleigh, North Carolina or in Goa, India or in front of your computer in your own home town, I’ll ‘see’ you in Goa. Thank you so much for your generous, creative, brave and spirited selves, Lisa (also known as Access Queen) ________________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA +01 510 548-8449 lisah...@pacbell.net * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
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