Hi there Funda,
We did our third LIFT Open Space at the weekend just gone. It was
very interesting and the third of three in the area of East London
that is due for redevelopment and will be affected by the building
and change brought about by the 2012 olympics: The LIFT new
parliament is a a new travelling building that will house events/
forums and gatherings parallel to arts events and festivals. It will
be staffed with people trained from the east end who will ultimately
take it over as a legacy project.
you can see it here...
http://www.liftfest.org.uk/newparliament/
Here is a list of the issues that came up: the one called "The Boat"
was actually just a picture of a boat! The first one ended with us
all doing an African dance we had been taught by an amazing lady
called Rosamund.
The most frustrating element was trying to get local people to come
to the event and feeling that it really was for them. We averaged
about 40-50 people for each event:
We havent had our meeting about what the next steps but it was
certainly an exciting start and gave a great deal of people a new
experience of Open Space.
I lifted these reports from the LIFT website. Just the titles give
you an idea but you can further read the reports from the links and
see photos of the event,
PHelimx
Hopeful and fearful
East London is changing fast.
What part can we play in its future?
Lift would like to thank everyone who came along to our first Open
Space event at Stratford Circus on Saturday 7 October and contributed
to a great day of lively discussion and fun. Special thanks to Phelim
McDermott and the Improbable team for facilitating the day's events.
"Listening...sharing...learning..."
Open Space participant
Each discussion session was documented as it happened, and final
reports from each session were then typed up in our Newsroom.
Here is a full list of each session title, with a link to a page
which documents the issues discussed in full. You can also download a
complete PDF or Word document which includes all the final reports
from the Stratford Circus event.
Issue 1: Housing affordability and accessibility of local
infrastructure >>
Issue 2: How do artists and entrepreneurs engage in a sustainable way
with regeneration strategies? >>
Issue 3: How do we find beauty and nature in east London what with
the new buildings and development? >>
Issue 4: How do you develop non-traditional audiences? >>
Issue 5: What are 'we' hopeful for? / What are we fearful of? >>
Issue 6: 2012 - who's party is it anyway? What right do any of us
have to expect anything from it? >>
Issue 7: How will the arts be used in the regeneration of the area? >>
Issue 8: What is democracy in east London? >>
Issue 9: What is the role of poetry in the future of east London? >>
Issue 10: I live a few yards away from the Circus. How can the
change / Olympic Games affect me and my neighbours? And how can we
integrate with the community in the face of this change? >>
Issue 11: Empowering local people - how to get more out of
regeneration process >>
Issue 12: How do we stop ourselves becoming too cynical or too
excited about the Olympics >>
Issue 13: White teenage males - finding an identity >>
Issue 14: How to include east London's marginalised communities in
the rapid-change process/'future-proofing' learning. What useful
models are there? >>
Issue 15: What should east London mean to me if I am not 'from' east
London? >>
Issue 16: What will a positive artistic legacy for 2012 look like (in
east London) >>
Issue 17: Do we fear our neighbours and in the middle of all this
seriousness can we still have fun together? >>
Issue 18: If there is a performance space in public space how would
we use it? >>
Insiders and outsiders
Can we share our cultural spaces?
Lift would like to thank everyone who came along to our second Open
Space event at Ocean on Sunday 19 November and contributed to a great
day of lively discussion and fun. Special thanks to Phelim McDermott
and the Improbable team for facilitating the day's events.
"Listening to people's experiences and meeting people I wouldn't
otherwise. it was a very warm and friendly event."
Open Space participant
Each discussion session was documented as it happened, and final
reports from each session were then typed up in our Newsroom.
Here is a full list of each session title, with a link to a page
which documents the issues discussed in full. You can also download a
complete Word document which includes all the final reports from the
Ocean event.
Issue 1: Is the concept of community rooted in a physical space? >>
Issue 2: How do we signal permission to participate? >>
Issue 3: Does sharing a cultural space dilute the culture? >>
Issue 4: Why are we talking about this? >>
Issue 5: What is culture? >>
Issue 6: Is theatre elitist? >>
Issue 7: What is cultural identity? >>
Issue 8: What is Andiaha Antigha? >>
Issue 9: Shall we have swimming pools in all theatre spaces? >>
Issue 10: Is The Stage a Cultural space? >>
Issue 11: How do we talk to each other? >>
Issue 12: Is the street a shared public space? >>
Issue 13: Why is sharing scary? What does it feel like? What happens
after? >>
Issue 14: Making or consuming - what creates cultural ownership? >>
Issue 15: "Insiders/Outsiders": How are they made and unmade? >>
Issue 16: Do you need a dressing room? >>
Issue 17: How do we share our (cultural) knowledge? >>
Issue 18: How have cultural spaces been shared in the past? How can
they be shared in the future? >>
Issue 19: How can we share real reactions and in what environment?
Here and now. >>
Issue 20: What would a perfect space be like? >>
FUSION OR CONFUSION
Can culture connect us?
Lift would like to thank everyone who came along to our final Open
Space event at Rich Mix on Saturday 2 December. Special thanks to
Phelim McDermott and the Improbable team for facilitating the day's
events.
Each discussion session was documented as it happened, and final
reports from each session were then typed up in our Newsroom.
Here is a full list of each session title, with a link to a page
which documents the issues discussed in full. You can also download a
complete Word document or PDF which includes all the final reports
from the Rich Mix event.
Issue 1: Is tabloid culture poisoning minds and burning cultural
relations? >>
Issue 2: The privilege of travel >>
Issue 3: If culture can't connect us, what can? >>
Issue 4: If, or when, we have to cut carbon emissions by 90% can
culture still connect us and how? >>
Issue 5: How can we go beyond tokenistic participation and flase
democracy? >>
Issue 6: Why should we culturally connect? What are we scared of
otherwise? >>
Issue 7: The world is in such a dangerous state. Can the arts change
anything or should we only give up and get into politics? >>
Issue 8: The Boat >>
Issue 9: Community based art vs/meets high culture >>
Issue 10: Is there more to narrative than sex or death? >>
Issue 11: Culture and technology >>
Issue 12: Cultural interchange at King's Cross >>
Issue 13: List of best and worst examples of 'cultural fusion' >>
Issue 14: Can white actors play black characters/non-disabled actors
play disabled characters? >>
On 6 Dec 2006, at 22:06, owner-osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu wrote:
Hi Phelim,
Both Open Space Events sound very meaningful.
So how was the 2nd Open Space event? who has participated in the
event?
How were the discussions ? any result ?
Thanks
Funda
----- Original Message -----
From: Phelim McDermott
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 4:38 PM
Subject: Fwd: Lift News December 2006
Hi there,
Here's an update on the two open space events I'VE Been doing for
London International Festival of Theatre towards their new
Parliament building . They've created a really nice site report on
their website. There's another one tomorrow. "Can Culture connect
us?". details below.
Best wishes
Phelim
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Date: 1 December 2006 14:19:53 GMT
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Fusion or confusion: can culture connect us?
Is the street a shared public space? >>
How do we share our (cultural) knowledge? >>
Is the concept of community rooted in a physical space? >>
Should we have swimming pools in all cultural spaces? >>
These are just some of the questions raised and discussed at our
most recent Open Space event at Ocean in Hackney when we asked the
question "Insiders and outsiders: can we share our cultural
spaces?" If you have thoughts, ideas and questions you would like
to share, please join us for the last event in the series,
tomorrow, Saturday 2 December.
Just as the creative workshops we are currently facilitating with
east London residents and architecural practice AOC will inform
how the Lift New Parliament looks and operates, so too, will your
collective voice help to shape the programmes and activities
inside this new cultural space.
So, whether you're feeling fused or confused, please join us.
Saturday 2 December, 10am-7pm at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, Tower
Hamlets. In partnership with Rich Mix and Artsadmin
Tickets are £7 and £5 concession. To register, please call 020
7490 3964 or emailn...@liftfest.org.uk.
Read about the topics discussed during previous events >>
Development event at the Bank of England
The Lift New Parliament was celebrated at a special event in the
beautiful Court Room of the Bank of England on the 9 November.
Hosted by Lift chair Amelia Fawcett, the evening detailed our
exciting plans and made the invitation to a cross-sector audience
to partner in the creation of the Lift New Parliament.
As guest speaker, the Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP enthusiastically
endorsed the project; "The initial design for the Lift New
Parliament embodies Lift's innovative approach and is truly
unique. It really is an inspiring project".
Guests attended from a wide range of different organisations,
including East London Business Alliance, the BBC, Arts Council
England and London Thames Gateway Corporation. They included the
Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Stephen Dunmore, CEO of the Big Lottery
Fund, Graham Mallett of Thames Water and Bill Morris, CEO of LOCOG.
If you would like to find out how you can work with Lift to help
create the Lift New Parliament please visit our website >>
I Was There 2006
I Was There: The People's Review is a special news review show
that looks back on the stories that made the news in 2006 using
footage shot by people who were there when it happened. Those of
you who experienced The Sultan's Elephant in person or saw it on
tv will certainly remember it as one of the most newsworthy
stories of the year.
One of the schools that attended Lift's picnic for 400
schoolchildren, where each school welcomed the Sultan by giving
him a time capsule with mementos from their part of the UK, during
the Sultan's visit to London was Prudhoe Community High School
from Northumberland. Their teacher Tim Smith made a film of their
experiences that day which ITV will be using as part of their
programme recapping 2006.
Catch the screening and relive the magic of The Sultan's Elephant
through a spectator's eyes on ITV 1 on New Year's Eve at 10.00pm.
Young @ Heart Chorus
For anyone who missed the heartwarming documentary "What's Age Got
to Do with It?" about the Young @ Heart Chorus, the programme will
be screened again on More4 at 7.05pm on Saturday 2 December.
You can also vote for the show at www.channel4.com/more4 as your
favourite More4 programme you'd most like to watch again. The last
day for voting is 4 December, and you can watch the winning show
on Christmas Day at 11.35pm.
The Young @ Heart Chorus hope to have a CD of the music from Road
to Nowhere out soon. Please check www.youngatheartchorus.com for
tour dates and more info.
The Young @ Heart email inbox has been flooded with warm wishes
and kind messages since the documentary screening and Lift would
also like to thank those who have taken the time to post their
comments on our website.
Read and respond >>
Listings
A selection of non-Lift-related contemporary culture, events and
discussions taking place in and around London in December.
Festival of Central and Eastern European Arts. 10 November - 2
December.
Don't miss this year's feeast, full to the brim with the most
innovative and exciting arts from Central and Eastern Europe >>
Cirkus Cirkör & Kaleidoskop's The Mermaid. 23 Dec-7 Jan, Queen
Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre.† Plunge into a world where
circus, theatre and dance blend together in this contemporary
version of Hans Christian Andersen's classic dark fairytale.
Ticket Office 0870 160 2519 >>
These listings are paid-for advertising. Please contact each
individual organisation for more information about performances or
events.
If you would like to include a listing please email
n...@liftfest.org.uk
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