Follow the energy….Phelim..yay for clues!
Feels like you are peeking around the corner
into the future
it shall be revealed..
wayfinders all….
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Facilitating Integrative Leadership Practices
Embodying Creativity
Revealing a Presencing Approach
> On Jul 29, 2021, at 11:32, Phelim McDermott via OSList
> <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks Romy and the beautiful inspiring words are more from Matilda than me
> of course! Love to you Phelimx
>
>
>
>> On 29 Jul 2021, at 16:23, Romy Shovelton via OSList
>> <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Phelim……. Your speaking is SO inspired…… words are now flowing onto
>> paper here …. and will be with you in the coming hours/ days….
>>
>> Your home is coming….. coming home indeed…..
>>
>> with love…. 😊
>>
>> Romy
>>
>>
>> Romy Shovelton
>>
>> Executive Director
>> Wikima and the 5* Tyddyn Retreat
>> Mid Wales Venue & Holiday Cottages
>>
>>
>>> On 29 Jul 2021, at 15:15, Phelim McDermott via OSList
>>> <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Open space friends,
>>>
>>> I’m sure some of you have already seen this but I wanted to share this
>>> invitation with the Oslist from Improbable. As you know we’ve been on a big
>>> journey of invitation with our Devoted and Disgruntled events over the
>>> years and the building of a community who have used and spread the practice
>>> of opening space in the theatre world and beyond. See here if you are
>>> interested. www.devotedanddisgruntled.com
>>>
>>> We’ve been in a period of space opening as the pandemic took us into
>>> stillness and then online in the theatre world. Now it’s time to open space
>>> to come home. We’ve decided to do it through Invitation, Art and
>>> Conversation..
>>>
>>> I’m never quite sure if things copied in appear in the OS list so forgive
>>> me that I’ve included the text twice and also i’ve include the link to our
>>> website if this doesn't come through. Do let us know if you have any
>>> thoughts or straws you’d like to share.
>>>
>>> Lots of Love Phelim
>>>
>>> https://www.improbable.co.uk/posts/the-gathering
>>>
>>> <e39b00b4-af68-4c74-8b13-774299560d46.png>
>>>
>>> <500b71ae-a5c1-31cf-0df1-47c605453d6a.png>
>>>
>>>
>>> The Gathering
>>>
>>> Improbable are moving…
>>> But to where? Maybe you can help us to find out.
>>>
>>> This is an invitation to work with us on the next big Improbable project,
>>> which is taking an unprecedented form. This is surprising for a company
>>> that has explored so many diverse forms to date: we’ve done plays, operas,
>>> puppetry, panto, musicals, big outdoor spectacles, small indoor Impros.
>>> What else is left? Here’s one thing the company has never yet done: created
>>> a home.
>>>
>>> We’ve had small offices. Plenty of those. But to do the creative work we
>>> have always rented, begged, borrowed, been asked into, other peoples’
>>> spaces. And now, after twenty-five years, we want a space of our own.
>>>
>>> Not a venue. Not a ticketed theatre. An Improbable space. A playful one. A
>>> porous one. One that can welcome and hold all the roles - those with
>>> tickets and those without. A place to share the work, make the work, or
>>> take a break from the work and just hang out.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> Some of us are getting old. Older. Pushing fifty, sixty. The dream of a
>>> home is the dream of a place to house the practice, so that we can both
>>> deepen it and pass it on. If Improbable were on a hero’s journey, now would
>>> be the time for us to bring the gift back home - but we need a home to
>>> bring it home to.
>>>
>>> During the pandemic the only space we had, the office space, had to go
>>> online. We have done a huge amount of work like this - remotely - and now,
>>> as things start to re-open, if we are to move back into a real, embodied
>>> space, we want it to be a creative one. The pandemic has also made us less
>>> London-centric, so we could go, almost, anywhere. But we want to be
>>> somewhere that we want to be, and somewhere that wants to have us.
>>> Somewhere other people would want to come. So, we are thinking landscape -
>>> not inside a city but near enough to one to be within reach.
>>>
>>> But where?
>>>
>>> We do not know, but we are quite good at not knowing. If there is one thing
>>> that we have been practicing these last twenty-five years, it’s that - the
>>> art of not knowing.
>>>
>>> One thing we do, when we do not know what to do is this - we invite in all
>>> the voices, the professional, the personal, the irreverent and the
>>> seemingly irrelevant, the incidental, the marginalised, the dead and gone,
>>> the ghosts. And then we listen to them. This is how we make our shows. Put
>>> the voices and all the things they have to say, all the images they bring
>>> with them, into the middle of the room, making a strange, haphazard
>>> collection of stuff, a great pile of straw, and then we see what we can
>>> create from them, what gold we can spin from them, or - better still - we
>>> wait and see what wants to be spun. This time what we are hoping to spin is
>>> a home.
>>>
>>> And this is where you come in.
>>> Because for this project, yours is one of the voices we want to invite
>>> in....
>>>
>>> Much of Improbable’s work to date has centred around building community,
>>> whether that is the temporary community of a show - a group of performers -
>>> or the whole artistic community that comes together at our Devoted and
>>> Disgruntled Open Space events. We know we cannot do this new, home-making
>>> project alone - it is going to be a big collaboration, our biggest to date.
>>> We are not like Jack - we cannot just go and build ourselves a house. We
>>> are going to need the help of builders, farmers, estate agents, architects,
>>> entrepreneurs, ecologists, funders, artists, children, animals. Trees too.
>>> Stones. And we are going to need help at every stage, including now, at the
>>> dreaming, wondering, questioning stage.
>>>
>>> We are on a treasure hunt. We are on the look out for clues, like strands
>>> of straw, and they could come from anywhere. At the moment, Phelim’s and
>>> Matilda’s son, Riddley, is doing a project at school to build a model of a
>>> shelter, some form of dwelling. Phelim and Matilda went with him to the
>>> Weald and Downland Museum in West Sussex at the weekend and saw some old
>>> buildings- thatched roofs, wattle and daubed walls, as well as a beautiful
>>> gridshell construction, like an upturned ark - that felt like a clue.
>>>
>>> On the way back, driving in the car, they slowed down, seeing something in
>>> the road - it was an owl, perched on the ground, staring, having just
>>> killed a rabbit. It flew away with the rabbit in its claws. That felt like
>>> another clue.
>>>
>>> We don't know what any of these clues mean. We do not need to know that
>>> yet. As with a show, at present we are simply searching, gathering. We’ve
>>> been having conversations with other artists, other home-owners, inviting
>>> in different voices, collecting clues. This, now, is us widening the
>>> conversation further, to include you, whoever you are reading this, however
>>> you have or haven’t engaged with Improbable till now. Because you might
>>> have a clue. It could be a place you know which you love that you want to
>>> tell us about. It could be a memory you have from a show we once did. It
>>> could be a dream. It could be a photo. It could be a book. It could be you
>>> - you could be a clue.
>>>
>>> Imagine we are all sitting in a circle, a growing circle, like at an Open
>>> Space event, like every show we have ever made has started. If you have any
>>> clues, any strands of straw you wish to add to the pile in the middle
>>> please do - leave a comment on our website, or get in touch - email
>>> off...@improbable.co.uk. We need all the straw we can get - we have a big
>>> dream, a whole home to build.
>>>
>>> Phelim, Lee, Matilda
>>> July 2021
>>>
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>>> The Gathering
>>>
>>> Improbable are moving…
>>> But to where? Maybe you can help us to find out.
>>>
>>> This is an invitation to work with us on the next big Improbable project,
>>> which is taking an unprecedented form. This is surprising for a company
>>> that has explored so many diverse forms to date: we’ve done plays, operas,
>>> puppetry, panto, musicals, big outdoor spectacles, small indoor Impros.
>>> What else is left? Here’s one thing the company has never yet done: created
>>> a home.
>>>
>>> We’ve had small offices. Plenty of those. But to do the creative work we
>>> have always rented, begged, borrowed, been asked into, other peoples’
>>> spaces. And now, after twenty-five years, we want a space of our own.
>>>
>>> Not a venue. Not a ticketed theatre. An Improbable space. A playful one. A
>>> porous one. One that can welcome and hold all the roles - those with
>>> tickets and those without. A place to share the work, make the work, or
>>> take a break from the work and just hang out.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> Some of us are getting old. Older. Pushing fifty, sixty. The dream of a
>>> home is the dream of a place to house the practice, so that we can both
>>> deepen it and pass it on. If Improbable were on a hero’s journey, now would
>>> be the time for us to bring the gift back home - but we need a home to
>>> bring it home to.
>>>
>>> During the pandemic the only space we had, the office space, had to go
>>> online. We have done a huge amount of work like this - remotely - and now,
>>> as things start to re-open, if we are to move back into a real, embodied
>>> space, we want it to be a creative one. The pandemic has also made us less
>>> London-centric, so we could go, almost, anywhere. But we want to be
>>> somewhere that we want to be, and somewhere that wants to have us.
>>> Somewhere other people would want to come. So, we are thinking landscape -
>>> not inside a city but near enough to one to be within reach.
>>>
>>> But where?
>>>
>>> We do not know, but we are quite good at not knowing. If there is one thing
>>> that we have been practicing these last twenty-five years, it’s that - the
>>> art of not knowing.
>>>
>>> One thing we do, when we do not know what to do is this - we invite in all
>>> the voices, the professional, the personal, the irreverent and the
>>> seemingly irrelevant, the incidental, the marginalised, the dead and gone,
>>> the ghosts. And then we listen to them. This is how we make our shows. Put
>>> the voices and all the things they have to say, all the images they bring
>>> with them, into the middle of the room, making a strange, haphazard
>>> collection of stuff, a great pile of straw, and then we see what we can
>>> create from them, what gold we can spin from them, or - better still - we
>>> wait and see what wants to be spun. This time what we are hoping to spin is
>>> a home.
>>>
>>> And this is where you come in.
>>> Because for this project, yours is one of the voices we want to invite
>>> in....
>>>
>>> Much of Improbable’s work to date has centred around building community,
>>> whether that is the temporary community of a show - a group of performers -
>>> or the whole artistic community that comes together at our Devoted and
>>> Disgruntled Open Space events. We know we cannot do this new, home-making
>>> project alone - it is going to be a big collaboration, our biggest to date.
>>> We are not like Jack - we cannot just go and build ourselves a house. We
>>> are going to need the help of builders, farmers, estate agents, architects,
>>> entrepreneurs, ecologists, funders, artists, children, animals. Trees too.
>>> Stones. And we are going to need help at every stage, including now, at the
>>> dreaming, wondering, questioning stage.
>>>
>>> We are on a treasure hunt. We are on the look out for clues, like strands
>>> of straw, and they could come from anywhere. At the moment, Phelim’s and
>>> Matilda’s son, Riddley, is doing a project at school to build a model of a
>>> shelter, some form of dwelling. Phelim and Matilda went with him to the
>>> Weald and Downland Museum in West Sussex at the weekend and saw some old
>>> buildings- thatched roofs, wattle and daubed walls, as well as a beautiful
>>> gridshell construction, like an upturned ark - that felt like a clue.
>>>
>>> On the way back, driving in the car, they slowed down, seeing something in
>>> the road - it was an owl, perched on the ground, staring, having just
>>> killed a rabbit. It flew away with the rabbit in its claws. That felt like
>>> another clue.
>>>
>>> We don't know what any of these clues mean. We do not need to know that
>>> yet. As with a show, at present we are simply searching, gathering. We’ve
>>> been having conversations with other artists, other home-owners, inviting
>>> in different voices, collecting clues. This, now, is us widening the
>>> conversation further, to include you, whoever you are reading this, however
>>> you have or haven’t engaged with Improbable till now. Because you might
>>> have a clue. It could be a place you know which you love that you want to
>>> tell us about. It could be a memory you have from a show we once did. It
>>> could be a dream. It could be a photo. It could be a book. It could be you
>>> - you could be a clue.
>>>
>>> Imagine we are all sitting in a circle, a growing circle, like at an Open
>>> Space event, like every show we have ever made has started. If you have any
>>> clues, any strands of straw you wish to add to the pile in the middle
>>> please do - leave a comment on our website, or get in touch - email
>>> off...@improbable.co.uk. We need all the straw we can get - we have a big
>>> dream, a whole home to build.
>>>
>>> Phelim, Lee, Matilda
>>> July 2021
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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