Re: [OSList] Who has facilitated at least 7 OST events?/lurking (lurkery?)

2014-12-19 Thread Stella Duffy via OSList
Hey. I¹ve facilitated many dozens of Open Spaces in meetings and rehearsals and MAYBE ten where someone has given me money to facilitate (as if that were my job). (it isn¹t my job.) I¹m not sure I understood the Œrules¹ so may be replying in the wrong thread. (whoever replies is in the right thread

[OSList] Making theatre/arts in Open Space

2013-10-14 Thread Stella Duffy
Here¹s an ³Open Space² evaluation to the Arts Council England, about an arts project made entirely in OS. We (Chaosbabies) thought you (us) might find it interesting. We tried to find way to respond to ACE¹s need for us to a) tick boxes AND b) be as Œdifferent¹ as we¹d promised in our Open-Space-wr

[OSList] Open Space theatre-making evaluation

2013-10-10 Thread Stella Duffy
Hello all, Those of you using Open Space in the arts (and elsewhere perhaps) might like to have a look here : http://www.chaosbabyproject.co.uk/keeping-it-open/ Having worked on The Chaosbaby in Open Space, from the beginning of calling it as a session at Improbable¹s devoted and Disgruntled OS i

[OSList] Falling back on Open Space

2012-11-10 Thread Stella Duffy
Here¹s a link to my blog (written today) about falling back on/into/forward with Open Space, specifically in making theatre work (in this case), when everything else is falling apart ... http://stelladuffy.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/making-theatre-in-open-space-liv ing-the-five-principles/ I¹m very

Re: [OSList] OSList Digest, Vol 19, Issue 5

2012-09-07 Thread Stella Duffy
Oh, I LOVE the idea of a three person Open Space. Sent from my iPad On 7 Sep 2012, at 21:06, oslist-requ...@lists.openspacetech.org wrote: > exhilarating. ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: [OSList] WOSNOS, Children and sharing

2012-08-28 Thread Stella Duffy
I¹m not organising it either, nor do I have children, but I have attended all the large-scale D&D Open Spaces that Improbable have organised and have seen that over the years more people have brought their children, they have been welcomed (from babies to teenagers), and their presence in that spac

Re: [OSList] debut in NZ

2012-06-10 Thread Stella Duffy
Wow, that¹s so exciting. I have long said (here in London) that Open Space reminds me of various hui I attended in NZ in the 80s. It¹s a joy to think of the Open Space spreading throughout Aotearoa from the (literal) top (of the land) down. Congratulations. Stella x On 10/06/2012 08:40, "Kerry

Re: [OSList] Sharing about making work in Open Space

2012-05-29 Thread Stella Duffy
> Suzanne > > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Stella Duffy wrote: >> For the past two years, since the Improbable-hosted Devoted & Disgruntled in >> 2010, I¹ve been convening a group of writers, directors, artists, actors, >> musicians, performers (approx 60 in a

Re: [OSList] Sharing about making work in Open Space

2012-05-29 Thread Stella Duffy
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[OSList] Sharing about making work in Open Space

2012-05-28 Thread Stella Duffy
a vindication of our choice to work entirely in OS. And it started at D&D. Thank you community, Stella Duffy ___ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech

Re: [OSList] An open space birth

2012-01-20 Thread Stella Duffy
In tears, impressed, proud, (also, actually, relieved ­ truly, kind of what I would expect from both ­ three ­ of you. Doing what you do.) can¹t wait for you to come to this home so we can welcome you back to Brixton. Stella xx On 20/01/2012 00:49, "Phelim McDermott" wrote: > Dear open space fr

Re: [OSList] New video - New Women For New Egypt

2011-12-22 Thread Stella Duffy
Oh that is SO exciting!!! Congratulations and thank you so much for sharing. Stella x On 22/12/2011 12:32, "Eslam Erman" wrote: > > Hello Everyone :) > > I have just finished uploading a new video of open space event held at > Ismailia-Egypt "New Women For New Egypt" which was facilitated b

Re: [OSList] having children in the open space

2011-11-17 Thread Stella Duffy
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[OSList] having children in the open space

2011-11-17 Thread Stella Duffy
As I said earlier this week, I¹ve been directing a devised theatre piece, in Open Space. When the daughter (aged 6) of one of our designers came to rehearsal (there was no other childcare available for her, but it¹s def not a kid¹s show), she got on with her own things, watched us for a bit, and th

[OSList] An event on making theatre in Open Space

2011-11-11 Thread Stella Duffy
Inviting any London-based or London-near Open Space practitioners to a post-show discussion at Ovalhouse Theatre this coming Wednesday 16th. http://www.ovalhouse.com/whatson/detail/taniwhathames For the past 6 months, and full-time for the past two weeks, I¹ve been directing a show for theatre comp

[OSList] Re : The 5th Principle - Why I think it is Important (Harrison Owen)

2011-05-30 Thread Stella Duffy
The 5th Principle is not only important, it¹s vital. In 1905, Hermann Minkowski, a mathematical physicist (who taught Einstein) realised that the understanding of time needed space to define it, and that the understanding of space needed time to define it. He created the concept of spacetime ­ the

Re: Ralph Copleman

2011-01-07 Thread Stella Duffy
Harrison, I¹m sorry for the loss of your friend. When the ³Everything is Moving² piece was reposted last year, I believe I mentioned the phrase had come up in a conversation I¹d had with a physicist re a story I was writing, a commission to write about an actual moment in physics history, & I was

making 'traditional' theatre using OST

2010-09-27 Thread Stella Duffy
hello all, I've shared here before about editing a novel using OST, and am now in the middle of a rehearsal process on a 'traditional' (ie scripted, by a writer, before rehearsals start!) play - from our first day of rehearsals we've been working in OS. Having done so most recently with Improbable

Re: Everything is Moving: An Invitation to Join the flow (longish)

2010-08-26 Thread Stella Duffy
Happily heading for bed before a weekend in Paris, loving that the space is open all through (my) night. Stella x On 26/8/10 11:34 pm, "Suzanne Daigle" wrote: > Harrison, > > I accept the blame gladly if chiding you for being quiet led to this. > Salutations to Ralph who inspired the "everyth

Re: Everything is Moving: An Invitation to Join the flow (longish)

2010-08-23 Thread Stella Duffy
Thank you Harrison. I have been struggling for some time with a short story commission bringing Œeureka¹ science moments together with fiction, the one I¹m working on being Minkowski¹s understanding (rather than an actual eureka moment) that brought time together with the 3 dimensions of space, mak

Re: Scientists in Open Space

2010-08-05 Thread Stella Duffy
Hi Suzanne, This week I had lunch with a scientist (particle physicist) who is helping me research a short story commission. We were talking about what he does (work on the Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland for the past two years, teaching graduate particle physics in Manchester) and what I d

Re: making theatre in Open Space

2010-07-16 Thread Stella Duffy
Harrison, yes!, having 'improvised' all my first drafts, I've also allowed the book to write me (aka 'story will out'), and the one time I did plan a novel it ended up being so radically different to the plan it was a different book, but never wanting to wait on a 'muse' has meant I have also pushe

Re: making theatre in Open Space

2010-07-15 Thread Stella Duffy
sketches. > The thesis ended up being far too long and I had to cut it in half > (several times over the many months of writing) and that section was > left on the cutting room floor. > But the process lifted me out of one of my 'sloughs of writing > despond' and got me goi

making theatre in Open Space

2010-07-15 Thread Stella Duffy
h you the report I returned to the National Theatre Studio who generously gave 30+ of us the space to work on this new project in OS. I'd be very interested in hearing from anyone else who has used OS for writing or where it's been used for making/devising theatre work. best wishes, Stella Du