The Community Council Game & Jam Session, December 2021
Below are the notes from our first meeting.
Intentions
Create events / experiences with a purpose deeper than just hanging out.
Use art as a "magnet" to bring awareness to important issues we're passionate about.
Create memorable spaces (locations), which play an active role in co-creating experiences.
Experiment with new, unexpected experience formats, create something people haven't seen before, keep evolving.
Experiment with new ways of relating to each other.
Include reflective spaces during experiences, to process, discuss and integrate the experience and its topic (equivalent to Shavasana in Yoga).
Gradually improve The Globe, as we keep using that space for hosting various events.
Use nature to set up temporary spaces for experiences.
Explore possibilities of bringing income to fund our activities, and potentially make it a part-time(?) job for (some?) crew members.
Context
Keep the work as flexible as possible.
Little meetings, more async work.
Show up on the day and set it up.
Evenings are usually the best times for all of us to be present.
Ideas
(Work in progress)
Topics / Issues
Animals
Rising consciousness
Community life
Covid (particularly interesting if we bring people with fundamentally different opinions)
Making Pico the best place to live on Earth
Experiences
Audio-visual theatre
Mute event
Walking disco
Play reading
Varieté
Music improvised to movement (rather that the other way around)
Dance Party (with a bar vibe)
Improv
Films / Projections
Art exhibition
Festival (multiday event)
Costume party
Money
Explore Open Collective as a way to manage funds with very little admin work. If not possible, then perhaps start an association (or other legal structure).
Michal in conversation with Alina from Open Collective (documentation of OO)
Host special experiences (eg. birthdays, weddings) as a service
Find patrons of the arts excited about supporting our work financially
Format
Have two spaces during events (eg. main space + fire) to allow people to move freely and choose the energy they need.
Experiment with no alcohol / no drugs / no food during experiences. Make a clear and explicit invitation. Make space for events with substances, as both can co-exist peacefully.
Separate our experiences from the regular Jam Sessions (even if the hosting team might be partially the same).
Spaces
The Globe
Nature (eg. caves, dry rivers, forest, beach...)
Team
Annia: event planning, organising, hosting, acting
Austeja: space design, idea generation, performance,
Jess: space design, space setup, tech, music
Michal: big picture, directing, hosting, performance, documenting
Next Steps
Anyone from the team to put an event proposal to the crew.