Evolving Experiences ✨

Bringing more variety into cultural scene of Pico.

A multidisciplinary crew aiming at bringing more variety into cultural scene of Pico, by creating experiences that touch people.

The idea was seeded during Pico Summer Gathering. Evolving Experiences is a working name for now.

Now

(what we're focusing on right now)

• Exploring possibilities of managing funds without administrative hassle (looking into Open Collective as a possibility)

• Exploring a possibility of starting a cooperative

Experiences

• Slam Jam, July 2021

• Masking Around, September 2021

• Pico Autumn Gathering, September 2021 (co-created with the community)

• 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)

  • Open Collective Europe as a potential fiscal host (6% fee, terms)

• Host a fundraising event

• Sell artwork (auction?)

• 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.