Saturday, September 11^th 2010

UNO – CPACS building, Creative Commons

1:00pm – 4:30pm

don't have $30? no worries, just show up!

http://theplusoneproject.eventbrite.com

part story-telling + part listening + part creating the future

Each of us has a story to tell and each of our stories has value.  the plus one project: a creative approach to building community between now and 9.11.11, is an interactive workshop focused on this idea.  Taking place nine years after the galvanizing events of September 11^th, 2001, its central theme is the addition of each of our voices, stories and actions to the process of creating a community that works for all.

As we approach the ten year anniversary of what we refer to simply as “911”, we have a powerful opportunity to use this global context to re-consider the idea of community on a very local, very personal level.

Where were you then? Where are you now? What has changed? What does this mean for the future?  What does community mean to you? How do we create community?

By answering questions like these with our own stories, we will explore the concept of community, and think together about how we might more deliberately and actively architect  community between now and 9.11.11.

This afternoon session will keep us all moving and thinking.  It will provide all of us with an opportunity to share both our differences and similarities.  We will rub our brains and hearts together in a consideration of what kind of community we want and how we can each play a role in bringing that to life.

Whoever we are and whatever we do, community matters, and storytelling is an integral part of how we understand, define and create community.  In addition to sharing stories, we will examine the acts of inviting, witnessing and telling as deliberate and intentional ways of creating community.

This conversation is a call to add our voices, stories and actions to the process of creating community between now and 9.11.11.

questions?

e-mail: joe.gerstandt@gmail.com