237 posts tagged ICA

I’ve never been to Sweden, but I’ve been outside it, hence feel more than qualified to comment on the Swedish Outsiders festival lovingly curated by No Signal. Over two days, and two venues, a diverse cross-section of that most democratic country’s experimental musicians are assembled in London; we’d

This week I took the two-day Group Facilitation course offered by ICA Associates. The first day was spent learning and practicing the Focused Conversation method. The Focused Conversation theory is that four levels need to be addressed in group conversations: the Objective, Reflective, Interpretive, and Decisional levels.

Reclaiming the World: The Future of Objectivity May 16th, 2008 If you happen to be in Canada and near Toronto next weekend, you might be interested in this conference on the nature of objectivity organised at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto: “Reclaiming the World: The Future of Objectivity,” 23-25 May 2008.

Matthew Darbyshire lives in a bubble of rich neon colours, from deep turquoises, fuchsia pinks and acid yellows. He finds this array of colours everywhere, and as he points out, so do we all.

Coops Under Threat in the EU Cooperatives Europe is spearheading a petition, addressed to the European Commission, “Hands Off our Coops! - They compete fairly”, and is encouraging members of co-operatives to sign online.

On the pubforum website, they have added the latest presentations of last Pubforum (Dublin). For your convenience the authors have made their presentations available as PowerPoint or as streaming media ...

I know, I know - I skipped Part 2! But I didn’t feel worse for wear for it. I was still able to follow everything and didn’t feel like there were pieces missing, so that was a good lesson to learn. I feel like Re-framing is one of the most important foundations of coaching, so these classes are so important.

<< Robin Rhode, Still from “Untitled, Harvest,” 2005. Digital animation. Check it out - the exhibition runs from March to Oct, 2008 at ICA Boston. Looks like a pretty interesting art exhibition. The museum itself is an interesting architecture.

Here are more pictures from the first concert of the Second Second Story Series on April 16, 1978. Well, this first picture of Carl Stone looking up to Jan Greenwald's Mobile 4 John Cage was posted before. It's still kinda cute. N ext are two shots of a rehearsal of Song for Three Clarinets by Lois Vierk (now known internationally as Lois V Vierk).

Today was supposed to be a rather happy day for me. I was going to renew my passport. It has finally been 10 years. The not so happy bit (but not the worst yet) is that now, instead of 10 years, our passports are only valid for 5. The little consolation is that they actually set the expiry date back to your old passport's.