Hosting Conversations about Questions that Matter
With excitement I share with you all that I will be hosting a World Cafe for a group of 75-100 educators from across British Columbia, Canada this October. This will be the first event I've hosted with a large group and it will take place in a school gymnasium/classrooms. Please share your stories with me about hosting your first large event - I would love the inspiration!
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- Comment by Chris Corrigan on August 17, 2009 at 11:38am
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Nice Jenn...
I have worked with teachers and in schools here in BC with cafes over the past few years. Gyms are good spaces, but make sure you get small tables. Be arware that th acoustics in gyms can be challenging, but I love them as spaces because they are large, flexible and public.
On a series of cafes we did in Prince George last year around opening an Aboriginal choice school, some of the school hosts had kids make up centre pieces and table clothes, which was very good too.
Good luck and have fun with it. Large events are the best...lots of juice flows!
- Comment by Robert 'Rob' Benn on August 16, 2009 at 7:25pm
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In Sundrie Alberta they converted the whole gym into a cafe atmosphere by working with local businesses to obtain potted trees, plants and patio lights - then we found 30 + small round tables
the process went really well, lots of great conversations - we then graphically recorded back their stuff but that was a bit slow and we lost some momentum - since then we handle the report back differently for groups over 50.
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