Combining the Creative Arts with World Cafe

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Comment by Hala Makarem on October 10, 2010 at 10:45pm

I share with you a recent experience of using the World Cafe dialogue to co-create a physical space while the place is still under restoration. The purpose is to bring the community into the process from the initiation phase, opening the space with a trusting invitation. The dialogue centred the gathering. The harvest of the dialogue was then seeded into a Circle conversation amongst a group of artists of different backgrounds and experiences to transform the gathered insights into an reflective artistic Wall Mural. The group collectively collaborated to bring meaning into the space using dialogue, artistic skills, movement and creative expression. You can read more about this and see photos in the recent two blogs here.

Comment by Tom Genovese on October 10, 2010 at 11:49am

Thank you for this group. Last April, I hosted a World Cafe in the Florida Keys on the question of "What would a sustainable Florida Keys look like?". I invited the participants to imagine that they were in an art gallery and saw a large framed painting on the wall with a title plate that read " A Sustainable Florida Keys". I asked them to describe what was in the picture. We went through 3 rounds plus a harvesting session, and got some really interest raw input. The participants loved the World Cafe process. I've been invited to help plan another Cafe to build on the April Cafe. I would really like to incorporate the art of story to bring the elements of the static picture created in April to life. My ideas on how to incorporate story into the conversations are pretty rudimentary at the moment but I am inspired by the enthusiasm for the process at the April Cafe and my recent reading of "Storycatcher" by Christina Baldwin and my current reading of "Resonate" by Nancy Duarte. I would love to hear any experiences with the use of story in a World Cafe or for someone to point me to useful references.

Comment by ve on October 5, 2010 at 6:19pm

I am part of a Race Relations committee in my city and we have had two world cafe sessions to discuss race. At our most recent event, we started with a short readers theater piece called, "Gray Matter," sponsored by a local theatre group. Participants shared in their evaluations that this 10 minute opener provided a good path to conversation. The two actors showed how racial tension is played out, which led to table talks of how people related to what they saw and heard. I would highly recommend it.

Comment by Jane Hughes Gignoux on October 5, 2010 at 6:16pm

For the past two years an initiative I founded, TreeFriends: Using the Arts to Transform Our Relationship to the Natural World, has been incorporating World Cafe in our gatherings here in New York City. Typically we have art, music, dance and poetry that inspire and inform the WC that follows. See our 5 min. video www.coalitionforonevoice.org

Comment by Sornchai Chatwiriyachai on October 5, 2010 at 5:45pm

Thanks for creating the shared space to talk about this topic.

I believe the picture above have been taken from Jana Sanskriti's work, a group of social activists and a theatre group in india. They have used Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed to invoke conversation from participants very effectively.

I'm working on that kind of participatory theatre in Thailand. Still learning more things. I frequently use an adaptation of World Cafe' in my group works. Talk more later.

Comment by Gerard McNeil on October 5, 2010 at 5:06pm

This is very exciting, the fusion of the creative arts with the world cafe. I am not sure if anyone in the group saw my posting about the Art Engage Symposium where I facilitated what I called the World Studio a visual arts based version of the World Cafe. Check out my blog site for images http://visual-connections.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html.

Comment by juanita brown on September 26, 2010 at 7:05pm

Hi Jasmine,
Benjamin tells me you went to Re-Work the World at the Tallberg Foundation. I'd love to hear more about your experiences there as we were there two years ago or so...Might we set up a skype call for reflections? AND, I'm delighted that you are hosting this group as I think it is at the leading edge of World Cafe learning and practice.
With fond regards,
Juanita

Comment by Tanja Tuulia Korvenmaa on September 17, 2010 at 4:03pm

Hi Jasmine, thank you from this invitation and space! Hi Benj, hi everybody, glad to be here with you :)

Comment by Benjamin Aaron Degenhart on September 14, 2010 at 4:02pm

thank you for creating this space Jasmine, my sense is that there will be a lot of good and meaningful energy accumulating around this attractor.
here is a strong invitation to open the portals for consciousness... wider than ever: http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_cameron_tedxyyc.html

Comment by Jasmine Cargill on September 11, 2010 at 7:18am

This group came from a conversation with the same name posted here: http://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/forum/topics/combining-the-creative-arts?xg_source=activity

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