<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_3778932199175434203gmail-docs-internal-guid-28392778-7fff-cf47-51d9-411880953beb"><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">We ask that you let us know today if you have facilitation ideas for the upcoming Ontario Regional Contact Jam. Drafts welcome. If not you, perhaps suggest someone else. (Also: Registration fees go up in less than two weeks.)<br></p><p style="text-align:left;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2019 ORCJ Call for Proposals</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NEW THEME:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">‘Let us Play: Shaping Community, Celebrating Consent’</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday, April 19 to Sunday, April 21, 2019</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Canada’s National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis St, Toronto, ON</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="m_3778932199175434203gmail-docs-internal-guid-4abd7a23-7fff-5361-29b7-502f0616a609"><br></b></p>Are you interested in teaching a workshop that will help us to find elasticity and playfulness in the areas of community and consent? How could your idea provide a different kind of environment, a laboratory, where individual learning experiences come together in a shared way?<br><br></span><div><span>Some jumping off points:<br><ul><li>Play with gender roles in the dance. Dance with someone in your own gender, then swap, then swap again, etc.<br></li><li>Find a partner. How can this not feel like the Farmer in the Dell? Or a call to torture?<br></li><li>Power dynamics. Who lifts who (big/small, strong/weak, s/he)? Who asks who?<br></li><li>What would a ‘completely safe’ dance look/feel like? Would anyone come?<br></li><li>What would an ‘anything goes’ dance look/feel like? Would anyone come?<br></li><li>What are the elements of risk? What are the elements of play? How can we integrate these? And should we?<br></li></ul></span></div><div>If you have an idea inspired by something you’ve read above or a completely different idea related to the theme, please submit your proposal (1 page max) to <a href="mailto:laurie@lauriejdavis.ca" target="_blank">laurie@lauriejdavis.ca</a> and <a href="mailto:celiajanemcbride@gmail.com" target="_blank">celiajanemcbride@gmail.com</a> by January 18, 2019 with the following information:<br></div><div><span><ul><li>Who are you? What is your teaching/facilitating/leadership experience? What is your CI experience?</li><li>What is your idea and how does it relate to ‘playing with community and consent’? How will you execute your idea? Do you want a 60, 90 or 120-minute class? Or do you care?</li><li>Would you be prepared to repeat the class at another time during the weekend?</li><li>Two references. Who can we talk to about your teaching style?</li><li>Anything else you think we need to know.<br></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><br></p><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="108"><col width="347"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="vertical-align:top">Website:</td><td style="vertical-align:top"><a href="http://contactimprov.ca/orcj" target="_blank">contactimprov.ca/orcj</a></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="vertical-align:top">Facebook:</td><td style="vertical-align:top"><a href="http://facebook.com/events/1805418556421355" target="_blank">facebook.com/events/1805418556421355</a></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="vertical-align:top">Registration:</td><td style="vertical-align:top"><a href="http://orcj.yapsody.com" target="_blank">orcj.yapsody.com</a></td></tr><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="vertical-align:top">Email:</td><td style="vertical-align:top"><a href="mailto:ontjam@contactimprov.ca" target="_blank">ontjam@contactimprov.ca</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br></div><div style="margin-left:0pt">Just reply and ask to unsubscribe if you don't want any more announcements about the Ontario Regional Contact Jam. Thanks!</div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><br></p></span></div></div>
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