Rick kindly allowed me to post the following festival announcement to this
list.
The 1998 IDRIART festival 'ARTS IN BUSINESS' at Borl Castle in Slovenia
was a great succes with contributions from artists, businessleaders,
politicians, trainers and consultants from all over the world. Therefor
we are happy to announce the 1999 festival:
***ART AS A TRANSFORMATIVE INSPIRATION IN BUSINESS LIFE AND COMMUNITY***
More indepth information about this IDRIART festival can also be found here:
<http://www.universal.nl/users/winfried/idriart.html>
CREATING THE FUTURE is not simply a process of linear thinking and the
repetition of traditional patterns of action. Art can show us the
underlying principles of renewal and change. Art can show us how to extend
our personal perceptions and to create a fundamental ways of recognizing
the growing complexities of a world dominated by specialization and
technology. And it can show us how to transform them.
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ART AS A TRANSFORMATIVE INSPIRATION IN BUSINESS LIFE AND COMMUNITY
"In search for the right question at the right time" IDRIART* Festival
CASTLE BORL, SLOVENIA, JULY15-18, 1999, with optional continuation in
DUBROVNIK & SOUTH ADRIATIC ISLANDS, CROATIA, JULY 19-24
Join us in the magnificent ancient castle Borl in the heart of Europe, the
castle whose roots touch the historic reality of legendary knight
Parsifal`s family and the search for the Grail. The essence of Parsifal`s
life long striving was to learn to ask the right question at the right
time!
Join us in a celebration meeting of artists, business leaders and inspired
young professionals and students, who are looking for ways to channel
their passions and unique talents into the most effective work for a more
compassionate world. FAMILIES are welcome, [there will be program for
children at minimal extra cost.]
Join in the ranks of a symphony orchestra and allow Miha Pogacnik to guide
us through the story of musical transformation as it unfolds around you.
[Yes! You will be sitting AMONG musicians for truly experiencing exciting
unfolding of masterpiece] Pursue old desires to paint, sing, dance,
improvise, act, aikido, engage in imaginative storytelling
between a variety of artistic workshops that will challenge you to use
other domains of your Self, and challenge us all with a question how to
"translate" this experience to the needs of our daily work ! We will be
utilizing the Open Space and World Cafi methods for our dialogue which
will enable each participant to bring the specific issues and challenges
to the table and work with others who share interests and needs.
Currently people have expressed interest around the issue of Y2K, around
bringing the spirit to work, around bringing life into our organizational
processes, improving educational environment and about sustainability.
Here are some friends of IDRIART who are joining us: Margaret Wheatley,
Myron Kellner Rogers, Sir Ernest Hall, Donna Gianoulis, Charlotte Roberts,
Marianne Knuth and "Pioneers Of Change", Miha Pogacnik, Yvon Bastien of
Sanofi, Carol Pearson, Ged Davis of Shell, Csaba Onczay-cellist, Budapest,
Marcello Palazzi of Progressio Foundation, Marc Luyckx-EU Commission,
Winfried Deijmann, Elisabeth Roberts, Douglas Carmichael, Oswald Voelter,
Juergen Beyer, Jonas Kjellstrand of Skandia, Martin Fischer of Kings Fund,
Edward Posey of Gaia Foundation, Alex Knight of Ashridge, Ko Henneman of
Origin, James Fearnley of Materiamedica, Rose Theatre, UK, and you will
experience a LABIRYNTH created for this occasion in Borl. List will be
updated.
HOW TO GET TO BORL : Best is to fly to Graz/ Austria or Zagreb/ Croatia
[Zagreb especially if you continue with us to Dubrovnik after Borl]
Shuttle from airports to Borl will be arranged on share cost basis. Train
arrives to Ptuj, 12 KM from Borl. If you search for Borl, look for the
place where 16th Meridian crosses river Drava.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST :Participation fee is $250, students $100, reduction
for families available. This does not include food and lodging. Hotels in
Borl area are relatively inexpensive, about $ 40 per person a day. Other
less expensive arrangements, including camping at the castle, are
possible.
HOW DO I REGISTER AND GET MORE INFORMATION :
Please transfer before 31st May $250 participation fee to:
IDRIART Deutschland,
DEUTSCHE BANK, Hamburg,[Germany]
Account: Nr.:525 30 67 , "Borl" ,
Bank routing [BLZ] : 200 700 00;
AND send a message with your arrival/departure time, hotel needs, and other
questions
you might have to:
Rok Rotar , Tel/Fax :[++386][ 61] 1613483 ,
E mail: <sorotar@yahoo.com> [Slovenia]
AND a copy to:
Miha Pogacnik, Tel/Fax :[++49] [40]485158 ,
E mail: mihaidriart@ibm.net [Germany]
You will be instructed where to send the deposit for the hotel.
Borl beginning: July 15 at 6PM, end on 18th. At 2PM.
DUBROVNIK AND SOUTH ADRIATIC ISLANDS :
We will catch the ship on 18th evening in Rijeka, and continue our
conversations on board, with concerts on islands of Korcula, Vis, and in
the gorgeous "Blue Cave" on Bisevo. Program will continue in Dubrovnik till
July 24, from where You can then fly to Zagreb to catch international
flights or continue with vacations in beautiful Dubrovnik area.
For all arrangements and costs for July 19-25 and beyond, please contact:
Izabela Perucic, Argosytours, Dubrovnik,
Tel:[++385-20] 416799, or 418289, Fax:421551,
E- mail: argosytours@du.tel.hr http://www.argosytours.hr
About Idriart and Miha Pogacnik.
*IDRIART = Institute for the Development of intercultural Relations through
the Arts.
In music, the recognition of quality and harmoniousness, as well as the
ability to understand the contribution of every detail to the good of the
whole, can be experienced. As a practical capacity this understanding can
teach us to orient ourselves in the world of business and to raise our
consciousness. In music, as in business and indeed all life, we find the
seed of action, the seed of direction, contained in the very first note of
a work. Perhaps it is not obvious, but it is there. It is the seed that
leads us to the timely solving of problems and to ways of conceiving things
on an integral basis - methods which also translate into social, cultural
and ecological action.
Artistic experience, the discovery and experience of resounding archetypes
of composition, the reliving of a crisis point as the condition under which
new reality can be created, the discovery of a pioneer phase as it moves
into differentation and finally into an integrational phase: this is the
experience that leads to the ability to develop concrete ideas and to allow
them their transpositional power. Miha Pogacnik works in this direction: he
offers the inspiring experience of art in its concrete relation to the
business process, working with such companies as Auchan, Aveda, Body Shop,
CCS - Clinic Catering Services Germany, Ciba-Novartis, Esprit, Hess Natur,
IBM, Sava, Skaltek, Shell, Trois Suisses and Weleda, as well as
organizations such as Ashridge, Greenpeace, Natural Step, Social Venture
Network, World Business Academy, World Business Council for Sustainable
Development and the World Economic Forum.
Most recent is his contribution to the new Fifth Discipline Fieldbook 'THE
DANCE OF CHANGE'. <http://www.fieldbook.com/>
MIHA POGACNIK IS A VIOLINIST. And he is a composer. He composes festivals:
IDRIART festivals, festivals where people meet people.
IDRIART, the Initiative for the Development of Intercultural Relations
through the Arts, which Pogacnik founded in 1983, follows a dynamic
principle - that artists and their audiences purposefully travel throughout
the world and gather in places that really need them. In these places
IDRIART can take the initiative to intervene in political, social and
cultural situations. Thus, IDRIART has been working in synchronistic ways
within the global stream of awakening and radical change.
The 1980's saw its first IDRIART cycle, which in its special way united
Dresden, Budapest, Prague, Cracow, St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Tbilisi - the
former East Bloc and the former Soviet Union with western Europe and
America. Miha Pogacnik had his first contacts with China, his first
activities in Beijing. IDRIART took place in the Amazon and in other parts
of Latin America. And as of 1990 IDRIART had penetrated even into isolated
regions such as Tibet, Kirgistan, Siberia, Mongolia and Botswana.
And Europe? If the madness that has recently stalked the former Yugoslavia
can have any meaning, then it must be this: to teach us that nationalism,
religious fanaticism and the lust for power are forces that must be
transformed if they are to be prevented from triggering repeated
catastrophes in other parts of the world.
IDRIART brings together music and theater, for example, or landscape and
architecture, pedagogy and medicine, ecology and economy - so that people
can meet people (and meet themselves as well): Culture against War, Art as
a Creative Force for Peace, ART AS A TRANSFORMATIVE INSPIRATION IN BUSINESS
LIFE AND COMMUNITY
Mr. Winfried M. Deijmann - Deijmann & Partners - Zutphen - The Netherlands
Artists, Consultants and Facilitators for Organizational Learning,
Leadership and Action Learning Events
Het Zwanevlot 37. NL 7206 CB Zutphen, The Netherlands
<winfried@universal.nl>
Phone: +31-(0)575-522076
Fax: +31-(0)575-527310
Homepage: <http://come.to/dialoog> after April 1st 1999: <http://dialoog.net>
For information about our international workshops:
<http://www.universal.nl/users/winfried/workshopsuk.html>
"An educated mind is useless without a focussed will and dangerous without
a loving heart."
(source unknown)
--winfried@universal.nl (W.M. Deijmann)
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