Glenn's blog

Do you want to see fun and exciting outreach events happen in Vancouver? Do you have ideas for music, theater, poetry, or art performances or shows that promote compassion for animals?

I am organizing another animal rights community dialogue event through Liberation BC. It's happening in July and will be focused on the topic of using entertainment (and even "fun") for outreach.

I'm still trying to sort out the exact format of the event. Some people will hopefully be coming with ideas for actual events they want to put together. Others will likely be coming to brainstorm about ideas. And other people may be there for conversation or to help other people with their ideas.

The format needs to give people space and permission to organize their own discussions – in such a way that people have a chance to hear what other people are there to work on.

I'm thinking that Open Space will likely be the best format for the event. At just 3 hours long, it will be quite compressed. Probably a half hour for the welcome and agenda setting, and four 30-minute sessions, with another half hour for a closing wrap-up. This will be a very full, but hopefully productive, afternoon.

This is the second of this series of animal rights community dialogues hosted by Liberation BC. The first event produced many ideas for ways we can work together to achieve our goals. At the conclusion of that event we determined the topics for the next 4 events. The 3 events happening later this year will be:

• Developing a local information hub: who, what, why, and how?
• Educating ourselves: becoming better activists through education and practice
• What is our message?

Register now at http://apowerfulvoice.eventbrite.com. If you have any ideas about the event, please leave them in the comments. I'd love to hear what you have to say!