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motiroti is the 2011/12 resident company for the Critical Encounters programme at Columbia College Chicago. We've created The Potluck - which lifts its name from the custom of a collective meal to which everyone brings a dish. The Potluck shares creative tools, explores community building and 'creative placemaking' in our increasingly plural cities.
motiroti will be offering its food and culture sharing workshops as an invitation to bring people from Chicago's diverse communities around the table in new ways, to exchange ideas and develop new relationships.
Alongside the College, partners include The Dorchester Project, the En Las Tablas Performing Arts Centre and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. The flexible process will respond to the common interests of the network and communities involved, and is likely to include skilling up students, prototyping new works in public spaces in the city, and producing materials and creative campaigns.
The fun begins in November when we will convene a series of Open Space Technology style gatherings across the sites in the city that this network enables us to access. We're invite participants to offer their thoughts and ideas around "How can we harness the city's diversity for the common good?". We hope to begin to build a new network of grassroots creative activism that will be of lasting value to the city, and a model that can be adopted elsewhere.
The Potluck will run online as well as offline, to extend and capture the conversations - through a project blog here, and on Twitter (@plchicago).
Wherever you are in the world, if these themes and ways of working interest you, do connect in and add your offerings!
Please click here to LIKE the facebook page for Potluck.
