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For people to join us moving outdoors in natural environments, we created a group called Openly Spaced Out that is accessible via WhatsApp. It is a meetup that takes place every Sunday around Lewisham. Anyone on the group can say when they go to the park and others then can join. 

The score is: Come, move as you like  and share what is going on for you if you want.

In not being alone we give permission to do things in our own quirky and untested ways. 

Move as you like:

is a format where actions or 'undoing' come from listening to what it is we need by giving our bodies free range of movement. That may turn into exercises, silly jumps, shakes or dances but it might also be lying in the grass, throwing back a ball to a child or perceiving tiny shifts of weight on an uneven grassy ground.  

Say what is n your mind:

Being in the park, we tend to socialise.​ It is a space to speak your mind but also to listen. You choose how much you want to engage verbally or physically. We give space to do both and enjoy the transitions from one to the other and testing our social contracts.

 

You might find that these open new ways of being together.

We also offer audio guides that you can bring to the park via your phone or an audio device and headphones. These were created by dance artists who work somatically and can fine tune our connectivity to ourselves and to nature, through spoken word guidance. These are available via our archive of Moving On which is the umbrella under which these were created.

There are even more audios via our Spotify link which has a subscription fee attached but you can subscribe for one month only if you like to enjoy a wider range of audios and artists for a period of time.

 

 

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Openly Spaced Out was created during Covid to give people the chance to still relate. Back then we spaced it out and asked for conversations to be suspended but by getting out and move to not feel isolated as you could see others doing the same. The origins of this format however were even further back in time. Our initiative Free to Move penetrated urban spaces like Granary square (above) to dance outside to impress the need for space and common ground to move freely.

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