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World Café Europe has
been busy holding strategic planning meetings and preparing
for the 2nd World Café
Europe gathering in Bilbao,
Spain June 5-7, 2008. For more information see
the new page on the World
Café Europe blog, or register
directly on
the World Café Europe
website. Flyer
in English (pdf 144k)
As part of the preparation, the Bilbao planning team have posed a question on their blog for us all to consider and respond to: What role does renewal play in addressing the challenges of the world today? Add your thoughts to those already beginning to gather there...
Ongoing
developments
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Besides TableTalk, you can now subscribe to el boletin del World Cafe Latino (a Spanish-language World Café newletter) and Tips 4 Change, the monthly letter from the Global Climate Change blog!)
WORLD CAFE COMMUNITY AND FOUNDATION NEWS
Tom Hurley of the World Café Community Foundation has created an Overview and Invitation document (pdf:2.9M) to assist in finding resourcing partners for the ongoing co-evolution of the World Café. (We've also registered as one of the 501c3 'causes' at GiveLine - so do your shopping through this link!)
Fielding Graduate University's Institute for Social Innovation Announces a Groundbreaking Research Partnership with the World Café.
The Global Climate Change Café project highlights an upcoming regional initiative Climate Change Café in Reno NV.
World CafÉ Book News...
Book publisher Berrett Koehler interviewed Juanita Brown for one of the first of their new author video series. Check it out!
There are now 7 translations of the World Café book! Translation teams in Japan, Taiwan, and Germany have been working for months and their results are finally on the bookshelves, joining exisiting translations in Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish. For more, including how to order your copies of these new translations, read this article from October's issue of the World Café TableTalk newsletter.
OTHER World CafÉ Regional News...
Café Asia:
In this wonderful series
of photographs (be sure to read the text accompanying
each image!) Manish Jain shares the story of a 5-day Community
Media Gathering where over 35 artists,
artisans and media activists came together in a "learning-edge"
World Café to
share their concerns, experiences and skills in producing
and sharing media.
California Bay Area:
The bay area World Café team hosted a multi-generational
Café in Alameda.
La Palomilla:
Ana Cristina Maldonado and Community Technology
Steward Amy Lenzo have put up a Spanish
page as the
first step towards a full Spanish translation of the World Café
website.
Here is the latest issue of el boletin del World Cafe Latino, and we've added Spanish versions of World Café book graphics to the Resource Cybrary.
World CafÉ in the News...
The World Café is featured in Alex Steffen's guide to the 21st C, WorldChanging (published by Abrams) under 'Tools for Talking'. This is a great book, recently released in paperback - it's a pleasure to be associated with it.
Juanita Brown and the World Café Community have a chapter in the upcoming book, Collective Intelligence, edited by Robert Steele. (the chapter has already been translated into Portuguese by Ronaldo Richieri)
Juanita did a recent radio show on WRPI "RSVP to Life" with host Chris Carey.
Dialogue Can Bring Us Together - Mike Garbaldi Frick's blog post (and video interview with David & Juanita) on World Cafe and Dialogue in the Huffington Post.
World Café to Boost Brunei-Singapore Ties - an article by Aemy Azlena in the BruneiDirect local news.
The Conversation as a Radical Act session at Seattle's Systems Thinking conference inspired a series of spectacular blog posts including two from Dave Pollard: Love, Conversation and Commuity: Three Magic Words, and KM 0.0; Christopher Carfi's Conversation is more than a Buzzword; Stephen Downs comments in Stephen's Web; Conversation as a Radical Act from Nancy White; and some reflections on the conference as a whole in the Beauty Dialogues and John Inman's Learning Conversations.
A Dialogue Project video interviewing David Isaacs and Juanita Brown.
Exciting New Multimedia Tools...
The World Café hosted it's first World Café in Second Life, in collaboration with the Rockridge Institute. Read the whole story here.
We still have a space to develop in the 'International Info' grid on Second Life. so if you are interested in being part of the building and/or hosting team, please contact amy@theworldcafe.com.
Our colleagues at the Art of Hosting have added a Cybrary link to a number of great videos on the ArtofHostingTV.net channel, and we've added several new World Café videos, with more to come.