2009 Coho Conference Update: A long, long but exceptional day (with video to prove it) | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Craig Ragland (craigraglandgmail.com) | |
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:07:49 -0700 (PDT) |
Dateline: Songaia Unit #2, Bothell, Fri, June 26, 11:59pm PST Ryan, Mandy and I just got home from the post-keynote party at the Conference. WOW - the keynote was really something. A lot of work by a lot of people created a very special piece of history. As part of the Keynote introduction, I showed a video we created to help the main conference attendees get a flavor of the International Cohousing Summit on Sun-Tue (June 21-23). After my intro , Grace Kim gave the official welcome and then introduced Chuck Durrett. Chuck then introduced Jan Gudmand-Hoyer with warm words that showed the affection these two men have for each other (watch the video to get a sense of it as they converse in Danish and English. Jan spoke for about an hour, showing about 80 slides of Cohousing in Denmark. Jan got a thunderous standing ovation. I then shared about his time here at Songaia, where he stayed for the past week. Jan has become special to several of us here.. the room then applauded him again. After a brief stretch break, I introduced Coho/US board member David Entin, who shared a poignant story about how his community, Rocky Hill Cohousing, supported some members who found themselves with two unexpected baby grandchildren with special needs. Grace Kim then sent us all off to PARTY. Fred Olson asked about the documentation of Jan Gudmand-Hoyer which Coho/US would be making available. I'm pleased to now offer you the chance to see the video shown at tonight's keynote. It is available online on the website of the exceptional video team that did the filming and editing. I helped align the stars required to allow the conference documentation to happen and provided some creative direction. Enough words? Well, here's a chance to see what about 200 of the most committed Coho-Activists and professionals saw about four hours ago. http://www.withinreachmovie.com/ I hope you enjoy it - we'll get it on Cohousing.org sometime after the conference. Craig Ragland Executive Director Cohousing Association of the United States (Coho/US) 425-487-3550 http://www.cohousing.org craig [at] cohousing.org Please consider attending the National Cohousing Conference. Click here: http://www.cohousing.org/conference
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