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After applying for a chance to edit half a BBC Radio4 Today program with 2 others, Paul Chi and Joce…
After applying for a chance to edit half a BBC Radio4 Today program with 2 others, Paul Chi and Jocelyn Jones my instincts (and discussions with a most intelligent friend) tell me that our direct, unbranded approach may not fit with the very distinct branding that stations like Radio 4 cling to in fear of anything they do not recognise or is "off their screen".
Which made me consider what is our "branding" - this is not a suggestion that we invent one, but an indicator of cultural values. In one sense our branding is that we have no brand, and that is a brand in itself. It is both recognisable and unrecognisable.
This led to a conversation about the next Vision Shack, and although I have been saying that I am researching a similar program about India, an inspiration arose which is that maybe what is now required is a program about the correlations themselves, about the unity of issues that affect, and are bound to affect, any subject that comes under the statement I made at the beginning of the program.
I find myself, interestingly, unable to separate the program from the family of which it was paradoxically already an extension before the World Family was even formed, nor can I separate either from Healthy Concerts. It is all part of a web, an unseen World Wide Web that proposes something much greater than its parts.
So for those who have not got the CD, missed the program and will miss the repeat of the program on RadioReverb at 12.00 noon GMT on Wednesday 21st November I reproduce the script I wrote to open the series - the delivery and words may vary, but the essence will not. This is the essence of what I wrote:
Vision Shack is a monthly program dedicated to men and women of Vision, who live here and now in the 21st Century, not in the past, people who form a largely unseen network of enlightenment and understanding, here in Brighton or travelling by, people who think Globally and act locally, in my view people who point the way to a peaceful and sustainable future by their vision in action.
I reproduce this because it represents the essence of what I set out to do about 5 or 6 months ago, long before I had even heard of Seinde and his dedicated life's work, because I knew that there are such people in the world, being fortunate enough to already know, and know of, some of them. It demonstrates to me that something is stirring, and that the time is right for a great emergence that may be multi-dimensional in its appearance.
My practical vision for Vision shack was as follows: that I would produce a series of such programs and ensure that the maximum networking or essence-mixing took place by sending each guest or group of guests a CD of each of the others, and then invite them all to contribute to a book about the series, the issues, how they connect and how all can work together. An original but crazy idea, I sometimes thought to myself.
What happened in me with Seinde's visit was that some great essence that has driven my life for about 32-33 years met another life that was driven by some great essence for a remarkably similar period.
I believe that the coming together of parts of this essence in people like myself and others who have mixed with Seinde, like Jocelyn, Paul (who has been working on the small is beautiful principle for many years that is very close to the principle that has driven Seinde's work as a small-holder farmer) and quite a few others, with a unique essence that Seinde carried across the waters, caused a third essence to join and empower us all at such a deep level that it has caused something to occur that is to do with or a part of something immense.
Thus my projection of what Vision Shack was to be about, the joining of futurists across the globe, has already taken a path that I did not anticipate and is already joined to many arisings. I hope this is not too philosophical, and it is being backed by action to assist in Seinde's celebration via a series of seminars to include young trainee farmers from the UK. However, I have no conception of what the future will bring, and am open to anything.
Seinde tells me that his wife says "God's time has come". I agree with her totally. I have been awaiting this time for 32-33 years. It is the essence of who I am, and to quote my great mentor who empowered me upon my quest and my arrival to this here and now, "Come on train".
Louis Loizou.
Which made me consider what is our "branding" - this is not a suggestion that we invent one, but an indicator of cultural values. In one sense our branding is that we have no brand, and that is a brand in itself. It is both recognisable and unrecognisable.
This led to a conversation about the next Vision Shack, and although I have been saying that I am researching a similar program about India, an inspiration arose which is that maybe what is now required is a program about the correlations themselves, about the unity of issues that affect, and are bound to affect, any subject that comes under the statement I made at the beginning of the program.
I find myself, interestingly, unable to separate the program from the family of which it was paradoxically already an extension before the World Family was even formed, nor can I separate either from Healthy Concerts. It is all part of a web, an unseen World Wide Web that proposes something much greater than its parts.
So for those who have not got the CD, missed the program and will miss the repeat of the program on RadioReverb at 12.00 noon GMT on Wednesday 21st November I reproduce the script I wrote to open the series - the delivery and words may vary, but the essence will not. This is the essence of what I wrote:
Vision Shack is a monthly program dedicated to men and women of Vision, who live here and now in the 21st Century, not in the past, people who form a largely unseen network of enlightenment and understanding, here in Brighton or travelling by, people who think Globally and act locally, in my view people who point the way to a peaceful and sustainable future by their vision in action.
I reproduce this because it represents the essence of what I set out to do about 5 or 6 months ago, long before I had even heard of Seinde and his dedicated life's work, because I knew that there are such people in the world, being fortunate enough to already know, and know of, some of them. It demonstrates to me that something is stirring, and that the time is right for a great emergence that may be multi-dimensional in its appearance.
My practical vision for Vision shack was as follows: that I would produce a series of such programs and ensure that the maximum networking or essence-mixing took place by sending each guest or group of guests a CD of each of the others, and then invite them all to contribute to a book about the series, the issues, how they connect and how all can work together. An original but crazy idea, I sometimes thought to myself.
What happened in me with Seinde's visit was that some great essence that has driven my life for about 32-33 years met another life that was driven by some great essence for a remarkably similar period.
I believe that the coming together of parts of this essence in people like myself and others who have mixed with Seinde, like Jocelyn, Paul (who has been working on the small is beautiful principle for many years that is very close to the principle that has driven Seinde's work as a small-holder farmer) and quite a few others, with a unique essence that Seinde carried across the waters, caused a third essence to join and empower us all at such a deep level that it has caused something to occur that is to do with or a part of something immense.
Thus my projection of what Vision Shack was to be about, the joining of futurists across the globe, has already taken a path that I did not anticipate and is already joined to many arisings. I hope this is not too philosophical, and it is being backed by action to assist in Seinde's celebration via a series of seminars to include young trainee farmers from the UK. However, I have no conception of what the future will bring, and am open to anything.
Seinde tells me that his wife says "God's time has come". I agree with her totally. I have been awaiting this time for 32-33 years. It is the essence of who I am, and to quote my great mentor who empowered me upon my quest and my arrival to this here and now, "Come on train".
Louis Loizou.
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Comment by nadia franchi on January 12, 2008 at 6:07pm -
Hi Louis,
How did you get on with the application to direct part of the radio4 play?
n x
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