Quixote Foundation Symposium & Celebration
 
 
 
In November, 2016, our favorite collaborators, conspirators, family and friends met in Seattle for a Quixote Foundation Symposium & Celebration: two unforgettable days and nights of inQuiry, laughter and appreciation. We asked questions, made connections and celebrated our launch beyond Quixote Foundation into a Free, Fair & Healthy world.

 

Our first FF&H inQuiry:
 
What do free people in fair societies on a healthy planet need?
 
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  •  Free Fair & Healthy Component Number 5284:
    Relationships

    It's always about the relationships that shape you and the way you shape others.

    amalia deloney, Media Democracy Fund
  •  Free Fair & Healthy Component Number 793:
    Truth

    Finding and communicating truth empowers people to be active participants in democracy, active stewards of the planet, and to create good things for generations to come.

    Monika Bauerlein, Mother Jones
  •  Free Fair & Healthy Component Number 444:
    Life-giving structures

    I don't think we can get rid of the vestiges of some of the old structures...but seeing them transformed and changed into ways that are holistic and life-giving instead would be awesome.

    Anthony Giancatarino, Center for Social Inclusion
  •  Free Fair & Healthy Component Number 511:
    Reflective leadership

    [If you are] supporting movements, then you want the decision makers to reflect the people that they're helping.

    Trinh Nguyen, Media Democracy Fund
  •  Free Fair & Healthy Component Number 6522:
    Family history

    [I've learned] that different aspects of my family history have informed how I see the world, and this history of organizing [is] being carried forth.

    Simran Noor, Center for Social Inclusion
  •  Free Fair & Healthy Component Number 99:
    Cultural change

    To actually change our culture...we have to bring together a large number of different groups, and I'm really excited that this seems to be happening!

    Jo Ellen Kaiser, The Media Consortium
 
 

 

 

SYMPOSIUM

 
 
 
 FF&H Component 123: Stellar people

Guests arrived in Seattle

  • Founded in 1869 on Indian Land
  • Oldest spectacle: Mt. Rainier, 14,410'
  • Newest spectacle: the Great Wheel, 175'
  • Unexpectacle: Keys to the future (and the hotel room)
 
 
 
 
 FF&H Components 2068-69: Big ideas & belly laughs

Symposium Day 1

Not Just Any Registration, complete with day-drinking

inQuiry Installations: Decisions/snoisiceD

  • Notice of Proposed Land Use Action
  • Free, Fair & Healthy World Wide Web
  • The Brainstomery
  • Not-a-Game-Board

A Foundation Study

Launch Lunch with an update from Standing Rock and featured guest W. Kamau Bell

Grantee Appreciation Dinner

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

WORKSHOPS

 
 
 

Symposium Day 2

We explored components of a Free, Fair & Healthy world in these interactive inQuiry sessions.

 Component 378: The Power of Being at Our Best,
Victoria Castle, Castle Enterprising

 Component 2514: Minds Ready for Change,
Zarina Parpia, Parpia Consulting

 Component 863: Confident Voices,
Pat Reilly & Rachel Oldham, PR&Co

 Component 434: Designs for Equitable Power,
Heidi Schillinger, Equity Matters

 Component 329: The Strength of Our Stories,
Catherine Day, Storyslices

 

 
 

 

 

CELEBRATION

 
 
 

Guests were shuttled from Hotel 1000 to a secret location where they explored Free, Fair & Healthy installations including the Observatory, AuditoryHmmm, Not a Bored Room and
Take a Chance Wing

Speechifying happened

We Danced the Future with Musical Guest Radio Raheem

 

 

 

 

ROLL THE CREDITS

 
 
 

creative direction, content, copy, graphic, web, sound
design and production:

Bryan Jeffrey Graham and the Big Tada, Inc. Team
Keneta Anderson, Keneta Anderson Consulting

event planning, management and logistics:
Judy Boerner Rule, Heidi Bernave and the JBR Event Management team

site design, lighting and audio:
JT Sapp, Jill Hashimoto & The Production Network team

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