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Hologram Open House

Hologram Open House

Hologram Open House

Hologram Open House

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Friday November 25th, 2022
#Events #Past Events


San Francisco 8:00-11am | Quito 10-1pm | Thunder Bay 11:00-2pm | London 4:00-7pm | Berlin 5:00-8pm | Gaza 6:00-9pm | Yerevan 7:00-10pm | Mumbai 8:30-11:30pm | Singapore 11:00-2am

[A birds’ eye perspective of four people sitting around a table. They are leaning towards each other as they discuss and make notes. A graphic is drawn over the snapshot of them that connects one of the people with the other three.]

The Hologram is a living organism. We are a group of people learning to ask for help, to practice the protocol, to share resources, to facilitate, and to grow the Hologram practice. We believe that when we reach our goal – when every caregiver is well cared for – the world will have changed. The current economy will not survive. We will be braver together. Life will surge from the bottom.

The Open House is an annual meeting to celebrate all the things we have done in the past year, and to mark what is on the horizon. It is for us to look at the administrative work, the creativity, and the radical and optimistic planning that has gotten us where we are. This meeting is also for us to see where we are on our way to our wishes: the deep ones, the weird ones, as well as our road to transition (by 2023) into a decentralized cellular structure collectively and cooperatively defined by people who use it.

Where we are:
The online practice you know has existed since March 2020 (with collaborative twinkles and experiments since 2016). In the past 33 months, with your input, we have developed a very structured and useful protocol to practice: The Hologram. The protocol came to be by offering iterations of courses, rituals, workshops, and mutual aid sessions (Minimum Viable Hologram) where we could try things out, get feedback and learn from experience. Through these events, both online and in person (since 2021), we have gathered a large community of people who now practice The Hologram. To our delight, many of these people became familiars, who all kind of stuck around together by the virtual snack table. We never dreamed that so many people would want to stay together, to hang out, and to become more involved in the project. Now we have a community of AT LEAST a few hundred people in the Hologram project. This all has been able to happen because of the labor and input of all of you, OUR FAMILIARS. If you are reading this, we mean you! 

[A closeup of the image above shows a person closely listening to another one as the two other people carefully listen on.]

Open House Agenda:
At this meeting we will bring together as many of our familiars as possible to focus on two main areas:

  1. We will tell a story about what we have done, seen and learned in The Hologram, since our last Open House in September 2021, and since the inception of the protocol as well. We will explain how the project has functioned in terms of labor and resources, energy and organization. We will present our vision for the near future, including next steps and ask you for feedback and interest.
  2. You will hear from Hologrammers around the world, including people working on Holographic projects, course facilitators, social sustainability researchers, Hologram administrators, workshop organizers, translators and more. Each will give a little report on what they have been doing for the past year and what is about to go down in 2023.

+ We will ask you to reflect back to us the patterns, wishes, and trajectories that you see. Together, we will try to match the map of what we envision with the land we stand on.

+ + + + Fun.