as valid to include in the collective volunteer groups who organize to have fun ? We will give you a case. ImprovEverywhere
is an initiative of civilians who are organized for the express purpose of causing scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Yes, you read correctly chaos and said at once.
The movement, if you decide awarded this distinction was created in 2001 by Charlie Todd in New York. The dynamics are as follows:
people are registered as volunteers in a mailing list on the website of ImprovEverywhere and become Agents and receive, via e-mail, instructions (they sometimes), date and place of missions to be undertaken.
only works in New York. If someone wants to do it in another space, would have to organize their own group of agents and design their own missions, creating chaos and joy.
An example of the missions that have made it:
Frozen Grand Central Station.
people appeared at the time and place where they were called, not knowing that. Once there, they were given the instructions.
Undercover Number: 207
The mission: to stay completely still in the posture in which the voice were like statues!
Is this voluntary work?
We are talking about collective action, nonprofit organization organized for a common good. Is it just a game? We will launch a hypothesis:
People attending this type of volunteer participate in a recreational activity, sensitization and awareness in the fully social.
Our arguments:
is a exercise confidence, as people come to a collective call without knowing what they're doing, you may be things that would not dare to do individually, but this time more people act like themselves, they will go blind . Once
are the agents and action, we suspect that there will be a range of emotions and feelings to flow freely and intensely shared from person to person, teaching them live their own join other capacity of goals identified through common free and overflowing of the group itself to be donated to the watching people. One
deepest fears and universal is that which makes us change, chaos, crisis, or whatever you want to call other commands unknown or unusual in the life of every person and every community. Could this game serve organized, and in whose development participate voluntarily accepts, teach us to reconcile the need for security and the need for change ?
GarcĂa Roca said that the volunteers of our time need to reconcile the idea of \u200b\u200bcause as a socially significant goal (such as human rights) and the value of the expressive, immediate pleasure of participating in its present , creating new forms of social ties, while therapeutic, while incidents in the surrounding reality.
volunteer
Other styles are possible, other expressions of solidarity, other concerns, such as concerns about growing isolation and consequent apathy and lack of trust in any collective action that eventually ends up affecting the solidarity to the cause traditional) and above all other forms of address, less institutional, but more subjective.
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