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What’s Critical Incident All About?
Critical Incident began in Brighton, UK, in 2005, and is now entering its seventh year. This will be the sixth Critical Incident as there have also been two happenings in Edinburgh in 2007 and 2008. The mad vision is here.
What is a Critical Incident?
A critical incident is an event of life-changing significance. You’re never quite the same after one. People often talk up experiences these days in a age that has plundered language with cliché and employs superlatives to describe the mediocre. So often people will describe an event as a critical incident, as “amazing”, when it is clear that anti-climax really lies at the heart of the story. Critical Incidents 1-3 has had its fair share of these. The sublime and the amazing has, occasionally, emerged, amid the usual “niceness” that goes with these kinds of events these days.
But that is what Critical Incident is all about. The event strives to create an emergent space – a happening in time and space where everyone who is “offering” part of the critical incident, has agreed to experiment, to challenge themselves and attempt to break new ground. And everyone who attends is invited to come along with an open mind and be ready for a critical incident to happen.
There’s nothing cultish about the all-day event (though some sessions might beggar belief). it’s simply a programme of events and activities that approach personal ,work, and community life from different points of view, from different skill sets and ideologies. Live performance, the arts, science, the borderland between disciplines, philosophy, practice, personal development, community innovation, invention, dialogue, debate, creation, revolution, evolution, involution, creativity, innovation, recreation, and even a space for nothing at all.
Critical Incident is a 24-hour event with activities taking place in venues in Brighton, UK, as well as a few online in the “virtual” world of “cyberspace”.
The theme for Critical Incident 2011 is: Connection
If you’d like to offer something for the programme, please get in touch as soon as you can. Ring me, email me, text me. The programme usually fills up fast, though, this year, we are saving one of the Phoenix spaces for on-the-day emergent sessions as well.
You can view some image galleries for recent Critical Incidents here: Edinburgh 2009, Brighton 2009, Brighton 2008, and more 2008, and more!
Warm wishes
Paul Levy
www.thecriticalincident.com
+44 (0) 7932 768980
paul@thecriticalincident.com
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