a sphercular tour

mmmm, so this is very much an idea that i hope some people will feel is worthwhile and that we can make happen at some point in the future. spherc has members from everywhere and links with a fair number of euro websites. and we have international/foreign language forums that have yet to be fully exploited. so..... what say you to a sphercular tour of europe to spread the word of poi? and basically have a load of fun....

first off this would be a totally 'not for profit' venture involving travelling across europe to various cities and camping or living in hostels. or homes of exceedingly kind sphercularists/spinners who are part of the website or not and would like to get involoved. the more interest there is from merbers in france, czech, germany, spain, wherever, the easier this becomes. the international forums and any contacts abroad would be useful here.....

second, ideally, it involves spinning all over europe, which is really where people in euro counties can help out, by organising/pre organising a place to spin and even perhaps something like an advertising campaign to let the public know that there will be poi spinners teaching/demonstrating/getting up to foolery in their area. this could involve contacting police in the case of fire etc in necessary/people who own private land who would be interested in hosting such an event (bars pubs etc).

thirdly it involoves people from this site getting together to travel, spin, teach and share the knowledge that we all know to anyone who is interested. and of course taking about a month off work/being able to afford to travel for a month

there are so many communities of poi spinners that im sure this would be possible with enough planning. although people's lives change constantly and noone can be sure what they might be doing if something like this was planned for say, a years time, if its based round the community of spherc, and other communities of fire spinners, regardless of minor changes, a lot could still be accomplished.

the thing is... how much do you want to get involoved? for instance, if there was a load of people who were willing to drive, then it could become a road trip. if you can fix up a venue and get people interested in coming to workshops to learn, then you can do advertising. if youve been round europe and know the ropes, you could help with planning. if you live abroad, or know communities that do, then you can contact them.

if you have any interest in this, any area where you feel you have expertise, even if you dont want to go on a trip, then lets put our heads together. to be a success, this will need a load of planning, and even before that just talking about posibilities and ideas, contacting as many people as we can over the next year, geting communities together, and trying to fix something up. a possible, and probably realistic timeframe would be July/August of next year.

if you think its an idea which has no hope of success and you can see problems, then please post here. if there are people interested in getting this off the ground, then all the input we can get will be invaluable. positive or negative.

heres hoping.....
peace