So, slightly less cryptic
Yesterday An Event took place at my workplace of a kind my department had not previously essayed, and which I was i/c organising, involving an organisation whose archives we hold.
We are fortunate that we have a) dedicated AV and technical people on hand and b) a really marvelous admin person to handle all the room arrangements and hospitality.
But, still, it was my idea and I'd done all the inviting and briefing speakers and drawing up a guestlist and so forth.
I think it did go well, though perhaps the fact that I actually had to encourage people to leave at the end of the reception was more down to their having once worked together and having a chance to catch up... (with what was actually rather nice wine).
I don't know whether it was just the speakers we'd picked, or the general nature of the organisation in question, but they all seemed on good terms and there did not seem to be deep underlying tensions from strife and drama of years gone by (let's say we deal with other bodies which could give a Renaissance Italian court as imagined by Jacobethan authors of revenge tragedy a run for its money).
Ended up having a very agreeable discussion involving a range of topics including 70s feminism with one of the speakers, before I had to round people up to get them out of the building. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2226659.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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