One Small Window

I love workshops. Or the idea of workshops in any case. The good ones always fill me with energy and I come back home and for a short while, work like I’m never going to stop. It’s all the new ideas tossed back and forth, new tricks learned, stories shared, people met… So when my editor told me about a music workshop by Red Bull in our city, I was more than willing to check it out.

It wasn’t exactly a workshop – more a panel discussion and introduction to the Red Bull Music Academy which is where the real two week, in-depth workshops will take place in Feb-March 2010. RBMA co-founder Torsten Schmidt, Radio Slave aka Matt Edwards and Mumbai musician Louis Banks were on the panel and in the audience consisted of local musicians, artists and DJs.

At the end of the afternoon, I came back without any new musical insights but did make some observations:
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So now it’s twice in two days that I have come across articles about people turning social activities into businesses.

Example 1:

Weekend outings – It’s hard to plan a social life in a big city where all you do is work or sleep. Two biz-school friends decided there was a business opportunity in this. For a fee, you get to be part of a group for whom they will organise 10 Sundays worth of activities. They organise, you show up, you meet other people, you hang out. It’s kind of what E and I have done for about three years now. But we only saw it as bringing friends together over interesting evenings.
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