17 shows in 9 venues: The first Best Festival Ever season

David here with a final wrap-up note at the end of the first Best Festival Ever season. After 17 shows in 9 venues in London and Stockholm, we've finished the show's first tour and returned to Australia for a break - as well as to plan and prepare for the project's next phase.Over November, we presented the show at venues including the Battersea Arts Centre, the London Science Museum, Central St Martins, Kings College London, Forum for the Future, Zone Creative Agency, Färgfabriken, Miljöverkstan and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.We shared the work with theatre audiences, scientists, high school students, sustainable development post-grads, researchers, festival-makers, urban planners, museum staff and corporate groups.Fereday Films produced a great video of the show in action, which you can check out here:Perhaps the most satisfying part of the work for me was the discussions with the audience we held after the show. For our Science Museum season, scientists Yvonne Rydin, James Millington, Chris Brierley and Emily Lines presented short talks after the shows, discussing their own work in relation to the systems science ideas in Best Festival Ever. The conversations about sustainability, planning, climate change and complex systems were incredibly rewarding to listen to.That's it for Best Festival Ever in 2014. In 2015 we'll be looking at further tours for the show both within Australia and overseas. We're also seeking to begin partnerships with other organisations to develop new interactive tabletop works looking at specific systems.If you're interested in knowing more, or if you'd like to chat about a possible collaboration, please drop us a line. And thanks to everyone who contributed their support to make this project happen - we're hugely grateful!Cheers from David, David, Nikki, Nathan and Rachel!