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Story Seeds: Henri & Me
Last week, I made my first digital story. At the beginning of March, I entered into a new and exciting partnership with the Center for Digital Storytelling to create StoryLab (working title), an R&D wing embodying the power of story to help bring about a democratic and sustainable future.
What Could Be Better Than Freedom?
I've been mesmerized by a five-minute video shot in Cairo's Tahir Square, part of the Zero Silence documentary project, focusing on young people using new forms of organizing to change authoritarian regimes in the Middle East.
In the clip, an unseen interviewer questions an unnamed young woman in the midst of a vast sea of protestors carrying signs, some in English, some in Arabic. Her face is a map of the emotional world, fear living side-by-side with elation, determination with hope, wide eyes taking in the world, a crystalline intelligence sharing words of fierce clarity.
What could be better than freedom?
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