Sylvie

Kurt Cobain once reminisced that if he could do it all over again, he would go back to those moments before they became big. When they were touring in a van and they could feel things starting to happen for them. That was the most gratifying moment in his memory. If he had his choice, they would have stayed there forever.

Believe him. Celebrate... See more

We don’t build community .

We build containers where community has a chance to emerge.

When we shifted the conversation from, “How do you make money?” to “How do you create resources for resilience?” most people seriously engaged with this question. By the end, a lot of our builders would say things like, “I would feel better if I was paid for this work. It would make me feel like I’m valued.” It's not, “If we have resources, our... See more

Research shows that for each dollar spent at a local movie theater, an additional $1.50 is spent in surrounding businesses—restaurants, bars, transportation. Theaters are not just retail outlets. They are, as Cinema United’s Michael O’Leary put it, “cultural and economic anchors of communities of all sizes.”

When those anchors disappear, communities... See more

At one point during the panel, I said the fact that I am a woman is — I think — the least interesting thing about me, and that I would love us to collectively reach a point where that was reflected in the external world