The Blessing

A Native American blessing began the evening's proceedings on Wednesday.
We were assembled in the atrium of the college around the central pool anticipating the evening meal.

The Native American are involved in the life of the college through an agreement that allowed it to be built in the tribal area of the Yavapai.

Later we would see the digital stories made in the boot camp (workshop) that had preceded the festival. But before the film show, the meal. We stood in line with paper plates, received the food and picked up our conversations about storytelling.