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🎤 Every room has its rhythm - bold thoughts, quiet notes, and nothing missed! #ZEGFEST #ZEG2025 #ZEGStorytellingFestival

“A well functioning economy has to be based on good information and trust. If the information space is pollluted with disinformation, the economy cannot function. It’s even worse when you realise that tech companies have an incentive for misinformation. Unless you have a legal

I love this festival. I’m underdressed because, though I’m in Georgia, my luggage is somewhere in Paris. #Zegfest

WOW. No words, just - wow! 🎹 - Joe Sabia & Giorgi Gigashvili: KEYS OF DEFIANCE. #ZEGFEST #ZEG2025 #ZEGStorytellingFestival

“I know I’m a little bit naughty in the corridors of power, in a human way. And I’m about to get in trouble for pushing a button I shouldn’t have pressed. But no one’s called me into the headteachers office yet.” platon kicking off our third and final day at ZEG Fest ‘25.

“Discomfort can be productive.” Dr. Erzsébet Barát on why true solidarity means resisting the urge for easy answers and instead learning to live with the discomfort of ambiguity, vulnerability, and difference in the fight against the patriarchy. #ZEG2025

💬 Before we dive into the final day of ZEG, let’s hear the conversations that flowed yesterday, in every corner. Side glances, heated debates, whispered ideas, and the “wait, what do you think?” - echoing from the main stage to the courtyard bench. ✨ Let’s not forget that this

“We think we know right from wrong,” but “we’re still digesting that fruit from the tree of knowledge.” In the age of AI, the illusion of certainty is stronger. Bishop Rusudan Gotsiridze at #ZEG2025 reminded us to embrace humility and imperfection in our search for truth.

“Not all minds are captured in this country.” Irma Dimitradze on the fight for press freedom in Georgia and why it matters far beyond its borders, in conversation with Maria Ressa, Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, and Jodie Ginsberg at #ZEG2025.

A powerful start to Day 3: ✍ MZIA'S STORY: JOURNALISM ON TRIAL, with Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, couldn’t have been more urgent. 📸 While Platon was teaching How to Take Photographs No One Can Ignore, the entire Main Stage followed MOCAO’S JOURNEY - transforming trauma into

Speaking with clarity and passion during Acting Out History, Khalid Abdalla told Ghaith, “I did have fear that in standing up I would be cancelled and my career would end. However, in standing up I found the opposite. I found circles of solidarity that were far wider

“Dictators understand our importance. That’s why they hunt us. That’s why they criminalize us. That’s why they lock us up. And that’s why they jumped for joy when Trump cut our budget.” Nicola Careem of recently defunded RFE/RL, with Philip Chetwynd of AFP at @ZEG2025.

Participants at ZEG Storytelling Festival paused for one minute of silence for the victims of genocide in #Ukraine as Russia’s maximalist proposals for peace continue to delay the silencing of guns. Putin reportedly told Trump that Russia was ready to continue negotiations w/Kyiv after June 22

“People stop doing what they're doing and go running in the streets because they are free - this freedom is the most extraordinary drug, the biggest high you can be addicted to - and I will always be addicted to it.” - Khalid Abdalla reminisces about the passion and hope of the

“When a country loses its shared memory, it also forgets how to fight for its future. Maybe the revolution doesnt always look like a protest, maybe the revolution can be as simple as telling ourselves every day the stories that we remember. I remember the planes. I remember the

A performance from our very own Elvis to start wrapping up ZEG ‘25 💃🎸✨ The king has not left the building! #ZEG2025

Coda Story Live - An Immersive live storytelling show like you’ve never seen before! ~ Masho Lomashvili, Ryan Broderick, and Seema Jilani hosted by Isobel Cockerell. 💥 Lights, music, and stories collide to bring you on a white-knuckle ride from the occupied territories of

How personal history, identity, and creative risk can turn private memories into something universal - Jake Friedman in-conversation with Alexandre Kordzaia (Kordz). #ZEGFEST #ZEG2025 #ZEGStorytellingFestival