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My First Time Facilitating Pre-Texts

Cultural Agents

By Micaela Arenas

This Spring, Micaela Arenas facilitated her first Pre-Texts workshop at Harvard’s CGIS building — the final session of a semester-long training series open to affiliates and non-affiliates alike.

For her text, she chose Ray Bradbury’s “The Pedestrian.” What followed was a revelation: participants with different levels of familiarity with the story brought entirely different interpretations to the table. The protocol’s structure — where every voice must be heard once before anyone speaks twice — made that diversity visible and valuable.

The session closed with a short film, collectively produced in four groups, each capturing a different scene. Literal and interpretive, structured and playful — the final product was, above all, a collective act of imagination.

“I know that I, at least, will never read ‘The Pedestrian’ the same way.”

Read inform: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:4b03ad94-4821-5e8d-b7b3-aa9f3a2a070b

Shortfilm: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1THantXCJDKKYzpEsrO7FOkpuGXRSh_LD/view?usp=drivesdk

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