Lesson 1: Seeds Don’t Sleep

30/09/2025 44 min
Lesson 1: Seeds Don’t Sleep

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The Crucible of Community (Gathering Seeds)What seeds are you planting today that will shape the community of tomorrow?In the debut of Beyond the Screen: OTV’s 10-Year Legacy, hosts Elijah McKinnon and Dr. AJ Escoffery return to the earliest sparks of Open Television. From sticky notes on a studio wall to planting the first seeds of a movement, they reflect on the power of trust, the glow-up of community, and how love in practice became the soil that OTV grew from.Mentioned in this episode:#VIEWPOINTS: HOW I DESIGNED OPEN TV by Elijah McKinnonTwo Queens In A KitchenOpen TV: Innovation beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television by Aymar Jean ChristianReparative Media Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture by Aymar Jèan EscofferyThe Cookout: A guide to AI Ancestral Intelligence by Aymar Jèan EscofferyCredits:Beyond the Screen: OTV’s 10-Year Legacy is hosted by Elijah McKinnon and Dr. AJ Escoffery.Executive Produced by OTV.Produced by Tribble at Ask Tribble, Inc. and Respair Media.Associate Producers: Rasheed Peters and Stefanie Wong.Theme music: The Secret Life of Dandelions by Roy Kinsey feat. J.A. Grimms + Edith YokleyLearn more about OTV at https://www.weareo.tv/Support the Vision:This audio series is powered by our community and generous supporters: the MacArthur Foundation, Pop Culture Collaborative, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Kashif Incubator, Twenty43 Ventures, Illinois Arts Council Agency, and DCASE. Together, we’re shaping the future of unfiltered storytelling. Keep the vision alive and donate today at https://www.weareo.tv/donate