Samora Pinderhughes

But for me personally, the difference, I guess, between entertainment and art is the intention and the vulnerability.

And I would say even just like what you risk, what you put on the line for it.

And so I would also hope and encourage people to give each other courage to like step up to what that feels like and to protect each other in that process.

Because going back to your earlier question too, I mean, just like many other people, many artists are afraid in this moment because the things that they want to say about the moment

they feel like there's a lot of consequences to saying that.

So I think we have to lift each other up, and my hope is that other people will also create the context in which artists are able to stand on their courage and stand inside of what they have to say, stand inside of who we want to protect in this moment when so much is under attack.

It's a great honor to be able to be an artist in this moment.

But I also think that we need a lot of support.

And I also think we have to step up to this moment and be able to really move through and with and against that fear.

You know, so that's, I guess, my hope for it.

Yeah, I had some support.

Yeah.

Very comforting.

Yeah, you know, I also give a lot of thanks to all the people behind the scenes that make it happen.

It's a lot of work, yeah.

And very grateful for not just the excellent job that they do in making it sound and look so beautiful, but also, you know, their kindness and just being really lovely people through the process.

And then in terms of just how it felt, I think...

I was happy to go a couple days in because I was able to see some of the talks and stuff.

And I think that really made me understand, or at least how I felt about it was that it felt like an arena for ideas and often competing ideas and ways of seeing the world and conceptions about what is happening and what's to come.

And so I definitely felt the weight of that and wanted to step up to that and to, I think, hopefully make the case in a certain way for, you know, things that I feel are valuable.