What are we about? 

English novelist Philip Pullman wrote: “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

LIFE OF I is a series conducted in cities across Canada, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Syria and Iraq.

The focus has been around lives stories which we stumble across as a part and parcel of our daily lives. The content and themes change from city to city e.g the ones in Toronto have ranged from diversity to sports. Those in Iran range could be about film and social justice. etc. So on and so forth.

So we make sense of our experiences, claim identities, interact with each other, and participate in cultural conversations through storytelling. These stories encourage us to view each other as compassionate human beings with a relatable story. As the Dalai Lama once said: “Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”

LIFE OF I is about flirting with the fine line between the comfortable and the uncomfortable through love, compassion and humor.