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From YouTube: NewsMakers: The Zero Project

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A segment from the NewsMakers program produced by Arlington Virginia Network featuring the Speaker's Corner, which is a part of the Zero Project. The Zero Project is artist Rosemary Covey's multi-faceted installation at the Arlington Arts Center.

A

Welcome to newsmakers on this episode, we'll take you to the arlington arts center and check in on the xero project, an installation by rosemary covey. The centerpiece of the project is zero. The 300 foot long 15 foot high banner, which wraps the building.

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We also learn more about the arlington public library's current adult reading program, which began on january 14th and young gymnasts, had a special visitor at barcroft sports and fitness center olympic gold medal winner dominique dawes spent the day working with members of the arlington aerials, arlington county's, competitive gymnastics team, we'll listen in and hear from coach carly meyer to find out more.

A

But first we visit the arlington arts center to find out what's new with the xero project.

B

The xero project is, you know its most visible manifestation. Is this giant banner behind us that we've been speaking in front of, but really rosemary, saw this as sort of an open-ended uh project? And today, with speaker's corner, the idea was using. The project is just a forum for any idea entirely open-ended whatever anyone wants to come and talk about wake up, arlington, here's, here's an opportunity.

B

um The image of the xero project is all of these faceless voiceless people screaming out noiselessly, which is both disturbing, but also just sort of a metaphor for the way. So many people, it's an apt expression of the way many people tend to feel um in an image in information, saturated culture. It's.

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All of us, we all have ideas, we all are creative in some capacity and we have- and we all have something to say. Even if some of us are shy.

B

um So today, here's an opportunity for people to come to the mic and and speak to whatever they wanted to um and again the project is something open-ended, allowing any number of voices any number of people to come in and participate. So that's what we were doing today.