So here we go. On February 15th Barefoot will be starting the Delta Workshop for the 5th year. It’s amazing to think back to 2004 when Gaby Kessler and I were in India deciding what we should call this workshop idea. Gaby suggested Barefoot Workshops and I thought, “Hmmm… I don’t know.” That night it was decided. Barefoot Workshops. 3 months later, February 2005, we started Barefoot by running a 4 week documentary workshop in the Mississippi Delta. 10 students participated and Jack McDonald taught the class with me. Gaby ran everything behind the scenes; course Manager, cook, best friend and a person who probably wanted to kill me by the end of it all.. but we pulled it off and ended up with results far exceeding anything we thought we could ever do. We all agreed that is was a process that worked. Since then we have run the workshop every year and expanded to run workshops in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Kuwait, Jordan, the West Bank, Israel and a list of places in the USA.
We plan to blog about the workshop as much as possible and take Barefoot in another interesting direction. Daily updates! Oh boy. We’ll see how it goes.
Chandler
