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What an incredible evening of The People’s AI Assembly organized by @ainowinstitute @perfectunion!

We are so thrilled that Arundhati Roy published her most recent essay with us @equatormagazine, which the sold-out room received (and you can read it for free online!)

There were necessary conversations, important connections and humbling (and terrifying and hopeful) realizations.

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Do you ever feel trapped inside technology?

After New York, ZEG brings “Beyond Big Tech” to Amsterdam.

Join us on November 7th at @de_balie , where Alix Dunn presents a live journalism performance on Big Tech and power, followed by an open conversation with Natalia Antelava.

We invite you to help shape where the discussion goes, so bring your questions and ideas.

〰️Date: November 7th, 2026
〰️Time: 6:00 PM
〰️Location: De Balie, Amsterdam
〰️More info and tickets in bio

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Last Saturday, we tried something new: our first off-the-record ZEG salon, in New York.

Live storytelling with Alix Dunn, host of The Maybe podcast, followed by a conversation that opened to a room full of people from very different worlds, to questions, disagreement and different ways of seeing what comes next. A long Georgian supra at Hancock House, Brooklyn, kept the conversations going, and as you can imagine, there was plenty to chew on.

Thank you to everyone who came, talked, disagreed and stayed at the table. We are planning more gatherings, in New York and other cities.

A huge thank you to our co-hosts at the @dorisdukefdn and Freedom Together Foundation for helping us make the evening possible.

And to @chamamamanyc for serving such delicious Georgian food to our guests!

#ZEG #ZEGNewYork #CodaStory #Supra #NYC

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The best conversations of the year keep happening over the same three days, in the same city, every June, bringing together storytellers, journalists, activists, thinkers and others impossible to categorise from every continent. #zegfest #zegfestival #zeg2026

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Some black & white ZEG moments #zeg #zegfest

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Якщо ви шукаєте простір для фото- чи відеозйомки інтерв’ю, подкасту чи інших форматів — у Lviv Media Hub є все необхідне для комфортного робочого процесу. Світлий інтер’єр, різні локації в межах одного простору та атмосфера, яка добре працює в кадрі.

У каруселі цього допису можна побачити, який вигляд мав простір на зйомках команди @ukrainer_en. У Lviv Media Hub вони записали 3 відеоінтерв’ю зі спікерами конференції LMF 2026 @nantelava, @ali.alamillos та Крісом Лю.

Зберігайте допис, якщо шукаєте локацію для майбутніх зйомок, і пишіть нам, щоб дізнатися умови бронювання.

Чекатимемо на вас у Lviv Media Hub!

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«what we need is co-resistance, not co-existence.»

these words, said by @nantelava during one of ZEG’s evenings, have stayed with me throughout the past two weeks — weeks filled with nostalgia and that strange, bittersweet feeling you get after something truly meaningful comes to an end.

so yes, it took me a while to gather both my visual memories and my thoughts before sharing them with you.

ZEG Storytelling Festival 2026 ❤️‍🔥

three incredibly intense, yet thoughtfully curated days that explored countless topics — and somehow left me with even more questions than answers.

you know that feeling of turning a corner without knowing what might be waiting for you?

at ZEG, every corner and every break between sessions became a safe place: to meet someone new, to discover an idea that challenged the way I think, and, most importantly, to fully immerse myself in the atmosphere of the festival.

looking back, ZEG became the defining moment of our time in Georgia; a memory of witnessing something that felt genuinely important alongside people you’d only just met, yet somehow already hoped to meet again someday.

it was about never being afraid to turn that next corner, because you knew another unforgettable story was waiting there.

now, two weeks after returning to Lviv and settling back into everyday life in Ukraine, I’m still deeply grateful for everything ZEG 2026 gave me.

გაუმარჯოს 🇬🇪

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Tbilisi, Georgia, where the ZEG Storytelling Festival happened (ZEG in Georgian is “the day after tomorrow”). Thanks to the amazing ZEG team, led by Natalia Antelava, for putting together an outstanding festival of ideas, art, provocation, and terrific Georgian meals. It’s worth your time to attend if you’re in the region next summer. Thanks to the always astute Razia Iqbal for interviewing me. Thanks to the Stamba Hotel, located in a former publishing house, one of the most beautiful hotels I’ve stayed in (the theme is books and music). Thanks to Gika Mikabadze for taking my picture under the publishing sign.

Thanks to Luka Grigolia for publishing The Sympathizer in Georgian and taking me to his friend’s delightful cocktail bar Antena გია ყანცელი 13, where I ended up debating a random Georgian guy who argued that American universities needed more political balance. Not sure how often that would happen in an American cocktail bar. His friend was thrilled to see The Sympathizer and Luka gave him my only copy (he made it up to me later). I told him he didn’t have to leave me a good review on Goodreads, but he better not leave a bad review.

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This was fun but off the record @armando.iannucci with Jake Friedman @zegfest #Tbilisi #Georgia

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Captivating to be @zegfest #Tbilisi Georgia at a critical moment in the country’s history. So many urgent and stimulating discussions including one featuring Karen Hao - author of The Empire of AI. It’s my first visit here and I’m enthralled - plus the yummy food - walnuts and aubergine with everything. And great discussions following my event on Deep Listening. Congratulations to all the fantastic team for dreaming up such a menu

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Day one of @zegfest 2026 asked a deceptively simple question: who gets to tell the story?

From a contested photograph that shaped the world’s understanding of the Vietnam War to conversations about democratic collapse and political imprisonment, speakers returned to the gap between official narratives and lived experience.

The day opened with filmmaker Bao Nguyen and photographer Rena Effendi discussing The Stringer, Nguyen’s investigation into the authorship of Napalm Girl, one of the century’s most famous photographs, and what happens when an image becomes so iconic it obscures the people behind it.

For Nguyen, the story carries personal resonance: « Knowing that there was a possibility of another Vietnamese photographer who didn’t have his opportunity to speak his truth, it reminded me a lot of my parents’ own journey as refugees. »

Mohamedou Ould Slahi, imprisoned 14 years without charge at Guantánamo Bay, warned against treating democracy as a destination rather than an ongoing responsibility: « Democracy is not an event. It’s a process. We have to stay aware. We have to keep holding the government accountable. »

Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López described Venezuela’s democratic decline as gradual until it wasn’t: « Think of Venezuela as the story of killing democracy from within. The civic space closed. The media closed. The judiciary became politicized. It happened gradually, and in the end, it collapsed. »

Zelda Perkins examined what happens when systems protect those in power, reflecting on breaking the NDA she signed as Harvey Weinstein’s assistant: « Putting Harvey in jail was important. But it wasn’t going to solve the problem. If you can’t change human nature, you can change the law. »

As evening fell, Coda Live took the main stage with « What’s the Story? » Six narratives brought audiences a long-lost family reunited, opera across a divided city, desire discovered later in life, corruption exposed from within, survival after solitary confinement, and the search for light as darkness closes in — performed by Leopoldo López, Aïda Delpuech, Irma Dimitradze, Martin G. Reynolds, Rosmery De la Cruz Suazo, and Shahmir Sanni.

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What happens to media power when visibility no longer guarantees influence and algorithms control distribution?

Watch the conversation “After Visibility: What Remains of Media Power When Algorithms Own Distribution?” with @nantelava , journalist, co-founder and editor-in-chief of @codastory and @ngumenyuk , author and executive director of the @journ.lab.online.

🎞 The whole session is here on Lviv Media Forum YouTube channel.

The discussion took place at LMF 2026, held in Lviv on May 14–16 under the theme “Reality Under Attack: Flight, Freeze, or Fight.” The conference brought together more than 700 participants from 36 countries to discuss the challenges shaping media, democracy, and society today.

This conversation was organized in partnership with DW Akademie and Deutsche Welle, funded by the European Union and co-funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The contents are the sole responsibility of LMF and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

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