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Magaly Colimon-Christopher: We needed to create a platform for all of the members of the Caribbean diaspora, all of the folks of the Caribbean. I assumed that was an excessive amount of for me. I am like, no, I am unable to deal with that a lot. I am one particular person. However I spotted I’ve to as a result of all of our brothers and sisters are feeling unheard, are feeling that their artwork type is just not validated. They want an area to be who they’re, even when it is culturally completely different. We have had many to say, “Yeah, in my tradition, they do not actually worth my voice, however after I go someplace else, they worth it.” Allow us to be the someplace else. I’ve to say that’s my message to theatre. Acknowledge the necessity of individuals in different places past your stage, your brick and mortar, who want you to be accessible.
Yura Sapi: You might be listening to Constructing Our Personal Tables, a podcast produced for HowlRound Theatre Commons, a free and open platform for theatremakers worldwide. I am your host, Yura Sapi, and I am the founder of varied organizations and initiatives, together with a 501C3 nonprofit, a six-hectare farm and meals sovereignty challenge, an LGBTQ+ therapeutic and artwork area. And I’ve helped quite a few creatives, leaders, and different founders unleash their excellence into the world via my applications, workshops, and training providers.
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Challenges come up as a founder, as a visionary, as somebody who’s bringing forth one thing that didn’t exist earlier than. We’ll expertise them as people who find themselves constructing our personal tables. So in right this moment’s episode, I’m so honored and grateful to get to introduce you to Magaly Colimon-Christopher, the founding father of Conch Shell Productions. Conch Shell Productions is a company devoted to enlightening US American audiences in regards to the numerous rising Caribbean diaspora and the Caribbean voices in theatre and movie. All about creating area for artists to share their tales, to develop, to supply, to current new performs and movies within the theatre and movie trade. Magaly has been capable of create a motion for Caribbean diasporic folks around the globe. And on this episode, we hear from a few of her options, a few of her fact, a few of her suggestions for you as a frontrunner of your individual challenge, your individual group, your individual desk that you just’re constructing.
Dive into actually get some readability on what it means to face challenges as a frontrunner, what it means to fail, what it means to have the ability to deal with your self and be there for others. What it means to be creating one thing that turns into a lot larger than you initially thought. And actually simply enable your self to really feel into the vibration of what we’re providing right here as leaders, as founders. The vitality of the area that we’re holding and welcoming you, inviting you to carry this area as nicely, to carry this torch, to expertise what it means to be somebody who builds their very own desk, and in reality, actually about constructing one thing that turns into a lot larger than you. So get pleasure from this episode and get impressed by Conch Shell Productions, by Magaly Colimon-Christopher.
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Magaly: Thanks. Thanks. I am actually comfortable to be right here. Thanks for inviting me.
Yura: I need to begin off by asking your superhero origin story. What’s the pivotal second that led you to forge your individual path and construct your individual desk?
Magaly: The humorous factor is I have been producing for some time, however it was primarily producing my very own work. And constructing a desk the place I’d invite different folks to return to take a seat. Constructing Conch Shell Productions: That was spearheaded by a group of artists that have been in a play that I produced that was introduced in a theatre pageant. Their response to taking part in Haitian and Haitian-made American characters was, we want extra of this. We want extra alternatives to inform our story. You should create that area. I am actually grateful I used to be within the non secular and psychological and emotional area to say sure. I’ve loads of thanks to offer to Planet Connections Theatre Festivities for creating that chance for me to get up and have the braveness to say sure to founding a corporation that’s now about to develop into a nonprofit group. We have gone from being a for-profit LLC that has a fiscal sponsor to being on the verge of being a nonprofit, which takes my breath away.
Yura: Sure. I would love to listen to extra about that journey. I additionally lately simply acquired my 501C3 final yr for my group LiberArte. I would love to listen to about this shift that you’re going via from LLC to nonprofit. Are you able to inform us extra about that?
Magaly: The considered a nonprofit is that this group, this child that you’ve got birthed is now not yours. It belongs to the group. I needed to meditate quite a bit as a result of I put loads of my life… Every thing I do for Conch Shell Productions, I mainly do it from my coronary heart and I do not receives a commission. And so to be informed that you’ve got constructed this and when you say sure to being a nonprofit, which is within the betterment of the group, it’s now not yours and you’ll get replaced. So I needed to say to myself, how necessary am I on this entire factor? And certainly, I am only a conduit. I am simply carrying the tray and I needed to be prepared handy the tray when the time involves the following particular person to be the conduit for the voices of the Caribbean diaspora and the Caribbean.
It was truly a six-month journey of meditating and saying, can I launch this child? Can I say “you possibly can stroll by yourself and be guided by another person”? I actually understood how dad and mom really feel. I am not a mum or dad, however I understood how dad and mom really feel when their child turns eighteen and so they say, “I’m an grownup,” and so they go off to school and another folks develop into their fundamental affect. There are numerous phases of handing the kid over. First it is kindergarten after which it is faculty, after which it is somebody’s partner. You are handing your baby over to somebody and entrusting all that you just put into this being and being a corporation. It’s being, for me. It’s a being that impacts others that may change others’ views of Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora voices and in addition change a Caribbean or Caribbean diaspora particular person’s viewpoint on their function within the arts that they do have a spot. Awakening them to that. Yeah. I’d say it is a combination of liberating for the group and awakening myself to the truth that I’m nothing however a conduit. That is it. I am not the maker. Proper. What about you? How was your expertise with this transition to being a nonprofit?
Yura: For me I had been working independently. I had a DBA. Every thing going via me. And all the time nonetheless very centered on this facet of donations. Even grants that got here via. For me, the nonprofit route felt actually necessary as a result of a part of it too was to not have donations going into my private title and account. However I additionally am with you on this facet of actually following this calling to be utilizing my abilities as a visionary for this bigger imaginative and prescient the place I am part of it. We’re engaged on bringing a music group from Colombia in Nuquí and Chocó, the place I’m, for a tour later this yr to the US. And a lot of the work could be very spirit-centered, non secular in that I really feel like I am simply doing the steps that the universe is putting by way of, there’s these grant alternatives which are precisely for the dates that we’re considering already. There’s one other grant in Colombia with the Ministry of Tradition for Flights. There’s those that I am assembly and I will need to do is say that I am engaged on this challenge and folks begin to say, “Oh, I do know somebody. Possibly you will get linked.”
It feels as if actually lending myself to this increased function of one thing that is flowing in the very best methods on the nice days and the nice moments of all of it. By way of having the ability to launch the concept it is not mine, I undoubtedly skilled that having a board of administrators and that entire construction. I believe it is also a part of what I actually wanted to not be doing this alone. As somebody who’s a visionary, it is a very attention-grabbing life having the ability to see and expertise and typically even dwell in a future world that does not exist but. It is actually useful to have a staff of individuals round me that possibly are slightly bit extra linked to the realities or the earthly understanding. That has been actually useful to have individuals who can type of assist make extra sense of the programs at play and help us in attending to this imaginative and prescient.
I additionally see that function as visionary as founder, because the one who constructing this desk initially to be actually making one thing that did not occur that did not exist earlier than. After which as soon as it is prepared, we will move it on to somebody who’s actually good at persevering with on the challenge versus me being that kind of particular person to go in and proceed on one other challenge. That is not my energy. So it is actually necessary to stay to the place I thrive and what I can actually provide. In order that’s been my course of on actually contemplating what’s my function in letting go of the issues that do not should be my accountability.
Yeah. Simply letting go and the significance of utilizing your staff. And the board is so important and my board is so wonderful and extremely proficient. Each step of the way in which I’ve to recollect, I’ve a board, I can ask them. I’ve a board. I can ask them to deal with this for me and deal with that for me. It is fairly refreshing. And their dedication to the imaginative and prescient and the mission of Conch Shell Productions, it is a present. It is a present. I respect it immensely. It is a distinction between being a donor and being an lively participant. It is such a large hole and it is a stupendous alignment of human functions when you’ve a robust board. Congratulations to you.
Yura: Thanks. And likewise. Each be rising all through these years. I all the time discover this podcast medium is such a tremendous capturing of oral historical past. It is a stupendous strategy to actually mark moments. That is the entire level of this podcast too, is to showcase all the work that we have already got been doing. So I am actually excited, this honoring of the previous.
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As we glance to the longer term, I’m inquisitive about what you might be contemplating because the theatre trade is evolving, because the earth is evolving in my expertise and opinion I believe there’s loads of issues which are altering about us as people and the way we relate to the earth, type of remembering the ancestral and in addition bridging the trendy. In order this theatre trade is evolving, what do you imagine it’s asking of us as leaders?
Theatre has existed because the starting of humanity. How will we serve the present humanity that’s centered on gadgets if not crossing over, making a bridge between the dwell area and the machine area?
Magaly: Nicely, I’ve all the time had a penchant to bringing the voice of the ancestors to the stage as a result of they’re telling us tales. The factor about theatre… As you already know, Conch Shell Productions, we additionally concentrate on the voice of filmmakers, not simply theatremakers as a result of I actually really feel that separating these two mediums does not serve us as a folks. One, as a result of our voices, capturing our voices like on this podcast permits future folks to know our viewpoints and it might information future folks and awaken future folks. So capturing these tales as a movie is empowering and it does not denigrate the worth of that dwell expertise in theatre, however it does enable for us to share these tales on a wider scope. And because the world does certainly develop into smaller due to the entry to media in your laptop, in your mobile phone, in your pill, having the ability to awaken extra folks to the viewpoints of a group, of a tradition, is important. That eliminates the stilted viewpoint that your concepts, your opinions are all that issues.
I usually go on YouTube and watch interviews or watch content material on YouTube and uncover the world. And I am unable to think about what number of different folks throughout the nation throughout the planet are discovering me, discovering you, discovering varied cultures that they could by no means meet and realizing, wait a minute, my viewpoint was so slender. The theme for our firm this yr is “awakening,” and I discover it actually attention-grabbing that you just requested me that query as a result of we’re centered on content material that awakens. What does that imply? It sparks an consciousness. It conjures up readability. Work that enables folks to ask questions that they by no means thought of earlier than. Theatre has existed because the starting of humanity. How will we serve the present humanity that’s centered on gadgets if not crossing over, making a bridge between the dwell area and the machine area? At Conch Shell Productions, we do loads of our work on-line. We current readings on-line. We share artist chats on-line with the understanding that not everybody can come to New York Metropolis and sit within the viewers with us, however everybody wants to listen to us. Everybody must be touched.
So I’d say my imaginative and prescient for the way forward for theatre is the understanding that what it’s a must to share is so worthwhile. You must develop your definition of theatre in order that the world could be moved by what it’s a must to share. And what’s actually thrilling, though it occurred throughout a tragic time, what’s thrilling about what occurred in 2020 is theatres needed to discover a strategy to attain folks. Streaming on-line turned the norm as a result of we have been all woke up that the universe is telling us, change your mode, attain past your area. I actually encourage theatre to proceed on that journey. Do not stroll away from it as a result of every thing is “again to regular.” I’ve to say that Conch Shell Productions actually, actually found the facility of on-line content material throughout the pandemic. We produced my play on the pageant in 2018. 2019 we did Hear Her Name, Carribbean American Theater Competition at York Faculty within the Milton Bassin Performing Arts Middle, and we did it once more in 2020. And in 2019 we did dwell readings. So every thing was in particular person. The provision to our content material on-line was restricted to an artist chat, an excerpts of an artist chat.
However when Zoom confirmed up and I used to be caught in my dwelling in April 2020 and I used to be uncovered to Zoom, I used to be like, wait a minute, we will proceed working. I wasn’t alone in that assertion. But it surely did change my perspective of our function. It isn’t simply servicing New York, it is servicing all folks of the Caribbean diaspora as a result of our mission initially was Caribbean People. Making a platform for Caribbean People. However then I spotted as we did these displays, as I met folks by way of Zoom who lived in each a part of the world all through the Caribbean, I found there was a necessity that was past the US that we needed to meet. We needed to create a platform for all of the members of the Caribbean diaspora, all of the folks of the Caribbean.
I assumed that was an excessive amount of for me. I am like, no, I am unable to deal with that a lot. I am one particular person. However I spotted I’ve to as a result of all of our brothers and sisters are feeling unheard, are feeling that their artwork type is just not validated. They want an area to be who they’re, even when it is culturally completely different. We have had many to say, “Yeah, in my tradition they do not actually worth my voice, however after I go someplace else, they worth it.” So allow us to be the someplace else. And I’ve to say that’s my message to theatre. Acknowledge the necessity of individuals in different places past your stage, your brick and mortar who want you to be accessible.
Yura: I am actually listening to the significance of leaders which are rising, which are creating, which are persevering with on on this time to actually embrace being versatile with what’s coming, with what has already shifted with regards to know-how, for instance, because the shifts which are providing us the alternatives to additional join and in addition this providing of answering the decision. You as a frontrunner could be referred to as to develop what you first thought was potential. So when you first thought you have been serving a particular group otherwise you have been doing a particular factor, after which the universe provides you a good larger alternative, a good larger function that you just did not even assume was potential on the time, to take the required steps to develop your private capability to say sure to it. Whether it is according to what your authentic imaginative and prescient and values are, that’s nonetheless related as a result of there may be that facet of needing to say sure to the alternatives that come via it.
It would imply it is advisable to say no to different issues to have the ability to maintain that capability. However yeah, I am listening to that there’s this second, this shift when both somebody specifically or your interior instinct is looking to you to say, take this area, fill this function, serve your group, and go forth. And I am curious for that second for you, once you expanded the thought of who you are actually serving, was there an inside dialog that you just processed to have the ability to tackle this accountability?
Magaly: I used to be terrified. I used to be like, the place am I going to search out the cash? The place am I going to search out the useful resource? Every time that occurs, I simply do no matter it’s that my terrified voice says I am unable to. As a result of concern actually does not serve something apart from affirming the idea of limitation. So how are you going to be an artist and have a restricted mindset? Yeah. You get terrified when issues do not work out, however you say, okay, so it did not work out what subsequent? So the “sure, and” exploration that we do as we improvise as actors… As a result of I am an actor. “Sure, and” was a giant a part of me staying on activity. When issues fell aside, “sure, and.” When issues went sideways, “sure, and.” In fact I’d have moments of melting down. You must enable your self to soften down. I believe even Storm and the X-Males, she had a meltdown. We simply did not see her. She was off digicam having a meltdown. I like Storm. She’s considered one of my favourite characters on the paper. “Sure, and” has allowed me to get via, in addition to prayer and checking in. Is that this ego making me say I’ve to or is that this what must be accomplished since you’re telling me to?
So all the time asking God, asking my ancestors: what must be accomplished? What must be accomplished? A purpose-driven life. What do I do to assist others? As a result of I have been helped so usually in my life by such great individuals who simply assist me as a result of. And that’s the reason I am right here right this moment. So how will we proceed this artwork type if we do not simply assist? How do now we have future leaders and future artists if we do not simply assist those that are on the lookout for steering? And so that is what I really feel Conch Shell Productions is doing. It is serving to the Caribbean diaspora and the Caribbean artists have an area to be celebrated, acknowledged, illuminated, and in addition the viewers to have an consciousness, a developed consciousness of, oh, these voices transfer me. I would like extra of those voices. Carry on going again to that.
Yura: It is such a ripple impact as a result of after we get to beat our concern and our concern… This acronym I discovered, false proof showing actual. So actually uncovering this false proof that we’re manifesting into being actual by deciding that that is what is the scenario, and due to this fact not taking motion, due to this fact being stopped by our concern. After we overcome that, there’s a lot extra that comes for ourselves and for our communities and for the world as a result of when you consider after we share our presents, after we share our options, we trigger a ripple impact. Even one particular person having the ability to be impacted by that info may change the way in which that they’re interacting with everybody else they talked to that day, possibly everybody else they talked to of their complete life. And so you can see how that finally ends up flowing. And in the end, if everybody shared their options to all the world’s issues, we would not have issues. We might have options.
Magaly: Precisely. Precisely.
Yura: I’d love to listen to when you might share one resolution for the world’s issues that you just want everybody knew about, what wouldn’t it be?
Magaly: Being nonetheless. Simply once you’re about to lose it, respiratory deeply and being nonetheless. To not say that I am an knowledgeable at it, in fact I all the time stumble and journey and mess it up. However the moments after I do do this, there’s such readability and every thing turns into quite simple and there are not any foes. Every thing is balanced and equitable and potential. However when you simply carry on holding your breath and pushing via the battle or flight simply takes over. Be nonetheless and breathe. Be nonetheless. My aunt all the time tells me, be nonetheless. And so I apply be nonetheless. When I’m able to breathe, I can hear a be nonetheless message. So breathe and be nonetheless.
Yura: That is it. Yeah. Yeah. The chance that comes from the pause after we’re within the storm, remembering that the place the attention of the storm… We’re not the storm occurring. That each storm passes. And we all the time have the current second. I really feel like that is what I am listening to too, with that stillness. Alternative to return again to the place we’re. And breath, in fact. I imply breath is the primary factor that we have to dwell. So think about when we do not have the enough oxygen, the enough vitamins that we get from the air, we won’t perform the identical. Identical to with water and meals, however breath is the very first thing.
Magaly: If you wish to take a look at it, simply maintain your breath and see how every thing in your physique begins panicking. Each system in your physique says there’s an issue, there’s an issue. Even when there isn’t a downside, I simply resolve to carry my breath. However every thing begins making ready for an issue as a result of it is defending the residing organism. It turns into every thing versus merely being within the now.
Yura: What’s your go-to self-care apply as a founder, navigating the complexities of constructing your individual desk?
Magaly: I find time for quietness. I find time for meditation. I like yoga. Qigong. Writing for the sake of writing. Something that isn’t aim centric I find time for that. Making a complete day for it’s the neatest thing I might do each week. And when it is not allowed, I’ve to then break it up into hours in the midst of varied days. Making time to simply breathe and really feel your self breathe and really feel your self sitting in a chair. Even sitting on a subway, you may make time to simply really feel your self in area. It is simply take a second to scan your self. I am a Feldenkrais consciousness via motion practitioner and finding out that methodology opened my thoughts to the great thing about doing that. So yeah. I make time to do lot.
Yura: Yeah. My finest emails are after a full day of farming.
Magaly: Good.
Yura: After which my worst are when it has been two days of simply being within the laptop, simply being on this matrix. As a result of yeah, it is about how we present up as leaders particularly. It isn’t at the same time as a lot the actions that we’re doing as a lot as how they’re obtained by everybody we’re encountering with that we get to uplift, that we get to help. In order that is likely one of the keys. I would say undoubtedly sure, about being a frontrunner and founder is de facto caring for how we’re capable of present up and what we’re capable of provide. As a result of so many individuals, so many beings, so many programs actually matter on us. And so this was additionally undoubtedly a giant a part of my journey is to actually say, nicely, I’ll spend money on my capability to carry area for others.
Magaly: It takes loads of vitality to carry area for others, and I’ve had many cases after I did not maintain area for myself that I did not have sufficient bandwidth for others. I am a Capricorn with Aries rising, so I am a bit fiery if I do not get my relaxation. I remorse that. I remorse that I did not take the time to deal with myself in order that I might deal with others. And so I’m not talking from intellectualism. I am talking from utter full expertise on how detrimental it may very well be and the entire course of when you do not take time to deal with your self and due to this fact aren’t capable of be open and attentive to others. As a result of when you’re pushing via your life, then you are going to push via folks too. And when you’re coping with artists particularly that throws them astray. It is an ongoing journey. It is an ongoing exploration how to try this. I am going to try this till the day I go away this corporal being. This existence.
So many of those proverbs or about solely in falling, have you learnt what it means to face? Solely in failing have you learnt what it means to succeed? The largest factor that I’ve discovered a frontrunner that it is okay to fail. That you just’re not all the time going to be superwoman or superman or tremendous being. That you’ll fail and you’ll study and you will get proper again up and get again on the observe as a result of that is what you like.
Yura: I discovered the failures are sometimes these moments the place we actually get to have a big shift, a change, the chance to realize much more belief for the folks round us due to the way in which that we get to deal with such a failure. Generally there’s additionally quite a bit that we achieve from failures. We do not even need to even actually see it as failure as a result of there’s truly a lot that comes from studying and for the following time. After which additionally with our staff, with the those that we’re round actually turning into human. Such as you stated, we aren’t essentially alien superhero, we’re human beings. And so there’s a side of coming again all the way down to earth and attending to share the vulnerability and the truth of what which means with the those that we work with.
Magaly: Yeah. We’re all little kids in grown up garments. And so each usually that little baby may have a tantrum and you will simply know that they only cannot discover the language for what’s going on within them, however there’s one thing happening within them and also you simply allow them to have the room after which they will come again to themselves. I do not ever need to be a grown up truly, as a result of as an artist, as a performing artist, that openness to infinite chance that you’ve as a toddler is important. You may’t be inflexible on this type of what it means to be human, in my view. There’s acquired to be a stage of softness and fluidity. Some stage or not. However for me, I attempt to search a pathway to openness and fluidity.
Yura: Yeah. That is how we maintain the door open for the actually unbelievable concepts and the imaginative and prescient and the inspiration that comes via so I hear that. I’ve yet one more query that I would like to ask. Reflecting in your journey, what has been probably the most rewarding facet of carving your individual path and creating your individual area? Constructing your individual desk?
Magaly: Wow, fairly liberating. I, usually after I was youthful, felt like I did not have an area. I did not have a spot the place my genuine fact both mattered or may very well be totally realized. So I created an area for others to try this, however in so doing, I’ve created an area for myself. As a result of we do not simply produce my work at Conch Shell Productions, we develop different folks’s work. However as I encourage others to personal their genuine voice and never attempt to meet what the trade thinks their voice needs to be… As I encourage them to have a good time the characters that they are bringing to the desk which are distinctive, I find yourself encouraging myself. So it is not likely my desk.
And going again to turning into a nonprofit, recognizing that it was by no means my desk. It was by no means my tree that I chopped down as a result of the tree belonged to the planet. And the nails got here from the planet. So when you’re speaking about constructing a desk, each facet of constructing the desk have been sourced from one other. And I used to be deeply influenced by the woke up viewpoints of writers and theatre practitioners that preceded me, that affirmed that what I assumed was potential was a part of the African diasporic viewpoint. Nice thinkers like Paul Carter Harrison and Ntozake Shange and all these thinkers that stated, “We’ve got a manner of telling story that is completely different, that is distinctive to us from the ancestors. Why are we pretending it is not actual?” So it is not my desk, it is our desk. I assumed I used to be constructing my desk, however I found I used to be truly constructing our desk. That was rewarding. I’ve this imaginative and prescient of uniting all of the nations of the Caribbean on the desk collectively and never separated by language, not separated by island boundaries. We’re united by the ocean, so possibly the desk will probably be just like the ocean. Having that reverberate as a result of we’re in all places. Caribbeans transplant to each continent on the planet.
I went to Iceland and met a Haitian lady. There was a Haitian espresso store in Iceland. It was referred to as the Haitian Espresso Store. I used to be like, what? I seemed on the vacationer brochure. I used to be like, I acquired to go right here. I’ve acquired to go there as a result of I am Haitian-American. And he or she was Haitian. She married an Icelandic man and he or she moved to Iceland and he or she had a espresso store. I am like, we’re in all places. So the folks of the Caribbean are in all places. If we will a minimum of come collectively at this inventive desk, what might it probably do to our spirit, thoughts? And particular person cultures and forgetting about ethnic or racial or language variations. Simply saying, sure, we’re artists who share not solely the Caribbean ocean, however the truth that now we have both Taino or Carib backgrounds. We’ve got indigenous native cultures that have been of the Caribbean that infiltrated our genetics. We’ve got African backgrounds. We’re all melting pots of many cultures. That is what now we have in widespread and the way does that resonate in our artwork type? So yeah, that may be the one factor that I took away that it was by no means my desk.
Yura: Thanks a lot, Magaly for becoming a member of us on the Constructing Our Personal Tables Podcast.
Magaly: Thanks for inviting me. I hope everybody checks out our occasions this yr and witnessed the gorgeous voices of Caribbean diaspora filmmakers at our movie pageant in October. And our on-line readings can be found irrespective of the place you might be. We current Blue Mild Collection and we current our work and our artist chats and also you simply hear what is that this voice that we’re saying is exclusive. I would actually respect that.
Yura: That. Sure. Go forward and observe, like, subscribe to Conch Shell Productions. Thanks once more a lot.
Magaly: Thank You.
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