ZEG 2025
JUNE 13-15
TBILISI, GEORGIA
Welcome to the ZEG Tbilisi Storytelling Festival, organized by Coda Story and Impact Hub Tbilisi. ZEG is the Georgian word for ‘the day after tomorrow,’ and that’s what the festival is all about: finding and telling the stories that matter for the day after tomorrow.
Immerse yourself in three days of interactive masterclasses, in-conversation sessions, innovative workshops, networking, and performances on June 13-15, 2025 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Immerse yourself in three days of interactive masterclasses, in-conversation sessions, innovative workshops, networking, and performances on June 13-15, 2025 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
MAIN STAGE SESSIONS
AN ARRAY OF BRAINSTORMING MEETINGS
INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS
NETWORKING
A TOWN-HALL STYLE EVENT
AN ARRAY OF BRAINSTORMING MEETINGS
INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS
NETWORKING
A TOWN-HALL STYLE EVENT
“Urgency”, “solidarity” and “inspiration”are three words we keep hearing from those who attended the latest edition ofZEG Fest. ZEG Fest 2024 felt different from previous years, because until now, ZEG has been just a storytelling festival. This year it became a community.
“Zeg” means the “day after tomorrow” in Georgian and for three days in June of 2024, hundreds of people put aside their lives and came together to figure out how to shape narratives for the future.
At a time when our societies and communities are so polarized and our future is so full of uncertainty, it was an honor and an absolute pleasure to come together with some of the best, most creative storytellers from around the world to figure out what narratives we need to shape our shared ZEG, our collective day after tomorrow.
For three magical days inTbilisi, we got out of the silos of our professions, geographies and ideologies and connected local and global. Against the backdrop of rising authoritarianism in Georgia, and the lessons it offers to the rest of the world, we listened to each other, but also danced, argued, learned, laughed, cried, had serious conversations, built bridges, challenged each other perceptions, came up with solutions, got inspired and cooked up new collaborations.
We never shied away from difficult conversations: global elections, rising authoritarianism, the legacy of colonialism, climate change and the AI revolution, but we explored them from a multitude of perspectives and a range of voices from tech to philosophy, fromIran to the United States, from Uganda to India to Ukraine. As one of our participants put it: “These three days felt both urgent and kind, which is a wild combination.”
“We always talk about how much we have to lose. ZEG reminds me how much we have to defend," said Ukrainian journalist and ZEG 2024 speaker, Nataliya Gimeniuk.
We are enormously grateful to our partners and our speakers and all of our brilliant volunteers for making ZEG 2024 so special.
But our biggest thanks is to our audience, our participants. You are the heart of the ZEG community and we look forward to growing it together with you.
With love,
The ZEG Team
“Zeg” means the “day after tomorrow” in Georgian and for three days in June of 2024, hundreds of people put aside their lives and came together to figure out how to shape narratives for the future.
At a time when our societies and communities are so polarized and our future is so full of uncertainty, it was an honor and an absolute pleasure to come together with some of the best, most creative storytellers from around the world to figure out what narratives we need to shape our shared ZEG, our collective day after tomorrow.
For three magical days inTbilisi, we got out of the silos of our professions, geographies and ideologies and connected local and global. Against the backdrop of rising authoritarianism in Georgia, and the lessons it offers to the rest of the world, we listened to each other, but also danced, argued, learned, laughed, cried, had serious conversations, built bridges, challenged each other perceptions, came up with solutions, got inspired and cooked up new collaborations.
We never shied away from difficult conversations: global elections, rising authoritarianism, the legacy of colonialism, climate change and the AI revolution, but we explored them from a multitude of perspectives and a range of voices from tech to philosophy, fromIran to the United States, from Uganda to India to Ukraine. As one of our participants put it: “These three days felt both urgent and kind, which is a wild combination.”
“We always talk about how much we have to lose. ZEG reminds me how much we have to defend," said Ukrainian journalist and ZEG 2024 speaker, Nataliya Gimeniuk.
We are enormously grateful to our partners and our speakers and all of our brilliant volunteers for making ZEG 2024 so special.
But our biggest thanks is to our audience, our participants. You are the heart of the ZEG community and we look forward to growing it together with you.
With love,
The ZEG Team