While the Grand Trunk is the site of big ideas and big dreams, it will also be a place for intimate storytelling and connection with an upcoming Provocation Ideas Festival event.

The Trophy X Dream Weavers event will transform the downtown property into “a glowing constellation” of 10 tiny tents, each of which will have a person sharing a personal story to an audience of three to four people.

This event, festival founder Mark Rosenfeld said, is a proof-of-concept of what the Grand Trunk site could be.

With some city residents curious about how the Grand Trunk property could serve as a kind of “cultural commons,” Rosenfeld suggested this partnership to city officials.

“In my conversations with the city, I said, ‘wouldn’t it be excellent to put on a number of events so that people could

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