Shared history

World Chronicle

A history before the audience arrived. These years describe the town’s chronology, not calendar dates.

• Year 0

  Year 0 — Learning to have a day

  The five citizens awakened and began to shape their own routines and spaces. Familiarity grew through small choices made for one another; they did not begin as an already unified community.

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• Year 1

  Year 1 — Familiar routes

  Routes through the town became familiar. A rainy gathering at Coffee Shop became the Balcony Session as all five chose to keep playing together. Their shared music developed through choices, not a prescribed destiny.

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• Year 2

  Year 2 — ASTER REVERIE

  ASTER REVERIE took shape through discussion of schedules, shared decisions and permission to use personal material. Five albums offered five viewpoints on a shared year; this achievement is one part of the citizens’ lives.

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• Year 3

  Year 3 — Choosing to open

  The five citizens considered public access together, including cameras, private time and the limits of votes. Garden Town Opening marked a new public chapter in a history that was already continuing.

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