Last night I attended The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival, and was dazzled by the diversity and intensity of the community, sponsors, and artists. The Crucible Organization demonstrates tremendous power and promise in transforming community in a disadvantaged urban area by offering the inspiration, tools, resources, and leadership that so many young people freely admit has changed their lives.

I am floored by what they have done, and I hope that we will learn from them. In the near future, I hope to meet with and interview Kristy Alfieri, the Crucible's Youth and Community Manager. Perhaps she will be so kind as to present their program at a Net Tuesday in the fall.

The Crucible Organization inspires so many to do so much by embracing community participation in the fire arts. Here is a good example from last night. For those of you who are on FaceBook, please see http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=626919749&success#/video/video.php... otherwise please bear with the embedded Google Video rendition, which is something lesser. Let's pull together to get a little help from YouTube to allow non-profit organizations to post their short videos in the higher quality option that they give to many of their commercial posters.