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“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth,” Persian poet, Sufi mystic Rumi once said. A tale was being hammered, stretched, and soldered on by a group of youngsters in Roktowa, downtown Kingston. The tales, narrated via a range of media by Digital Projection Artists, Don Miller and Drew Burrows, strived to converge the arts with sciences. “As an artist and an educator in New York, I have always felt there is creative potential in children, which needs to be harnessed,” says Don Miller. Miller, who started his career as an English teacher, gravitated to making designs with nearly obsolete repurposed electronics to create psychedelic low-resolution video art. This, according to Miller, is a fun way to help children understand concepts of science and appreciate the learning process than making it cumbersome. One of the projects, Burrows explained, was to create a musical instrument using a wooden board, nails, and rubber bands....