This video takes you inside a TE'A Insight Design Lab (IDL) where TE'A artists carry out Insight conversations that are part of the process of discovering and developing the themes, issues, characters and story lines of their new work, There’s Something About America, formerly known as the America Project.

Riaz Siddiqi, is Chairman of the Board of the American Pakistan Foundation, and Founder and Managing Partner of Denham Capital Management LLP, reflecting on his role as a US Delegate with Intersections International’s US/Pakistan Interreligious Consortium’s (UPIC) trip to Pakistan.

Cadence: Home tells the story of four veterans from the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan who struggle with their civilian friends and family to reestablish their relationships, cope with their pasts, and readjust to their worlds.  After a series of workshop performances, Cadence: Home premiered at the Metro-Baptist Church in New York City in Fall 2012, then was produced at the Straz Center for Performing Arts in Tampa, Fla. In Fall 2013.

Kelly McGrath, a George Mason University, PhD Student, and a UPIC Delegate, discusses how if we are to engage with a religious-based country such as Pakistan, we must value the religious component that is intertwined in almost every aspect of the Pakistani people’s lives. Kelly also speaks of the role youth play in change and implementation as we strive for peace and understanding between the US and Pakistan.