Independent Study Projects

For inspired Dragons students, internships are often arranged with renowned artists, musicians, yogis, monks, dancers, cultivators, development workers, and healers, and many other people who have spent much of their lives mastering a skill. Independent Study Projects enable Dragons students to engage intensively with a particular topic through experiential education. Facilitated by Dragons course instructors and area contacts, students may explore topics such as religious practice and meditation or yoga, political organizations and community activism, tourism and development, the role of women or children in society, or an interest of their own design.

This video was created entirely with images, words, and music recorded by Dragons students and instructors in collaboration with local communities (representing 15 countries) who shared their homes, temples, villages, families, music and presence with us. Over 100 contributors from around the world, and growing, weaving together the poetry and magic of this experimental collaboration, Where There Be Dragons’ Global Video Project.

Where There Be Dragons is a educational community, creating authentic, rugged and profound cross-cultural experiences that expose the beautiful and complex realities of the developing world.

If you want to know more about Dragons, visit www.wheretherebedragons.com to learn about who we are, what we do, and why we travel.

Directed and Edited by Mateo Hinojosa
Music arranged and produced by Art Vandelay
Drums – Senegal Princeton Bridge Year students, Mamoudou Ndiaye
Rhodes keyboards – Art Vandelay
Bai stringed instrument – Bai festival at Shibaoshan (China)
Diamond Plate and Om Pendant – Varanasi Jeweler (India)
Drums – Drum troop in Butare (Rwanda)

For full credits, please see Expanding Horizons: A Visual Journey through Student Travel