Change the Story / Change the World
119 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago -Poets, dancers, and painters at war with white supremacy, COVID, criminal militias, and Milosevic? Muralists, musicians, and actors, making a difference in homeless shelters, planning departments, emergency rooms, and death row? Sound delusional? Yea, sure, but also true! And when creativity confronts destruction, and imagination faces fear, in places like Ferguson, Johannesburg, Belfast and San Quentin surprising things happen.
Our stories help shape and sustain our beliefs and actions. Bill Cleveland believes that meeting the challenges of the 21st century will require a revolution of thought and deed— in essence, a new set of stories powerful enough to change beliefs and behaviors.
Change the Story/ Change the World is a chronicle of art and community transformation across the globe. In each episode, Bill will introduce listeners to creative change agents working to re-imagine and recreate the social, political, and cultural narratives that define their communities. Join us
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Further Adventures of L. O. Sloan
July 10, 2024 12:00 - 37 minutes - 84.8 MBFurther Adventures of L. O. Sloan In this milestone 100th episode, Bill Cleveland engages in a deep, reflective, and often humorous conversation with his longtime friend and legendary activist, actor, dancer, playwright, impresario, and historian, Lenwood Sloan. The discussion spans many topics, including Sloan's incredible career in the arts, his reflections on social change, and the societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The episode also touches on the roles of art and artists in acti...
Animating Democracy Chapter 2: Can the Arts Help Re-Build Democracy
June 26, 2024 13:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBIn this episode we continue our conversation with Barbara Schaffer Bacon and Pam Korza, co-directors of Animating Democracy. The discussion centers on the role of arts in fostering civic dialogue and community engagement, particularly around challenging social issues. We explore several case studies of arts-based community projects, including: 1. The restoration of a King Kamehameha statue in Hawaii, which became a catalyst for broader community dialogue. 2. The Shipyard Project in P...
Animating Democracy Chapter 1: Can The Arts Help Save It?
June 12, 2024 12:45 - 51 minutes - 117 MBAnimating Democracy Can the Arts Save Democracy? This episode explores how creative practices can reinvigorate American democracy by bridging societal divides. Featuring insights from Pam Korza and Barbara Schaefer Bacon, we delve into how Animating Democracy has supported arts-based civic dialogue and collective action in communities across the country. We highlight impactful projects such as Traces of the Trade, it underscores the transformative potential of engaging critical and often d...
Animating Democracy: Can The Arts Help Save It?
June 12, 2024 12:45 - 51 minutes - 117 MBAnimating Democracy Can the Arts Save Democracy? This episode explores how creative practices can reinvigorate American democracy by bridging societal divides. Featuring insights from Pam Korza and Barbara Schaefer Bacon, we delve into how Animating Democracy has supported arts-based civic dialogue and collective action in communities across the country. We highlight impactful projects such as Traces of the Trade, it underscores the transformative potential of engaging critical and often d...
Judith Marcuse: Dancing Towards Change
May 29, 2024 12:45 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB"I think unless we embody sensibilities, we connect the head, the heart and the body. We don't have a complete range of experience and expression are limited in what we think, feel and see, and so I have integrated the body into everything I've done. Judith Marcuse Judith Marcuse is one of Canada’s senior artist/producers with a career that spans over 40 years of professional work as a dancer, choreographer, director, producer, teacher, writer and lecturer in Canada and abroad. She has crea...
Ken Grossinger: How are Artists and Organizers Creating a Better World Together?
May 08, 2024 12:45 - 59 minutes - 136 MBIn this episode we will hear why Ken Grossinger believes that "organizers can't work effectively without culture, and that art is essential to creating the narrative shifts that make effective organizing possible. In our conversation we explore his new book , ART WORKS: How Organizers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together. BIO Ken Grossinger, has been a leading strategist in movements for social and economic justice for thirty-five years, in unions, philanthropic and community...
Jose Antonio Aguirre: Adventures in Aztlan
April 24, 2024 12:30 - 44 minutes - 102 MBBorn and raised in Mexico City Jose Antonio Aguirre has become internationally recognized for his venetian glass mosaic, and carved limestone murals many of which explore the people, places, and stories he has encountered as an artist who exists in two cultures bound by the Mexican and American bi-national spaces he has occupied for four decades. The Journey of Jose Antonio Aguirre In this episode of 'Change the Story, Change the World' we explore the life and works of Jose Antonio Agui...
Ash Hansen: Exclamation Points
April 10, 2024 12:30 - 51 minutes - 118 MBCan community theater help mend our broken and conflicted communities? In this episode Ash Hansen shares the story of what she and her many citizen collaborators have learned about how our place stories can help our communities not only heal but find new resilience and common ground. BIO Ash Hanson (she/her) has two decades of experience working with rural communities to activate stories, connect neighbors, and exercise collective imagination. She is the Creative Executive Officer (CEO) of...
Ash Hanson: Exclamation Points
April 10, 2024 12:30 - 51 minutes - 118 MBCan community theater help mend our broken and conflicted communities? In this episode Ash Hanson shares the story of what she and her many citizen collaborators have learned about how our place stories can help our communities not only heal but find new resilience and common ground. BIO Ash Hanson (she/her) has two decades of experience working with rural communities to activate stories, connect neighbors, and exercise collective imagination. She is the Creative Executive Officer (CEO) of...
Michael McCarty: Have Mouth Will Run It!
March 27, 2024 12:45 - 54 minutes - 125 MBMichael McCarty in my prison workshops, they say. “Storytelling, you're going to show us how to tell the Three Little Pigs?” I say, “Every living person has at least one story they need to tell. And (telling) that story will help them in their relationship with the people around them, and the world, and more importantly, with themselves. BIO Michael McCarty: Mother always told me stories. I began telling stories formally when I was in high school in Chicago (St. Ignatius) in the 60’s, sto...
3 TRICKSTERS SERIES: Robert Farid Karimi - Witness of Wonder (WOW!)
March 13, 2024 10:45 - 53 minutes - 98.4 MBRobert Farid Karimi The "inbetween" is often ignored. It is also the juicy territory that this week’s guest, comedian, chef, poet, educator, and activist Robert Farid Karimi has been investigating over the last couple of decades. like many of our guests Robert, who is also known as Mero Cocinero, Farid Mercury, the Peoples Chef, and even in some quarters, Betty Crocker's radical heir apparent, Robert is not easily pegged. In the conversation that follows we explore some of the stories, idea...
3 TRICKSTERS SERIES: Salty Xi Jie Ng - Citizen Scholar of the Cosmos - Act 2
March 06, 2024 10:45 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBIn this episode we continue down the path of the provocative and unexpected with Salty Xi Jie Ng. Along the way we will encounter the secret lives of art gallery security staff, a cooking show called Microwave Magic, bunion fetishes, and a very funny group of incarcerated artists. BE SURE TO LISTEN TO EPISODE 36 - CITIZEN SCHOLAR OF THE COSMOS - ACT 1 BIO Salty Xi Jie Ng co-creates semi-fictional paradigms for the real and imagined lives of humans within the poetics of the intimate verna...
3 TRICKSTERS SERIES: Salty Xi Jie Ng - Citizen Scholar of the Cosmos - ACT 1
February 28, 2024 10:45 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBEpisode Pull back the curtain on one of Salty's works and there's no telling what you will find -- a film, a party, an intimate discussion, a festival, a newspaper, a concert, a feast, and more often than, not an invitation to decide whether you want to participate as an audience member. or as part of the show. BIO Salty Xi Jie Ng co-creates semi-fictional paradigms for the real and imagined lives of humans within the poetics of the intimate vernacular. Often playing with relational possi...
3 TRICKSTER SERIES: Bonus Episode: Normando Performs
February 21, 2024 10:45 - 27 minutes - 31.8 MBCACHIRU & Magdelina and Jose Since we published Episode 28 featuring Normando Ismay, the loving trickster we have had requests for some of Normando's performances. He has been kind enough to share two pieces that we are presenting here. The first is Normando's telling of a traditional South American Story called Cachiru adapted by Normando with his own accompaniment on quena and bombo. The second, called Magdelina and Jose,, is a love story set in Argentina during the period of state te...
3 TRICKSTER SERIES: Normando Ismay - A Loving Trickster
February 14, 2024 10:45 - 43 minutes - 79.7 MBNormando Ismay – A Loving Trickster Normando Ismay was born in the city of All the Saints of the New Rioja in northwest Argentina. As a young adult, he came to the United States, settling in Atlanta to pursue a career as a visual artist. Since then, he has worked in a variety of media including metal, painting, sculpture and installation art. He built a barn-like structure in his backyard and began the operation of the Little Beirut Art Space, a gallery/performance venue for visual art exh...
Tasha Golden & Jill Sonke: Arts on Prescription
January 24, 2024 12:45 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBArts On Prescription: What if your doctor prescribed an arts-based treatment for what ails you and your health insurance paid for it. YEAH RIGHT! Actually, Yeah, right, and REALLY! In this episode we learn all about it in Arts on Prescription: A Field Guide for U. S. Communities ARTS ON PRESCRIPTION WEBINAR OPP: Looking for an opportunity to reimagine what health is and how we create it? TUNE IN HERE ON February 13th at 4pm (EST) for a transformative 45-minute webinar exploring the new re...
Scott Rankin: BIGhART - BIGsTORY Chapter 2
January 10, 2024 12:45 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBBIGhART is Australia's leading arts and social change organization. We make art, we build communities, we drive change. 30 years in operation, 62 communities engaged, 47 awards won, 550 artists contributed, 9, 500 people participated, 2. 6 million audience members. BIO Scott Rankin co-founded Big hART with friend John Bakes in 1992. As CEO and Creative Director, Scott leads the overarching vision for all Big hART projects – from pilot through to legacy. A leader and teacher in the fiel...
Scott Rankin: BIGhART - BIGsTORY
December 13, 2023 12:45 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBScott Rankin: When I describe BIGhART to folks in the US they accuse me of making it up. In this episode Scott Rankin, BIGhART’s founder, describes how this expansive, constantly morphing, multi-disciplinary, thirty-year long enterprise became one of the world's leading arts and social change organizations. This is first of two episodes featuring Scott. You can listen to Chapter 2 HERE BIO Scott co-founded Big hART with friend John Bakes in 1992. As CEO and Creative Director, Scott leads ...
Tisidra Jones: Strong and Starlike
November 29, 2023 12:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBTisidra Jones: is a poster child for cross-sector, hybrid creative community leadership. Trained in theater, and music, and as a lawyer, Tisidra has built a company that uses all of these assets in service to people and organizations working for change. BIO Tisidra is a sought-after speaker, award-winning artist and lawyer who works at the intersection of inclusion, engagement and equal opportunity policies. Her methodology blends legal and policy research, sociological studies, and arts...
Henry Frank 2.0: Further Adventures of a Free Artist
November 15, 2023 12:45 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBIn Episode 34 Henry Frank shared the story of his long trek from San Quentin as a lifer, to finding both freedom and a community eager to learn from him as an artist, teacher, and healer. Here are three amazing new chapters that that Henry shared about his continuing journey. Bio I am a descendant of the great nations of the Yurok and Pomo Tribes. I am a returning resident, former Arts In Corrections participant/clerk, and currently working for the William James Association as the Communi...
Amoke Kubat: YO MAMA is in the House
November 01, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBÀmọ̀kẹ́ Kubat's work rises up in a dozen different overlapping directions. In North Minneapolis you'll likely hear her described as an organizer, a puppeteer, a healer, a priestess, a playwright, a counselor, a writer, a teacher, an actress, a curator, a storyteller, and more often than not, a provocateur. Bio: Amoke Kubat is an artist, weaver, sacred doll maker, and sometimes stand-up comedian, who uses her art to speak truth to power and hold a position of wellness in an America sick w...
Barry Gillespie: Is There a Place for Joy and Compassion?
October 18, 2023 16:45 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBBio Barry Gillespie was introduced to meditation practice in 1978, through the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram. In 2003 he began exploring Theravada Buddhist practice, sitting many long retreats at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA and Spirit Rock in Woodacre, CA. His principal teacher is Guy Armstrong. Barry is an affiliated teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Colorado (IMCC). He teaches mainly in Boulder and at the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. Contact Bar...
The Book of Judith: Prison Truth Through Fiction
September 27, 2023 12:45 - 37 minutes - 85.2 MBPrison Truth Through Fiction How do you prepare artists to teach in the foggy upside down netherworld of prison? This episode tells how California's Arts in Corrections program answered that question with a twist. Excerpted from the recently published, The Book of Judith (New Village Press) and tells the amazing story of how poet/teacher Judith Tannenbaum's crafted the story of a fictional prison to reveal the often confounding reality of prison life. The Book of Judith: Opening Hearts ...
Alice Lovelace 2.0: This Poem IS Going Somewhere!
September 13, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 80.4 MBIn our last conversation, (Episode 26) we shared Alice Lovelace's tumultuous history as a solo teaching artist and performer working with young writers all across the rural south. What follows is Alice's next chapter. In it she talks about building an extraordinary multi-disciplinary, cross-sector cultural institution that rises up from the funky detritus of the pandemic as a new beachhead of creative change in a small Georgia Community. BIO Alice Lovelace is a cultural worker, performan...
Harry Boyte: Democracy & Imagination
August 30, 2023 11:45 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBThroughout his career, activist, organizer, educator, and author Harry Boyte. has asked a simple, but obviously challenging question: How can we make democracy an everyday practice for everyone? Given the warnings about the end of democracy, our discussion about role of culture in the labor and civil rights movements, and the inseparable nature of imagination and democracy is timely, to say the least. BIO Harry C. Boyte is a co-founder with Marie Ström of the Public Work Academy and Senio...
Carlton Turner: SIPP Culture Rising -Reprise-
August 16, 2023 12:45 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBCarlton Turner understands that when you can't feed yourself the imagination is the first thing to go And if you can't "see" a different future you can't make change. Sipp Culture is about feeding both the body and the mind's eye. BIO Carlton Turner is an artist, agriculturalist, researcher, and co-founder of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture). Sipp Culture uses food and story to support rural community development in his hometown of Utica, Mississippi where hi...
Cynthia Winton-Henry: INTERPLAY - ART - BODY - SOUL
August 02, 2023 12:45 - 55 minutes - 127 MBOver the past four decades, this episode's guest, Cynthia Winton-Henry, and the worldwide community, she and her collaborator, Phil Porter, have helped to grow, have sparked a reconvening of the pre-historic circle of dance and song, and story that animated and nurtured the nascent human community. For more inspiring change maker stories also check out the Change the Story Collection BIO Cynthia Winton-Henry, M.Div, co-founded InterPlay (www.interplay.org) with Phil Porter in 1989. They ...
Alice Lovelace: How to thrive as a creative change agent.
July 19, 2023 12:45 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBEpisode 76: Alice Lovelace: How to Thrive as a Creative Change Agent (Reprise) Lately, we have heard from many artists and arts organizations who are joining the creative change movement. In response, we are revisiting Alice's story of creativity, chutzpah, and courage as a peaceful disrupter making serious change across the deep south under the most challenging conditions. For more inspiring change maker stories also check out the Change the Story Collection: Threshold Questions & Del...
Brain Dance for Breaking Ice: Art, Neuroscience, & Racial Reckoning
July 05, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBSpending time with the Breaking Ice theater based diversity, equity, and inclusion program gave rise to a question: How might new insights about how the brain works might help us better understand the how and why of our continuing struggle with difference? Here is what ensued. LISTEN TO Breaking Ice Chapter 1 LISTEN TO Breaking Ice Chapter 2 Change the Story / All Episodes Change the Story Collections - Our full catalogue of Episodes in 12 Collections: Justice Arts, Art & Healing, Cult...
Breaking Ice is Changing DEI Work one Performance at a Time - Chapter 2
June 21, 2023 11:45 - 41 minutes - 38 MBBreaking Ice - Chapter 2 Fear of judgement, the courage of sharing pain, or guilt, or confusion, owning that not knowing is not an excuse for hurting, that humility is hard, that learning hard things is harder, and accepting responsibility is a daily struggle. This is the rocky relational landscape being explored by five BreakIng Ice performers on a bare stage at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. louis, Missouri in the winter of 2019. LISTEN TO Breaking Ice Chapter 1 Change the Story / All Ep...
Breaking Ice is Changing DEI One Performance at a Time: Chapter 1
June 07, 2023 12:45 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBThis episode and next will tell the story my time with Breaking Ice and share what I learned about the program's evolution and history, its impact, and its innovative approach helping workplaces large and small "cultivate courageous dialogue around issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. BIO's Noël Raymond holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Minnesota and a BFA from Ithaca College in New York. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Multicultural Development Ce...
Episode 72 Dominic Campbell: The Arts Can Help us Create a Culture of Care
May 24, 2023 12:45 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBIn Episode 71, Dominic Campbell talked about the community building power of Caribbean Carnival and working with cutting edge brain science at the Global Brain Health Institute. In this episode, Dominic Campbell explores questions like: What roles can artists can play at the intersection of science, healthcare, and policymaking? What conditions support radical collaborative thinking and design? And how can artists help scientists communicate with the real world, or as Dominic puts it “lab to...
Is Creative Aging the Cutting Edge of Community Arts?
May 10, 2023 11:30 - 33 minutes - 77.6 MBIn this episode international arts and aging leader Dominic Campbell will share his thoughts about some intriguing questions: Can an active creative culture change the scary stories we tell ourselves about getting older? Can large scale festivals help communities find common ground in their work with older citizens? What is creative aging and why is it being embraced by gerontologists, and brain scientists across the planet? BIO Dominic Campbell is the originator and co-leader of Creative ...
Episode 70: Veronica Rojas - An Artist at work @ the Global Brain Health Institute
April 26, 2023 12:45 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBIn this episode Veronica Rojas talks about working to advance new insights and ideas about creative aging alongside neurologists, architects, journalists, economists, psychologists, educators, and other artists as a Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. It's quite an adventure. BIO Veronica Rojas: Veronica Rojas (b. Mexico City, 1973) was born into a multi-cultural family; her father is Mexican and her mother Swedish. Veronica grew up ...
Episode 69: Anne Basting - Art & Aging, A Radical Prescription
April 12, 2023 13:15 - 48 minutes - 55.4 MBANNE BASTING's work at the crossroads of Arts and Aging has allowed her to pioneer new approaches to the challenges faced by our aging population. In this episode we learn how her efforts have helped advance the creative aging approach as a powerful and effective prescription for reducing isolation, promoting social connections, and mitigating a the symptoms of dementia. BIO Anne Basting is a writer, artist and advocate for the power of creativity to transform our lives. She is Professor...
Episode 68: Art in a Democracy
March 29, 2023 12:45 - 43 minutes - 49.7 MBThis episode is Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater. Our conversation with editor Ben Fink and contributor Arnaldo J. Lopez. explores Roadside's 50-year history of creative collaboration percolating at the crossroads of art, community, and America's struggle to craft an authentic living democracy. BIO’s Ben Fink: Ben Fink worked with the Roadside ensemble from 2015 through 2020, as a member of the Betsy! Scholars’ Circle, as the founding organizer of the Letcher Count...
Episode 67: Eric Booth: Making Stuff You Care About to Make Change
March 15, 2023 12:45 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBThis episode's guest is artist, educator, and global cultural leader, Eric Booth. Eric’s passion is activating the artistry of others to foster wellness, create thriving communities and change behaviors for the better. Eric has written seven books, taught at Juilliard, Stanford, Lincoln Center, and consulted on arts, learning, teaching, and innovation across the globe. BIO In 2015 Eric Booth was given the nation’s highest award in arts education (the first artist to receive it). He began ...
Episode 66: Arlene Goldbard - We Burn & Are Not Consumed
March 01, 2023 12:45 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBArlene Goldbard In this episode we talk to author, visual artist, educator, and activist Arlene Goldbard about her new book. In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does it Mean to be Educated. In it she explores her life's journey along with a camp of 11 angels that include James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Paolo Freire, Doris Lessing, and Jane Jacobs. Bio Arlene Goldbard (www.arlenegoldbard.com) is a New Mexico-based writer, speaker, consultant, cultural activist, and visual artist whose foc...
Episode 65: Lorrie Chang - Finding an Art & Community TRUE NORTH
February 15, 2023 12:45 - 49 minutes - 78.8 MBThis week we visit with researcher, writer, planner, Lorrie Chang to talk about her work with ArtPlace America's Community Development Investment (CDI) program. Along the way we will explore how artists from the Zuni Pueblo, and Southwest Minnesota worked with community developers to integrate arts-based tools and strategies as an enduring core of their practice? BIO Lorrie Chang centers an arts and cultural-based approach to community change and development as a path to collective libera...
Episode 64: A Conversation With Liz Lerman - Ch. 2
February 01, 2023 12:45 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBIn Episode 63 of Change the Story / Change the World, Liz Lerman shared stories about her early years and her creative path as a choreographer, teacher, and as a lifelong practicing heretic. In this Episode, (64) we hear about Wicked Bodies, her latest work, exploring the ugly, the beautiful, and the sublime embedded in the age-old story of witches. Special Thanks to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for their support of Liz Lerman's work and the use of an excerpt from the Wicked Bodies...
Episode 63: A Conversation with Liz Lerman
January 18, 2023 12:45 - 53 minutes - 61.7 MBLiz Lerman In chapter one of our conversation with Liz Lerman we'll talk about her early years, her career as a heretic, the critical response process, the Heisenberg Uncertainty, the power of the horizontal, and how dance can make the world a better place. BIO Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, teacher, and speaker. She has spent the past four decades making her artistic research personal, funny, intellectually vivid, and up to the minute. A key aspect of her artistry is ...
BONUS: Change the Story- Genesis
January 11, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBWhere did Change the Story / Change the World come from? How about a bad home, drugs, and prison. A predictable story? Sure, except when you throw in the National Cathedral Choir, a geodesic dome, and the stubborn belief that art can save the world. You never know! In this episode we are going back to the beginning with the first episode of what was then a new podcast produced by the Center for the Study of Art & Community in 2020 called Change the Story, Change the World. In it I share th...
EP 62: 2022 Year-End Questions
December 28, 2022 12:45 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBWe've come up with four questions from listeners during 2022 that seem to jump out. They deal with creative partnerships in prison. teaching the arts online, something called the Tyranny of Comfort and what neuroscience can tell us about Arts and Change.
Episode 61: Rad Pereira - Healing Justice Rising
December 14, 2022 12:00 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBRad Pereira is an old soul-young heart theater artist, writer, educator, and community activist with a very clear sense of purpose and direction --- defined by questions like: How can we imagine, and manifest alternate futures together? Was my body conditioned to survive in a world not made for me? and Can the natural world function as a moral compass? BIO I am a multi-spirit mixed Black, Indigenous Brazilian, Jewish (im)migrant artist currently based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). My creati...
Barry Marcus Redux- A Creative Culture Celebratory Remembrance
December 07, 2022 12:45 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBBarry Marcus Redux- A Creative Culture Celebratory Remembrance This is a hard introduction to make. A good friend, a special soul has passed over. I am grieving over the loss of my dear brother Barry Marcus. I know, who in the hell wants to listen to a sad guy in mourning but bear with me for a moment here. I’m going to say my little piece, and then let you decide for yourself what to make of Barry as we replay his Change the Story episode as celebratory remembrance. So, my little piece: ...
Episode 60 Susie Tanner - TheaterWorkers Inside Out
November 23, 2022 19:45 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week follows from Episode 59 in which Susie Tanner, Bruce Springsteen, and a band of unemployed steelworkers take a play about the death of a steel mill called lady Beth across America. In this episode, Susie joins up with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists share their stories of their lives and loves in and out of the prison Industrial complex. Find TheaterWorkers Chapter 1 : Here
Episode 59: Susie Tanner - TheaterWorkers
November 09, 2022 12:45 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBOnce upon a time, theater Director Susie Tanner, steelworkers, & Bruce Springsteen teamed up to spread the devastating truth about steel plant shutdowns across the US. This is their story. BIO Susan “Susie” Franklin Tanner has worked as a Theatre Artist since 1973. In 1983 she received a California Arts Council Artist in Communities grant to create TheatreWorkers Project. As the founder and director, she has led the company in the development of 16 documentary plays including Lady Beth: t...
Episode 58: Matthew Fluharty - Art of the Rural - Chapter 2
October 26, 2022 12:45 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBEpisode 58: Matthew Fluharty - Art of the Rural - Chapter 2 This is our second episode focusing on Matthew Fluharty's work at Art of the Rural. In it we explore the continuing story of Sauget Illinois, the power of nostalgia, the iconic importance of Busch Light beer, and the amazing legacy of Family Video. Listen to Art of the Rural Chapter 1 HERE BIO Matthew is the Founder and Executive Director of Art of the Rural, a member of M12 Studio, and faculty on the Rural Environments Field ...
Episode 57: Matthew Fluharty - Art of the Rural - Chapter 1
October 12, 2022 12:45 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBEpisode 57: Matthew Fluharty - Art of the Rural - Chapter 1 Matthew Fluharty is a curious, thoughtful, passionate, humble dot connector who asks as many questions of himself as he does of the cosmos in his roles as a poet, essayist, curator, and policy wonk. The Art of the Rural, the organization he founded in 2010, is at the forefront of the story liberation movement. BIO Matthew is the Founder and Executive Director of Art of the Rural, a member of M12 Studio, and faculty on the Rural ...
Lorraine Hansberry @ Pillsbury House + Theatre - Gifted & Black
September 28, 2022 12:45 - 44 minutes - 41 MBNever be afraid to sit awhile and think. Lorraine Hansberry In this bonus episode of Change the Story, Change the World, we're going to share an audio portrait of a project currently taking place at the subject of our past 2 episodes, Pillsbury House & Theater. The project is called To Sit a While and celebrates the work and life of playwright, journalist, and activist Lorraine Hansberry, who also happens to be the subject to the song we just heard that was written and sung by a young Twi...