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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Episode 56: Pillsbury House + Theatre - Chapter 2
September 14, 2022 12:45 - 27 minutes - 63 MBThis is the second chapter of the Pillsbury House + Theatre story. At the corner of George Floyd Square & the Pandemic, PH+T is breaking the community development mold using the power of the arts & culture to stimulate community health, ownership & justice. Missed Chapter 1? Go To CSCW EP 55, Pillsbury House + Theater Chapter 1 BIO’s Signe V. Harriday is Artistic Producing Director at Pillsbury House + Theatre. Signe is a fierce visionary and powerful storyteller who crafts theatre that ...
Episode 55: Pillsbury House + Theatre - Chapter 1
August 31, 2022 12:45 - 42 minutes - 68.5 MBPillsbury House + Theatre is a groundbreaking “new model for human service work that recognizes the power of the arts and culture to stimulate community participation, investment and ownership.” This is the first of two PH+T chapters. This is a 2 Part show. Here is a link to Chapter 2 and the Bonus Episode: Lorraine Hansberry @ Pillsbury House + Theatre - Gifted & Black BIO’s Signe V. Harriday is Artistic Producing Director at Pillsbury House + Theatre. Signe is a fierce visionary an...
Episode 55: Pillsbury House + Theater - Chapter 1
August 31, 2022 12:45 - 42 minutes - 68.5 MBPillsbury House + Theater is a groundbreaking “new model for human service work that recognizes the power of the arts and culture to stimulate community participation, investment and ownership.” This is the first of two PH+T chapters. BIO’sSigne V. Harriday is Artistic Producing Director at Pillsbury House + Theatre. Signe is a fierce visionary and powerful storyteller who crafts theatre that awakens our individual and collective humanity. As a director, multidisciplinary artist, activist, ...
The Nouvella - Using Fiction to Tell the Truth
August 17, 2022 12:45 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThe recorded conference presentation you are about to hear includes a made up game show, a scene from a novella about artists working in a fictional prison, and a visit to a fake town in the midst of a harsh reckoning around issues of race, justice, othering, and belonging. (A Reprise of Episode 27) Welcome to a Bonus edition of Change the Story Change the World —- as we pay a visit to the 16th Annual Art in Society Conference. Bill Cleveland: Hi I’m Bill Cleveland, the host of Change t...
Episode 54: Dijana Milošević - DAH Teatar
August 03, 2022 12:00 - 56 minutes - 91.3 MBDAH SAYS: "In today’s world, we can oppose destruction and violence with the creation of meaning ... we create bold dramatic art to provoke, inspire, and incite personal and social transformation." Be sure to check out our CHANGE THE STORY COLLECTION OF ARCHIVED EPISODES on: Justice Arts, Art & Healing, Cultural Organizing, Arts Ed./Children & Youth, Community Arts Training, Music for Change, Theater for Change, Change Making Media. BIO Dijana Milošević is an award-winning theater direc...
CSCW EP: 53 - Felicia Young - Ecological Cities
July 20, 2022 12:45 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBFelicia Young uses arts-based strategies and tools to spur community action. She has helped save hundreds of New York's community gardens, clean up a sacred river in India, stymie one of America’s most powerful politicians, bring attention to local solutions to the climate crises, and most importantly bring people together to make real change. BIO Felicia Young is a social action artist and the Founder/Executive Director of Earth Celebrations, a non-profit organization since 1991 engagin...
CSCW Bonus Reprise: Jan Cohen Cruz - Meeting the Moment
July 13, 2022 12:45 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MBThis Bonus episode of Change the Story / Change the World is in celebration of the publishing of Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance - 1965-2020 by Those Who Lived It, by Jan Cohen Cruz and Rad Pereira. Hi this is Bill Cleveland. I'd like to welcome you to a Bonus episode of Change the Story / Change the World in celebration of a publishing milestone. For the past 4 decades Jan Cohen Cruz has been working at the crossroads of theater and social change, as a performer, as a teac...
Episode 52: Gary Glassman - Smooth Walk to Providence
June 29, 2022 12:45 - 42 minutes - 68.3 MBWho would have thought that running away with the circus could lead to a career as a successful filmmaker. Gary Glassman's path to filmmaking also, includes, street theater, teaching, prison work, and media technology. The through-line for Gary's creative adventure has been asking questions and, what else, telling stories. Bio Gary Glassman believes television can change the world. He comes to television through street and circus performing – clowning, fire-eating, tight rope and stilt wa...
Subito Story 1: Karina Kantas
June 22, 2022 22:45 - 9 minutes - 8.55 MBFrom time to time on change the Story we share a short feature we call Subito Stories. In today's Subito Story We are traveling to a Greek Island to meet an artist who I think personifies the unrelenting potency of the imaginative muscle to entertain, to provoke, and to heal. Her name is Karina Kantas. At the Center for the Study of Art & Community we believe that the imagination, is the most powerful aspect of what it is to be human. Our ability to conjure new ideas, complex narratives, ...
Episode 51: Wayne Cook - A Dream Recalled
June 15, 2022 12:15 - 30 minutes - 49.3 MBWayne Cook calls himself bumpy. Which is an apt metaphor for the story we are about to share. In it, Wayne plays a promising young athlete, a crash victim, a soldier in Germany, a child therapist, a stage actor, the Black Mr. Rogers, an arts administrator, a successful author, and Langston Hughes. BIO Wayne Cook worked at the California Arts Council for 23 years, where he was Program Manager of the Artists in School’s Program and the ADA/504 Disability Coordinator. He Currently consults fo...
Episode 50: David Moragne - Summer Sail One
June 01, 2022 12:45 - 42 minutes - 39 MBWhen does a war truly end? What becomes of those left standing and, the ghosts that remain? In 2001, Vietnam vet, David Moragne returned to Vietnam with his comrades with those questions. His film, Flashback: Summer Sail One Revisited documents what they discovered. Bio David Moragne, was born in Manhattan, raised in the Bronx, nurtured in Greenwood, S.C. and grew up in Dong Ha, RVN. He is a retired visual facilitator and storyteller, who has lived an adventurous life before settling d...
Episode 49: Art and Upheaval
May 18, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBNotable Mentions For this episode of Change the Story Change the World we are going to revisit some of those Art and Upheaval stories along with the song of the same name to make a point. Yea, some people think you can’t beat the devil with a song, but they don’t know! Art & Upheaval (song) From the CD Songlines by Cleveland Plainsong: Art & Upheaval: Artists at Work on the World’s Frontlines, New Village Press Change the Story Change the World South African Bill of Rights: The Bill of ...
Episode 48: Jennifer Williams - Art and the Changing World
May 04, 2022 12:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBCan small stories, from out of the way places make a big difference. Jennifer Williams not only thinks so, she has spent her life sharing those stories and spreading the good word. BIO Jennifer Williams is an American artist based in London. Before moving to the UK, she co-produced the Williams Toy Theater, a touring puppet theater. In 1978, she founded and directed the Centre for Creative Communities (formerly British American Arts Association), London, which was open until 2009. The Cen...
Episode 47: Carlton Turner - Sipp Culture Rising
April 20, 2022 12:45 - 1 hour - 102 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...
Episode 46: Elise Witt - All Singing
April 06, 2022 12:45 - 56 minutes - 90.2 MBBIO Elise was born in Switzerland, raised in North Carolina, and since 1977 has made her home in Atlanta. She speaks fluent Italian, French, German, Spanish, and English and sings in over a dozen languages. Her passion for music and languages has led her to take her Global, Local & Homemade Songs™ across the United States and around the globe. Among her ancestors, Elise claims “Wedding March” composer Felix Mendelssohn and his grandfather, Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn; Protestant c...
Episode 45: Ron Chew - Unforgetting Our Stories
March 23, 2022 14:00 - 46 minutes - 77.4 MBCan a museum be a force for social change? Can history heal? Can our stories be unforgotten? Ron Chew says, "YES!, YES! YES!, and Much More!" Ron Chew has spent his life telling stories. Stories that reveal hidden history. Stories that inspire and mobilize. Stories that nurture and heal. The power of these stories has improved the lives of Seattle's Asian Pacific Islander Community, and by extension help that city reckon with its unsettling history with that community. Notable Mentio...
Episode 44 Jeremy Kagan - Movies Making Change, ACT 2
March 09, 2022 12:45 - 31 minutes - 56.7 MBIn our second episode featuring Jeremy Kagan, we discuss the matter of trust in social impact art-making, and in the community writ large, particularly these days. We also talk about these issues as they relate to Jeremy's film Crown Heights, which deals with the violence and hatred that erupted between the black and the Orthodox Jewish Hasidic communities in Brooklyn in 1991. BIO Jeremy Kagan is a director/writer/producer of feature films and television. His credits include the box-offi...
Episode 43: Jeremy Kagan: Movies Making Change
February 23, 2022 14:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this episode we visit with storied Hollywood director Jeremy Kagan, whose career has proved that yes, the power of story on the big screen, the small screen, and the community screen can be both entertaining and help change hearts and minds for the better. BIO Jeremy Kagan is a director/writer/producer of feature films and television. His credits include the box-office hits Heroes (1977), The Big Fix (1978) and The Chosen (1981). His The Journey of Natty Gann (1985) was the first US fi...
Episode 42: Pangea World Theater - Chapter 2
February 09, 2022 12:45 - 22 minutes - 39.1 MBIn Episode 40 Dipankar Mukherjee, and Meena Natarajan discussed their work around issues of race and justice. In this second half, we asked: How can Pangea, a small community-based cultural institution punching way above its weight, maintain the power and integrity of its community building work amidst the chaos and uncertainty of contemporary life in America? Pangea World Theater spent its 25th anniversary year helping their Minneapolis community heal the wounds and sort through the ashes ...
Episode 41: Pangea World Theater - Chapter 2
February 09, 2022 12:45 - 22 minutes - 39.1 MBIn https://change-the-story-chan.captivate.fm/episode/episode-40-pangea-world-theater-chapter-1 (Episode 40) Dipankar Mukherjee, and Meena Natarajan discussed their work around issues of race and justice. In this second half, we asked: How can Pangea, a small community-based cultural institution punching way above its weight, maintain the power and integrity of its community building work amidst the chaos and uncertainty of contemporary life in America? Pangea World Theater spent its 25th ann...
Episode 41: Pangea World Theater - Chapter 1
January 26, 2022 11:45 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBPangea World Theater spent its 25th anniversary year helping their Minneapolis community heal the wounds and sort through the ashes left in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. But this mending and reckoning dance was nothing new because Pangea's work is intrinsic to the story of this place-- It’s struggles.-- It's beauty-- It's resilience. This is the first of two episodes recounting Pangea's transformational history and impact. ANNOUNCING THE CHANGE THE STORY COLLECTION A LIBRARY ...
Episode 40: Pangea World Theater - Chapter 1
January 26, 2022 11:45 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBPangea World Theater spent its 25th anniversary year helping their Minneapolis community heal the wounds and sort through the ashes left in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. But this mending and reckoning dance was nothing new because Pangea's work is intrinsic to the story of this place-- It’s struggles.-- It's beauty-- It's resilience. This is the first of two episodes recounting Pangea's transformational history and impact. ANNOUNCING https://www.artandcommunity.com/copy-of-podcas...
CSCW: Bonus Episode: Normando Performs
January 19, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes - 29.6 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...
Normando Ismay – A Loving Trickster
January 13, 2022 13:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBNeedless to say, this year has been both odd and extraordinary. Odd? --- Well, Pick your poison. Extraordinary? --- Because we spent the year having amazing conversations with dozens of creative change agents who are kicking ass making a real difference in the upside-down world we live in. These conversations have helped us at the Center for the Study of Art & Community manage the lurking shadows and have sparked some new ideas and even optimism. We're excited to be starting our second sea...
Episode 40: Normando Ismay – A Loving Trickster REPRISE
January 13, 2022 13:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBNeedless to say, this year has been both odd and extraordinary. Odd? --- Well, Pick your poison. Extraordinary? --- Because we spent the year having amazing conversations with dozens of creative change agents who are kicking ass making a real difference in the upside-down world we live in. These conversations have helped us at the Center for the Study of Art & Community manage the lurking shadows and have sparked some new ideas and even optimism. We're excited to be starting our second sea...
Episode 4: Beth Thielen - Love and Freedom REPRISE
December 30, 2021 14:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBEpisode 4: Beth Thielen - Love and Freedom Bookmakers at San Quentin. Not surprising, given "Q's" clientele. But no, we're talking about real books with real pages that are awe-inspiring works of art. Transcript Needless to say, this year has been both odd and extraordinary. Odd? --- Well, Pick your poison. Extraordinary? --- Because we spent the year having amazing conversations with dozens of creative change agents who are kicking ass making a real difference in the upside-down ...
Episode 38: Beverly Naidus - Rewilding Our Muses
December 15, 2021 12:15 - 40 minutes - 73.1 MBBIO Beverly Naidus's art life has straddled the socially engaged margins of the art world, artful activism collaborations, and community-based art projects. Her audience participatory installations, artists books, photo-text and multimedia projects have dealt with the anxieties of being unemployed, nightmares about nuclear war, ways to transform body hate, using consumerism to numb ourselves from the extractive insanity of our capitalist economy, how grief and gratitude weave together in th...
Episode 37: Salty Xi Jie Ng - Citizen Scholar of the Cosmos - Act 2
December 01, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBEPISODE 37: In 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 in...
Episode 36: Salty Xi Jie Ng - Citizen Scholar of the Cosmos
November 18, 2021 12:45 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBEpisodePull 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. BIOSalty 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 possibiliti...
Episode 36: Salty Xi Jie Ng - Citizen Scholar of the Cosmos - ACT 1
November 18, 2021 12:45 - 34 minutes - 31.2 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...
Episode 35: Jan Cohen Cruz - Meeting the Moment
November 03, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutes - 109 MBJan Cohen-Cruz has given a lot to the field of arts-based community development. By that, I mean that there's a significant body of academic and community-based artwork, scholarship, teaching, and organizing that are absolutely covered with her fingerprints. BIO Jan Cohen-Cruz was the founding editor of Public: A Journal of Imagining America. She directed Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (2007-12), and for 28 years before that, was a professor at NYU, directing a mino...
Episode 34: Henry Frank - Unlocking the Doors
October 20, 2021 14:00 - 42 minutes - 73.9 MBHenry Frank was rotting in prison alone with no escape. Then, everything changed. In our conversation we talk about the heavy lift of imagining a different future, becoming an artist, discovering true friendship, and embracing his Yurok and Pomo cultures. Delicious Quotes And I was like, I refuse to die in prison. And from that point forward, I started my journey of introspection through the arts, through education, through workshops, through self-help groups to really become comfortable w...
Episode 33: Jill Sonke: "Call Arts in Medicine, STAT!"
October 06, 2021 13:15 - 52 minutes - 86.6 MBJill Sonke is a creative healer in service to a community of doctors, nurses, artists, educators, and most of all, patients on a journey that reunites the arts and medicine in their age-old roles as healing partners. BIO Jill is director of the Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida (UF), and is currently serving as Senior Advisor to the CDC Vaccine Confidence and Demand Team on the COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Task Force. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the U...
Episode 32: Robert Farid Karimi - BUILDING BRIDGES (WOW!)
September 22, 2021 14:00 - 52 minutes - 94.9 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...
Episode 31: Joe Lambert - Making Good Stories that Help Us
September 01, 2021 14:00 - 49 minutes - 84.8 MBShow Notes The Story of My Story A Digital Story by K MUSIC PLAYING K: In a funny way, books raised me. I didn't have the things a child needs to be a child; security, safety, comfort, love. But I always found happiness in learning new things. When I turned eight, my mother passed away from her battle with AIDS.I remember how even at her funeral, I was thinking about how I could get my homework done. . Right after that I was brought to this country. And the only thing I could bring wit...
Episode 30: Susan Hill - The Path Made by Walking Forward
August 09, 2021 14:00 - 38 minutes - 69.9 MBSusan Hill: The Path Made by Walking Forward Susan Hill has, one of the best minds, and hearts I know for translating human creativity to the needs of the human community. In our conversation, we talk about how that complex alchemy works, and doesn’t, getting the respect of people who really distrust you, and what happens when the lights go off in a high-security prison classroom. Here is her bio followed by our full transcript. Susan Hill: I’m an eccentric combination of very small town...
Episode 29: Becky Reardon - Finding the Moon
July 21, 2021 12:15 - 45 minutes - 76 MBEpisode 29: Becky Reardon - Finding the Moon Becky Reardon describes herself as “In the music” Her songs, tell us about the human community, our mother earth, and the reverence, and awe, and humility, and joy, and solace, and deep understandings that can rise up when you make time and space to listen to what she has to say. Becky Reardon's voice is familiar to the millions of people who heard her sing on the Charlie Brown TV specials (Charles Schultz called her his favorite singer!). She ...
Episode 28: Normando Ismay - A Loving Trickster
July 07, 2021 14:00 - 39 minutes - 70.3 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...
The Nouvella: Story-based Learning for Creative Change Agents
June 30, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutes - 34 MBTHE NOUVELLA: STORY-BASED COMMUNITY ARTS TRAINING Hi I’m Bill Cleveland, the host of Change the Story / Change the World. This week we are going to share something a bit different. In June of 2021 I participated in an international conference convened by the Art in Society Research Network. My part was a presentation about using story-based strategies for community arts training. Because of the pandemic, the conference was entirely online, with most of the presentation were delivered asynch...
EP 26: Jessa Brie Moreno - Creative Midwife
June 17, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes - 61.8 MBThreshold Questions and Delicious Quotes How do you describe your work in the world? I often refer to myself as a midwife of creativity... I think of it in my dual roles as an educator and artist, as holding space for the birth of someone else's creative thinking and inquiry. And so I liked that idea that, if something goes wrong here I am to hold the space. What is happening when young people catch fire in a performance? ..students, who have been marginalized or failing their other subj...
Episode 25: Su-lin Ngiam-Agents of Hope
May 26, 2021 14:00 - 36 minutes - 41.8 MBCSCW EP 25: Su-Lin Ngiam - Agents of Hope Threshold Questions & Delicious Quotes What does the ArtsWok Collaborative do? I like to say that we're agents of hope. That we're really here to inject hope in society, or at least we try to, and it's about the bridging difference be it between people or ideas or uncomfortable topics. How do your very public arts practices advance your issue-based community work? …we want it to be out there where people can see, they can hear --- really bringin...
Episode 24: David O'Fallon - Power Plays
May 04, 2021 14:00 - 42 minutes - 48.3 MBCSCW EP 24: David O'Fallon - Power Plays Please know that this episode contains descriptions of war that include violence and psychological trauma. We endeavor to do our best to engage these hard stories with care and respect. Please also be aware that there is a lot of hope, healing and optimism contained herein. We hope you will join us whenever you are willing and able. Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes Of what use are the arts in these turbulent times? I think one of the most...
Episode 23: Alice Lovelace - A Peaceful Distrupter
April 16, 2021 14:00 - 42 minutes - 68.5 MBEpisode 23: Alice Lovelace - A Peaceful Disrupter Music Attribution Variations on a theme 1 » The Rush (w/ drum) - Variations 1 (c) by PodcastAC This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You should have received a copy of the license along with this work. If not, see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes What is "This Poem" really about? This poem is a cultural hybrid Travelin' ...
Episode 22: Bob Leonard - The Continuing Evolution of the Horse
March 31, 2021 18:00 - 48 minutes - 83 MBEpisode 22: Bob Leonard - The Continuing Evolution of the Horse Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes What is the artist's role in the altered and uncertain world we are entering? …there is a human, passion for justice, and it would seem that it's hard to get…as human beings, we rely on the stories that we tell each other to keep our sense of direction. I don't mean down a road, but where's North. … And we understand ourselves through our stories, and that includes that passion for jus...
Episode 21: Justin Laing - Taking Back the Land
March 19, 2021 12:15 - 43 minutes - 98.9 MBEpisode 21: Justin Laing: - Taking Back The Land Justin Laing Before starting Hillombo in 2017, Justin worked as a Senior Program Officer of Arts & Culture at The Heinz Endowments for more than a decade. His work focused on small and midsized arts organizations, out-of-school time arts education, and Black arts organizations, with a particular interest in participatory grantmaking. He came to philanthropy having worked for ten years as the Assistant Director of Nego Gato, Inc, an Afro Braz...
Xavier Dephrepaulezz - Fantastic Negrito / Have You Lost Your Mind Yet
March 03, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes - 41.1 MBEpisode 20 : Xavier Dphrepaulezz Fantastic Negrito / Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? REDUX On March 14th our friend and Change the Story guest Xavier Dephrepaulezz, also known as Fantastic Negrito will hear if he has garnered his 3rd Grammy in 5 years for his 2020 release Have you Lost Your Mind Yet. To help nudge the stars into alignment for Xavier we are re-broadcasting our Episode 6 conversation with him. This Episode not only includes great music and, of course, FANTASTIC stories, but a...
Episode 6: Xavier Dephrepaulezz - Fantastic Negrito / Have You Lost Your Mind Yet
March 03, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes - 41.1 MBEpisode 20 : Xavier Dphrepaulezz Fantastic Negrito / Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? REDUX On March 14th our friend and Change the Story guest Xavier Dephrepaulezz, also known as Fantastic Negrito will hear if he has garnered his 3rd Grammy in 5 years for his 2020 release Have you Lost Your Mind Yet. To help nudge the stars into alignment for Xavier we are re-broadcasting our Episode 6 conversation with him. This Episode not only includes great music and, of course, FANTASTIC stories, but a...
Episode 19: Mary Cohen-Freeing Silenced Voices
February 17, 2021 14:30 - 46 minutes - 83.8 MBEpisode 19: Mary Cohen - Freeing Silenced VoicesThreshold Questions and Delicious QuotesHow can singing a song help change the mind and the heart? ...the thing about singing that's really valuable for me at least is it's embodied. We're using our breath. We're using our voice. We're using our ears. We're feeling the vibrations in our bodies. So being able to do that with other people is super- it can be powerful. One of the students in the peace building class last spring shared such an ins...
Episode 19: Mary Cohen-Hearing incarcerated Voices
February 17, 2021 14:30 - 46 minutes - 83.8 MBEpisode 19: Mary Cohen - Freeing Silenced Voices Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes How can singing a song help change the mind and the heart? ...the thing about singing that's really valuable for me at least is it's embodied. We're using our breath. We're using our voice. We're using our ears. We're feeling the vibrations in our bodies. So being able to do that with other people is super- it can be powerful. One of the students in the peace building class last spring shared such ...
Episode 18: Ben Fink- A Communist Jew from the Northeast CH. 2
February 03, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes - 41 MBCSCW EP 18: Ben Fink – A Communist Jew from the Northeast – Chapter 2 Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes As a self described "communist Jew from the Northeast, what kind of hostility did you encounter in coal country? Honestly, the most hostility I got was from some of the liberals who are like, this is our way of doing things and we have this way of doing activism, and this way of doing community development, and this way of, who we relate to and who we don't relate to and blah, bl...