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 17: Ben Fink- A Communist Jew from the Northeast
January 20, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 34 MBCSCW EP 17: Ben Fink – A Communist Jew from the Northeast – Chapter 1 Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes What defines the work of Appalshop and Performing our Future? The work is creating the conditions, for people in communities to tell their own stories, build their own power, and create their own wealth, and doing it really intensely locally rooted in local traditions and local values What is the difference between community engagement and working with your neighbor? ...What I'll ...
Episode 17: Ben Fink- A Communist Jew from the Northeast - CH.1
January 20, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 34 MBCSCW EP 17: Ben Fink – A Communist Jew from the Northeast – Chapter 1 Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes What defines the work of Appalshop and Performing our Future? The work is creating the conditions, for people in communities to tell their own stories, build their own power, and create their own wealth, and doing it really intensely locally rooted in local traditions and local values What is the difference between community engagement and working with your neighbor? ...What ...
Episode 16: Henry Robinett - Jazz in the Joint
January 06, 2021 14:00 - 45 minutes - 52 MBHere is the link to the Arts Extension Service: Creative Community Leadership Course Info. Episode 16: Henry Robinett - Jazz in the Joint Jazz musician, composer, educator Henry Robinett has the kind of calm, purposeful trajectory that allows him to ignore the detritus, and collect the sublime and the quirk, all in service to making and recording extraordinary award-winning music and helping heal heads and hearts in the largest prison system in the world. Threshold Questions and Deliciou...
Episode 15: Sharnita Johnson - Queen of Community
December 23, 2020 18:45 - 33 minutes - 61.5 MBEpisode 15: Sharnita Johnson – Queen of Community Threshold Questions & Delicious Quotes What was the path that led you into cultural philanthropy? I never saw anyone that looked like me, a black woman in philanthropy, in a city like Detroit, which is where I'm from, which has I think the population is like 90% African American so it just never clicked. that was something that I could do, even though I certainly had the skills and the education, et cetera. Until I did see someone who loo...
Episode 14: DIVA CATS - Part 2
December 09, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 65.1 MBEpisode 14: DIVA CATS - PART 2 Threshold Questions and Juicy Quotes You artists are volunteers right? "No! We're professional artists. Everybody gets paid and they get paid well" because I won't have it any other way" They may say, "Oh, well, isn't it nice that those men are able to learn some arts and crafts stuff?" No, we don't use paper plates or pipe cleaners, and to Pacia's point, we are not trying to help them. They are learning to figure out how they can help themselves. Con Chr...
Episode 13: DIVA CATS Pt. 1
November 24, 2020 19:00 - 41 minutes - 71.1 MBEpisode 13: DIVA CATs Threshold Questions and Delicious Quotes What’s A CAT? I usually bring a packet of seeds and give everybody some seeds. Because I think that that's what we're doing. Planting those seeds in our field, right, ... because we're growing things and that notion of working with people, collaborating conceiving things together, imagining things together and co- creating things together. Roseann Weiss Actually, I don't teach, Parker Palmer says, you can't teach anybody any...
Episode 12: STORY story
November 12, 2020 14:00 - 20 minutes - 23.6 MBEpisode 12: Story story Check out the film version of Story story HERE And the book version HERE Transcript In the beginning there was a word, the word, a word, I don’t know but that word doing its best o state afloat at the confluence of time and space spinning at the hot center of the minds-eye vortex had no choice but to go forth and multiply and…beget a Story These are the first few lines of a prose poem called Story story, which will be shared in full later in this podcast. It com...
Episode 11: Ida Oberman _ Community School for Creative Education
October 27, 2020 22:30 - 34 minutes - 39.4 MBSpecial Thanks to Camila Guiza-Chavez for her beautiful performance of "Over the Rainbow" that introduces this episode. Threshold Questions & Delicious Quotes What is the role of the imagination in the development of the child? I think that now we more and more feel it, as particularly now, under COVID, when we're all pressed against our screens, how life-giving imagination is. And sometimes it feels ephemeral. But, if we realize that imagination is really at heart, thinking about the re...
Episode 10: Milenko Matanovic - Everyday Democracy
October 14, 2020 19:00 - 38 minutes - 62.1 MBThreshold Questions / Delicious Quotes Why is our democracy struggling, What's wrong? Right now the default modality is that we are at our worst with each other. And that troubles me because we are robbing ourselves of the possibility to understand, first of all, the complexity of our time and second of all, to prepare ourselves for a future that would work for all of us. How can the process of community art-making help strengthen a struggling democracy? This is not an academic idea. Th...
Episode 9: Erik Takeshita - Creative People Power
September 30, 2020 17:45 - 41 minutes - 65.7 MBEpisode 9: Erik Takeshita - Creative People Power Dear Listener: In this podcast Erik describes agency and connection as essential elements for emergence of creative people power. If you are interested in exploring this idea further here are two resources that might be of interest. Creative People Power Web Site & Report @ Springboard for the Arts Small Towns, Big Stories: Arts-based Community Development Makes its Mark in Southwest Minnesota - A Center for the Study of Art and Community ...
Episode 8: Barry Marcus - Creative Culture
September 23, 2020 14:00 - 35 minutes - 40.6 MBEpisode 7: Barry Marcus - Creative Culture Dear Reader: Barry Marcus' story about Creative Culture touches on a number of questions related to the impact that arts learning can have on youth development. One of these is how active art making can strengthen a sense of ownership and agency in young artists. If this peaks your interest you might want to take a look at : 23 Admonitions, Insights and Ideas from the Great Masters at the Center for the Study of Art and Community's website. Tra...
Episode 7: Sandy Agustin - The Navigator
September 10, 2020 00:00 - 33 minutes - 38.8 MBTranscript Episode 7: Sandy Agustin - The Navigator Sandy Agustin: Why do you want to change? Why do you want to change? Now? What do you all hold true? What do you see as missing? It's asking the right questions, finding really generous and generative questions. And when people get stuck, sometimes we push, and we name what's hard. Sometimes we just shake it up and we have to move around. We have to play a little bit; we have to think and move physically through the space to get to somet...
Episode 5: Kathi Bentley - Love at the River's Edge
August 26, 2020 14:00 - 34 minutes - 56.6 MBThreshold Questions and Juicy Quotes: Can collective creation change settled world views? I mean, there are a couple of Mexican families in Brussels. They're no black folks. So, I would always kid that I was like, you know, that's a cute little house, and if I bought that, I'd be okay. Like, yeah. You know, for some of those students, this was prayerfully life changing in how they see folks and communities that are different than them and for our students from Normandy. Can we build lasti...
Episode 4: Beth Thielen - Love and Freedom
August 19, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 70.9 MBEpisode 5: 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 Bill Cleveland: At the time, what came to be known as the classic or a version 1.0 was considered a modern marvel. After a short wait for what was called booting up, and a few clicks, the text seemed to appear magically on a ten by twelve screens set into a plastic computer case....
Episode 3: L.O. Sloan - A Gunrunner for the Arts (Pt. 2)
August 12, 2020 14:00 - 34 minutes - 56.4 MBTHRESHOLD QUESTIONS AND DELICIOUS QUOTES ?Many older monuments are being challenged these days for for their distorted representation of history. What challenges confronted this effort to create a new monument to an an important but forgotten story? Well, the Department of General Services told us to do that you are going to have to get the vote of the House, the vote of the Senate, the endorsement of the governor, and you're going to have to raise the money yourself. The only word in the...
Episode 2: L. O. Sloan: A Gunrunner For the Arts (Part 1)
July 21, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes - 41.9 MBThis week we'll meet activist/performer/impresario and historian Lenwood O. Sloan, a man whose extraordinary career has unfolded like a half century-long social change musical. THRESHOLD QUESTIONS AND DELICIOUS QUOTES ?What defines a "gunrunner for the arts?" "I try to take things that already exist, and through positioning and repositioning to create magic, you know, to motivate, but performance and visual art, literature and writing, film, you know, whatever medium is the best catalyst ...
L. O. Sloan: A Gunrunner For the Arts (Part 1)
July 21, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes - 41.9 MBTest Support this podcast
CS/CW Genesis
July 17, 2020 12:15 - 38 minutes - 69.7 MBEPISODE 1: CS/CW GENESIS- 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. This is the first episode of a new podcast produced by the Center for the Study of Art & Community (www.artandcommunity.com) called Change the Story, Change the World. My name is Bill Cleveland. In this first episode I share the very personal story of how this podcast came to be and try...
Episode 1: CS/CW Genesis
July 17, 2020 12:15 - 38 minutes - 69.7 MBBad 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. This is the first episode of a new podcast produced by the Center for the Study of Art & Community called Change the Story, Change the World. My name is Bill Cleveland. In this first episode I share the very personal story of how this podcast came to be and try to answer why would anybody want to listen to it. I...