Latest Civic innovation Podcast Episodes
The Future of Arts & Culture in California: Keynote Insights from the California Arts & Culture Summit
Voices of the Community - June 01, 2024 19:05 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"Together we can create a world where arts and culture are recognized and invested in as essential to society, embedded in community life, and intersecting with broader policy change to reshape systems towards equity and justice." - Julie Baker Join us as we kick off our second season, celebra...
Discover the Artist Space Trust: Unlocking the Future of Housing for Creatives!
Voices of the Community - April 03, 2024 15:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"The interesting thing about a Land Trust is that it's a split title, we'll split the title and the land trust will own the land forever. And then we'll either sell or lease the housing or creative space on top of it to artists" - Meg Shiffler Welcome to the finale of our series on affordable h...
How to Buy Your Performance Space | CAST & CounterPulse Real Estate Model
Voices of the Community - March 16, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"The resilience that we have to live through booms and busts and pandemics and continue to serve the community, continue to drive foot traffic, continue to create economic opportunities for local people to have jobs and work and express themselves is just incredible. So if you're struggling with...
REP-SF’s Citywide People’s Plan for Affordable Housing
Voices of the Community - February 22, 2024 01:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“It's about forcing the city to make sure that they build affordable housing. And there's lots of, programs that we have in the Citywide People's Plan that can make, huge steps towards, building affordable housing” - Dyan Ruiz This episode is part of our ongoing Special Series on How the Arts a...
Proposition E, 2018 & Arts Impact Endowment Update & Discussion & Grants For The Arts
Voices of the Community - January 27, 2024 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"I think the action and the continuity of the coalition from Prop S to Prop E went from 40 organizations to 140 organizations. That was something that was huge” - Vin Seaman In this seventh episode of our series focusing on the arts and culture sector's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, we b...
How Do Community Based Arts Orgs Secure Sustainable Funding?
Voices of the Community - December 20, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Bringing the scale of human life to the community again so that we can kind of start seeing our humanity and our everyday Experiences” - Melissa Abercrombie This episode is from our November 4th 2023 live event co-production with the Petaluma Arts Center, our broadcast partners KPCA 103.3fm an...
Meredith Winner - Paint the Void & Lyzette Wanzer - Author of Trauma, Tresses & Truth
Voices of the Community - December 06, 2023 16:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“I think really being open minded and also really trusting artists is a really big, important factor because. Artists know what they're doing, at least when it comes to making the artwork, that's why people hire them and allow them to have the most creative freedom as possible, really. Usually a...
Fernando Pujals & Rachel Osajima- How their using the Arts for Economic & Community Development
Voices of the Community - November 29, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"So of course, the pandemic was a struggle for all of us, and so we all know the arts organizations are the first to close and last open, especially the performing arts are really still struggling" - Rachel Osajima This episode is the long form of our one-on-one interview with Fernando Pujals, ...
Regional Economic Recovery Through the Arts
Voices of the Community - November 22, 2023 17:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"There's been a lot of talk about, how do you make this sustainable, and there's not one answer, but one piece that is core to that, is really galvanizing and cementing around this notion that arts and culture is already right here and we need to lean into it and value it and uplift it. And in t...
Revisiting Artists’ Housing Solutions
Voices of the Community - October 31, 2023 22:37 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"So looking at how do we build an ecology where affordable housing isn't just a place you stay, it's a place you stay and work and build a business and raise a family and, you know, build the economic resources,for the next step. " - Josh Simon This episode is part of our special series on how ...
Ralph Remington of San Francisco Arts Commission - Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
Voices of the Community - September 22, 2023 18:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“One of the things that I, would say to this community coming from a repressed community is let’s turn to each other, not on each other. Let’s bond together, and find our commonality, not our differences. Because the enemy, I’ve seen the enemy in Arizona, and it is not us. So when we have small ...
Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit – “Economic Recovery in the Arts: Regaining Patrons and Artistic Engagement” Ep 3
Voices of the Community - September 09, 2023 17:45 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"It's all about partnering artists with small businesses to create site specific installations and that way create more exposure both for the business and for the artists and also to revitalize those corridors" - Vanessa Wilson This is our second episode from the co-production with Arts for a B...
Maria Jensen of SOMARTS Cultural Center - Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
Voices of the Community - August 30, 2023 17:14 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“This is a time when the art community's creative expertise and skills and talents are being relied upon. And finally, really seen as major contributors to the local economy.” – Maria Jensen This interview with Maria Jensen is part of our co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-...
Jonathan Moscone Interview at Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit
Voices of the Community - August 16, 2023 22:20 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"A clean city is not what San Francisco is. San Francisco is a messy city. It’s politically messy, it’s diverse. It fights amongst itself. It is San Francisco and it’s never not gonna be. So, let’s lean into the right kind of messy of San Francisco and artists can get messy. So, let’s get messy....
Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit - Opening & Keynotes Ep 2
Voices of the Community - August 05, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“This is a time when the art community's creative expertise and skills and talents are being relied upon. And finally, really seen as major contributors to the local economy.” – Maria Jensen This is our first episode from the co-production with Arts for a Better Bay Area of the re-launch of the...
“The State of Our Arts & Culture Organizations” - Ep 1 Board & Governance
Voices of the Community - April 15, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"We wanna incentivize and give board love too. I think the board is often like the scary people or viewed as the scary people behind the curtains that are doing the work or maybe overseeing or assessing” - Michelle “Mush” Lee, Youth Speaks Our first episode of the special series titled "Insight...
Foundations for Social Change
Voices of the Community - January 25, 2023 16:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"There's still a lot of public resistance to the idea of giving people in homelessness cash, because, the public doesn't trust people in poverty or people in homelessness, I think that has to be corrected and addressed" - Dr. Jiaying Zhao One of the topics we have focused on through our special...
San Francisco's Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing
Voices of the Community - January 14, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“I volunteer at a safe sober space. I serve on the board of a retreat for healing that happens once a year. I serve on the Board of StartOut which helps LGBTQ + entrepreneurs gain access to mentorship and resources and fundraising to increase our representation as founders of companies. I will a...
Miracle Money Pilot Program Update
Voices of the Community - December 07, 2022 16:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“It breaks my heart as a mother and a teacher almost the, majority of people who are unhoused are families with children. Sleeping in cars, sleeping in garages, and that these families, these moms and dads, aunts and uncles, they work, but again, they can't get enough together to secure safe and...
SKYWATCHERS Ensemble
Voices of the Community - December 03, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"It’s the chemistry of people, who come from very different backgrounds, you have gay, transgender, straight, and different talents and different abilities coming together and making this music and magic"-Shavonne Allen This episode features the voices of the founder of ABD Productions and the ...
Election 2022 - California & San Francisco Propositions Explained
Voices of the Community - October 30, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“We provide education to encourage people to vote and participate in government”-Michelle Moritz Welcome to our 2022 Election Show. Given all the propositions on both a State of California level as well as the usual too many propositions to understand on the City of San Francisco level we wante...
The Red Shades - A Trans Super Hero Rock Opera & Z Space
Voices of the Community - October 26, 2022 15:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“The Compton, Cafeteria Riots and Felicia Elizondo's life living in the Tenderloin in the 1960s and trans sex workers who were fighting for their right to survive, connected with the ideas that were coming out of my mind”-Adrienne Price In this our one hundredth episode of our special series on...
The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco Part 3
Voices of the Community - October 19, 2022 15:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“I think the, first one that stood out to me is unlike some other cities, the San Francisco city government, is not pushing for these downtown office to housing conversions”- Sarah Wright This is part three of our three episodes exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting San Francisco's d...
The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco Part 2
Voices of the Community - September 28, 2022 15:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“San Francisco’s tax structures are incentivizing companies to, in some cases just move entirely out of San Francisco”-Anna Tong This is part two of the three stories we are covering on how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the downtown of San Francisco and the efforts to address the issues an...
Flower Piano - Music for Plants and People in a Park
Voices of the Community - September 14, 2022 17:36 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“I always say that music is a healthy thing that we do. It's something that we strongly believe that even the flowers and the plants and the trees really enjoy having music being played for them”-Mauro ffortissimo One of the topics we’ve covered in our two plus years of producing this special s...
Mission Asset Fund - How Finance Changes Lives
Voices of the Community - September 03, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“We heard of neighbors helping neighbors, of people dropping off food on their friends’ doorsteps, of mutual aid groups, of people becoming champions and ambassadors in their community and, showing the way to access resources and support”-Elena Fairley As millions of families accessed and recei...
The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco
Voices of the Community - August 17, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"I think that there is a recognition that we're all interconnected and that this area is important. It's essential for, the City and the region. I think that there is a, great opportunity for all these groups to come together and to build something great." - Chris Wright This episode focuses on...
The Reinvention of Downtown San Francisco Part 1
Voices of the Community - August 17, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"I think that there is a recognition that we're all interconnected and that this area is important. It's essential for, the City and the region. I think that there is a, great opportunity for all these groups to come together and to build something great." - Chris Wright This episode focuses on...
Roots Community Health Center- Healing our Community Within
Voices of the Community - July 30, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratings"We are taking charge of our community. And Dr. Aboelata has coined this phrase years ago, healing our community from within. And we do have to look into ourselves to help heal what ills our communities"-Aquil Naji Over the past two-plus years, our community health care centers have faced many ...
San Francisco Mime Troupe - "Back to the Way Things Were"
Voices of the Community - June 29, 2022 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings“Zoe is grappling with how to be an adult or starting to be an adult in a world in which she feels, there's not really a space for her to imagine a future”- Alicia MP Nelson as Zoe In this episode, we are following back up with The San Francisco Mime Troupe who we interviewed two years ago in e...
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