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87: BIGhART – BIGsTORY: Skateboarding, Storytelling, & Environmental Justice – How Artist Activists Are Thriving and Driving Social Change – Part 2
Season 3 Episode 87
BIGhART is Australia's leading arts and social change organization.
We make art, we build communities, we drive change.
30 years in operation, 62 comm…
2 years, 3 months ago
86: BIGhART – BIGsTORY: Skateboarding, Storytelling, & Environmental Justice – How Artist Activists Are Thriving and Driving Social Change
Season 3 Episode 86
Scott 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 h…
2 years, 4 months ago
85: Tisidra Jones: Strong and Starlike
Season 3 Episode 85
Tisidra Jones: is a poster child for cross-sector, hybrid creative community leadership. Trained in theater, and music, and as a lawyer, Tisidra has …
2 years, 5 months ago
84: Henry’s Return: Further Adventures of an Activist Artist from San Quentin
Season 3 Episode 84
In 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 …
2 years, 5 months ago
83: A Radical Mama: The Art and Power of Amoke Kubat’s Cultural Resistance
Season 3 Episode 83
Àmọ̀kẹ́ Kubat's work rises up in a dozen different overlapping directions. In North Minneapolis you'll likely hear her described as an organizer, a p…
2 years, 5 months ago
82: Barry Gillespie on Art, Joy, and Compassion as Tools for Social Change and Healing
Season 3 Episode 82
Bio
Barry Gillespie was introduced to meditation practice in 1978, through the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram. In 2003 he began exploring Theravada Bud…
2 years, 6 months ago
81: The Book of Judith: Prison Truth Through Fiction
Season 3 Episode 81
Prison Truth Through Fiction
How do you prepare artists to teach in the foggy upside down netherworld of prison? This episode tells how California's A…
2 years, 7 months ago
80: Art for Art’s Sake – NOT!—and What Activist Artist Alice Lovelace Built Instead
Season 3 Episode 80
In our last conversation, (Episode 26) we shared Alice Lovelace's tumultuous history as a solo teaching artist and performer working with young writ…
2 years, 7 months ago
79: Harry Boyte: Democracy & Imagination
Season 3 Episode 79
Throughout his career, activist, organizer, educator, and author Harry Boyte. has asked a simple, but obviously challenging question: How can we make…
2 years, 7 months ago
78: Carlton Turner: SIPP Culture Rising -Reprise-
Season 3 Episode 78
Carlton 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 …
2 years, 8 months ago