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44: How an Hollywood Director/ Artivist Used Film to Fight Censorship, Racism, & Fear – Part 2
Season 2 Episode 44
In our second episode featuring Jeremy Kagan, we discuss the matter of trust in social impact art-making, and in the community writ large, particula…
3 years, 11 months ago
43: How a Hollywood Director/Artivist Used Film to Fight Censorship, Racism, & Fear – Part 1
Season 2 Episode 43
In 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 s…
4 years ago
42: How Pangea World Theater Became a Cultural Organizing Force After George Floyd’s Murder – Part 2
Season 2 Episode 42
In Episode 40 Dipankar Mukherjee, and Meena Natarajan discussed their work around issues of race and justice. In this second half, we asked: How can …
4 years ago
41: How Pangea World Theater Became a Cultural Organizing Force After George Floyd’s Murder – Part 1
Season 2 Episode 41
Pangea World Theater spent its 25th anniversary year helping their Minneapolis community heal the wounds and sort through the ashes left in the wake …
4 years, 1 month ago
40: A Loving Trickster: Using Culture, Story, and Disruption to Spark Art & Social Change
Season 1 Episode 40
Needless to say, this year has been both odd and extraordinary. Odd? --- Well, Pick your poison. Extraordinary? --- Because we spent the year having …
4 years, 1 month ago
39: Beth Thielen: LOVE AND FREEDOM: Our Most Imaginative Activist Artists Are Locked in Prison
Season 1 Episode 39
Episode 4: Beth Thielen - Love and Freedom
Bookmakers at San Quentin. Not surprising, given "Q's" clientele. But no, we're talking about real books …
4 years, 1 month ago
38: Gallery to Garden: Beverly Naidus on Art, Activism, and Reimagining the Future
Season 1 Episode 38
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Beverly Naidus's art life has straddled the socially engaged margins of the art world, artful activism collaborations, and community-based art pro…
4 years, 2 months ago
35: Meeting the Moment: How 67 Activist Artists Changed the Story of American Theater
Season 1 Episode 35
Jan 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 comm…
4 years, 3 months ago
34: From Life in Prison to Life as a Cultural Leader: The Redemption of Henry Frank
Season 1 Episode 34
Henry Frank was rotting in prison alone with no escape. Then, everything changed. In our conversation we talk about the heavy lift of imagining a dif…
4 years, 4 months ago
33: Why Artist and Cultural Organizers in Hospitals Are Changing How We Heal
Season 1 Episode 33
Jill Sonke is a creative healer in service to a community of doctors, nurses, artists, educators, and most of all, patients on a journey that reunite…
4 years, 4 months ago