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184: Ariel Fristoe: -Theater as a Civic Commons
Episode 184
Ariel Fristoe: Theater as a Civic Commons
What happens when theater stops asking audiences simply to watch and starts inviting communities to listen, …
2 months, 1 week ago
183: Paola Mendoza - What if the Most Powerful Antidote for Tyranny is an Artist with a Story?
Episode 183
In this episode we're joined by filmmaker, organizer, novelist, visual artist, and self described conjurer of stories, Paola Mendoza. For more than t…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
182: Arts Freedom Weather Report - Who Speaks - Who Belongs?
Episode 182
Who belongs in America’s story?
As battles over immigration, public institutions, national celebrations, and freedom of expression intensify, a deepe…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
181: Cynthia Cohen - Acting together on the World Stage
Episode 181
How do artists help communities survive violence, heal trauma, and imagine a future beyond conflict?
In this episode of Art Is Change, Bill Cleveland …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
180: Veteran Sean Martin Talks About War, Music, PTSD, & Social Change
Episode 180
What happens when a soldier comes
home from war and discovers that music
can heal the wounds the doctors missed?
In this episode, I sit down with musi…
3 months ago
179: Why Lasting Cultural Partnerships Drive Art & Social Change Success!
Episode 179
What does it actually take to build a
lasting cross-sector community arts partnership?
In this episode, I return to a lesson I learned more than forty…
3 months, 1 week ago
Derek Goldman: What Happens When the Stranger Walks In Your Shoes?
Episode 178
In this episode of ART IS CHANGE, theater artist and educator Derek Goldman shares how performance can become a civic practice — not simply entertain…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
177: Organization & Imagination - What Happens When Actvist Artists Take Root in the System
Episode 177
What happens when Artists are embedded
inside the systems that run the world?
--- hospitals, railroads, steel mills, shipping companies, government m…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
176: Are Art & Upheaval Incompatible or Inevitable? You Decide
Episode 176
Are Art and Upheaval totally
incompatible or unavoidably connected?
We’re rebroadcasting this episode from 2022, in part, because the ground beneath it…
4 months ago
175: Suzanne Firstenberg Asks: How Can Art Help Make the Unseen Visible When People Look Away?
Episode 175
What happens when a society loses its grip
on grief and numbers replace names?
In this episode, social practice artist Suzanne Firstenberg turns nati…
4 months, 1 week ago