Arts Advocacy

Donna Benedicto: A New Generation of Actors

Donna Benedicto: A New Generation of Actors

  Focusing outside of yourself helps you thrive in this industry and helps you deal with so much and all the obstacles we face. I'm a Filipina-Canadian singer-turned-actress who switched…

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Avra Sidiropoulou: Addressing an Age of Upheaval

Avra Sidiropoulou: Addressing an Age of Upheaval

Karen use of the play happens in a most amazing and in a structurally brilliant way. She puts two goddesses that appear to teach us a lesson about how lives…

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Theresa Chaze: Feisty Filmmaker

Theresa Chaze: Feisty Filmmaker

The community doesn't want special treatment. They just want equality -- to be who they are, to be respected for who they are. ~Theresa Chaze Telling stories that activate emotions…

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Pamela S.K. Glasner: Fighting for Fairness

Pamela S.K. Glasner: Fighting for Fairness

Getting my Masters at Harvard at age sixty-nine, I hope that I'm inspiring other women that there are no limits. There's absolutely no limits except for those you place on…

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Naomi McDougall Jones: Defying Gravity

Naomi McDougall Jones: Defying Gravity

I truly believe we are in an apocalyptic culture shift ; truly, an historical, multi-century, multi-millennial shift and in the last gasp of the white-supremacist patriarchal society. We are living…

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Naomi McDougall Jones: Defying Gravity

Naomi McDougall Jones: Defying Gravity

I truly believe we are in an apocalyptic culture shift ; truly, an historical, multi-century, multi-millennial shift and in the last gasp of the white-supremacist patriarchal society. We are living…

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BAB On 3 Productions: Acknowledging Our Authentic Selves

BAB On 3 Productions: Acknowledging Our Authentic Selves

We can acknowledge that we're all damaged, we're all broken. That doesn't mean that we're destroyed because beautiful things can grow out of damage. ~ Gina Dobson I'm exploring a…

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Cindy Cooper: Seeking Asylum through The Arts

Cindy Cooper: Seeking Asylum through The Arts

Theatre is the one area, aside from religion, where people are presented with stories; they can hear them, they can see vicariously what can happen. They have a conversation with…

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Pat Addiss: Humble Guru

Pat Addiss: Humble Guru

I don't know all the answers. I mean I'm not some Great Guru. I just know what I know. I just know what has transpired in my life. You have…

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Janet Stilson: Shiny Objects Exposed

Janet Stilson: Shiny Objects Exposed

I people to think a little bit more about where we might be headed from the standpoint of communications and how it's manipulated and massaged by people with all sorts…

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Emma Goldman-Sherman: Living In Your Power

Emma Goldman-Sherman: Living In Your Power

We can heal. I think it's really important to be in control of what we're taking in so that we don't feel that we have to worry...that we can feel…

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Karen Cecilia: Challenging the New Normal

Karen Cecilia: Challenging the New Normal

We're in a time where we are seeing new voices, new types of voices telling their stories and people create their identity through seeing themselves reflected in work, in all…

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Romy Nordlinger: An Empowering Voice

Romy Nordlinger: An Empowering Voice

Learning through The Arts being one of the most transformative vehicles in which we really get to a person's soul and to realize they're not alone in their feelings and…

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Yvette Heyliger: Lessons to Learn

Yvette Heyliger: Lessons to Learn

I am encouraging my students to be students of the world: to look around them, to see what's happening, see how their lives are affected by world events and the…

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Joan Kane: Speaking Truth

Joan Kane: Speaking Truth

I had to tell my story. I needed to be able to say, 'Look, I grew up in a time period in Brooklyn where racism was horrific and it was…

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Emma Palzere-Rae: Raising Representation Awareness

Emma Palzere-Rae: Raising Representation Awareness

Theatre is a way to bring people together in a non-confrontational way. You could do theatre as a political act and say it's a political act; you can do theatre…

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Dani Martineck: Pronouns Matter

Dani Martineck: Pronouns Matter

In the moment we're in, I myself, as an individual, have developed certain habits in ways of being where ... if I am misgendered like it happened at the beginning…

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Dani Martineck: Pronouns Matter

Dani Martineck: Pronouns Matter

In the moment we're in, I myself, as an individual, have developed certain habits in ways of being where ... if I am misgendered like it happened at the beginning…

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