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Nicky Beer: Real Phonies & Genuine Fakes, an exploration of our divided selves

Nicky Beer: Real Phonies & Genuine Fakes, an exploration of our divided selves

Persona poetry is taking on a voice that isn't yours and finding a way to speak your truths through that voice....to pursue a voice that isn't necessarily heroic or very…

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Nicky Beer: Real Phonies & Genuine Fakes, an exploration of our divided selves

Nicky Beer: Real Phonies & Genuine Fakes, an exploration of our divided selves

Persona poetry is taking on a voice that isn't yours and finding a way to speak your truths through that voice....to pursue a voice that isn't necessarily heroic or very…

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Erika L. Ewing: Fashioning Change

Erika L. Ewing: Fashioning Change

When we're talking about the power of The Arts -- the healing, the transformative powers -- we're really talking about the fact that we're human. We're humanizing the experience of…

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Moise Morancy: Returning the Favor

Moise Morancy: Returning the Favor

Artists have a responsibility to reflect the times . . . my experience as a young Black male looks through the experiences of an African-American male, but I'm a Haitian-American,…

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Moise Morancy: Returning the Favor

Moise Morancy: Returning the Favor

Artists have a responsibility to reflect the times . . . my experience as a young Black male looks through the experiences of an African-American male, but I'm a Haitian-American,…

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Margarita Espada: Teatro Yerbabruja, a Conduit for Change

Margarita Espada: Teatro Yerbabruja, a Conduit for Change

The immigrant stories that are here. . . when they see in us the possibility that it's real. That's why I focus on a specific community because we know the…

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Margarita Espada: Teatro Yerbabruja, a Conduit for Change

Margarita Espada: Teatro Yerbabruja, a Conduit for Change

The immigrant stories that are here. . . when they see in us the possibility that it's real. That's why I focus on a specific community because we know the…

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Coni Koepfinger & Dan Carter: LIVE FROM THE BARDO: My Dinner With Mary

Coni Koepfinger & Dan Carter: LIVE FROM THE BARDO: My Dinner With Mary

The Greeks believed that theatre was threefold: to entertain, to educate, and exalt the human spirit. And if we're going to exalt the human spirit we're gonna have to understand…

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Jessica Wu: Open Access Paths to Success

Jessica Wu: Open Access Paths to Success

Actors Equity is opening its doors. I think this is one of the most exciting things that's happening in my almost two decades as a Union member. It shifts the…

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Yiqing Zhao: Would-be-doctor-turned Actor/Writer/Creative Life Coach

Yiqing Zhao: Would-be-doctor-turned Actor/Writer/Creative Life Coach

Everything is connected. Everything, all these things, becomes a part of YOU. But then this journey does not stop. Some people stop from manifesting what they want because they understand…

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Jenny Lynn Stewart: A New York Spirit

Jenny Lynn Stewart: A New York Spirit

It makes me feel happy. I feel happy when I sing. People who hear me sing tell me THEY feel happy; that I make their hearts happy. It's the most…

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Holly Savas: Mom, Artist, VP Creative Action Network: An Artists’ Conduit for Change

Holly Savas: Mom, Artist, VP Creative Action Network: An Artists’ Conduit for Change

I needed to use what I knew about working with big companies, my own company . . . to spread the word that art can change the world. . .…

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Mike Turner: Giving Voice to Truth

Mike Turner: Giving Voice to Truth

Politics, to me, has nothing to do with Republicans and Democrats, and the left and the right --all these labels that we want to apply to people we don't agree…

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Jeannie Moon: Isn’t It Romantic

Jeannie Moon: Isn’t It Romantic

I write about relationships and I write about the ability of love to heal...We call the genre the literature of hope because we'd like to see it's not just about…

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Joan Kane & Gary Morgenstein: Taking a Bite of a Sweet Divide

Joan Kane & Gary Morgenstein: Taking a Bite of a Sweet Divide

I believe we're broken. Everybody is broken in some way. Everybody has a story to tell. There are cracks in us...Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken objects by…

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Joan Kane & Gary Morgenstein: Taking a Bite of a Sweet Divide

Joan Kane & Gary Morgenstein: Taking a Bite of a Sweet Divide

I believe we're broken. Everybody is broken in some way. Everybody has a story to tell. There are cracks in us...Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken objects by…

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Jennifer Katona, Ph.D. Open a New Window Weaving Arts Education in Today’s Classrooms

Jennifer Katona, Ph.D. Open a New Window Weaving Arts Education in Today’s Classrooms

How do I make sure every kid gets that kind of emotional connection to their education? The Arts are how you do that. I am passionate about working with schools…

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Gianmarco Soresi, Stand-Up Comedian: Healing Through Humor

Gianmarco Soresi, Stand-Up Comedian: Healing Through Humor

Lindsay-Elizabeth Hand, and directed by three-time Emmy Award-winning photojournalist

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