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Ellen W. Kaplan: The Promise of Play

Ellen W. Kaplan: The Promise of Play

I believe that is about women and social change. Leaders of change reside with women. For me, working with rather than writing about people is the more radical act.  Work…

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Janet Mitchko: Holding Hands

Janet Mitchko: Holding Hands

I would like to believe I attract heart-centered individuals to work with. I create a sense of safety in the rooms, empowerment and we are in service of the text.…

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Robert Viagas: Audience Auteur

Robert Viagas: Audience Auteur

Losing or winning an argument is not just a zero-sum game. Working together, collaborating is something that you have to learn. The most important part is not you getting all…

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Adrienne D. Williams: Art is Ageless

Adrienne D. Williams: Art is Ageless

Art is ageless. There is no number on Art. As long as your heart is in it, you can do it. And that's a fantastic thing because very often we…

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Carla Debbie Alleyne: Stand Together for Fairness

Carla Debbie Alleyne: Stand Together for Fairness

Artivism is a combination of Art and Activism. I wrote about Bayard Rustin who served as the right hand of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for many years. He was…

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Stephanie Okun: Empath Superpower

Stephanie Okun: Empath Superpower

It's so important to have that outlook of everyone is human, everyone is worthy, but I also think it's important, for me, and for everyone to protect ourselves. to protect…

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Catherine Filloux: Shaped by Change

Catherine Filloux: Shaped by Change

How can I explain change? It's something that makes me feel hopeful...that audiences, and as people, and most importantly as human beings, we can, by looking at the big picture,…

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Clara Francesca: Creating Socially Aware AI Art

Clara Francesca: Creating Socially Aware AI Art

How do we create a world where we allow people to express themselves, and if they need to be called in or if they're doing something that really is egregious?…

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Valerie David: Celebrating Differences

Valerie David: Celebrating Differences

My mission is to keep culture alive; to sustain that culture because we don't want history repeating itself. And to educate - we are all the same people. We are…

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Maleni Chaitoo: Breaking Through the Silence

Maleni Chaitoo: Breaking Through the Silence

Even though is comical it's an opportunity to change thoughts about who we are, and they can see us as normal people with disabilities. There should be no barriers between…

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Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Here's the thing about AI. It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't understand psychology, and it doesn't understand the quirks of human behavior. All it can do is strip-mine…

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Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Here's the thing about AI. It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't understand psychology, and it doesn't understand the quirks of human behavior. All it can do is strip-mine…

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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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