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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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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…

375 348 First Online with Fran
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