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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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Iman Aoun: Breaking Down Walls &Cultivating Hope Through Theatre

Iman Aoun: Breaking Down Walls &Cultivating Hope Through Theatre

For over thirty-five years, Iman Aoun, a theatre-maker from Palestine has dedicated herself to advancing her mission of “breaking down walls” that exist as both physical and psychological phenomena by…

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Bunny Yan: Fashion Edutainer

Bunny Yan: Fashion Edutainer

  With fashion being the 2nd biggest polluter, we need to consumeand produce smarter. Guess what? The solutions exist, now we needto implement! Through this series, I want to show the…

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Maggie Stern: Sock Art Celebrates the “Sole” of America

Maggie Stern: Sock Art Celebrates the “Sole” of America

My socks celebrate women who have changed the world for the better and never gave up fighting for what they believed in: justice, honor, the right to vote, equal rights.…

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Valerie David: The Pink Hulk, a One-Woman Warrior’s survival story from cancer

Valerie David: The Pink Hulk, a One-Woman Warrior’s survival story from cancer

  Put on your Super Hero Cape when you listen to Valerie David’s podcast: The Pink Hulk, a One-Woman Warrior’s survival story from cancer. But her show is NOT just…

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Aizzah Fatima airing her “Dirty Paki Lingerie”

Aizzah Fatima airing her “Dirty Paki Lingerie”

  So, what’s a young Muslim woman born in Saudi Arabia, raised as a US citizen in Mississippi, only to defy all the odds by moving to NYC to become…

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The Calamari Sisters: A Recipe for Coping with the Coronavirus

The Calamari Sisters: A Recipe for Coping with the Coronavirus

[audio src=" Feeling trapped during the COVID-19 self-quarantine? Here’s a pair of Italian Sisters, Delphine and Carmela, cooking up concoctions that will soothe your soul. Listen to their hilarious spin…

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Alexa: Play First Online!

Alexa: Play First Online!

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