Arts & Activism

Erica Lauren Ortiz: Building Coalitions

Erica Lauren Ortiz: Building Coalitions

We are making sure that the arts remain independent, well-funded, and accessible for all. Anytime anything rears its ugly head to challenge that, we will be there fighting for you.…

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Anne Hamburger: Site-Specific Theater

Anne Hamburger: Site-Specific Theater

Episode 100! I don’t really produce plays. There are many other organizations that are wonderful at producing plays, and I’m not interested in someone coming in that’s completely done and…

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Emily Mann: The Humanist Code of Theater

Emily Mann: The Humanist Code of Theater

The theater is essential to the health of a nation - of any democracy. And perhaps we are so impoverished right now is because of our inability to communicate with…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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