Episode 115: Decreasing Stigma Around Addiction and Recovery
Improbable Players uses theater performances and workshops to address addiction, alcoholism, and the opioid epidemic. The troupe is comprise...
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20 of 100 episodesEpisode 114: Reflecting the Community in Art Spaces
In late 2019, we spoke to Doneeca Thurston, the newly-named Director of Lynn Museum/Lynn Arts. The 29-year-old Lynn native said her new role...
Episode 113: Unpacking Bias and Privilege in Cultural Organizations
Sandra Bonnici is a Senior Diversity Fellow for the American Alliance of Museums and a diversity and inclusion consultant. She says that doi...
Episode 112: Don’t Just Measure Numbers, You’ll Lose the Real Story
Sue Dahling Sullivan is an independent consultant with more than 30 years of nonprofit management experience. We spoke to her about strategi...
Episode 111: Mindfulness as an Action
Dell Marie Hamilton is an artist, writer, and curator. Her work uses the body to investigate questions about personal memory, citizenship, h...
Episode 110: Prescribing Cultural Engagement as a Protective, Healthy Habit
Dr. Deborah Buccino and Adrien Conklin, BSN RN of MACONY Pediatrics discuss the addition of social prescription – prescribing cultural engag...
Episode 109: To Change an Org’s Culture, Rip Off the Band-Aid
Last November, we spoke with Michael J. Bobbitt, Artistic Director of New Repertory Theatre, about approaching major change in an organizati...
Episode 108: Learning in Concert
New Bedford Symphony Orchestra (NBSO) Education Director Terry Wolkowicz discusses Learning in Concert, an in-school partnership program bet...
Episode 107: Youth Workforce Development in Creative Industries
Kim Dawson is the Director of Advancement at ZUMIX, a venerable creative youth development organization in East Boston. ZUMIX works with a l...
Episode 106: Sharing the Bounties of Human Culture
“The humanities give people time to reflect and think about issues in a different way than our daily living,” says Jack Cheng, Academic Dire...
Episode 105: Building the Poem
Nicole Terez Dutton is a poet, teacher, and literary editor who also served as the first poet laureate of Somerville, MA. She says, “Ultimat...
Episode 104: AHA! 20 Years of Placemaking
AHA! (Arts, History, Architecture) in New Bedford, MA is the longest continuously-funded placemaking and creative economy project in the cou...
Episode 103: Enhancing the Visibility of Professionals of Color
Last fall, we spoke with Audrey Seraphin, Membership and Capacity Building Manager at ArtsBoston, about how to get more people of color work...
Episode 102: Music Triumphs Over Injustice
The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus is one of New England’s largest and most successful community-based choruses. Executive Director Craig Coogan di...
Episode 101: An Emergence of the People, their Spirit, their Stories
L’Merchie Frazier is an artist and Director of Education and Interpretation for the Museum of African American History, Boston/Nantucket. He...
Episode 100: Eliminate Mistrust
To mark the occasion of our 100th episode, we have invited Maria Garcia, Senior Editor of the ARTery, WBUR’s arts and culture team, to be ou...
Episode 99: Art is a Humanizing Process
Marquis Victor is the Founding Executive Director of Elevated Thought, a creative youth development nonprofit in Lawrence, MA. He believes t...
Episode 98: Broadening the Canon
Luis Croquer is the Henry & Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum. He discusses how the inclusion of more art histor...
Episode 97: Public Art Accelerator
Kate Gilbert, Executive Director of Now + There, says the most successful public art is trying to disrupt how we walk through and see the wo...
Episode 96: When Well-Being Takes the Stage
Mandy Precious, Engagement and Learning Director at Theatre Royal Plymouth, shares how social prescription – prescribing the arts or arts ac...