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Jun 18, 20211 min read
"Claiming Artistic Freedom" - 5 Artist-Creators Share Their Definitions (Episode 102)
For the season five finale of call and response, we celebrate FREEDOM. In a time where fear and scarcity feel wide-spread, how can we...
Mar 5, 20211 min read
ChiChi Anyanwu - "Becoming (An Entrepreneur)" (Episode 87)
"I got a really great internship at McCarter Theatre...I was not only interning—I'm a bit of a hustler, so I was trying to figure out...
Feb 26, 20211 min read
Kyle Taylor Parker - "Investigating the Possibilities" (Episode 86)
"My first album...I mixed "I Feel Pretty" with "Say It Loud—I'm Black and I'm Proud"...I never thought it would create such a divide in...
Feb 19, 20211 min read
Jhanaë Bonnick - "Living the Life You're Supposed to Live" (Episode 85)
"A Jamaican phrase that my mom says to me all the time is, 'Walk good, better must come.' It’s just like, 'Keep going. Whatever this is...
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Kalena Bovell - "Conducting the Music of Something Beginning" (Episode 84)
"I didn’t know a lot of Black conductors who existed. That’s because the education of who they were wasn’t there. Classical education is...
Feb 5, 20211 min read
Nick Daly - "Commencing Season 5 With a Look to the Future" (Episode 83)
“I feel like a lot of Gen Z-ers have the idea that we are just headed towards doom and that we were put in a situation that we had...
Feb 28, 20201 min read
Candice Marie Woods - "(I'm) Coming Out" (Episode 82)
"Black people are queer as well. Black people we have been seen as the strange and odd and not normal thing since we were shipped out...
Nov 29, 20191 min read
Jasmine Cephas Jones — "Saying Yes to This (Transformation)"(Episode 69)
"I grew up knowing how hard it is to be an artist and have a kid; to survive on following your dreams and have multiple jobs and still...
Oct 17, 20191 min read
Lynn Nottage—"Claiming the Space" (Episode 62)
“Putting the language of ‘being a playwright’ into your mouth makes you a playwright. I discovered late in the game is that just saying...
Oct 17, 20191 min read
Jordan Donica—"Discovering the Freedom to Be Me" (Episode 50)
“It was not lost on me that as a person of color that if I messed up, this door would never be open to another person of color for a long...
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