Creative Minds Out Loud
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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 comprised of actors who are themselves in recovery from substance ad
Episode 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 felt like a homecoming. She shares her vision for how the museum can be a champion for its majority minority co...
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 doing the work to make a cultural organization diverse and inclusive requires deep and constant reflection.
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 strategic planning when she was the Boch/Wang Centers Chief Strateg
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, history, and gender. Last fall, she shared what its like to
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 engagement as a protective, healthy habit to their collaborativ
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 organization. He shares ways to identify organizational culture, support staff work/life balance,
Episode 108: Learning in Concert
New Bedford Symphony Orchestra (NBSO) Education Director Terry Wolkowicz discusses Learning in Concert, an in-school partnership program between the NBSO and over 40 elementary schools in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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 largely immigrant community to better equip its youth to be able to navigate the world once they have graduated o...
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 Director of the Boston Clemente Course. The Clemente Course is a