Pssst--Free Live #HealMeToo Taping on Feb 5!
FREE! A Love Thing: Live Show & #HealMeToo Podcast Taping Enjoy music, performance and conversation about some ways teens -- and we all -- can create healthier relationships & get out of harmful ones. One night only. FREE. 85 minutes. Appropriate for ages 16+. Reserve seats now. Featuring inspiring performances, original songs and a choral improvisation led by Music Therapist Katie Down of The Angel Band Project (angelbandproject.org). At the heart of this unique event in honor of Tee...
1 Feb 20202min
S1 E11: Healing #FamiliesToo--Broadway's Shona Tucker & Therapist Fiona True on the Impacts for "Secondary Survivors"
We often focus--rightly--on the needs of victims and survivors. But "Secondary Survivors" are the supporters and loved ones of any victim of sexual violence, who may themselves become traumatized. In this episode, we focus on the healing needs of everyone around the victim, to recognize and understand how sexual violence impacts #FamiliesToo. #HealMeToo Festival hit show Growing Wild, created and performed by Broadway's Shona Tucker, tells the story of a family's inter-generational qu...
9 Okt 201950min
S1 Xtra 7: Tony Award-Winner Tonya Pinkins' "Truth & Reconciliation" Performance Excerpts
As we get ready for an exciting #HealMeToo Festival Popup Event this weekend -- the World Premiere of Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins' Truth And Reconciliation of Womyn this Saturday at 3 PM in NYC at The Tank theater, we hope enjoy these excerpts from the #HealMeToo Festival presentation last March and April, 2019 at the IRT Theater. Then join us if you're in town! You can get $20 tickets to the Saturday matinee (or any of their performances) at https://thetanknyc.org/tonyapinkinstr. In this #H...
1 Okt 201910min
S1 E10: Festival Artists on Working Intersectionally to Speak Out, Create Change, Dance Blind & Heal
6 gorgeously interesectional artists share honestly (and humorously) about the beauty and challenges of working together to create art that heals our lives and culture These artists (together with about 6 more who couldn't join us!) helped make the #HealMeToo Festival's Self/Worth Variety Show a moving, sumptuous and transformative event: Raquel Almazan, Maybe Burke, Yvette Heyliger, Micaela Mamede & Krishna Christine Washburn. Reviewing the list of keywords for this episode tells the w...
25 Sep 20191h 5min
S1 Xtra 6: Performances by Maybe Burke & Ianne Fields Stewart
An audio drama extra featuring: "Do You Want Me To Stop?" from Love Letters to Nobody by Maybe Burke, as presented on thefemaleplaywrightproject.com with sound design by Natalie Johnsonius Neubert. An excerpt of Ianne Fields Stewart's live performance of their original work "On the Train to Nowhere in Particpular" and Other Poems, recorded at the Musical Theater Factory.Content warning: frank descriptions of sexuality and sexual assault. You can also watch videos of both excerpts ...
10 Sep 201912min
S1 E09: Ianne Fields Stewart & Maybe Burke--Transgender & GNC Perspectives on Healing & #MeToo
Two phenomenal artist-activists for social justice and the human rights of trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming (GNC) folks, Ianne Fields Stewart and Maybe Burke, join us to talk about the pervasive experiences of sexual violence and gender oppression within their communities, and ideas that help support healing. Ianne Fields Stewart is a Black queer nonbinary transfeminine New York-based storyteller working at the intersection of theatre and activism. Their work and she are dedicated ...
5 Sep 201955min
S1 E08: Sarah Jane Johnson & Patrice Miller on Devil In A Box, Collaborative Magic & Learning to Heal
Artist and Chief-of-Staff at The Moth, Sarah Jane Johnson, and Patrice Miller, director, joined Hope Singsen to discuss their project, Devil In A Box, which was presented to sold out houses at The #HealMeToo Festival. Equal parts poetic theater and feminist stand-up, Devil in a Box follows the journey of a young American woman from sexual assault, through the French justice system and into life after trauma. A frightening yet joyous tale, Sarah Jane chronicles the complexities of it all with...
14 Aug 201953min
S1 Xtra 5: Solo play with music, SKIN, by Hope Singsen--Festival Performance Excerpt
An audio drama excerpt from the solo play with music, SKIN, created and performed by Hope Singsen, the artist, survivor/activist, and founder of the #HealMeToo Festival. Director: Jessi D. Hill, Stage Manager: Yve Carruthers. In SKIN, two things threaten a grad student’s dissertation on Virginia Woolf: her hot new girlfriend and her own dark past. Frank and funny, this queer love story with music explores some of the ways art helps us heal, tracking a woman’s road back toward intimacy and ...
9 Aug 201914min
