S3 E8: #KeepSharingTheMic--"We Need to Listen to Black Women"

Listen to a recording of a talk Hope gave at the national conference of the Alliance for Arts in Research Universities (A2RU) in November 2018, about the ways she is using her solo play with music, SKIN, to hopefully impact and even help audiences to heal, and how she is demonstrating those impacts through audience research. Watch a video excerpt from SKIN on the Episode Details page on our website healmetoopodcast.com. You can also read the text of Hope's talk at the A2RU conference on Hope...

1 Aug 201921min

Sex educator, relationship advisor & co-founder of iOS advice app, okayso.app, Elise Schuster, and Valeria Koutmina of The Art Therapy Project use the Festival performance of Hope Singsen's solo play with music, SKIN, as a jumping off point to consider common questions about the healing process. Along the way, Elise and Val share professional perspectives as Hope offers examples from personal life as well as within her play, SKIN, to illuminate: Why it takes so dang long to recover ...

23 Juli 201953min

Artists and audiences alike describe feeling changed by visual, narrative, musical, and performance works of art. The shift can be slight, but it can be profound, too. What's happening in our minds and bodies when we engage with the arts, to allow that transformation to occur? Are there special ways art-making can help address the neurobiological effects of trauma, in particular? And might engaging with art, individually and as a culture, help inspire the changes we wish to bring about? Hear...

15 Juli 201946min

Part 2 continues the #TheatreToo conversation, as 5 industry leaders answer audience Q&A and: Recount their personal stories of empowerment through whisper networksDescribe ways LIT, ART/NY and even the Calisto app are working to organize the information in offline "whisper" networks and increase accountabilityShare a story of trauma getting triggered during the creative process, and finding support through sharing stories Explore some of the obstacles that prevent people from ...

7 Juli 201939min

How are theatre artists organizing to take the "whisper" out of the network? In Part 1, five knowledgable leaders discuss their work to address and prevent sexual harassment and assault within the theatre industry: Programs that support independent artists to shift our culture and practices, especially in freelance and nonunion contextsThe advantages and disadvantages of a whisper network compared to traditional HR channels, and new ways of bringing our "whispers" forwardUpstander/bystander t...

25 Juni 201937min

Hear 3 survivor advocates doing amazing work to help #HealMeToo in our culture: Offering bystander training with surprisingly simple techniques to intervene and deescalate harmful situations in the earliest stages.Working with men and boys to cultivate healthy masculinity.Illuminating the ways unconscious bias defines "who is worthy of help," leading to harm. Ways to support people as they process allegations of harassment and assault. Strategies to center trans and gender nonconfo...

18 Juni 201959min

Meet performers from the #HealMeToo Festival Opening Night, including teens from Katie Cappiello’s GoodCapp Arts Ensemble and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School’s Smash Arts Productions. On this Podcast Extra, you'll hear: Excerpts from a movement storytelling piece, titled Through the I’s, which was devised and performed by JKO's Smash Arts students under the direction of their teacher Elisa De Gregorio as part of a Roundabout Theatre Company residency with Teaching Artists Jason ...

14 Juni 201912min

2 experts in the art of personal storytelling fielded questions from our live audience about how audience interactions with storytellers may contribute to healing -- for the audience, for the performers, and ultimately for the culture. In the process, they shared stories of encountering resistance, the value of empathy and the art of listening, and times that audience interactions could be guided toward transformational encounters. Sarah Austin Jenness, Executive Producer of The Moth -- a 21 ...

11 Juni 201917min