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From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

Our goal is to amplify the voices of people whose stories need to be heard.

EPISODE 1

S2 Ep1: Lead With Curiosity (w/ LPX)

In this episode, Sue interviews the fascinating Lizzy Plapinger, known professionally as LPX. They discuss what it means about to be an artist, how we can all live a more creative life, her unique relationship with color and AI and how she rediscovered her first love, visual art, during the pandemic. LPX is now bravely moving out of her comfort zone and living and leading with curiosity. Check out this episode to hear all about it!

40 min
EPISODE 2

S2 Ep2: The Creative Life (w/ Dara Hout)

In this episode, Sue interviews the incredible Dara Hout, the Chief Executive of Phare Circus, a live show of drama, dance and impressive acrobatics, known as the ‘Pride of Cambodia’. Listen to how he defines creativity, why we should all embrace the feeling of fear and perseverance in the arts and how every decision we make is creative. You’ll also learn more about the history of the arts and circus school supported by this important social enterprise, the remarkable Khmer artists that...

35 min
EPISODE 3

S2 Ep3: Cultivating Creativity (w/ Jess Blackledge)

In this episode, Sue interviews Writing Through’s former Deputy Director, Jess Blackledge, who now lives in Edinburgh and works as a Learning Officer for the world-famous Fringe Festival. They discuss her wide-ranging career, which has the common thread of inspiring young people to cultivate their creativity. She also talks about how her life-long love affair with the theater has led her to believe in the vital importance of an arts education and how the arts should be accessible to eve...

42 min
EPISODE 4

S2 Ep4: The Freedom to Explore (w/ Votey Cheav)

In this episode, Sue interviews one of the members of Writing Through’s fantastic Board of Directors, Votey Cheav. They get into a wide array of topics during their conversation. Votey really has had a fascinating life; she shares her experience as a Cambodian American and a child of refugees, her personal relationship with poetry, creativity and her great love of learning. She explains how she applies her creativity in so many ways, from her business practices, to her efforts to better under...

38 min
EPISODE 5

S2 Ep5: Finding the Melody in Music and Medicine (w/ Dr Lisa Wong)

In this week’s episode, Sue is joined by her friend, Dr Lisa Wong, a pediatrician, musician, teacher and musical education advocate. She explains the fascinating links between how and why playing music makes someone a better physician and how the skills that children learn playing instruments can later be applied to the study and practice of medicine. They also discuss the power of giving people of all ages permission to be curious, creative and experimental and how physicians in America have...

33 min
EPISODE 6

S2 Ep6: Rediscovering the Joy of Creative Writing (w/ Lucia Orellana)

In this week’s episode, Sue interviews Lucia Orellana, an Ecuadorian social and clinical psychologist-turned-poet and one of Writing Through’s long-term volunteers. They discuss how living in different cultures, places, and languages can change you, the differences between writing poetry in English and Spanish, and the challenges one may face when translating between both languages. Lucia explains how she rediscovered her first joy of writing later in life and the interesting ways in wh...

31 min
EPISODE 7

S2 Ep7: Creativity Takes Many Forms (w/ Eugénie Munakarmi)

In this episode, Sue speaks to Eugénie Munakarmi, the COO of Enfants du Mekong (Children of the Mekong), an incredible French organization established back in 1958, that helps children all over South-East Asia. EdM was one of our first partners, so Sue and Eugénie have been friends a long time. This is the first time we have had someone on the podcast who didn’t consider themselves a particularly creative person, and so the discussion around why Sue wanted to speak to her and how she views he...

35 min
EPISODE 8

S2 Ep8: Express Yourself (w/ Andrea McKenna Brankin)

In this week’s episode, Kristin sits down with Andrea McKenna Brankin, a multitalented writer-journalist and long-time Writing Through facilitator based in Singapore. As someone who has always expressed herself creatively through words, fashion, and tattoos, Andrea now works to teach students to do the same, be it in poetry workshops, rugby matches, or yoga sessions. They discuss the difference in rigid and creative teaching styles and their effect on students’ learning, writing about her exp...

29 min
EPISODE 9

S2 Ep9: Poetry in Everyday Life (w/Carlos Andrés Gómez)

In this episode, Kristin speaks with Carlos Andrés Gómez, an award-winning Colombian American poet and public speaker. Carlos worked with Writing Through during our first Great Lake Poets Express workshop in Cambodia’s Prek Toal Floating Village back in February of this year, an experience he now considers one of the highlights of his life. On the podcast, they discuss the childhood difficulties that shaped his present creative approach to life, his life-changing encounter with poet Martín Es...

47 min

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Our goal is to amplify the voices of people whose stories need to be heard.

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