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Art Impact with Raquel Bellastella Raquel Bellastella
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Are you a theatre-maker and a cultural entrepreneur? This podcast is for you. Join us to discover essential tools to craft a unique + sustainable art career, thrive as an artist and change-maker and meet some amazing people marrying art and impact right now. Through and beyond artistic creations, creatives are potent culture-changers, community-builders, problem-solvers and bridge-makers. Today you have the opportunity to experiment, create, develop your work and voice - and to get them in front of your audience. You can (and in many cases, you have to) take responsibility for your whole artistic process and ensure that your art and the impact you want to create in the world comes into full-circle fruition.There’s never been a better time for creatives and for building a freaking awesome impactful career. Let’s figure out this puzzle together.Raquel Bellastella is a social entrepreneurship coach and a theatre-maker, and knows first-hand the challenges we face as artists as we build our professional careers. She helps multipassioante artists to build utterly fulfilling and sustainable careers so they can create more art and impact in the world.
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The Alchemy of Art and Advocacy in Cultural Narratives with R.M. Sánchez-Camus
As I sat down with RM Sánchez-Camus (Marcelo), the migrant artist whose palette of activism and creativity colours societal canvases, our conversation turned into an inspiring odyssey through the crossroads of art and advocacy. Marcelo opens up about his journey, blending public, social, and applied art to spark change, and discusses the layered complexities of his work within the UK's cultural landscape as a naturalized citizen. His narrative reveals how art can democratize cultural narrativ...
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Exploring the Anthropology of Creativity with Sinead Cullen #44
Have you ever considered how your creativity is influenced by your community or perhaps, how it can impact those around you? Well, you're about to find out. This week, we have the pleasure of chatting with the talented Sinead Cullen, an architect, artist, and movement medicine teacher who enlightens us about the anthropology of creativity. We uncover how our innate need to create art is intertwined with our communities and discuss the culture of individualism prevalent in today's art scene.Ou...
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Provoking Thought and Sparking Change: A Conversation with Lucy Dear #43
After quite a pause… we’re back! This last year was a gestation pause - not of a human being but of my theatre company, Imaginari Theatre. And.. Can I tell you what? I’m so excited to be here with you in the Art Impact Podcast again! Discover the transformative power of theatre through the eyes of distinguished applied theatre practitioner Lucy Dear. Listen in as Lucy, a theatre maker and community producer, takes us on a captivating journey from her early experiences in youth theatre to...
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Children’s Poetry As An Incredible Tool For Inclusion & Broadening Our Thinking with Kate Wakeling #42
In today’s episode, I’m talking with the award-winning writer and musicologist Kate Wakeling about children’s poetry as a tool for inclusion and realizing our unlimited potential. Kate is writer-in-residence with Aurora Orchestra - and that’s how my kids and I got to know her wonderful work - and writes regularly for BBC Music Magazine and the Times Literary Supplement.Her debut collection of children’s poetry, Moon Juice by The Emma Press, won the 2017 CLiPPA and was nominated for the 2018 C...
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The Theatre of Attachment & Supporting Children to Overcome Trauma and Realise Their Full Potential with Dr Joan Moore #41
In Dr Joan Moore’s vast experience supporting foster and adoptive families, creative arts are the most effective methods of therapy to enable children and young people to accept their pasts, form new secure and healthy relationships and thrive. Dr Joan is a play and dramatherapy expert and the creator of The Theatre of Attachment Model. In this episode, we talk about how play and storytelling can support children to overcome trauma and realise their full potential.Such a powerful and moving c...
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Finding Our Call by Chance and Wonder with Gary Albert #40
In today’s episode, I’m having an ultra-exciting and honest conversation with Gary Albert about the power of art in our world today, mental health and finding our call by chance and wonder. Gary Albert, is a multi-award-winning artist who creates music to ignite awe and inspire wonder in the world.He loops and layers his soaring flute, sparkling piano and velvet vocals into a transcendental sonic tonic that critics have as “... a multi-instrumental dream”, "... a poetic and introspectiv...