59 episodes
Helga WNYC Studios and Brown Arts Institute
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4.8 • 160 Ratings
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Artist, performer, and host Helga Davis brings a soulful curiosity and love of people to the podcast Helga, where she talks about the intimate lives of creative people as they share the steps they’ve taken along their path. She draws listeners into these discussions with cultural change-makers, whether already famous or rising talents, whose sensibilities expand our imaginations as we explore what we think we know about each other. The new season of Helga is a co-production of WNYC Studios and the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, and Death, Sex & Money. The Brown Arts Institute at Brown University is a new university-wide research enterprise and catalyst for the arts at Brown that creates new work and supports, amplifies, and adds new dimensions to the creative practices of Brown’s arts departments, faculty, students, and community.
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Singer-songwriter Sampha on Fatherhood and Intuition
British singer-songwriter and producer Sampha talks about fatherhood, the images that inspired his album “Lahai,”and how he follows his intuition in art and life.
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Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks on Self-Worth and Loving the Grind
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks talks storytelling, family, and creating a one-act play for each day of the year.
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Scholar Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo on Joys of Nerd Rap
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, is a music professor who also performs as the rapper and producer Sammus. Here, she talks about navigating childhood anxiety and showing up as a socially conscious artist.
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Designer Tremaine Emory on Validation in Consumer Culture
Tremaine Emory, streetwear fashion designer, discusses self-validation in consumer culture, and what it means to reshape the world into a place different than it was before.
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Director Whitney White on Depth and the Magic of Theater
Whitney White, Obie Award-winning theater director, talks about how powerful moments on stage originate in the body, and how she preserves her inner self amid the demands of large-scale productions.
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Singer Brittany Howard on Creative Rebirth and Spirituality
Singer-songwriter Brittany Howard discusses her early experiences with grief and its impact on her creative awakening, her stages of self-discovery, and her understanding of passion and authenticity.
Customer Reviews
grace and love as survival
Each conversation is such a generous, full heart opening, deep communion with grace and love as survival. Thank you, Helga!
The Solange episode
Can it get more real, I don’t know and don’t care. My heart is full within this moment. I queued up this to be my introduction to the Helga podcast! This is pure radiance, intelligence, and unconditional sharing.
It puts me in the mindset of the absolute best connections, conversationally or otherwise, that one can have with someone whose wellbeing you’ll root for and who simultaneously you know is honoring herself by representing her authenticity.
If you want a podcast host who remains respectfully present throughout, you’re in the right place.
Now, on to the Krista Tippett episode.
One of his best
Thank you for such a great program. As a Arthur Jafa addict, I must say it’s one of his best out of the hundreds circulating out there. It really touched me as I listened to my cousin who is like a brother recount his battles that bought him to this point in his life.
We grew up together and many of the stories he describes about traveling back and forth to Tupelo, many times he stayed at my house. Although we are first cousins, he is still one of my hero’s has inspired me to no end to dive head first into things I had no idea I was capable of artistically. Great job.