In this episode, our guest is Rita Ezenwa-Okoro, a creative culturist, performance activist, communications expert, and founder of the Street Project Foundation. Based in Nigeria, she believes in the creative arts' ability to foster self-esteem

Meditations On Arts Leadership: Toks Dada

Jun 1st, 2023 27m 11s

In this episode of Toks Dada, we explore the innovative approach of London's South Bank Center's classical music head, the UK's youngest senior curator. The conversation centers on attracting younger audiences to classical music through strateg

Meditations On Arts Leadership: Reem Allam

Jun 1st, 2023 15m 11s

In this episode, we host Reem Allam, the new Associate Director of Artistic Planning at the Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi and former executive manager and artistic programmer of the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival in Egypt. Reem passionately

Meditation On the Art of Listening

Feb 23rd, 2022 16m 22s

Muriel Miguel of the Kuniyala and Rappahannock nations is the founder and Artistic Director of Spiderwoman Theatre, the longest running Indigenous feminist theater in the Americas. She facilitates Storyweaving Workshops - a signature Indigenous

Meditation on Embodying Empathy and Reconciliation Through the Arts

Feb 23rd, 2022 16m 45s

Diana Teresa Gutierrez, CEO of Embodying Reconciliation based in Colombia, and Juan Philippe Miranda Medina, a lecturer in Peru at the Universidad Catolica San Pablo, lead movement and embodiment workshops designed to promote empathy, meaningfu

Meditation on Transforming Lives Through Music

Feb 23rd, 2022 20m 38s

The Afghanistan National Institute of Music has been a source of national pride and a symbol of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's renewed dedication to arts, culture and education. But what has the return of the Taliban meant for ANIM and m

Meditation on Digital Accessibility

Jun 29th, 2021 23m 13s

As we all feel under pressure to vastly expand our organization's digital footprint and use technology to innovate the way we connect with our audience, how can we make sure we don't neglect accessibility? In this episode we discuss this topic

Meditation on Arts Leadership

Jun 29th, 2021 20m 55s

Darren Walker is the visionary President of the Ford Foundation, an independent non-profit 13 billion dollar international social justice institution. A true catalyst for positive change, in this episode Walker sat down with us for a feature in

Meditation on Art in Outer Space

Jun 29th, 2021 16m 9s

In this episode, hear from Berlin-based artist musician Nahum as he guides you into an unsettling journey and engages in a critical dialogue about the politics of existence, diversity, and space exploration. Navigating between the real and the

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