Today on the podcast, our summer series collaboration with Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance’s “RE-START Initiative”, draws to a close with the Initiative’s champions, Kabria Rogers and Roberta Johnson. Stay Tuned.

The RestART Organizations we heard from:

Al-Bustan: Seeds of Culture

Davinci Art Alliance

EgoPo Classic Theatre

Kun-Yang Lin Dancers

Intercultural Journeys

Tiny Dynamite

FUNDERS:

PECO - An Excelon Company

National Endowment for the Arts

Learn more about RestART!

RestART: The Arts are Back!

https://phillyfunguide.com/editorial/restart-the-arts-are-back

Today on the podcast, our 8-part summer series collaboration with Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance’s “RE-START Initiative”, continues with Intercultural Journeys where we explore how the organization has fared during the pandemic. Here is my interview with Carly Rapaport-Stein, Executive Director of Intercultural Journeys.

OUR VISION

Intercultural Journeys boldly leverages the power of the performing arts to catalyze social change, challenge bias, and create spaces for dialogue and understanding by presenting culturally diverse voices that celebrate and affirm our shared humanity.

OUR VISION

We imagine a world of more:
more welcome, more curiosity, more empathy, and more connection.
Where more voices tell our history and shape our future,
and we create an inclusive space to be still, to listen, to watch, to dance, and to learn together;
Where recognition and respect for one and all are the starting point, and not the finish line,
and love drives our journey forward.

Learn more about RestART!

RestART: The Arts are Back!

https://phillyfunguide.com/editorial/restart-the-arts-are-back

Today on the podcast, Elise Seyfried and Denita Stevens talk about This Is My Brave, the nonprofit bringing a mental health storytelling event to Philadelphia. Here is my interview for THIS IS MY BRAVE.

This Is My Brave was co-founded in Virginia by Jennifer Marshall and Anne Marie Ames (1958-2017), two women passionate about ending the stigma surrounding mental illness, and saving lives through storytelling. In May of 2014, TIMB debuted its first ever live show in Arlington, Virginia at the Spectrum Theatre to a sold-out crowd of nearly 400.

Over the past six years, the nonprofit organization has hosted performances across the United States and in Australia, including Greenville, SC; Valparaiso, IN (Chicagoland); Denver, CO; Iowa City, IA; Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; Los Angeles, CA; Boston, MA; Lewiston, ME; Wheeling, WV; Boise, ID; New York, NY; and beyond. TIMB has been featured on the Today Show: Mind Matters with Carson Daly as well as in The Washington Post and O, The Oprah Magazine, Stage-Directions Magazine, and Health as well as many other publications. In 2019, This Is My Brave launched high school and college pilot programs.

This Is My Brave, Inc. (TIMB), the national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the stigma surrounding mental illness through storytelling, comes to Philadelphia hosting auditions May 7, 14, and 15, 2022. The resulting performance will be held at the Ambler Theater on October 9, 2022. Performances will feature area community members who live with mental health challenges or substance use disorders, telling their stories through spoken word, poetry, music, dance, and more. No performing experience is necessary.

Register to Audition: https://calendly.com/thisismybrave-philadelphia (Participants must be age 18+).

Today on the podcast, Our Eric returns as his star continues to rise. With three plays, a book on the way and a weekly newsletter, we’ll play catch up with R. Eric Thomas. Here is my interview with R. Eric Thomas.

We’re living in the “The Ever Present”, we’re “Backing Track”, spending time with “The Folks at Home”, will soon bow to the “Kings of B’More”…, soon, we’ll be “Crying On Television”, all this and more “Previously On…”, is Our Eric, R. Eric Thomas in the virtual studio!!

Keep track of R. Eric Thomas on his website at: https://rericthomas.com