"Claiming Artistic Freedom" - 5 Artist-Creators Share Their Definitions (Episode 102)
For the season five finale of call and response, we celebrate FREEDOM. In a time where fear and scarcity feel wide-spread, how can we...
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- Jun 11, 2021
- 1 min
Britton Smith - "Making Room for Presence, Vulnerability, and Liberation" (Episode 101)
"There has to be permission for Black men to be vulnerable. Vulnerability wasn't taught to me or to my brother or to my community....
- Jun 4, 2021
- 1 min
Honoring The Community of The Call and Response Podcast: Episode 100
We are so hype, so thrilled, and so excited that call and response podcast has hit 100 episodes! To celebrate the milestone, we’re...
- May 28, 2021
- 1 min
Gerald Caesar - "Securing Your Bag While Doing What You Love" (Episode 99)
"When I see people post like their nostril on Instagram and it gets 10,000 likes, I’m like, ‘Oh, why would I do this whole photoshoot...
- May 21, 2021
- 1 min
Tonya Pinkins - "Building My Own Castle" (Episode 98)
"I sometimes wonder with young people today that there's a fragility born of carrying around violence machines every day of your life...
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Jawan M. Jackson - "Choosing Joy Daily" (Episode 97)
"We are conditioned to compete one another; if I’m being specific, going out for a Broadway show and there’s only one Black role in the...
- May 7, 2021
- 1 min
"Igniting The Fire This Time Festival" (Episode 96)
"I think the way we measure our success is how successful we are at maintaining that sense of community. This industry is up and down—no...
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
Zurin Villanueva - "Rollin’ With My Homies" (Episode 95)
"I marched. I realized that marching isn’t so much for the cause—you think you’re going out there for the cause—it’s more for the person...
- Apr 23, 2021
- 1 min
Adrienne Walker - "Leaning Into What Works" (Episode 94)
"For me, I needed to feel comfortable in my own skin for so many reasons—I was such a shy kid, I felt lost, in the shadows, in the...
- Apr 16, 2021
- 1 min
Ty Jones - "Connecting in Glorious, Humanistic Ways" (Episode 93)
"I think there are multiple ways to have conversations. Al Sharpton can say something of substance, but it ain’t gonna get heard the same...
- Apr 9, 2021
- 1 min
Brian Moreland - "Crossing the Finish Line Together" (Episode 92)
"We have lost our North Star of producers creating people and shows, instead of the plug-and-play mentality. You know, it’s, 'The play...
- Apr 2, 2021
- 1 min
Tali Allen - "Educating for the Win(s)" (Episode 91)
"I work with children who are of a different generation. They are so much more evolved than we are—than their parents are. They are so...
- Mar 26, 2021
- 1 min
Marty Austin Lamar - "Pivoting With Purpose" (Episode 90)
"In our efforts to give our kids the best, sometimes we completely remove them from their communities, and so what I began to see at...
- Mar 19, 2021
- 1 min
Dr. Lisa B. Thompson — "Shaping the Conversation as an Artist-Scholar" (Episode 89)
"It's such synchronous situation...As an artist-scholar, I find an issue that's really interesting to me and I end up having a both...
- Mar 12, 2021
- 1 min
Khalilah Elliott - "Disrupting the State of the Art" (Episode 88)
"I just got tired of seeing Black people only presented through the gaze of white America. Like, we can only be seen as we're seen by...
- Mar 5, 2021
- 1 min
ChiChi Anyanwu - "Becoming (An Entrepreneur)" (Episode 87)
"I got a really great internship at McCarter Theatre...I was not only interning—I'm a bit of a hustler, so I was trying to figure out...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 1 min
Kyle Taylor Parker - "Investigating the Possibilities" (Episode 86)
"My first album...I mixed "I Feel Pretty" with "Say It Loud—I'm Black and I'm Proud"...I never thought it would create such a divide in...
- Feb 19, 2021
- 1 min
Jhanaë Bonnick - "Living the Life You're Supposed to Live" (Episode 85)
"A Jamaican phrase that my mom says to me all the time is, 'Walk good, better must come.' It’s just like, 'Keep going. Whatever this is...
- Feb 12, 2021
- 1 min
Kalena Bovell - "Conducting the Music of Something Beginning" (Episode 84)
"I didn’t know a lot of Black conductors who existed. That’s because the education of who they were wasn’t there. Classical education is...
- Feb 5, 2021
- 1 min
Nick Daly - "Commencing Season 5 With a Look to the Future" (Episode 83)
“I feel like a lot of Gen Z-ers have the idea that we are just headed towards doom and that we were put in a situation that we had...
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