Podcasts about mu performing arts

Breaking Ice - Chapter 2Fear of judgement, the courage of sharing pain, or guilt, or confusion, owning that not knowing is not an excuse for hurting, that humility is hard, that learning hard things is harder, and accepting responsibility is a daily struggle. This is the rocky relational landscape being explored by five BreakIng Ice performers on a bare stage at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. louis, Missouri in the winter of 2019.LISTEN TO Breaking Ice Chapter 1Change the Story / All Episodes Change the Story Collections - Our full catalogue of Episodes in 12 Collections: Justice Arts, Art & Healing, Cultural Organizing, Arts Ed./Children & Youth, Community Arts Training, Music for Change, Theater for Change, Change Making Media, Creative Climate Action, Art of the RuralBIO'sNoël Raymond holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Minnesota and a BFA from Ithaca College in New York. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Multicultural Development Center and the Burning House Group Theatre Company which she co-founded in 1993. She is also a company member of Carlyle Brown and Company. She has taught acting classes and theatre movement in multiple settings to children, college students and adults with developmental disabilities. Noël is an Equity actor who has performed with Pillsbury House Theatre, the Burning House Group, the Guthrie Theater, Penumbra Theatre, Bryant Lake Bowl, and Minnesota Festival Theatres in Minnesota as well as the Hangar Theatre in New York. Noël's directing credits include Underneath the Lintel, An Almost Holy Picture, Far Away, Angels in America: Parts I and II, and [sic] at Pillsbury House Theatre, From Shadows to Light at Theatre Mu, The BI Show with MaMa mOsAiC, and multiple staged readings and workshops through the Playwrights' Center, among others. Noël has served on numerous panels including TCG/American Theatre, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Playwright's Center and United Arts, to name a few.Kurt Kwan has been creating performances and facilitating dialogues around issues of Diversity and Inclusion with the Breaking Ice company since 2001. He also manages the Late Nite and Naked Stages programs. As an actor he has performed with Ten Thousand Things, The Walker, Childrens Theatre Company, Mu Performing Arts, New York Asian American Writers, The History Theatre, and Theatre La Homme Dieu.Notable MentionsDEI programs: Diversity, equity, and inclusion (usually abbreviated DEI) refers to organizational frameworks which seek to promote "the fair treatment and full participation of all people", particularly groups "who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination" on the basis of

This episode and next will tell the story my time with Breaking Ice and share what I learned about the program's evolution and history, its impact, and its innovative approach helping workplaces large and small "cultivate courageous dialogue around issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. BIO'sNoël Raymond holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Minnesota and a BFA from Ithaca College in New York. She currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Multicultural Development Center and the Burning House Group Theatre Company which she co-founded in 1993. She is also a company member of Carlyle Brown and Company. She has taught acting classes and theatre movement in multiple settings to children, college students and adults with developmental disabilities. Noël is an Equity actor who has performed with Pillsbury House Theatre, the Burning House Group, the Guthrie Theater, Penumbra Theatre, Bryant Lake Bowl, and Minnesota Festival Theatres in Minnesota as well as the Hangar Theatre in New York. Noël's directing credits include Underneath the Lintel, An Almost Holy Picture, Far Away, Angels in America: Parts I and II, and [sic] at Pillsbury House Theatre, From Shadows to Light at Theatre Mu, The BI Show with MaMa mOsAiC, and multiple staged readings and workshops through the Playwrights' Center, among others. Noël has served on numerous panels including TCG/American Theatre, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Playwright's Center and United Arts, to name a few.Kurt Kwan has been creating performances and facilitating dialogues around issues of Diversity and Inclusion with the Breaking Ice company since 2001. He also manages the Late Nite and Naked Stages programs. As an actor he has performed with Ten Thousand Things, The Walker, Childrens Theatre Company, Mu Performing Arts, New York Asian American Writers, The History Theatre, and Theatre La Homme Dieu.Notable MentionsDEI programs: Diversity, equity, and inclusion (usually abbreviated DEI) refers to organizational frameworks which seek to promote "the fair treatment and full participation of all people", particularly groups "who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination" on the basis of identity or disability.[1]Barnes Jewish Hospital is the largest hospital in the U.S. state of Missouri. Located in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, it is the adult teaching hospital for the

Sandra Agustin; she/her/titaCre8tive Navigator Facilitator/ArtistSandy has an extensive history of arts, social and racial justice and leadership. She is a nativeMinnesotan, the youngest child of a Filipino immigrant and 5th generation Euro-Minnesotan.Since the age of 9, she has professionally performed and taught dance, later moving into artsadministration as executive and artistic director at Intermedia Arts where she curated,fundraised, managed, consulted artists and built relationships. She is a former co-artistic coremember of Mu Performing Arts where she acted, directed, choreographed over 20 shows andwas an early member of the Asian American Renaissance. Since its inception in 2002, Sandyhas frequently co-facilitated cohorts of arts and community development leaders in the Creative Community Leadership Initiative alongside Bill Cleveland of the Center for the Study of Art and Community. She has served on non-profit boards including the Minnesota Dance Alliance, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts/MCA, and currently serves on the boards of Maji ya chai Land Sanctuary, Speaking Out Collective and the Tango Society of Mn. As a resident teaching artist through the Children's Theatre Company's Neighborhood Bridges program Sandy led an in-school critical literacy and theatre program engaging young people to question power, write their own stories and develop community . She recently co-founded Theatre 55 providing performance opportunities for folks over 55 years of age, where she also occasionally performs and choreographs. Sandy is a part of the Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership's artist roster, working in St. Peter, MN. She is a performer and choreographer and contributor with Pangea World Theatre's latest production called Life Born of Fire, an ensemble based public performance ritual, created in a post-uprising Minneapolis environment.Sandy's recent facilitations have included ArtPlace America and the Local Control Local Fields program, Southwest Initiative Foundation, a rural community development organization; Leadership on the Way a two-year leadership mentoring program for associate Lutheran pastors across the US; Longfellow Rising a newly formed organization committed to an equitable rebuild in the wake of George Floyd's murder and the uprisings that took place in South Minneapolis. She considers herself a cre8tive navigator, helping individuals and organizations to find their creative "north". She sees her calling and role in shifting energy, holding tender and playful space and validating all perspectives. She brings creative/arts based engagement tools and deep listening practices as mentor-learner into every and all settings. She is currently the Director of Creative Engagement for Inspire to Change, LLC., whose mission is to support purpose driven change and change makers around the globe.Aside from the arts, she is an advocate-lover for all animal species, the environment and HIV/AIDS causes.

I had a chance to sit down with co-founders of Monicat Data.  It's the first time I chatted with experts at the intersection of data science and art, so I took a lot of notes.  What I learned: How to quantify art... This is the first time I heard some articulate it so well. A must listen for anyone who thinks Art cannot be quantified. How creative supporting organizations approach analytics  Data Entrepreneurship learning lessons! Product Management - How is it done in Art Organizations! Covered tons of other topics - including my favorite - round of rapid fire questions!  About Monicat Data:  Jasmine, Cassie, and Kurt are co-founders of Monicat Data, a Data Management & Research agency specifically focused on bringing strategic data to Artists and Creative Supporting Organizations. Since launching September of 2016, Monicat Data has aided creative organizations with data solutions ranging from notable names such as Springboard for the Arts, Rhymesayers Entertainment, Forecast Public Art. Fashion Week MN, The Bush Foundation and Mu Performing Arts--to name a few."Monicat Data also offers 'Data for Art' workshops to the Minneapolis/St. Paul in the efforts of educating artists and creative supporting organizations on the power of data organization and strategy implementation. Jasmine has a background in marketing analytics and an MBA. Cassie has a background in music, computer science, and art. Both Jasmine and Cassie love working on data that makes people dream. Fun fact about Jasmine & Cassie: Aside from running their data startup, Jasmine is an avid yogi and Cassie is an opera singer.

"People are trying to figure out how to categorize you and I think that's just a human thing." 'Pogi' talks about being an actor of color and how that makes him wonder about parts he does or doesn't get. He talks about people assume he speaks Spanish because of how he looks even though he's a Filipino-American. He talks about identifying outside of the typical "racial binary" and about being a part of a family that has ongoing immigration into the US.  Eric 'Pogi' Sumangil is a two-time recipient of the Playwrights' Center's Many Voices Fellowship. His full-length plays include The Duties and Responsibilities of Being a Sidekick and Kicking The Gong Around. His play, The Debutante's Ball, was produced in 2015 by History Theatre in partnership with Mu Performing Arts.  He is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association, and a co-founder of The Unit Collective, a collective of emerging playwrights of color. He is a recipient of a 2002 Excellence in the Arts award from the Fil-Minnesotan Association, and once got his name on a plaque for eating a 3-pound steak.

May Lee-Yang is an award-winning playwright and performance artist. She is most well-known for her play, Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman, which has been toured nationally and was translated into a Hmong-language production. She often teaches theater and creative writing through COMPAS, Mu Performing Arts, the St. Paul Public Library, and Letters to Our Grandchildren, a theater project with Hmong elders. May would live by the opinion of others which led her to believe she had to be someone else in order for others to accept her. Sick and tired of living life for others, she knew if she wanted to live life on her terms, it was upto her to decide and take action. Tune into her episode as she shares her story. Check out thetaoofselfconfidence.com for show notes of May's episode, May's website, resources, gifts and so much more.

Eric Sharp let us pop by the Mu Performing Arts rehearsal room to talk about ‘Holy Crap, Here I Am’ from his new play Middle Brother. Middle Brother is a fictionalized physical theatre telling of his personal Korean adoptee experience. The post Eric Sharp | Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 2 appeared first on NoisePicnic Podcast Network.

Trena Bolden Fields welcomes award-winning theatre artist, Randy Reyes to discuss how education played a role in where he is today.    Randy Reyes is a theater actor/director/ educator in the Twin Cities.  He got his training at the University of Utah and The Juilliard School.  Randy has performed at the Guthrie, Mixed Blood, Ten Thousand Things, and Mu Performing Arts.  He's directed for Mu, The Pillsbury House, Theatre in the Round, and Ten Thousand Things.  He's taught at NYU Grad Acting Program, U of Minnesota/Guthrie BFA Acting Program, The Guthrie Experience, Augsburg College, and Macalester.  Randy moved to the Twin Cities from NYC eight years ago and is the incoming Artistic Director of Mu Performing Arts, a 21 year old company that does theater and taiko from the heart of the Asian American experience.

Kim Hines first set foot on the professional stage as a child when she became the member of the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. Kim has performed at Mixed Blood, Illusion, Penumbra  and the Guthrie. As a director, Kim has worked with Mu Performing Arts, Park Square, Theater in the Round, The Great American History Theater, Illusion Theater, Theatre Unbound, Augsburg College, Cornell University in New York, University of Northern Iowa and Kansas University. Her writtern work has been produced at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Kim holds a B.A. in Speech & Theater and Visual Art from Macalester College. Sean Byrd is an actor/director/teacher with a BFA in acting/directing from Stephen F. Austin State University and an MFA in Performance Studies from Western Illinois University.  He was a founding company member and Producing Director of Wax Fruit Theatre Company in Chicago. In the Twin Cities, Sean has acted with such threatres as 15 Head: A Theatre Lab, The Minnesota Shakespeare Project, Fifty Foot Penguin, Pig’s Eye, Sandbox and Hardcover. In 2012, he appeared in Walking Shadow Theatre Company’s production of Compleat Female Stage Beauty which won the Ivey Award for Production Excellence. He is a full-time faculty member and director in the Department of Theatre at Normandale College in Bloomington, MN. He is married to director/actor, Anne Byrd. They have one daughter, Terri and two granddaughters, Holly and Harriet.