Episodes
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Mindfulness and "Heartfulness" in Creative Placemaking
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Listen in on this conversation with Cornell Carelock, a hip-hop teaching artist and founder of True HeART Academy in Westchester County, NY. Carelock is a Certificate in Creative Placemaking graduate from the class of 2019 and developed a series of workshops that integrate arts modalities into mindfulness practice. In this conversation he talks about a concept he calls 'heartfulness' and why it's such a useful tool for practitioners in the field. This interview was recorded in August of 2019.
Host: Andrea Orlando lives, records, and writes from her home in New Jersey. Contact her at andrea.orlando.530@gmail.com
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Concerts and Creative Placemaking
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Monday Jul 01, 2019
Hear how free concerts transformed two communities in Texas and Nevada. We had a conversation with Sharon Yazowski, Executive Director of the Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation; Patti Diou of the Levitt Pavilion in Arlington, TX, and Gina Lopez-Hill of the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City, NV. This episode touches on the power of getting the community together over free, outdoor concerts. Our guests give their programs credit for introducing couples who later got married, helping local employers retain talented employees, and helping neighbors meet and bond over music. The recording took place during the 2019 Pacific Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in Los Angeles, which was co-produced by the Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation, The National Consortium for Creative Placemaking and ArtPlace America.
Host: Andrea Orlando lives, records, and writes from her home in New Jersey. Contact her at andrea.orlando.530@gmail.com
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Creative Placemaking in Rural Places
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
With the early 2019 release of "Rural Prosperity Through the Arts & Creative Sector" and the 2019 Rural Generation Summit, the creative placemaking world is turning its attention to arts and culture-driven economic and community development in less-populated areas. Bob Reeder, Program Director of Rural LISC, explains why it's important for people in the field to learn the 'languages' spoken in other sectors, and how that knowledge can result in more productive creative placemaking. We interviewed him at the 2019 ArtPlace Summit in Jackson, MS, which was immediately followed by the Rural Generation Summit, also in Jackson. He served on the advisory committee for the Rural Generation Summit.
Host: Andrea Orlando lives, records, and writes from her home in New Jersey. Contact her at andrea.orlando.530@gmail.com
Friday May 17, 2019
Creative Placemaking at the Richland Library
Friday May 17, 2019
Friday May 17, 2019
Several lucky attendees at the 2019 Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit for the South and Appalachia were treated to a field workshop at the main branch of the Richland Library in Columbia, SC. We interviewed the workshop leader, Chief Program and Innovation Officer, Tony Tallent, to ask about the changing role of the public library and why creative placemaking can help the institution meet the needs of the community.
Host: Andrea Orlando lives, records, and writes from her home in New Jersey. Contact her at andrea.orlando.530@gmail.com
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
Food and Community Empowerment
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
Thursday Mar 07, 2019
We interviewed anthropologist Dr. Maribel Alvarez between breakout sessions at a Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Alvarez was appointed Associate Dean for Community Engagement at the University of Arizona. She talks about work she did in Tuscon, Arizona with La Doce: Barrio Foodways Project. Subscribe to our newsletter for updates.
Host: Andrea Orlando lives, records, and writes from her home in New Jersey. Contact her at andrea.orlando.530@gmail.com
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
Creative Placemaking Black Lives Matter
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
Wednesday Feb 27, 2019
In this episode show host Andrea Orlando interviews Hakim Bellamy and Darryl DeLoach on a workshop program they created to improve safety during interactions between young men of color and law enforcement officers. Hakim is a poet, and Darryl is an actor. The program, called Positive Policing
employs the tools of their trades to role play common encounters, such as traffic stops. The two men demonstrated their methods at the 2019 West Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in Albuquerque, NM. In this interview they talk about how their methods evolved and what they hope to accomplish. They share an example of one workshop that accidentally transformed into a genuine reckoning because one of the officers in the room had actually stopped and questioned one of the young men who participated in the exercise in a prior encounter years earlier.
Host: Andrea Orlando lives, records, and writes from her home in New Jersey. Contact her at andrea.orlando.530@gmail.com
Friday Feb 01, 2019
Joe Palazzolo of New Jersey Community Capital on Creative Placemaking
Friday Feb 01, 2019
Friday Feb 01, 2019
In this interview Joe Palazzolo of New Jersey Community Capital talks about why the organization is investing in creative placemaking projects, and how the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy illustrated the importance of such work.
Host: Andrea Orlando lives, records, and writes from her home in New Jersey. Contact her at andrea.orlando.530@gmail.com