Artist Soapbox * Audio fiction + Creative Process

Tamara drops in to open the 2023 Season of the Artist Soapbox podcast, to touch base with you about the exciting episodes that will be coming to your ears, and to talk about the future of Artist Soapbox.

[Spoiler Alert: This season includes: 3 interview episodes, 2 radio plays, and a 6 episode limited series. Then, a hiatus of indefinite length.]

*Transcript for this episode is coming. Please check back.*

Mentioned:

ASBX LIVE

Patreon

TheatreFest

Away Home Tix

VO Demos (Tamara Kissane)

LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:

Jesus Pancake

Master Builder

The New Colossus

Declaration of Love audio anthology

Food for Thought

ASBX Shorts

CONNECT AND FOLLOW:

Artist Soapbox on social media:

Twitter:@artist_soapbox

Instagram: @artistsoapbox

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/

CONTRIBUTE:

Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast.Get on the Soapbox with us at Patreonor make a one-time donation via Ko-fi athttps://ko-fi.com/artistsoapboxor via PayPal atPayPal.Me/artistsoapbox.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please consider our non-profitSoapbox Audio Collective.

Microwaves, family secrets, and the Potential of a Pancake converge in this zany dark comedy about a middle-aged woman reckoning with her power for the first time.

Jesus Pancake is a new scripted audio fiction series from Artist Soapbox and the Soapbox Audio Collective.

Nine episodes of Season One will be released FALL 2022.

Subscribe via your favorite podcast app. For more information, see www.artistsoapbox.org.

It’s Tamara here with a season 2022 wrap-up. In this short little episode, you'll hear a hodgepodge of season-related thoughts and recap, some numbers, what’s next for Artist Soapbox, recommendations, etc. It’s a little formless jumble of gratitude in audio form!

Mentioned in this episode:

ASBX Live

Madame Magenta: Sonos Mystica

Midnight Burger

Allison Kirkland Writing Workshops

LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:

Master Builder

The New Colossus

Declaration of Love audio anthology

ASBX Shorts

CONNECT AND FOLLOW:

Artist Soapbox on social media:

Twitter:@artist_soapbox

Instagram: @artistsoapbox

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/

CONTRIBUTE:

Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast.Get on the Soapbox with us at Patreonor make a one-time donation via Ko-fi athttps://ko-fi.com/artistsoapboxor via PayPal atPayPal.Me/artistsoapbox.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please consider our non-profitSoapbox Audio Collective.

If you are seeking encouragement, wisdom, and positivity, then this episode delivers! Brian Perry is a singer/songwriter, clarity coach, copywriter, author, speaker, and amazing person. Enjoy his conversation with host, Juliana Finch, about navigating the creative process, finding joy, and measuring success.

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BRIAN PERRY: Singer/Songwriter, Clarity Coach, Copywriter, Author, and Speaker (and that guy who writes on the back of his car!)

www.yesbrianperry.com

@yesbrianperry on FB, IG, & LI

MENTIONED: www.thinkingoutsidetheblocks.com

LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:

Master Builder

The New Colossus

Declaration of Love audio anthology

ASBX Shorts

CONNECT AND FOLLOW:

Artist Soapbox on social media:

Twitter:@artist_soapbox

Instagram: @artistsoapbox

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/

CONTRIBUTE:

Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast.Get on the Soapbox with us at Patreonor make a one-time donation via Ko-fi athttps://ko-fi.com/artistsoapboxor via PayPal atPayPal.Me/artistsoapbox.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please consider our non-profitSoapbox Audio Collective.

How about a special summer treat? This episode is a short audio play for middle-school kids created by theCurious Theatre Collective.

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Founded in 2016,Curious Theatre Collective creates original, interdisciplinary educational theater programming that inspires audiencestofollow their curiosity, persevere through challenges, and believe in the power of their imagination.

Curious Theatre Collective is excited to share the next installment of audio plays for young audiences: Chinese Girl Wants Vote.

Written by Jinna Kim, Chinese Girl Wants Vote presents the life and work of Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Dr. Lee’s work for women’s rights and the Chinese American community are gifts we are thrilled to share with our audience (specifically grades 4-8).

Chinese Girl Wants Vote: Trailblazer Mabel Lee features Rachel Kanakanui and Pimpila Violette. This audio play was funded thanks to grant support from the Orange County Arts Commission.

Curious Theatre Collective is Emma Nadeau, Jessica Flemming, Tamara Kissane, and Julie Kaplan.

Read along with the script

Watch on YouTube

For more info, cast bios, and resources: CTC Audio Plays

ASBX Interview with Jinna Kim

ASBX 145: Creekside with Winona: an audio play for young audiences

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LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:

Master Builder

The New Colossus

Declaration of Love audio anthology

ASBX Shorts

CONNECT AND FOLLOW:

Artist Soapbox on social media:

Twitter:@artist_soapbox

Instagram: @artistsoapbox

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/

CONTRIBUTE:

Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast.Get on the Soapbox with us at Patreonor make a one-time donation via Ko-fi athttps://ko-fi.com/artistsoapboxor via PayPal atPayPal.Me/artistsoapbox.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please consider our non-profitSoapbox Audio Collective.

Isabel O'Hara Walsh leads writing workshops through the Redbud Writing Project. Redbud offers classes virtually and around the Triangle on topics like Writing the Novel, Experimental Fiction, and one that Isabel and I talk about, Joyful Creation – how to get your writing juices flowing when staring at that blank page.

Isabel shares about their experience incorporating anti-racist practices into the workshop and feedback processes. An important resource in helping to shape this framework is the book The Anti-Racist Writer’s Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez. Chavez’s book challenges, in her words, “art’s politics of power and privilege” and lays bare the ways that traditional – read: white-supremacist – methods of running workshops work to silence the voices of writers of color and writers with other marginalized identities.

Isabel and Mara Thomas also discuss another Artist Soapbox favorite when it comes to rethinking the feedback process: Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. Lerman’s work helps tailor the feedback process to help the creator retain agency over their work and create an environment where they get the feedback they’re actually looking for rather than an onslaught of unfiltered opinions.

BIO:

Isabel O’Hara Walsh (she/they) is a writer, teacher, and practicing witch. A graduate of the MFA program in fiction at North Carolina State University, Isabel teaches fiction writing at the Redbud Writing Project, has published short stories in Pastel Pastoral and The Metaworker, and is at work on her second novel. Through her business EdgeWise Witch, Isabel offers transformative 1-1 and group work sessions that incorporate Tarot, writing, and other ritual to clarify the right path forward for her clients.

SOCIAL MEDIA:

IG: @isabeloharawalsh

Website: redbudwriting.org | www.edgewisewitch.com

MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez

Critical Response Process by Liz Lerman

LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:

Master Builder

The New Colossus

Declaration of Love audio anthology

ASBX Shorts

CONNECT AND FOLLOW:

Artist Soapbox on social media:

Twitter:@artist_soapbox

Instagram: @artistsoapbox

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/

CONTRIBUTE:

Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast.Get on the Soapbox with us at Patreonor make a one-time donation via Ko-fi athttps://ko-fi.com/artistsoapboxor via PayPal at

It's Juliana Finch and Jess Klein! Jess Klein is an incredible songwriter-singer-performer, who has toured the world with her unbelievable music. She's been in the game long enough to know that creative cycles are normal and natural, and she approaches her process with a kind of ease that can inspire us all. Jess just finished producing an album that's coming out in the fall titled In the Arms of a Song.

Do what you can to find Jess Klein and listen and have a good cry. In the meantime, enjoy this episode.

Jess Klein Website

Instagram: @msjessklein

BIO:

Over a career that spans two decades and has won her a devoted worldwide fan base, Jess Klein—who possesses whatMojo magazinecalls “one of those voices you want to crawl up close to the speakers to listen to” has pursued a remarkable creative evolution that’s seen her dig ever deeper for resonant emotional insights, while continuing to refine her eloquently melodic, effortlessly accessible songcraft.

The Rochester, NY native began writing songs as a college student in Kingston, Jamaica. Jess spent eight years soaking up the live music culture of Austin, TX.Bootleg(2015) Jess’s live, full band album captures the dynamism of Jess onstage, backed by some of Austin’s top players.Jess was named a 2015 Finalist in the highly regardedKerrville New Folk Competition.

In 2016, Jess and her husband, songwriter Mike June moved to tiny but vibrant Hillsborough, North Carolina where she recorded 2019's Back to My Green.

Klein has performed to rapt audiences at theNewport Folk Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Fuji Rock Festival in Japanand packed houses in notable listening rooms likeJoe’s Pub, NYC, The Borderline in London, Club Passim in Boston and Fogartyville in Sarasota, FL. She has appeared onGood Morning AmericaandNPR’s All Things Consideredand toured across the US, Europe and Japan on her own and with such artists asArlo Guthrie, John Fullbright and Carlene Carter.

Jess's new album is currently in production and due out shortly.

LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:

Master Builder

The New Colossus

Declaration of Love audio anthology

ASBX Shorts

CONNECT AND FOLLOW:

Artist Soapbox on social media:

Twitter:@artist_soapbox

Instagram: @artistsoapbox

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/

CONTRIBUTE:

Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast.Get on the Soapbox with us at Patreonor make a one-time donation via Ko-fi athttps://ko-fi.com/artistsoapboxor via PayPal at

Griffin James speaks with theatre-maker and law student, Aysia Slade about her original play STATIC, creating art without causing harm to the artist, her writing process, Black theater and more. Aysia is a multi-talented artist who has such a thoughtful and nuanced approach to creating new work in theater. Enjoy this episode!

BIO:

Aysia Slade is a lover of stories and the art of theater making. She is a 2021 graduate of North Carolina State University where she majored in psychology with minors in philosophy, theater and political science. While at her alma mater she participated in over a dozen shows on and off stage, and founded the Black Artist Coalition which created a space for fellowship and advocacy for black artists in every discipline. She is currently attending Duke University School of Law. Her most recent project Static won the Creative Artist Award for playwriting at NC State.

LINKS:

Static: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CO8s3Gtnj4

Listen to Aysia on ASBX: Guess What Happened to Me Last Night (ASBX Shorts episode 2)

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange

LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:

Master Builder

The New Colossus

Declaration of Love audio anthology

ASBX Shorts

CONNECT AND FOLLOW:

Artist Soapbox on social media:

Twitter:@artist_soapbox

Instagram: @artistsoapbox

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/

CONTRIBUTE:

Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast.Get on the Soapbox with us at Patreonor make a one-time donation via Ko-fi athttps://ko-fi.com/artistsoapboxor via PayPal atPayPal.Me/artistsoapbox.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please consider our non-profitSoapbox Audio Collective.

This conversation is teeming with content, strategies, and tips, so prepare to take notes! Jeff A.R. Jones and Lormarev Jones discuss the concept of care of Community and Company through the lens of Intimacy Direction, a growing field in both the theatre and film//television industries.

BIO:

Jeff A.R. Jones has staged fights and/or intimacy for over 175 shows in theatre, opera, and ballet. His fights have received rave reviews in The Washington Post and The New York Times.He is a Fight Director, Certified Teacher, and Theatrical Firearms Instructor with the Society of American Fight Directors and a Certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators.He is on faculty at Elon and William Peace University. Jeff is currently in the process of starting Triangle Intimacy Lab, a space to practice the craft of staged intimacy without the pressures or timeline of a production.

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Since this recording, host Lormarev Jones was accepted into the Level 3 Certification Program with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, which Jeff refers to as IDC in this interview.That work continues to be a life-affirming and career-affirming educational experience for her.

Content warning: there are mentions of staging scenes containing sexual assault.Nothing in detail, but it is mentioned a couple of times.

IDC Website:https://www.idcprofessionals.com

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LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:

Master Builder

The New Colossus

Declaration of Love audio anthology

ASBX Shorts

CONNECT AND FOLLOW:

Artist Soapbox on social media:

Twitter:@artist_soapbox

Instagram: @artistsoapbox

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/

CONTRIBUTE:

Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast.Get on the Soapbox with us at Patreonor make a one-time donation via Ko-fi athttps://ko-fi.com/artistsoapboxor via PayPal atPayPal.Me/artistsoapbox.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please consider our non-profitSoapbox Audio Collective.

Mara Thomas got to know poet and educator Zoe Tuck through the School of the Alternative in Black Mountain, North Carolina where Zoe taught a class called “Book Magic.”

“Book Magic” started from the premise that there is a grain of truth to the magic we remember from children's books and other fantastical literature. And if those books contained a grain of truth, how might participants nurture that grain and write their own magical systems into being?

Enjoy this conversation about the mystical and intuitive parts of the creative process, ranging from friendship to trance poetics and patterned breath to the potency of shared creative spaces.

Check out the show notes below for links to many of the books, writers, and resources referenced in this episode.

BIO:

Zoe Tuck (she/her) was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Massachusetts. She is the author of Terror Matrix (Timeless, Infinite Light) and the chapbooks "Vape Cloud of Unknowing" (Belladonna*) and "The Book of Bella" (DoubleCross Press), the latter of which is bound in a dos-a-dos edition with Emily Hunerwadel's "Peach Woman." In addition to teaching creative writing and literature classes, Zoe is the co-host of The But Also reading series with Britt Billmeyer-Finn and the co-editor of Hot Pink Magazine with Emily Brown.

SOCIAL MEDIA:

IG: @zoe.tuck

Website: zoetuck.com

MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

School of the Alternative

Eliza Swann - Golden Dome, Alchemical Imagination

Julia Cameron - The Artist’s Way

Automatic Writing

Jack Spicer - San Francisco Renaissance Poet

Svetlana Boym - Scenography of Friendship

Renee Gladman - Adjacent Alterities

Troubling the Line - first ever collection of poetry by trans & genderqueer poets

Cento Poetry Practice

KPrevallet - Trance Poetics, Ecosomatic Poetics

James Nestor - Breath

LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:

Master Builder

The New Colossus

Declaration of Love audio anthology

ASBX Shorts

CONNECT AND FOLLOW:

Artist Soapbox on social media:

Twitter:@artist_soapbox

Instagram: @artistsoapbox

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/

CONTRIBUTE:

Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast.