CreAsian Collective: Recent Episodes
Podcast Hosts: Alice Lee & Michelle Yim
CreAsian Collective is a portal showcasing the Asian creative talents. Through interviews where our guests share their experiences and insights from the creative paths they've taken, we hope to encourage and empower more Asians to join the creative force and realise their dreams.
Please note our podcast is recorded in advance of broadcast.
Alison Manuel, Malaysian Life and Executive Coach, shares with us her journey as a much sort-after coach. Moreover she gives valuable advice on what it takes to succeed on our creative journey.
Part 2/2 Ming Ho gets personal and shares with us her experience caring for her mother with Dementia, how she channeled her experience into a play, "Things We Never Said" and her perspective on racial diversity in the industry.
Part 1/2 Ming Ho, Welsh-Chinese screenwriter and playwright, winner of WBBG's Best Radio Drama, shares with us the insights and reality of the the world as a writer in the film and TV industry.
Ari and Sari Seputra are veterans in the fashion industry with years of experience that resulted in 3 successful labels under their belt. Their brand Major Minor is an eclectic brand that reflects the diversity of the people behind the label. They share with Michelle their unique journey to make their mark internationally.
Korean soprano and international opera star, Hye-Youn Lee, shares her journey from being a little girl who loved to sing to being accepted by the prestigious music colleges in Germany and France. She shot to stardom in England and is now touring around in Europe and Asia, playing her favourite leading roles in Madam Butterfly, La Boheme, La Traviata, Don Giovanni and Nixon in China and more.
Sarah Highfield, voted as one of the top 10 yoga teachers to follow on Instagram on Evening Standard Newspaper, shares how she went from a PR professional to becoming a celebrated yoga teacher / teacher trainer and founding her company Yogagise Yoga.
Jennifer Tang is currently the Genesis Fellow and Associate Director of the Young Vic theatre in London. Born in Kent to Cantonese parents but raised by a white British family, she shares with Michelle what she has learnt on her creative journey so far and what the future might hold for the theatre industry.
Saman Shad, Pakistani born Australian writer, shares her inspirational journey from being born in Pakistan, growing up in Australia, finding her calling in England and becoming an acclaimed writer of journalism, playwright, novel and screenplay.
Denis Ingoldsby, legendary music producer who launched the career of bands and solo artists, share with us what makes a hit song and give us insights to the music industry. Denis has also recently produced two films and share with us what it's like to get funding for films and working with stars such as Liam Neeson and Johnny Depp.
Award-winning self-taught British-Indonesian chef, Petty Elliot, shares her culinary journey with Michelle.
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Beatrix Ong, a multidisciplinary designer and strategic consultant was voted as one of top 10 shoe designers in the world and had been awarded an MBE for her contribution to the British Fashion Industry. In recent years, she founded the Company of X where she channelled her creativity into producing ethical and environmentally conscious products.
LITTLE STORY COMPETITION!!! Beatrix is also the author of the picture book, A Bee & A Tree, of which we have a signed copy to reward the winner of our little story competition. For details, please go to https://www.creasiancollective.com/post/a-bee-and-a-tree-competition.
British-Malaysian Artist & Composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman, who brings together the contemporary classical, electronics and sound art worlds to create powerful soundscapes and musical identities, chats to Michelle.
Read Jasmin's STOP, LOOK, LISTEN (TO YOUR MUSICIANS)
Having trained in Industrial Design, Greg Sue, Art Director at Runner Duck, shares his journey on how he became a video game developer and designer and his inspiration behind games such as "Wordzee", “Potion Pop”, "Bomber Crew".
Read Greg's tips with 10 lessons before global launch.
Kumiko Mendl, the Artistic Director of New Earth Theatre (previously Yellow Earth Theatre), which is to-date the longest running and leading British East and South East Asian (BESEA) theatre company, chats to co-host Michelle.
Support #FilipinoFood4NHS. Find out more with New Earth Theatre’s Bayanihan with Love.
Trained as a psychotherapist, not only does her cake rise to perfection, conversations with Helen are also sprinkled with magic!
Try one of her recipes of pineapple tartlets with pandan and star anise.
This is the first in our podcast series where Alice Lee and Michelle Yim, our hosts, share their creative journeys in acting and producing. Our aim is to empower you to feel free to be. We will be interviewing more creative talents in our series.
Read all about Alice's personal experience here: The Artist's Way