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In these times of incertitude and disruption, we have a choice, we can collapse into old patterns, or we can see in the crisis an opportunity to start over. More than ever, we need in these times to gather across borders, open our minds, hearts, listen to the wisdom of the body and the Earth. In ImaginAction Podcast where we converse with Social Artists and Facilitators supporting the regeneration of our world.
Uri Noy Meir is in conversation with Combatants for Peace Co-Founder Sulaiman Khatib and School of Ancestral Medicine founder Dr. Daniel Foor about the current situation and the potential future for the Middle East and beyond. Speakers Bios
Sulaiman Khatib is co-director and co-founder of Combatants for Peace, a bi-national, grassroots nonviolence movement in Israel and Palestine. Combatants for Peace is dedicated to three main pillars: nonviolent direct action, a joint partnership between Israelis and Palestinians, and ending the Israeli military occupation. Khatib was nominated, along with Israeli co-founder of Combatants for Peace, Chen Alon, for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 and 2018. He has been compared in the press to a modern-day Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., or Nelson Mandela. He cites these three nonviolent leaders as his inspiration and the key to transforming from violence to nonviolence. His latest book is "In This Place Together: A Palestinian's Journey to Collective Liberation": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54815902-in-this-place-together.
Dr. Daniel Foor is a doctor of psychology, an experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He is a practicing Muslim and initiates in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa who has also learned from Mahayana Buddhism and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel was a U.S. Fulbright scholar in Cairo, Egypt, as a student of the Arabic language, and he is passionate about generational healing and training leaders and change-makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He's the founder and director at Ancestral Medicine and lives with his wife and daughters near his adoptive home in Granada, Spain, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. For more, see: ancestralmedicine.org
Institute's,areUri Noy Meir was born in a small village near the Sea of Galilee and is now based and lives in central Italy. He is well versed and experienced in facilitating and activating the untapped collective intelligence and dormant creativity in communities, organizations, and multi-stakeholder eco-systems. Uri has trained with the world's leading experts in Theatre of the Oppressed, Dragon Dreaming, and Social Presencing Theatre. He uses them as trans-formative ingredients to empower communities and individuals in diverse settings and contexts. He believes the powers of the arts Bachelor of Artsare growing and making visible our interconnectedness and supporting the well-being of people, organizations, and the world. Trained and mentored by Hector Aristizabal (ImaginAction.org) he dedicates his energy to bringing the transformative power of the arts to turn "wounds" into "blessings" and illuminate the "what is" and "what if" in communities, organizations, and whole systems. Uri trained with the founder of Dragon Dreaming (dragondreaming.org), a holistic method for implementing creative, collaborative, sustainable projects, John Croft, and he is accompanying inspirational projects, social innovators, and community leaders worldwide in applying it. As an Advanced Practitioner of Social Presencing Theatre, he participated in the inaugural Presencing Institute’s Social Field Research Summer School, and he is part of a global network of researchers sensing and iterating new pathways for awareness-based system change. Uri has a graduate degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Theatre and Latin American studies. contact Uri via https://linktr.ee/urinoymeir
Palestine-Israel: from one story to more than one story, from us vs them to togetherness, from cycle of violence to nonviolence, towards a Collective Liberation
A conversation with the two female co-directors of Combatants for Peace
by Ilaria Olimpico
A story written and red by Ilaria Olimpico, questioning about identity and belonging, place and language. Una storia scritta e letta da Ilaria Olimpico, per interrogarsi su identita' e appartenenza, luogo e lingua.
Social arts facilitator Ilaria Olimpico is in a heartfelt conversation with two co-founders of Combatants for Peace, Sulaiman Khatib and Chen Alon, on nonviolent paths in Israel-Palestine.READ MORE ON OUR BLOG imaginaction.org/ilaria-olimpico-in-conversation-with-sulaiman-khatib-and-chen-alon
In this historic moment of "Fortresse Europe", Ilaria Olimpico gives voice to her text, written in 2018, where a distopian world represents the extreme consequences of the racist atmosphere and the discourse about immigration. The text in Italian "Italia Anno che non verra' " is part of a post in the blog imaginaction-thealbero collective (storie brevi e poesie piccole). Link - https://imaginaction.org/thealbero-storie-brevi-e-poesie-piccole
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Dan Friedman has been active in progressive political and community-based theatre for half a century. He is the Artistic Director Emeritus of the Castillo Theatre in New York City, a lead organizer of Performing the World and on the faculty of the East Side Institute.
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ImaginAction was born 20 years ago from the vision of Hector Aristizabal, today it is a growing network of Social Arts Facilitators that use Theatre and Storytelling to create spaces in which communities can see and heal themselves. In this podcast, Meg Nimigon speaks to Uri Noy Meir from ImaginAction about how the work has transformed since moving online and how ImaginAction is playing a role in curating and creating this work both on and offline with communities worldwide.
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Uri and Nico had a lovely conversation with Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu about collective wellbeing, social arts and much more!
Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Co-founder and co-director of The Institute for Collective Wellbeing (www.instituteforcollectivewellbeing.org)
Recently self-published this wonderful book www.thepurposefulphd.com
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Dr. Daniel Foor is a ritualist and educator focused on helping others to reclaim their innate capacity to relate with their ancestors and with the greater web of other-than-human kin. https://ancestralmedicine.org/bio We had the pleasure to be InConversation with Dr. Daniel Foor for the ImaginAction stay tuned and listen in https://imaginaction.org/podcast
Dr. Daniel Foor is a ritualist and educator focused on helping others to reclaim their innate capacity to relate with their ancestors and with the greater web of other-than-human kin. https://ancestralmedicine.org/bio
We had the pleasure to be InConversation with Dr. Daniel Foor for the ImaginAction stay tuned and listen to the conversation at https://imaginaction.org/podcast
Dr. Daniel Foor is a ritualist and educator focused on helping others to reclaim their innate capacity to relate with their ancestors and with the greater web of other-than-human kin.
https://ancestralmedicine.org/bio
We had the pleasure to be InConversation with Dr. Daniel Foor for the ImaginAction stay tuned and listen in.
https://imaginaction.org/podcast
Director, author, actress, performer and Kuringa, Bárbara Santos is artistic director of KURINGA and Madalena-Berlin theatre group. She is one of the creators and an active disseminator of the Feminist Theatre of Oppressed. Founder of the Ma(g)dalena International Network composed by feminist theatre groups from Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia. She is member of ITI Germany, editor of METAXIS magazine and author of Roots & Wings of Theatre of the Oppressed (Portuguese, 2016; Spanish 2017; Italian, 2018 and English, 2019), Aesthetic Paths, original approaches on Theatre of the Oppressed (Portuguese, 2018) and Feminist Theatre of the Oppressed (Portuguese, 2019).
Interview by Ruth Cross and Uri Noy Meir
Editing and introduction by Nico Ndlovu
Director, author, actress, performer and Kuringa, Bárbara Santos is artistic director of KURINGA and Madalena-Berlin theatre group. She is one of the creators and an active disseminator of the Feminist Theatre of Oppressed. Founder of the Ma(g)dalena International Network composed by feminist theatre groups from Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia. She is member of ITI Germany, editor of METAXIS magazine and author of Roots & Wings of Theatre of the Oppressed (Portuguese, 2016; Spanish 2017; Italian, 2018 and English, 2019), Aesthetic Paths, original approaches on Theatre of the Oppressed (Portuguese, 2018) and Feminist Theatre of the Oppressed (Portuguese, 2019).
Interview by Ruth Cross and Uri Noy Meir
Editing and introduction by Nico Ndlovu
Iwan Brioc is Artistic Director of Theatr Cynefin and a consultant in applied theatre. He is best known for pioneering Sensory Labyrinth Theatre, an applied form of Enrique Vargas' Sensory Poetics and has been directing productions and training companies and artists internationally for 20 years. He has also been an independent Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner and trainer for 30 years, specializing in Legislative Theatre and Rainbow of Desires and regularly contributes to publications in the field. His academic qualifications are in Social Psychology, Dramatherapy and Mindfulness and in collaboration with Bangor University Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice developed Context Oriented Arts (CoArts). This theory posits that different modes of theatre -classical, participatory and immersive, represent and support different kinds of consciousness – Cartesian, Inter-subjective and Non-dual respectively. Currently, Iwan is teaching schoolteachers mindfulness online; piloting the fourth iteration of a creative learning mindfulness curriculum for young people and developing the concept of Rheocracy – the politics of flow.
https://www.iwanbrioc.com/
Arawana’s pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in collaborative improvisation. She currently heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater (SPT) for the Presencing Institute. Working with Otto Scharmer and colleagues at the Presencing Institute, she brings her background in the arts, meditation and social justice to creating “social presencing” that makes visible both current reality and emerging future possibilities.
https://arawanahayashi.com/
Crossing The Threshold podcast launched in 2020 to make space to share deeper conversations that explore the UK’s educational landscape, and how it shapes our present and future society. We journey through the wide range of topics such as;
- Education reform
- Sustainable futures
- Holistic education
- Wellbeing
- Nature connection
- Rites of passage and beyond
In each episode the two directors, Max and Nikki, sit down with a different guest – leading thinkers and inspiring characters from the world of education – to discuss how they’re equipping the next generation to cross the threshold into adulthood.
https://thevisionaries.org.uk/blog/crossing-the-threshold-podcast/
Teya Sepinuck is a visionary artist who has worked at the intersections of art/social change/spirituality/education and peacemaking in creating and producing Theatre of Witness for the past 30 years. Drawing on her dance and counseling backgrounds, she founded this unique form of performance that has tapped the deepest stories from people whose stories had never been heard before, transforming them into powerful and raw theater productions.
https://theaterofwitness.org/about-teya/
The conversation is in Italian and is accompanied by an English blog post on Imaginaction.org
https://imaginaction.org/in-conversation-with-maria-luisa-pasquarella
The conversation is in Italian and is accompanied by an English blog post on Imaginaction.org
https://imaginaction.org/in-conversation-with-doriana-crema
In this conversation, Uri Noy Meir is interviewing Tony Cealy about his life journey and work with Social arts and Theatre of the Oppressed.
Tony Cealy is a highly skilled drama and theatre practitioner, trainer, TO producer, and workshop facilitator specialising in developing and delivering a range of innovative arts-based programmes and projects to educate and empower socially excluded people and groups throughout Europe and increasingly internationally.
http://www.tonycealy.com
https://81actsofexuberantdefiance.com
A conversation with Gopal Aryal on Theatre for Social Healing
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In this episode, I am speaking with Charlie Kesem on her journey with Social Arts, enjoy and leave a comment on what moved and caught your attention in this episode!
Charlie Kesem is a storyteller, facilitator and producer, spreading the message of creativity as a catalyst for transformation. Originally from the leafy suburbs of North London, she trained at the International School of Storytelling in Forest Row, England. She delivers magic through performance arts, workshop facilitation, education and community building, in Israel, the UK and Europe. https://www.kesemcollective.com/
In this episode, I am speaking with Charlie Kesem on her journey with Social Arts, enjoy and leave a comment on what moved and caught your attention in this episode!
Charlie Kesem is a storyteller, facilitator and producer, spreading the message of creativity as a catalyst for transformation.
Originally from the leafy suburbs of North London, she trained at the International School of Storytelling in Forest Row, England.
She delivers magic through performance arts, workshop facilitation, education and community building, in Israel, the UK and Europe.
https://www.kesemcollective.com/
In these times of incertitude and disruption, we have a choice, we can collapse into old patterns, or we can see in the crisis an opportunity to start over. More than ever, we need in these times to gather across borders, open our minds, hearts, listen...
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Theatre for Living's work is a worldwide leading example of theatre for social change; theatre for dialogue creation and conflict resolution; theatre for community healing and empowerment. Projects have taken place in collaboration with First Nations...
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