Art Impact with Raquel Bellastella
Are you a theatre-maker and a cultural entrepreneur? This podcast is for you. Join us to discover essential tools to craft a unique + sustainable art career, thrive as an artist and change-maker and meet some amazing people marrying art and impact right now. Through and beyond artistic creations, creatives are potent culture-changers, community-builders, problem-solvers and bridge-makers. Today you have the opportunity to experiment, create, develop your work and voice - and to get them in front of your audience. You can (and in many cases, you have to) take responsibility for your whole artistic process and ensure that your art and the impact you want to create in the world comes into full-circle fruition.There’s never been a better time for creatives and for building a freaking awesome impactful career. Let’s figure out this puzzle together.Raquel Bellastella is a social entrepreneurship coach and a theatre-maker, and knows first-hand the challenges we face as artists as we build our professional careers. She helps multipassioante artists to build utterly fulfilling and sustainable careers so they can create more art and impact in the world.
Episodes
46 episodes
The Alchemy of Art and Advocacy in Cultural Narratives with R.M. Sánchez-Camus
As I sat down with RM Sánchez-Camus (Marcelo), the migrant artist whose palette of activism and creativity colours societal canvases, our conversation turned into an inspiring odyssey through the crossroads of art and advocacy. Marcelo opens up...
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Episode 45
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49:36
Exploring the Anthropology of Creativity with Sinead Cullen #44
Have you ever considered how your creativity is influenced by your community or perhaps, how it can impact those around you? Well, you're about to find out. This week, we have the pleasure of chatting with the talented Sinead Cullen, an archite...
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Episode 44
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49:37
Provoking Thought and Sparking Change: A Conversation with Lucy Dear #43
After quite a pause… we’re back! This last year was a gestation pause - not of a human being but of my theatre company, Imaginari Theatre. And.. Can I tell you what? I’m so excited to be here with you in the Art Impact Podcast agai...
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Season 2
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Episode 43
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37:54
Children’s Poetry As An Incredible Tool For Inclusion & Broadening Our Thinking with Kate Wakeling #42
In today’s episode, I’m talking with the award-winning writer and musicologist Kate Wakeling about children’s poetry as a tool for inclusion and realizing our unlimited potential. Kate is writer-in-residence with Aurora Orchestra - and that’...
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Episode 42
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34:48
The Theatre of Attachment & Supporting Children to Overcome Trauma and Realise Their Full Potential with Dr Joan Moore #41
In Dr Joan Moore’s vast experience supporting foster and adoptive families, creative arts are the most effective methods of therapy to enable children and young people to accept their pasts, form new secure and healthy relationships and thri...
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Episode 41
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46:37
Finding Our Call by Chance and Wonder with Gary Albert #40
In today’s episode, I’m having an ultra-exciting and honest conversation with Gary Albert about the power of art in our world today, mental health and finding our call by chance and wonder. Gary Albert, is a multi-award-w...
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Episode 40
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52:20
Do The Work That Matters with Daniela Hofmann #39
In today’s episode, I’m talking to Daniela Hofmann about her top tips on doing the work that matters while working from home. Feeling restless and unfulfilled in her full-time corporate career as a Finance Professional, Daniela embarked on a...
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Episode 39
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27:58
Frantic Assembly & Creating Brave Theatre Beyond The Stage with Scott Graham #38
Can you be terrified and fearless? In today’s episode, I’m talking to Scott Graham, the Artistic Director of Frantic Assembly, one of the UK's most successful and best-loved theatre companies. Frantic Assembly's mission is...
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Episode 38
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38:32
Pig Iron & Creating Cutting Edge Theatre Works with Quinn Bauriedel #37
In today’s episode, I’m talking to Quinn Bauriedel on the Art Impact Podcast. Quinn is a co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company, which is dedicated to the creation of new and exuberant performa...
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Episode 37
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38:37
Certain Blacks & The Power of Diversity in the Arts with Clive Lyttle #36
In today’s episode, I’m talking to Clive Lyttle, an accomplished musician and performer specialising in new music and jazz, Clive has almost 25 years of experience involved in programming and arts management. He is the artistic director of C...
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Episode 36
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31:31
Embrace Midlife As A Sacred Initiation with Laura Valenti #35
In today’s episode, I’m talking to Laura Valenti, a qualified Movement Medicine dance teacher, somatic and trauma-informed coach and holistic voice therapist.In her early thirties, she was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. ...
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Episode 35
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50:57
Find Your Why, Expand The Power Of Your Art with Lee Prosenjak #34
In today’s episode, I’m talking to Lee Prosenjak. Everything Lee does is to create art, so that everyone can discover their own inspiration, love and greatness. Lee and his wife Stephanie have owned and operated Cherry Creek Dance in Denver,...
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Episode 34
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43:19
The Power of Collaborative Creation with Sinéad Cullen #33
In today’s episode, I’m talking to Sinéad Cullen, an architect, artist and Movement Medicine teacher with a fascination for how humans co-create. She supports individuals and organisations to access their creativity for positive change. ...
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Episode 33
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39:25
Mastering Art & Impact: Jacques Lecoq’s physical theatre pedagogy #32
Today we’re talking about my third master, Jacques Lecoq’s physical theatre and devising pedagogy.EPI...
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Episode 32
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11:21
Mastering Art & Impact: Sotigui Kouyaté #31
Today we’re talking about my second master, Sotigui Kouyaté. Sotigui was a griot, an actor and a playwright. He worked with Peter Brook’s company, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris for more than 20 years. He was one of West Africa’s most ...
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Episode 31
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16:50
Mastering Art & Impact: Kazuo Ohno #30
Today we’re talking about my first master, Kazuo Ohno. Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese dancer and one of the founding creators of a contemporary dance form called Butoh. Butoh incorporated elements of existentialism, surrealism, German expressioni...
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Episode 30
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15:32
Dear Fear #29
In today’s episode, we’re talking about picking up wedding invitations, fear, resistance and how to welcome them in your practice as a creator.EPISODE’S SHOW NOTES...
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Episode 29
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9:19
Celebration-Episode: The Power of Art & Social Change #28
In today’s episode, we’re swapping positions and the amazing Petra Bongartz is interviewing… me! We talk all things about the power of art in bringing about change in the world.Art Impact just completed 6 months and there’s loa...
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Episode 28
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45:50
The Only 5 Things An Artist Should Worry About #27
In today’s episode, we’re talking about the only 5 things you should worry about as you build a sustainable, impactful and deeply fulfilling career as a creator.
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Episode 27
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16:44
Philippa Hambly on Creating A Social Ecology Where Every Creator Can Thrive #26
In today’s episode, I’m talking to Philippa Hambly, a theatre & movement practitioner who has toured extensively internationally and in the UK. We talk about the role of artists today and creating a social and economic ecology where the ...
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Episode 26
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46:55
Petra Bongartz on Coming Home to Our Bodies & Collective Change #25
In today’s episode I’m talking to Petra Bongartz, a facilitator and coach who supports personal and collective change through movement and earth-based practices. For Petra coming home into our bodies is a prerequisite to healing personal and...
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Episode 25
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44:34
Art, Empathy & Learning To Care For Others #24
Creating collaboratively celebrates the secret power of empathy, our phenomenal ability to move and think together, which is essential for creating a more connected, joyful and peaceful future.And guess what? Creators not only ...
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Episode 24
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15:03
3 Financial Practices For Theatre-Makers & Cultural Entrepreneurs #23
Financial insecurity is a cause of chronic stress and it’s very depleting for your creativity, wellbeing and health. The key to financial freedom as a theatre-makers & cultural entrepreneurs is knowing where your money is coming from and...
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Episode 23
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15:30
How To Plan Your Life As A Creator #22
As a creator, you have so much more ideas than time to materialise them. And adding to that you have well... Life. Like everyone else. Bills to pay, children, family, cats and parrots to take care of, chores, grocery shopping, sick days. So…...
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Episode 22
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14:42