Connective Tissue

The Coronavirus pandemic has clearly thrown up barriers to our ability to gather physically together, one key condition that can facilitate the connective tissue of belonging. But in the face of our need, have we found workarounds to those barriers? Of course. In the following conversation, you’ll hear from two working artists—Sinéad Rushe, award-winning Irish director and Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and Margaret Laurena Kemp, multi-disciplinary performing artist and Associate Professor of Theatre & Dance at UC Davis—each of whom forged strong bonds to family and culture in the midst of active conflict in their neighborhoods and cities growing up. ~ a Welcome Project interview ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.