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Can Art Save Us?
by Paula Moore
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing.With diverse, national and international artists, I’m exploring the importance of the Arts and why it makes a big difference to our mental, societal and democratic health. Scroll down for all episodes.Can the Arts change the global epidemic of mental illness, loneliness, the polarization of our communities and global conflict? The dedicated podcast website has news, videos and interview transcriptions at: www.canartsaveus.comBe inspired, we talk hip-hop poetry, Islamic architecture building peace, tap dance in protest, surrealism and WWII, life as a drag King, music in war, belonging and Syrian architecture, the Art School for the Homeless, the 1970s West Indian Front Room, inclusive dance and wheelchair acrobatics, British-Pakistani, Black-British, Jewish, and Irish poets and spoken word artists, giant ceramic statements, film and end of life, graffiti art and Muslim faith, shamanic storytelling, a
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The Art House - 2025 Feature
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. After nine seasons, 65 episodes and more than 6,000 downloads, I'm very grateful that this independent podcast has earned the trust of listeners and artists around the world. Thank you to every guest and listener...
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1925: Culture, Conflict and Creativity.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Tom Lutz, is a celebrated author, travel photographer, founder of the Los Angeles Review of Books and a distinguished professor at UC Riverside, the University of California. His current book is: 1925 - A…
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Resistance and Renewal; Ugandan Wisdoms
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Birungi Kawooya is a self-taught British-Ugandan artist, wellbeing researcher, and creative facilitator. Her name, Birungi, means 'Bringer of Good Things,' a name deeply rooted in Ugandan culture. Her art…
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The Art of PR - Democratised & Unleashed.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Today, public relations is powered by digital storytelling, inclusivity, immersive experiences, data and hybrid strategies. But it's also shaped by distinct and diverse artists who happen to be PR creatives. And...
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From Doctor to Patient to Artist and Activist
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. You may be someone who has already experienced a 360 life change through ill health, or are currently supporting somebody with a life changing diagnosis. Dr Shanali Perera's own 360 story is one of sudden, abrupt...
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Chile's Mother of Protest Songs and Folk Power.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Professor Ericka Verba, is the director of Latin American Studies at California State University. She's an author and a musician, recently reviewed as a rising star by the Los Angeles magazine voyage LA. She is...
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Creative Destruction in a Globalised World
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Tere Chad is a multidisciplinary artist and curator from Chile, currently based in London. She is fast rising as an international artist and to date she has held seven solo exhibitions, completed seven…
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"Superb and authentic," the best classical pianist of his generation.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Nicola Avramovich is not only considered one of Serbia's finest classical pianists, but one of the best of his generation. He is a sought after performer giving numerous recitals and chamber music concerts...
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Indonesian Indigenous Arts & Culture IS Care
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Gabriela Elisabeth Edawani Fernandez, known as Ina Leah, is a transdisciplinary artist and her work is rooted in the practices of the indigenous Lamaholot people of East Nusa Tengara, home of her cultural…
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Tiling Towns with Joy, Community HeART
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Jane Wright is a ceramicist, violinist and champion of community arts. A West Yorkshire born musician and artist, Jane is now based in the iconic seaside town of Margate in Kent, famous for its art history.…
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The Sensory Therapy of Art
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. David Emmanuel Noel, is a visual and interdisciplinary artist who often splits his time between New York and London. He collaborates with musicians and performers to explore race, identity and culture with an...
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Survivor. A Child's Holocaust. Unique Animation & Archival Accuracy.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Sometimes it seems people are just born gifted and Zoom Rockman started his working artistic life from the age of eight, when he was self-publishing his own monthly comic, The Zoom, now considered a collector's...
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Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Arts, Animal and Eco Justice.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer, activist, academic and mother. Sunaura is the Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environment and the director of the Disabled Ecologies Lab at the University…
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Seeing Beyond Masks; Ancient and Social.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Tonye Ekine is one of the top 40 British Rising Stars recognized by the Royal Society of British Artists. He is also recently back from the world renowned, Venice Biennale, where he was selected for a highly...
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Number One Albums, Nuns & Myths
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. What's it like to be the least likely artists to have two hit, number one albums on Decca Records, one of the world's most iconic labels? Decca Classics, discovered and pursued singing nuns, the Poor Clares of...
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Time Travel and Art to Reclaim Your History
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. A first for the series, a mother and daughter, discussing parallels between their work. They have both successfully bypassed conventional and formal routes into painting and publishing winning awards and five…
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Dancing Scientist Unleashes his Inner Roo! Global Winner.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. This episode is about "Joyful madness" and a brilliant collaboration between Science and the Arts. Dr. Weliton Menário Costa, also known as Weli both as a scientist and as a recording artist, is the global winner...
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The Art of Incarceration - Groundbreaking Prison Art and Documentary
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. What happens when the judicial system we're taught to trust is in fact part of a complex web of systemic failure and structural discrimination on vast scales? My guests in this episode have raised one of the most...
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Acting, Awards, Arts, Activism, a loved Actress - Julie Hesmondhalgh
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Julie Hesmondhalgh is one of Britain’s most loved actresses, she plays roles for stage and screen that tackle important issues and reach out to the hearts and minds of audiences everywhere. Her roles in drama…
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The Inner Spirit of Story and Soul of Literature
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Dennis Clausen, is a professor of American Literature and Screenwriting at the University of San Diego in the USA. He’s a highly respected, award-winning author of many works of fiction that reflect his lived...
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A BBC Poet Chef! Survival, Life Affirmation and You.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. David Attree is a ‘people’s poet,’ he’s also known as a ‘Poet-Chef,’ ‘Famous Dave,’ and more recently as the voice of the ‘Week in Words,’ aired on BBC Radio across three counties. His poetry is also currently on...
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The UK's First Professor of Dance Education
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Do you like dancing? Do we dance enough? Or maybe the question is, why don’t we dance more? Dr. Angela Pickard is the UK’s first Professor of Dance Education. She has worked with talented dancers and…
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Ballet Black. Be Free to be the Artist you Want to be.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Cassa Pancho, MBE, founded Ballet Black in 2001, Britain’s most diverse ballet company celebrating dancers of black and Asian descent. Today it’s one of the most prolific commissioners of new and critically...
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Attitude in a Straight Jacket? LGBT+ History Month
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Described as “an obscenely talented man.” Matthew Todd is a multi, award-winning writer, playwright, broadcaster and sometime performer. He was also the editor of the UK’s best-selling gay magazine, Attitude, for…
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Musa Motha, Dancer of Hope, Makes TV History
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Musa Motha is an outstanding, world class dancer and a master of making the impossible, possible. Despite a leg amputation at the age of 11 due to cancer, Musa's dance techniques and innovations exceed all ideas…
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Sculpting Resilience, Conflict and Connection
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Do enough of us think about our resiliency, our capacity to manage or co-exist with stressful events, now and in the future? Do we even think about cultivating our resilience for life’s catastrophes? Sculptor…
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A Legendary Dancer, Ancestor and Legacy of Apartheid South Africa.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. It's not often we meet a living legend, or someone who achieves their life's vision when there have been unimaginable forces against them. Gregory Maqoma, in the world of dance and on the international stage, is...
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Is the ’Art’ of History Axing Britain’s Expert in African History?
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Have you ever thought about the Art of History? Not the history of art but how history is painted to tell us about the past; to document historical events, people and movement, power and conflict, control and...
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20 Years of Creating Wellbeing, Inclusion and Empowerment
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Nicky Goulder, CEO of the charity Create, recently received an Amazing Women award celebrating her as an ‘Arts Innovator.’ The British magazine, Women and Home, sold worldwide, hosts these awards for women making…
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The Art and Culture Network - Pirates Welcome!
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Mark Walmsley trained in drums and percussion and spent 15 years performing with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He’s also played in the pit of various West End shows in London and taught drumming to...
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A World Leading Sculptor on every Level - Windrush 75
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Basil Watson is a Jamaican sculptor now based in the USA, and over a 45 year career, he has achieved international recognition as one of the world's leading sculptors. He was awarded the highest order of...
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Art Activism with a Political and Poetical Voice - Windrush 75
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Zita Holbourne is a multi award winning multidisciplinary artist, author, poet, curator and vocalist. She's an experienced trade union and community activist and her artwork responds to social and climate…
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Journeys of Laughter and Legacy - Windrush 75
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. John Simmit founded the Upfront Comedy Empire. He's a comedian, producer, actor and theatre performer enjoying current success in the musical Rush, a "joyous Jamaican journey" earning five star reviews and…
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From the Caribbean to Hackney, Struggle to Stage - Windrush 75
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Dr Michael McMillan is an artist, author, playwright and curator. His plays and performance pieces have been produced by the Royal Court Theatre, Channel 4, BBC Radio 4 Drama and across the UK. He’s a Visiting...
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Still Dancing (Shirley May Special Edition) Windrush 75
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. In this special edition, short interview, I had the pleasure to talk again to Shirley May who featured in Season 3 which was dedicated to poetry and spoken word artists. Shirley May is an acclaimed poet, writer…
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She Wrote Her Own Eulogy - Windrush 75
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Shirley May is an acclaimed poet, writer and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of literature. She is also CEO and Artistic Director of Young Identity, Manchester's premier spoken word collective in the UK.…
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A Photographer’s Caribbean Voyage - Windrush 75
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Jim Grover, a social documentary photographer who deep dives respectfully into the hearts and minds of people in his local communities. Living in South Clapham London, he is rewarded with a rich tapestry of life....
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A Cameroonian Clay Addict Spotlights the World Stage of Ceramics.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Cameroonian clay addict, Djakou Kassi Nathalie, is a ceramic artist now based in Nigeria. With over 30 years of practice and numerous prestigious awards, this is statement art that understands architectural…
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Two Bodies with One Voice on Poetry, Dance and the Law.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. What does a commended poet, dancer of the Indian, classical form Kathak, outstanding legal academic and occasional writer in the hope-punk story genre, have in common? One person it seems, Bhumika Billa. What...
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The Faerytale Doctor, a Shamanic Pathway to Community Service.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Can you imagine making an appointment to see Dr. Lovely or better still the Faerytale Doctor? Would you be open to the spiritual practice of shamanism through storytelling as a way of navigating your life or to...
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Stand Up for Sit Down AJ!
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. AJ O’Neil is an internationally recognised West End, TV and Film performer. He’s a dancer, choreographer and long-standing teacher of the famous Pineapple Dance Studios, home to some of the world’s most famous...
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Speak Your Excellence - The Word Came First.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Shirley May is an acclaimed poet, writer and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of literature. She is also CEO and Artistic Director of Young Identity, Manchester's premier spoken word collective in the UK.…
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Pain, Poetry and a Jamaican Born Nigerian Princess.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Princess Arinola Adegbite a.k.a. P. A. Bitez is a British Jamaican-born Nigerian poet, she’s a spoken word artist, a songwriter and filmmaker whose artistic expression is described as social activism and…
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Partition, Silence and Poetry. A British-Pakistani Poet Speaks Up.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Manchester based poet Qudsia Akhtar is already recognised as an important new voice for her generation, her debut collection of poems, 'Khamoshi' (Silence), is out now, published by Verve Poetry Press. She is…
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Holding the Holocaust in a Poetic Heart.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Adam Kammerling is a former, UK slam poet champion who has since become an inter-disciplinary artist combining his innovative poetry with theatre, dance and music. He embraces collaboration, risk and...
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Irish identity, Pilgrimage, Partition, Pain and Poetry.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Cherry Smyth is an Irish writer and poet who lives in London. In 2022 Cherry was nominated as a Fellow for the Royal Society of Literature and she is Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing at the...
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Follow the Hobo Poet for Unconditional Love.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Tom Delahunt, the hobo poet, is an award-winning academic and an advanced nurse practitioner with years of experience in intensive and emergency care. In 2019 he was awarded Most Innovative Teacher of the Year…
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The Courage and Craft of Two Poets.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Both BBC Words First Finalists, Billie Meredith is a poet and performer and Saf-S2E is a poet and rapper and they are active members of Young Identity. Recognised as some of the UK’s best emerging talent, they…
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From the Caribbean to Hackney, from Struggle to the Stage.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Dr Michael McMillan is an artist, author, playwright and curator. His plays and performance pieces have been produced by the Royal Court Theatre, Channel 4, BBC Radio 4 Drama and across the UK. He’s a Visiting...
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Mischief, merriment and inclusive movement.
Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Daryl Beeton is a kind of acrobatic superhero. He flies on top of sway poles which includes 25 meters across London's Olympic Stadium. H’s trekked 228 miles across Nicaragua, filmed by the BBC, requiring armed...
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Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing.With diverse, national and international artists, I’m exploring the importance of the Arts and why it makes a big difference to our mental, societal and democratic health. Scroll down for all episodes.Can the Arts change the global epidemic of mental illness, loneliness, the polarization of our communities and global conflict? The dedicated podcast website has news, videos and interview transcriptions at: www.canartsaveus.comBe inspired, we talk hip-hop poetry, Islamic architecture building peace, tap dance in protest, surrealism and WWII, life as a drag King, music in war, belonging and Syrian architecture, the Art School for the Homeless, the 1970s West Indian Front Room, inclusive dance and wheelchair acrobatics, British-Pakistani, Black-British, Jewish, and Irish poets and spoken word artists, giant ceramic statements, film and end of life, graffiti art and Muslim faith, shamanic storytelling, a
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