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Art & Other People

Author: Sophie Herxheimer & Dan Schifrin

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Art & Other People explores the intersection of care and creativity at a time when artists and caretakers are more needed than ever.


Artist-teachers Sophie Herxheimer and Dan Schifrin talk with artists across music, poetry, painting, film, and more, and investigate the spaces where imagination thrives — as much in the dustbin lids and screaming babyland of domestic effort as in the ivory towers of some mythical studio solitude.


Our theory of change is that everyone is creative, and accessing that creativity is fundamental to personal, familial, and social health.


Can the practice of caring for others expand our capacity as makers? And what do we make of that?


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"Art & Other People" was made possible by a grant from Asylum Arts at The Neighborhood. 

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Award-winning author Jai Chakrabarti explores how art serves as both lifeline and caretaking tool during humanity's darkest moments, as well as during a typical day of working and parenting. Drawing from his novel "A Play for the End of the World," Chakrabarti shares the extraordinary true story of educator Janusz Korczak staging Rabindranath Tagore's play "The Post Office" with orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto just weeks before their deportation to concentration camps. When discussing his writin...
During COVID-19, Rowena Richie and her colleagues were struck by the unprecedented isolation faced by elders. Their response was to connect artists—suddenly without performance venues—with older adults through a project called "For You." What makes this approach unique is its focus on reciprocity. "We started calling it a gift FOR them," Ritchie explains, "but then it really became a gift WITH them." Richie took these insights into her work with Memory Cafes, where people with dementia ...
"Where are these girls on our screens?" With this question, acclaimed director Sarah Gavron embarked on creating "Rocks," a film that would transform both its young cast and conventional filmmaking approaches. In this intimate conversation, Gavron reveals how authentic storytelling demands radical vulnerability from both creator and subject. Rather than imposing narratives on teenage girls, Gavron spent months in London schools creating safe spaces for young women to share their realities th...
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