Robert and Christen discuss investing in Louisville’s cultural future, building capacity within our arts organizations, and evolving local philanthropy towards more inclusive and relevant support.

Christen Boone is the President & CEO of the Fund for the Arts in Louisville. Before that, she held leadership roles at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and Cincinnati’s Fine Arts Fund.

📚 References:

Cultural Lou Recovery Campaign: https://fundforthearts.org/culturallourecovery/

Michael Kaiser & DeVos Institute of Arts Management: http://devosinstitute.umd.edu/

Fund for the Arts’ Black Artists Fund: https://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2020/07/15/fund-for-the-arts-launches-programs-for-black-arti.html

Actors Theatre of Louisville: https://actorstheatre.org

https://www.facebook.com/ActorsTheatreofLouisville

📷 Instagram: @actorstheatre, @robertbarryfleming

🐦 Twitter: @atlouisville, @flemingrobertb3

Produced by Kathryn de la Rosa and Elizabeth Greenfield

Audio Engineer: Lindsay Burdsall

Edited by Paul Doyle

Cover art by Mary Kate Grimes

Original music by Omega Latham III

Opening song written & performed by Erica Denise

Shannon Craigo-Snell joins Robert to explore Christianity, theatremaking, and the great American project through the lenses of performance, practice, and doubleness.

Shannon Craigo-Snell is a theologian and a faculty member at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She previously taught at Yale University and is an ordained Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church, and she’s the author of The Empty Church: Theater, Theology and Bodily Hope.

📚 References:

The Empty Church: Theatre, Theology and Bodily Hope by Rev. Dr. Shannon Craigo-Snell

Poetry and the Black Panther Party: from Ancestral Memory, Morphogenetic Fields to Hip Hop by Dr. Regina Jennings

Life Behind a Veil: Blacks in Louisville, Kentucky, 1865-1930 by George C. Wright

Actors Theatre of Louisville: https://actorstheatre.org

https://www.facebook.com/ActorsTheatreofLouisville

📷 Instagram: @actorstheatre, @robertbarryfleming

🐦 Twitter: @atlouisville, @flemingrobertb3

Produced by Kathryn de la Rosa and Elizabeth Greenfield

Audio Engineer: Lindsay Burdsall

Edited by Paul Doyle

Cover art by Mary Kate Grimes

Original music by Omega Latham III

Opening song written & performed by Erica Denise

Dr. Monalisa Tailor shares a COVID-19 primer and chats with Robert about being “the first” in leadership positions and approaching healthcare from a human-first perspective.

Monalisa Tailor, MD is a practicing outpatient internist with Norton Community Medical Associates: Barret. As only the 6th female President of the Greater Louisville Medical Society, the first Indian American, and one of the youngest Presidents in its history, she is honored to be able to serve the Louisville community in this role.

Dr. Tailor  is a native of Bowling Green, KY. Her parents are Indian immigrants who are self employed business owners. She graduated from the University of Kentucky summa cum laude in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. She then graduated from University of Louisville School of Medicine Class of 2010.

Actor and musician Nick Cordero passed away from COVID-19 on July 5, 2020. Here is the link to the memorial fund to benefit Amanda Kloots, his wife, and their 10-month old son. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-amanda-kloots-nick-cordero-amp-elvis

Actors Theatre of Louisville: https://actorstheatre.org

https://www.facebook.com/ActorsTheatreofLouisville

📷 Instagram: @actorstheatre, @robertbarryfleming

🐦 Twitter: @atlouisville, @flemingrobertb3

Produced by Elizabeth Greenfield

Audio Engineer Lindsay Burdsall

Edited by Paul Doyle

Cover art by Mary Kate Grimes

Original music by Omega Latham III

Opening song written & performed by Erica Denise

Robert talks to Chef Nikkia Rhodes about serving Louisville, leadership, and empowering the next generation in and out of the kitchen.

📚 References:

McAtee Community Kitchen: https://leeinitiative.org/mcatee-community-kitchen/

Kentucky to the World “The Future of Food is Female” : https://www.kentuckytotheworld.org/upcoming-events/the-future-of-food-is-female

Iroquois High School Culinary Academy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqd0VEgK8zo

Actors Theatre of Louisville: https://actorstheatre.org

https://www.facebook.com/ActorsTheatreofLouisville

📷 Instagram: @actorstheatre, @robertbarryfleming

🐦 Twitter: @atlouisville, @flemingrobertb3

Produced by Elizabeth Greenfield

Edited by Lindsay Burdsall and Paul Doyle

Cover art by Mary Kate Grimes

Original music by Omega Latham III

Opening song written & performed by Erica Denise

Robert talks to Dr. David Anderson Hooker about radical hospitality, extravagant welcome, and building community after conflict and protest.

📚 References:

The Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing: A Hopeful, Practical Approach to Dialogue (Justice and Peacebuilding) by David Anderson Hooker

Consciousness-in-Action: Toward an Integral Psychology of Liberation & Transformation by Raúl Quiñones Rosado, PhD

Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing by Miranda Fricker

Redeeming the Past: My Journey from Freedom Fighter to Healer by Father Michael Lapsley. Fr Lapsley is the Director of the Institute for Healing of Memories: https://www.healing-memories.org/

The Democracy Collaborative: https://democracycollaborative.org/

Actors Theatre of Louisville: https://actorstheatre.org

https://www.facebook.com/ActorsTheatreofLouisville

📷 Instagram: @actorstheatre, @robertbarryfleming

🐦 Twitter: @atlouisville, @flemingrobertb3

Produced by Kathryn de la Rosa and Elizabeth Greenfield

Edited by Lindsay Burdsall

Cover art by Mary Kate Grimes

Original music by Omega Latham III

Opening song written & performed by Erica Denise

Joshua Poe, co-founder of the Root Cause Research Center in Louisville, joins Robert to discuss racial capitalism, redlining, and the Breonna Taylor protests. Recorded June 4, 2020.

Root Cause Research Center: https://www.rootcauseresearch.org/

📚 References:

Life Behind a Veil: Blacks in Louisville, Kentucky, 1865-1930 by George C. Wright

Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta by Clyde Woods

Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derrick Bell

Actors Theatre of Louisville: https://actorstheatre.org

https://www.facebook.com/ActorsTheatreofLouisville

📷 Instagram: @actorstheatre, @robertbarryfleming

🐦 Twitter: @atlouisville, @flemingrobertb3

Produced by Kathryn de la Rosa and Elizabeth Greenfield

Edited by Lindsay Burdsall

Cover art by Mary Kate Grimes

Original music by Omega Latham III

Opening song written & performed by Erica Denise

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