As if November isn't dark enough join us for a discussion of Noirvember where we will shine a light on the dark alley's and dirty bars found in the shadows of Film Noir.

Join Skip Shea, Andrea Wolanin and Patrick Bracken as they try to define the genre (?) and give some examples of their favorites. And they might even find a connection with Albert Camus and Creating Dangerously! We hope you'll join us!

Now that we've got Episode Zero out of the way, it's time to get down to it. Our hosts Skip Shea, Andrea Wolanin and Patrick Bracken discuss what it means to Create Dangerously.

Creating Dangerously, is based on the lecture by Albert Camus which he gave on December 14, 1957 at Uppsala University in Sweden, four days after he gave his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature.



In it he said “To create today means to create dangerously. Every publication is a deliberate act, and that act makes us vulnerable to the passions of a century that forgives nothing."

What has changed? We have lived through things like the September 11 attack, to a pandemic to the new threat of the rise of fascism globally. Again. This century also forgives nothing.



This episode we will start to explore artists past and present who are doing their part to create dangerously to try to make sense of a world that often doesn't make sense at all.

Okay, so we're all busy. Episode One was recorded some time ago but we at the Shawna Foundation became too busy with running film festivals and drinking coffee. So co-hosts Andrea Wolanin, Patrick Bracken and myself (Skip Shea) decided we should start with Episode Zero. Just for fun! To discuss something near and dear to our hearts, horror movies. Episode One will follow soon and we'll get into what Creating Dangerously is all about. But it's almost Halloween! Let's have some fun first!