Creativity Conversations

The Creativity Conversations podcast is relaunching. We're excited to bring you conversations with world famous artists, influential scholars, and emerging talents. This podcast is hosted by Rosemary Magee Fellow and Emory alum Jay Hammond.

The Emory Arts' Creativity Conversations podcast features conversations from the endowed Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversations series. The following conversation was recorded on February 22, 2023. It features Emory alum and Broadway actor, Garrett Turner, who discussed his journey at Emory and the artistic choices he made that led to his role playing Ike Turner in the traveling Broadway production, TINA: The Tina Turner Musical. Rosemary Magee moderates. Find out more about arts on the Emory campus by visiting our website or following us on Instagram.

This Creativity Conversations podcast features conversations from the endowed Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversations series. The following conversation is between Rosemary Magee former vice president of the university and Clint Fluker senior director of Culture, Community, and Partner Engagement for Emory Libraries and the Michael C. Carlos Museum. Both received their PhDs from Emory (35 years apart!); both previously worked in the Rose Library- Magee as the library director, Fluker as curator of African American Collections; and both love the libraries and the archives. In this podcast, they share tales about their adventures in the archives. Find out more about arts on the Emory campus by visiting the Emory Arts website or following us on Instagram.

This podcast features conversations from the endowed Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversations series. The following conversation is between former vice president of the university Rosemary Magee and professor + director of orchestral studies Paul Bhasin in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Find out more about arts on the Emory campus by visiting arts.emory.edu or following us on Instagram.

Altebeb is a musician, dancer and choreographer whose impressive career includes performances in major international venues. She is a three-time recipient of the Israeli Ministry of Culture Excellence Award.

In2019, Dafi Altabeb sat down to talk with Emory dance professor Lori Teague.

Read more about Dafi Dance Group: www.dafidancegroup.com

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This Creativity Conversation podcast audio is pulled and edited down from the live 2016 Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation: The Political Body with Anat Grigorio and Hillel Kogan. Emory senior dance lecturer Greg Catellier moderates a conversation about the process of creating political art in a world of strident discourse between Israeli choreographer Anat Grigorio, Israeli choreographer Hillel Kogan, and 7 Stages artistic director Heidi Howard.

This Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation was sponsored in part by the EXPOSED festival with collaborators from Core Dance, 7 Stages Theatre, Emory University Dance Program/Candler Concert Series, Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University and Kennesaw State University’s Departments of Theatre and Performance Studies and Dance.

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This Creativity Conversation podcast audio is pulled and edited down from the live Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation "Ultimately Human: Ross Rossin and Ambassador Andrew Young."

It was an intimate conversation between Ross Rossin, a world-renowned portrait artist and Ambassador Young, a revered civil rights leader and statesman. Rossin displayed numerous extraordinary portraits onstage while he and Ambassador Young used them to reflect on questions of identity, how it informs our view about others, the creative process, artistic meaning, and the beauty in diversity. The program also featured poet and spoken word performer Tavares Stephens and cellist/filmmaker Okorie Johnson.

This Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation is part of the Schwartz Foundation Artist-in-Residence Program and was made possible with the sponsorship of the Emory’s Center for Ethics, the Emory Integrity Project, and the Ethics and the Arts Program.

Turner Classic Movies is the exclusive corporate sponsor of this event and is a corporate partner of the Ethics and the Arts Program at Emory’s Center for Ethics.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P_e7yyWZZs&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=12&t=65s

This Creativity Conversation podcast audio is pulled and edited down from the live 2011 Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation ("Notes on History, Music and Literature") features poet, novelist and playwright Pearl Cleage and Vice President and Secretary of the University Rosemary Magee '82PhD. As in the other Creativity Conversations held over the last four years with influential thinkers, the talk ranges widely across poetry, fiction, music and history, including insights on the creative process and the power of the imagination. This conversation was held as part of the Atlanta Music Festival (Sept. 21-24) and took place on Sept. 22nd in the Jones Room of Emory's Woodruff Library. Sponsored by Creativity: Art and Innovation, and Emory College's Center for Creativity & Arts.

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Fall semester 2020 brings season 3 of the Creativity Conversations podcast.

This podcast episode features the April 2011 conversation between Professor of Composition John Anthony Lennon and then Vice President and Secretary of Emory University Rosemary Magee. They discuss the artistic process of composition in preparation for the world premiere of John Anthony Lennon's new symphony "Eternal Gates" on April 15-16, 2011. Watch the original conversation.

This conversation is introduced by host/Arts at Emory employee Maggie Beker and Emory College student Andrew Johnson. Beker and Johnson introduce the podcast and discuss the intersection between Johnson's business and music classes.

This program is part of the Rosemary M. Magee Creativity Conversation endowed series.

Kevin Young and creative writing faculty member Heather Christle in conversation about creativity. Young will also read some short poems from his work during the discussion.

More about Kevin Young:

https://kevinyoungpoetry.com/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPpBFq4zEO0&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=3&t=0s

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http://creativity.emory.edu/events/creativity-conversations/index.html

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