Creativity Conversations

Season 4, Spring Semester 2021

On October 25, 2010, Margaret Atwood participated in a Creativity Conversation with students during her three-day visit as the presenter of the 2010 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. The conversation was moderated by Rosemary Magee, then Vice President and Secretary of Emory University. Watch the conversation here.

This conversation is introduced by host/Emory Arts employee Maggie Beker and Emory Arts intern Rizky Etika. Beker and Etika introduce the podcast and discuss Etika's passion and plans for art history. 

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

Season 4, Spring Semester 2021

Filmed October 2, 2012. Atlanta-based novelist and playwright Pearl Cleage joins writer Alice Walker for a conversation that focuses on their creative influences, the writers they read, and how they've been inspired by each other's work. The conversation, hosted by Rosemary Magee, is moderated by University of Georgia journalism professor and author Valerie Boyd. Watch the original conversation:

This conversation is introduced by host/Emory Arts employee Maggie Beker and artist, Emory Student, and Conversations with Eggs: Virtual Arts Zine editor Lennox Elrod. Beker and Elrod introduce the podcast and discuss how Elrod approaches creating as meditation and his podcast The Phoenix Radio. Listen to the podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3hsWTq7Co7CL6p2tkPUlgC?si=ckAJlOxZTOuE-21c_siEvQ

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

In October 2018, Argentine tango musicians Sonia Possetti and Damián Bolotin visited Emory as artists in residence. During their visit, they sat down to talk about composition with student composers. This podcast features excerpts of that talk.

Watch the original recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrBw-ozCmpo&list=PLCAC61A4AB786C00E&index=7&t=0s

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Season 3, Fall Semester 2020

In February 2015, as part of Theater Emory’s Global Voices program, Michael Evenden, a professor of theater studies, holds a Creativity Conversation with playwrights Diane Glancy and Jack Dalton. Watch the original conversation.

We want to acknowledge that some years after this conversation, Dalton was sentenced to 2 years in prison for attempting to engage in sexual abuse with a minor. We do not condone these actions. We are approaching this podcast episode with the focus on creativity and creativity in conversation with other artists.

This conversation is introduced by host/Arts at Emory employee Maggie Beker and Emory College student Nestor Lomeli. Beker and Lomeli introduce the podcast and discuss Lomeli's experiences as a 1st generation college attendee and the importance of telling untold stories.

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

This Creativity Conversation features a conversation on co-directing between Lydia Fort & Marguerite Hannah, co-directors for the spring 2023 Theater Emory production of Our Town (multilingual) by Thornton Wilder with translated passages by Nilo Cruz and Jeff Augustin. Additional passages translated to Mandarin by Yiyi Gu (Daisy), Yuyao Wang, Dorothy Shi.

Performances: February 16 - February 26, 2023Understudy Performances: February 17, 22, & 25, 2023Pay-What-You-Will: February 22, 2023

Welcome to Emory University's Creativity Conversation podcast.

For over 10 years, renowned thinkers and creators have met on Emory’s campus to discuss their philosophies and crafts through an endowed speaker series called Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversations. Some notable past participants include Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, and President Jimmy Carter. Originally, these live conversations were filmed and added to the Emory University Creativity Conversation youtube playlist.

On this podcast, we will provide edited down versions of the Creativity Conversations introduced by current, artistically accomplished Emory University students.

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