LCL • local • living a creative life

LCL • local • living a creative life

By Salloul and RawaArts
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LCL • local • living a creative life episodes

  • #15: The Art of Conversation with Sahar Deinparvar

    What does it mean to have a thoughtful conversation? In this episode, Sahar Deinparvar, physiotherapist, upcoming psychologist, and co-founder of Inspirational Hangouts, shares her thoughts on discussion, conversation, and how the mind and body interact. Tune in to hear about how to inject the world and people around you into your work by listening to their thoughts and stories, and what it means to uplevel your community by discussing the topics that mean the most.

    26 min
  • #14: Learning by Living with Hanan Shaerzadeh
    Does all learning happen in the classroom? Do we learn best with a whiteboard in front of us? In this episode, Hanan Shaerzadeh shares her experience as a teacher - sometimes teaching in front of a whiteboard, and other times, guiding her students to learn by doing, learn with experiences, learn by living. Tune in to hear us discuss childhood creativity and learning within the creative field.
    27 min
  • #13: You're No Imposter with Faye Al Mansour
    In this episode, we chat with Faye Al Mansour aka @sketchadooodle about imposter syndrome, and what it means to share your work in a world where it feels like literally everyone is, too. We talk about comparing yourself to others and the self-comparison theory, staying positive, and how to find supporting friends who will help you see the progression in your work over time.
    26 min
  • #12: Put Off Procrastinating

    In this episode, co-hosts Salloul and Rawa chat about creative procrastination and why we creatives tend to put off crafting, which makes us feel fulfilled, for Netflix and other distractions, which only feel good in the moment. We talk about our own issues with procrastination, and then give some techniques we've used to "put off" procrastinating and actually get to work on making stuff and practicing our passions. 

    25 min
  • #11: Ride the Wave with Sheikah Al Habshi
    Sheikah Al Habshi, the mastermind behind melty @coffeeandcastoffs, began drawing in 2017 as a way to get through her upset feelings. Nowadays, she creates no matter how she feels or what is happening in her world - the pen is an extension of her hand. Tune in to find out how to ride the wave of an emotion or event and create new stuff without needing to have an intense feeling to be inspired by.
    29 min
  • #10: Be Unpopular with Ali Sleeq
    Ali "Bluesman" Sleeq joins us in this episode to talk about what it means to keep doing what you love to do, no matter what people say. He's the dude about the Blues, a genre of music that isn't popular here in the region (or anywhere else in the world, for that matter), but he keeps his passion for it anyway. Tune in to hear from Ali about how to stay original and unique in a world full of Top 40 hits.
    34 min
  • #9: Find Your Refuge with Sandi Ismail

    Sandi Ismail finds refuge in embroidery. Being alone, with only the small sounds of needle and thread through canvas, is the way she finds solace from the worries of everyday life. Tune in to learn more about finding your refuge in crafting, and how to make the jump from corporate to "finding your voice" in the mess of music out there.

    33 min
  • #8: Driving in the Dark with Layla Al-Ammar
    Layla Al-Ammar, recent author of THE PACT WE MADE (Borough Press 2019) and SILENCE IS A SENSE (Borough Press / Algonquin 2021), talks to us about her writing process in this episode. Tune in to hear how she outlines plots and fleshes out characters (spoiler: she doesn't!), and the way her writing changed when she went from hobby writer to striving author.
    37 min
  • #7: Deeper Dive #1

    This episode is the first of a series called "Deeper Dive", in which your co-hosts Salloul and Rawa discuss what we've learned from interviews so far. In this episode, we talk a little about Yara Meraki's mention of studying her passion (and how we believe it isn't the be-all-end-all of life), what it means to have "talent" (nobody is born with it, not even incredible dancer Doss), and chat a little more about Zouz's encouragement of exploring adjacent fields to your own.

    Join in on the conversation happening on Instagram: www.instagram.com/lclpronouncedlocal/

    19 min
  • #6: Think Inside the Box with Zahra Al-Mahdi
    Zahra Al-Mahdi, also known as Zouz the Bird, visual artist, filmmaker, and sound enthusiast, joins us for this episode. Zouz talks to us about the boxes we're in, and how messy that can get, and how hard we try to think "outside" of them, when really - we need to clean them up and check out their corners. How can we play around in our creative fields? How can we move to adjacent spaces? Tune in for an enlightening conversation.
    24 min

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Welcome to LCL, pronounced local, or Living a Creative Life. Co-hosts Rawa and Salloul are creatives talking to creatives about what it means to be a creative. Tune in for delicious conversations and…