First Online With Fran Podcast
1) Lina Abirafeh: Meeting People Where They Are
Holding women back is holding everybody back. It holds the economy back; it holds a country back. Everybody is suffering because of this. But if you're talking to people about this level of unity you ...Show More
2) Amanda DuBois: Getting Lives Back on Track
I came up with this idea that we would have workshops, and we would have formerly incarcerated people come to the workshops, and we would teach them about organizing and teach about women's suffrage, ...Show More
3) SEVENTEEN: Making Music Meaningful
I was pleasantly surprised and [found it] incredibly fulfilling when we brought kids who I interviewed down to Florida and thank you to the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra -- they gave us the opportuni...Show More
4) Kiana Webb: Choose the Energy
Anything that brings us back into the center of ourselves, into the space that literally is your heart, the center of you and recalls the truth of who you are, you should feel better. So, you are resp...Show More
5) Erica Lauren Ortiz: Building Coalitions
Most people don't know that there is a Congressional Arts Congress. There are arts folks that on a bi-partisan level advocate for The Arts, and so, artists, if you live somewhere remote, and ask how c...Show More
6) Anne Hamburger: Site-Specific Theater
I don't really produce plays. There are many other organizations that are wonderful at producing plays, and I'm not interested in someone coming in that's completely done and all they're really lookin...Show More
7) Kay Smith-Blum: TANGLES triumph
Our nuclear security has been compromised and that really is a dangerous situation because all of our nuclear sites are nuclear power plants, or they are a theoretically defunct site like where nuclea...Show More
8) Tish Rabe: The Singing Children's Author
This new book I've written SWEET DREAMS AHEAD FOR BED is a story that literally outlines the steps for getting ready for sleep for babies to four-year-olds. Also, in the book are tips for parents on h...Show More
9) Pooya Mohseni: Poking at Prejudice
Whether it's about immigrants, Iranians, Lebanese people or Jews in Warsaw or transgender characters or whatever those characters may be, I feel that, especially theatre, is like a mirror that you hol...Show More
10) Dr. Solanges Vivens: An Audacious Act
Age tells us one thing: the day you were born and the day you will die, and there's a dash in between. And you know what? That dash is ME! That dash represents who you are. And it is up to YOU: to des...Show More