The Creative Exchange Podcast

On this episode of the Creative Exchange, host Julie Wake travels over the bridge to Boston to talk with Mass Cultural Council Executive Director Michael Bobbitt. An artist  — Michael is a theater director, choreographer, and playwright — his life was forever shaped by an exposure to the arts at a young age. Now as the highest-ranking cultural official in state government, he’s using his position to deepen the impact the arts is having throughout the Commonwealth.

Learn more about Mass Cultural Council! 

 

Today's sponsors: 

Cape Cod Foundation, Bank 5,  The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod, John K. & Thirza K. Davenport Foundation, MassHire Cape & Islands Workforce Board, Rogers Gray, Cape Cod Melody Tent, and William Raveis Real Estate

 

Learn more about the Creative Exchange! 

Learn more about the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. 

The Arts Foundation's mission is to support and strengthen a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural sector for everyone in the region. Get involved!

Everyone deserves a second chance. And through art, Joe Diggs and Sam Holmstock are providing just that to youth in the juvenile justice system.

In doing so, the pair are giving a creative outlet for marginalized children to express their emotions, work through trauma, and successfully reintegrate into society.

 

Connect with Joe Diggs through his website and Facebook!

Connect with Sam Holmstock through his website, Instagram, and Facebook! 

 

Today's sponsors: 

Cape Cod Foundation, Bank 5,  The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod, John K. & Thirza K. Davenport Foundation, MassHire Cape & Islands Workforce Board, Rogers Gray, Cape Cod Melody Tent, and William Raveis Real Estate

 

Learn more about the Creative Exchange! 

Learn more about the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. 

The Arts Foundation's mission is to support and strengthen a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural sector for everyone in the region. Get involved!

Like the iconic character Dorothy from the “Wizard of Oz,” Oren Sherman has long been a dreamer, creating art at the intersection of reality and imagination.

It’s led the renowned designer and artist to magnificent places – he’s created multiple stamps for the U.S. Postal Service, and artwork for an impressive array of clients that have included the Olympics, Disney, PepsiCo, Steuben Glass, and Visa. Oren is a multifaceted talent – a gifted storyteller, successful entrepreneur, and branding wizard – who willingly shares his expertise with the next generation as a professor at his alma mater, the Rhode Island School of Design.

In this funny, engaging, inspirational discussion with host Julie Wake, Oren takes listeners on a journey – he even makes a stop to the magical world of Oz – as he talks about the importance of failures, reinvention, and imagination.

 

Connect with Oren through his website and listen to his TedTalk that was mentioned in the episode!

 

Today's sponsors: 

Cape Cod Foundation, Bank 5,  The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod, John K. & Thirza K. Davenport Foundation, MassHire Cape & Islands Workforce Board, Rogers Gray, Cape Cod Melody Tent, and William Raveis Real Estate

 

Learn more about the Creative Exchange! 

Learn more about the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. 

The Arts Foundation's mission is to support and strengthen a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural sector for everyone in the region. Get involved!

Nearly four decades ago, Kate Pazakis first stepped on stage at Cape Cod Theatre Company in Harwich, giving her skills – confidence, communication, connection – that informed her approach to life, work, and art. Those childhood experiences allowed her to blossom as an adult in Los Angeles, where she created the Unauthorized Musical Parody Of (UMPO) series, taking popular movies and TV shows and adapting it for the theatrical world, and has provided her with the joy of returning to the theatre company where she is leading the nonprofit that made an indelible mark on her at a young age.

 

Connect with Kate through her instagram!

 

Learn more information about what's going on at the Cape Cod Theatre Company/Harwich Junior Theatre. 

 

 

Today's sponsors: 

Cape Cod Foundation, Bank 5,  The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod, John K. & Thirza K. Davenport Foundation, MassHire Cape & Islands Workforce Board, Rogers Gray, Cape Cod Melody Tent, and William Raveis Real Estate

 

Learn more about the Creative Exchange! 

Learn more about the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. 

The Arts Foundation's mission is to support and strengthen a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural sector for everyone in the region. Get involved!

If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, then Heather Pillar (Pil-ár) has countless stories to tell over a 25-year career that has led the talented photojournalist across seven countries in four continents, highlighted by her moving portrait series, memento Morrie: images of love and loss, spotlighting the last six months of Brandeis professor Morrie Schwartz’s (of Tuesdays with Morrie fame) life.

 

Learn more about Heather through her website!

Connect with Heather via Instagram, Facebook and Youtube. 

To learn more information about Heather's projects that were mentioned in this weeks episode: 

Turning Points

memento Morrie: images of love & Loss

 

Today's sponsors: 

Cape Cod Foundation, Bank 5,  The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod, John K. & Thirza K. Davenport Foundation, MassHire Cape & Islands Workforce Board, Rogers Gray, Cape Cod Melody Tent, and William Raveis Real Estate

 

Learn more about the Creative Exchange! 

Learn more about the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. 

The Arts Foundation's mission is to support and strengthen a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural sector for everyone in the region. Get involved!

Percussionist, composer, and music producer Julian Loida talks about his creative journey as a young artist which has been propelled by a never-ending curiosity to explore the wide range of sounds, musical genres, and artforms.

 

Find more information about Julian via his website and listen to his music on Soundcloud.  

Connect with Julian via Facebook, Instagram and Youtube! 

 

 

Today's sponsors: 

Cape Cod Foundation, Bank 5,  The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod, John K. & Thirza K. Davenport Foundation, MassHire Cape & Islands Workforce Board, Rogers Gray, Cape Cod Melody Tent, and William Raveis Real Estate

 

Learn more about the Creative Exchange! 

Learn more about the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. 

The Arts Foundation's mission is to support and strengthen a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural sector for everyone in the region. Get involved!

With a needle and thread, award-winning artist Salley Mavor has spent the past 45 years creating whimsical fiber art that tells a story, stirs the emotions, and stimulates the imagination. Mavor’s one-of-a-kind art has been featured in over a dozen books she has either written or illustrated, including Pocketful of Posies which won the 2011 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the 2011 Golden Kite Award.

 

Find more information about Salley via her website.  

Visit her Etsy and watch the Liberty and Justice Film!

 

Today's sponsors: 

Cape Cod Foundation, Bank 5,  The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod, John K. & Thirza K. Davenport Foundation, MassHire Cape & Islands Workforce Board, Rogers Gray, Cape Cod Melody Tent, and William Raveis Real Estate

 

Learn more about the Creative Exchange! 

Learn more about the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. 

The Arts Foundation's mission is to support and strengthen a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural sector for everyone in the region. Get involved!

Mark is a painter, illustrator, naturalist, cartographer, writer, printmaker — he’s also had stints as a wildlife field biologist, forest firefighter, gymnastics coach, and scientific illustrator.  In the first episode of Season 5 of the Creative Exchange, we get to know Mark as AFCC’s 2023 Artist of the Year and his connection to place through mapping, journaling, poetry and more.

Today's sponsors: 

Cape Cod Foundation, Bank 5,  The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod, John K. & Thirza K. Davenport Foundation, MassHire Cape & Islands Workforce Board, Rogers Gray, Cape Cod Melody Tent, and William Raveis Real Estate

 

Learn more about the Creative Exchange! 

Learn more about the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. 

The Arts Foundation's mission is to support and strengthen a vibrant and diverse arts and cultural sector for everyone in the region. Get involved!

This conversation was recorded live at Robert Henry's gallery and studio in Wellfleet, MA. Join us as we explore over 70 years of love, art and connection to Cape Cod as well as the ever-evolving practice and the latest chapter of his life as an artist. 

Senator Julian Cyr serves in the Massachusetts Senate representing Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. First elected to the State Senate on November 8, 2016, Julian is now serving in his second term and is the youngest senator in the 40-member body. And he’s been a champion for arts and culture here on Cape Cod. 

In this episode, we speak with the Senator about how the arts led him to a career in politics as well as how the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Creative Exchange is being bolstered thanks to $400,000 in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). 

Senator Julian Cyr was instrumental in securing the federal dollars to support the Cape’s creative economy, filing an amendment to the Legislature’s $4 billion ARPA and surplus tax revenue spending bill, which Governor Charlie Baker signed into law in December 2021. 

“These are once-in-a-generation funds that are meant to help us rebuild and repair and build more resilient communities,” Senator Cyr said. “When you look at what powers Cape Cod and the Islands’ economy, it is not solely tourism and our gorgeous beaches and natural beauty. The fabric of our community is its creativity and innovation.”