The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien
Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien
Your one stop shop for creative ideas and inspiration. Sign up for our newsletter HERE. Each week on The Spark File podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien reach into their spark files and share stories, ideas and fascinations to ignite your imagination. Obsessed with creativity, Blackwell and Camien also talk with artists and makers, movers and shakers who have taken the spark of inspiration and fanned it into a flame. Hear from inspiring creatives like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Eric Stonestreet, Jonathan Groff, Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich, Zachary Quinto, Leslie Odom Jr, Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Billy Eichner, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Karen Olivo, Sutton Foster, Michael R. Jackson and many more about their passions and their failures, their inspirations and their aspirations. Refill your creative fish pond with new ideas and fresh perspectives. Listen, then take it and make it! Learn more at thesparkfile.com.
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Jun 22, 2020 • 1h 26min
Creativity Sparks: Fatigue Fatigue + Creative Cycles
In the Season One finale, Susan and Laura discuss the various ways the world is exhausting us right now -- Zoom fatigue, Compassion fatigue, Caution fatigue and more. Plus, how knowing where you are in the Creative Cycle can help determine where your Hero goes from here. (hint: picture a Phoenix rising from the ashes). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 18, 2020 • 54min
Makers: Michael R. Jackson: Tyler Perry, Truth Telling + the Pulitzer Prize
This week, Susan and Laura sit down with the Pulitzer Prize winning truth teller, Michael R. Jackson who will blow your hair back with his authenticity. His metafictional musical, A Strange Loop explores the transformational story of an artist confronting issues of sexuality, race and identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 15, 2020 • 1h 42min
Creativity Sparks: Mindset + VUCA
This week, Susan and Laura are sparked by the possibilities created by the Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset, and explore the VUCA assessment tool to describe the Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous world we're living in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 11, 2020 • 59min
Makers: Karen Olivo: Taking a Stand
This week, Susan and Laura connect with Karen Olivo as she shares her recent vow to withhold her artistic services from "any theatre, company, or persons, who would knowingly fund organizations that would perpetuate inequality." Standing fully in her artistic power, Karen inspires with her leadership and action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 8, 2020 • 1h 23min
Creativity Sparks: The Fight For Equality and Making Change Pt. Deux
On this episode of The Spark File, Susan and Laura share sparks of creativity that have lit up this week. The continued fight for equality and the many ways individuals and groups have demanded it throughout history; and the many ways artists and creatives are making change in these tumultuous times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 4, 2020 • 1h 28min
Makers: Donna Lieberman: NYCLU and The Protection of Neutral Principles
This week, Susan and Laura talk with Donna Lieberman from the NYCLU. If there ever were a time to understand the important work of this tireless woman and this incredible organization, its now. Fighting for the neutral principles we believe in -- freedom of speech, right to peaceful protest and so much more -- the ACLU and the NYCLU are the angels protecting our inalienable rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 1, 2020 • 1h 25min
Creativity Sparks: The Apocalypse Now + Russ Ewing
This week on The Spark File, Susan and Laura deliver two sparks of creativity... First, giving thought to the apocalypse now, what is it revealing to YOU? And the story of Russ Ewing, how one human being can make a difference in a corrupt system much bigger than us all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 28, 2020 • 47min
Makers: A Very Special Celia Keenan-Bolger Episode
In this very special episode, Susan and Laura talk with Celia Keenan-Bolger, who reads an original piece for us about the inspiration behind Broadway Feeds Bellevue, and the beauty of community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 25, 2020 • 1h 16min
Creativity Sparks: Mailbag #2!
Susan and Laura dip into the mailbag and hear sparks of creativity from YOU! Sharing your grief, guilt, and guilty pleasures during quarantine and the many ways creativity is feeding your soul... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 21, 2020 • 48min
Makers: Bobby Lopez + Kristen Anderson-Lopez Part 2: Kindness, Confidence and Creative Collaborations
This is Part 2 of Susan and Laura's conversation with the inspirational and aspirational Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, all about creative collaborations, big wave riding and who determines success and failure? These two are a creative masterclass, illustrating the value of putting the people you collaborate with before the work you are creating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
