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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Apr 13, 2020 • 1h 13min
Creativity Sparks: Pandemic Creativity + You Are Doing Enough
This week, in the first episode recorded during the quarantine, The Spark File offers two sparks of creativity -- whether you are inspired to produce any form of Pandemic Creativity, or if you are focused on taking care of yourself and your family, You Are Doing Enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 9, 2020 • 1h 7min
Makers: Jill Twiss: 'Ready, Aim, Recycle', Politics as Comedy and a Great Bunny Name
This week on The Spark File, Susan and Laura talk with Emmy Award winning comedy writer, Jill Twiss about her years on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver making people laugh (rather than cry) from current events, and how constantly pitching new things lead to writing her successful children's books, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, and The Someone New. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 6, 2020 • 1h 30min
Creativity Sparks: Colette + In the FLO
In this week's episode of The Spark File, the pioneer Colette, fighting for credit of her work and leading the way for women to follow their creative pursuits and earn that money; plus, the power of living in flo to optimize your creative output by aligning with your infradian rhythms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 2, 2020 • 37min
Makers: Kate Quarfordt: Part 2: Holding Joy, Catching a Thread, and Being Onto Something
This week on The Spark File, part 2 of Susan and Laura's conversation with Artist Kate Quarfordt. If you find yourself "teetering on the knifes edge" these days, sit back, relax, and take a trip back to three weeks ago when things felt normal. We discuss our Grandmothers, the Resistance Revival Chorus and the power of music and art in any movement for change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 30, 2020 • 1h 23min
Creativity Sparks: Chiaroscuro + The Hidden Life of Trees
In this weeks episode of The Spark File, Susan and Laura dive into an exploration of light and dark with Chiaroscuro plus the story of the understory and the Hidden Life of Trees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 26, 2020 • 50min
Makers: Kate Quarfordt: Part 1: On Being a Creative Instigator, Shit Stirrer, Capital “A” Artist
This week on The Spark File, Laura and Susan are treated to the wisdom, the joy, the laughter and the luminosity that is Kate Quarfordt, Artist. From learning how "your weirdness is your genius" to the discipline required to transcend into kairos time, this episode is dream for artists or Artists at every juncture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 23, 2020 • 1h 10min
Creativity Sparks: Thanks, Semmelweis + We Are The Dream
This week on The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien, two fresh new sparks of creativity -- first, the doctor who risked his career and went to his grave trying to convince the medical profession that hand washing matters, plus the incredible true story of the uplifting oratorical festival presented by California students for the benefit of us all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 19, 2020 • 57min
Makers: Kris Andersson / Dixie Longate: Taking Risks, Charging Forward and Burning the Boats
This week on The Spark File, Susan and Laura catch up with Kris Andersson, accidental hyphenate, who gives us an exclusive scoop, his biggest creative risk so far — shuttering his uber successful show, Dixie’s Tupperware party. With his eye on new creative ideas and endeavors, Kris shares his gratitude for Dixie’s adventures and his vision for brand new shenanigans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 16, 2020 • 1h 11min
Creativity Sparks: Unfinished Business + The Posh Club
This week on The Spark File, Susan and Laura dig into the value and comfort that comes with completing Unfinished Business - creative or otherwise, plus, the anti-lonliness campaign being waged by The Posh Club (something we could all use right about now, regardless of age!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 12, 2020 • 1h 2min
Makers: Caitlin Kinnunen: Fluidity, Authenticity and Being the Truth Goose
This week on The Spark File, Susan and Laura get to chat with the fabulous, fun, authentically awesome Caitlin Kinnunen. Caitlin shares openly and easily about everything from Tony nominations and failure, soapbox opportunities, and how the struggle is shared. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
