Social Arts for Dialogue Podcast

A SPECIAL EPISODE WITH A. CALL TO GATHER The Dragon Dreaming Arts Village is a temporary pop-up village taking shape this August in Saaremaa, Estonia. What began as the idea of an arts retreat evolved into something much bigger: a chance to live, create, and learn together as a community. Inspired by the Dragon Dreaming methodology, the village is built around collaboration, shared leadership, and...

The episode opens questions on intuition as a form of knowing, the responsibility of “decentering” in leadership, and the role of mentorship in shifting the field. A conversation from 5 years ago with Marc Weinblatt, founder of Mandala Center for Change, tracing a life and practice of listening, balance, and social transformation. Reflecting on hiw work with applied theatre, Marc reflects on the i...

A conversation with Luca Urbano, co-founder of Inhabit, exploring ecological corridors as living infrastructures that reconnect fragmented landscapes in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. He describes these corridors as pathways that allow key species like jaguars to move freely, restoring ecological balance. The conversation frames corridors through systems thinking—as networks that exch...

This month’s Living Library revisits a flashback episode from the first season of Imagine Action: Social Arts Across Borders , returning to a conversation recorded over five years ago with Ravi Resck , presented as a time-travel capsule whose insights remain strikingly relevant today. Ravi reflects on how growing up within a family engaged in social-environmental theatre and grassroots social entr...

The Legislative Rainbow is a participatory theatrical methodology that blends Augusto Boal’s Rainbow of Desire and Legislative Theatre, adapted for small communities. It enables groups to surface shared tensions, embody collective desires and “demons,” and rapidly co-create living norms and codes of conduct. Read more about the practice on the website and the resources it offers: legislativerainbo...

In this Living Library, Uri talks with Marina Pallarès Elias , a theater practitioner and researcher, about her journey creating the Theatre of Yes ! Together, we explore how theater can drive social transformation while maintaining artistic quality. Follow-up links: * Theatre of Yes Online (5th Edition) training register on Eventbrite * Learn more about Marina Pallers and the Theatre of Yes * Ima...

Through the Spiral — Day 2 | Honoring the Pain Through the Spiral is a 5-day collective journey rooted in the Work That Reconnects (Joanna Macy) , Mutima Imani’s Expanded Spiral model , and Theatre that Reconnects (Uri Noy Meir) —exploring gratitude, grief, new vision, liberation, and integration through embodied, collective practice. Day 2 focused on Honoring the Pain as a necessary passage towar...

Ruth Cross reflects on her experience during our 2016 journey with ImaginAction. As we prepare for our next Learning Journey to Senegal (2026) , we invite you to be part of opening THE Regenerative Arts Fellowship —where arts and community meet. 🌍 Join or Support the Journey: https://opencollective.com/imaginactionet/events/senegal-learning-journey-2026-6a58c373 ✨ Upcoming Sessions 💫 Embodied T...

Ten years ago, this journey changed many of our lives. As Ruth Cross shared from our 2016 experience in the video above Join us, support, or sponsor a participant:👉 Senegal Learning Journey 2026 #TheatreThatReconnects #KadduYaraax #ImaginAction #AppliedTheatre #LearningJourney #Senegal2026 Get full access to ImaginAction's SubSpace at imaginaction.substack.com/subscribe

In a heartfelt conversation with Uri, Maoz Inon shares his journey of grief and transformation following the October 7th Hamas attack, in which he lost his parents, close friends, and their children. Born in a kibbutz near the Gaza border, Maoz describes life since the attack as a freefall into an abyss of violence and despair. Yet, he insists that hope must be made, not found—and that hope is bor...

Adrian Hales works with people to awaken their innate well-being, peace, and happiness, guiding them to live, lead, and create from there. Success flows naturally, coming from an inner sense of well-being, so you're not waiting for success to feel happiness, joy, love, enthusiasm, and engagement. You’re coming from that. We had a powerful conversation full of story and wisdom on the Lviing Library...

Welcome to this Episode where we enter a conversation with Inger-Mette about rebuilding the Library of Alexandria. We explore the Gaia theory by listening to the earth as well as the Delphic Council and its connection to the arts, culture, and wisdom. Join us in shaping our understanding of the world, and the necessity of aligning with our inner selves and the wisdom of the earth. Inger-Mette Sten...

Play and Learn more about Elowyn at: https://www.earthwise.global/elowyn-game Dr. Anneloes Smitsman (Ph. D., LLM), is the founder and CEO of the EARTHwise companies. She is a futurist, serial entrepreneur, systems scientist, award-winning pioneer in human development and systems change, and award-winning bestselling author. She leads the EARTHwise faculty and is the lead architect of the EARTHwise...

Bernardette Castilho brings her book to the Living Library, Bernardette's travels using the 12 senses, a concept from anthroposophy, in places such as France, Germany, Italy, and Egypt, and places connected to women such as Matilda of Canossa, Mary Magdalene, and the Templars. Join us in reflecting on how a historical person's biography could be a doorway into discovering the self with others. Hig...

David Diamond's episode of The Living Library focuses on the themes of certainty and uncertainty, drawing from his 45 years of experience with creating Theatre for Living. David emphasizes that while humans desire certainty, especially in chaotic times, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. He stresses the importance of being a good observer, listener, and creative artist while trustin...

The Living Library of Active Hope features conversations with individuals seen as "living books" sharing their stories, practices, and dreams of active hope. In this first conversation with Hector , Uri and the guests discuss his work with Reconnectando in Colombia and the practice of the "Council of All Beings”. This practice invites us to listen to the voices of the more-than-human world, such a...

Uri Noy Meir is in conversation with Combatants for Peace Co-Founder Sulaiman Khatib and School of Ancestral Medicine founder Dr. Daniel Foor about the current situation and the potential future for the Middle East and beyond. Speakers Bios Sulaiman Khatib is co-director and co-founder of Combatants for Peace, a bi-national, grassroots nonviolence movement in Israel and Palestine. Combatants for P...

Palestine-Israel: from one story to more than one story, from us vs them to togetherness,  from cycle of violence to nonviolence, towards a Collective Liberation A conversation with the two female co-directors of Combatants for Peace by Ilaria Olimpico Get full access to ImaginAction's SubSpace at imaginaction.substack.com/subscribe

A story written and red by Ilaria Olimpico, questioning about identity and belonging, place and language. Una storia scritta e letta da Ilaria Olimpico, per interrogarsi su identita' e appartenenza, luogo e lingua. Get full access to ImaginAction's SubSpace at imaginaction.substack.com/subscribe

Social arts facilitator Ilaria Olimpico is in a heartfelt conversation with two co-founders of Combatants for Peace, Sulaiman Khatib and Chen Alon, on nonviolent paths in Israel-Palestine. READ MORE ON OUR BLOG imaginaction.org/ilaria-olimpico-in-conversation-with-sulaiman-khatib-and-chen-alon Get full access to ImaginAction's SubSpace at imaginaction.substack.com/subscribe

In this historic moment of "Fortresse Europe", Ilaria Olimpico gives voice to her text, written in 2018, where a distopian world represents the extreme consequences of the racist atmosphere and the discourse about immigration. The text in Italian "Italia Anno che non verra' " is part of a post in the blog imaginaction-thealbero collective (storie brevi e poesie piccole). Link - https://imaginactio...

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