Black Creative Healing: The Podcast
A space for radical conversation,
mindful collaboration, & wholistic* visioning centering Black Communities.
*our gratitude to Indigenous Scholar Renee Linklater for the intentional re-spelling of the term "wholistic."
We use it here to indicate the wholeness with which we enter into relationship with ourselves, our art, and our communities.
Black Creative Healing is a platform dedicated to radical conversation, mindful collaboration, & holistic visioning centering Black Communities. Conversations and arts-based collaborations are facilitated by Music Therapists Natasha Thomas and Adenike Webb, and feature professionals from across the professional spectrum of the arts, humanities, and everyday life. We discuss and explore our own creative approaches to healing as a restorative and ongoing transformative act, informed by current events and guided by imagination and care for our communities.
Holding Space for this Journey:
We are your co-conspirators co-facilitators, conversational doulas and fellow travelers ...
More on our Latest Episode:
PAST EPISODES
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BCH 101: with guest Vilissa Thompson
Vilissa Thompson LMSW - Vilissa is a macro-minded social worker from South Carolina. Ramp Your Voice! is her organization where she discusses the issues that matter to her as a Black disabled woman, including intersectionality, racism, politics, and why she unapologetically makes good trouble.
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In our Collaboration for Black Creative Healing, Vilissa, Natasha & Adenike discuss the necessity of self-care within the Black Community (particularly amongst Black Helpers, Disabled Women & Femmes), and play with the idea of creating safe and healing spaces.
BCH 102: Diovanni LaBeija
Diovanni LaBeija is an Afro-Latinx dance artist and queer art historian. She is a member of the Royal House of LaBeija (NYC Chapter), has appeared as a featured performer on FX’s hit TV show "Pose", and has danced with Vogue troupes at the Apollo Theater and El Museo del Barrio. Her choreography and art focus on Afro-Latinx culture, spirituality and the Trans identity and experience.
In our collaboration with Dio, Adenike & Natasha dive deep into the history of Ballroom as a part of broader Black History, as well as relating it to African Diasporic Spiritual practices and how those are connected to Black & Queer history as well.
BCH 103: Jenni Graham
Jenni Graham, LCAT, ATR-BC, MPS is a Nationally Registered &
Board Certified Art Therapist, therapeutic coach & the CEO of Trauma Free University. Jenni co-creates compassionate & empowering spaces of healing, liberation & connection for collective & individual healing from trauma experiences through a lens of restorative mental
& emotional wellness.
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In our collaboration, Adenike, Natasha & Jenni discuss the generational and collective aspects of trauma, as well as the power of art to help bring to the surface and integrate aspects of the self that we may not realize have always been there.
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All are welcome, with extra perks for our Black Attendees TBA soon!
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