Meet East Side Institute Associate, Nicola Pauling, whose Wellington, New Zealand-based Voice Arts builds community through play and performance. Most recently, bringing performance workshops into nursing and retirement homes for the elderly, Voice Arts takes theatre games and exercises used by actors to prepare for the stage and adapts them — “seeking the outcome of joy, laughter, emotional and spiritual well-being.” In this conversation with the Institute’s Janet Wootten, Pauling recounts the history of community engagement projects she has created with prisoners, refugees, school children — evolving an approach to drama activities where there are “no stages, no audiences, and no lines to learn.” Playing, improvising and storytelling become the means through which all can give performatory voice to the stories of their lives and grow. Pauling is active in the Global Play Brigade and a founding member of the Reimaging Dementia Coalition.
Short Film: The Echo Made Me Smile
Tales of Belonging produced by Voice Arts in partnership with Ryman Healthcare. ( link below)
https://vimeo.com/581385349
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Welcome to All Power to the Developing, a podcast of the East Side Institute. The Institute is a center for social change efforts that reinitiate human and community development. We support, connect and partner with committed and creative activists, scholars, artists, helpers and healers all over the world. In 2003, Institute co-founders Lois Holzman and the late Fred Newman had a paper published with the title “All Power to the Developing.” This phrase captures how vital it is for all people—no matter their age, circumstance, status, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation—to grow, develop and transform emotionally, socially and intellectually if we are to have a shot at creating something positive out of the intense crises we’re all experiencing. We hope that this podcast series will show you that, far more than a slogan, “all power to the developing” is a loving activity, a pulsing heart in an all too cruel world.
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Ep.48 Reviled, Mocked, Ignored
Ep.47 Dancing Toward Better Futures for the Planet
Ep.46 “Land for People, Not for Profit” How Unhoused People in Cape Town Turned an Abandoned Hospital into a Community
Ep.45 Homeless World Cup
Ep.44 Performing Peace in the Wake of War
Ep.43 Revolutionizing Relationships: Murray Dabby & Carrie Sackett on Social Therapeutic Coaching
Ep.42 Building Play Ensembles to Change the World
Ep.41 Co-Creating Our World
Ep.40 Performing Environmental Education
Ep.39 Rhymes, Beats and Development
Ep.38 Therapy for and by the People
All Power To The Developing | JUNE 2023 UPDATE
Ep.37 American History, Black Heritage and Progressive Activism
Ep.36 Theatre-Making in a Prison Community
Ep.35 Let’s Imagine Impossible Worlds Together
Ep.34 Playworlds of Imagination and Development
Ep.33 What’s So Funny About Growth and Development?
Ep.32 The Efficiency of Play: A powerful modality for inclusion
Ep.31 Hip Hop Impresario, King UpRock, Exports Brooklyn-Born Beats to Communities Worldwide
Ep.30 Identity, Trauma and Development in Taiwan
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