In this episode, we welcome a genuinely innovative mind in the SeeArts Podcast - Katharina Aguilar: she is the co-founder of 7Places – an innovation agency in Stuttgart focusing on spaces:

In the conversation, we discussed creating "co-spaces" as future micro living where everyday needs can be met within walkable distance. Katharina presented two of her current projects that she passionately pursues which also s. We wrapped up with an artistic perspective on how to reclaim public space. It was a total treat, and Katharina was mesmerized with her insightful wisdom and charming way that motivated me to reshape my space for more creativity.

More information about 7places:

7places dedicate themselves to reinvent our living spaces.

They create and build spaces like restaurants, hotels, public spaces, offices, and stores in a new way using inspiration, emotion, and technology. With their philosophy of "Less talking, more acting," they explore and design future spaces at the intersection of technology and architecture.

Additionally, they develop the 7places App that helps us find inspiring places and events in our daily lives.

Katharina followed her calling and passion for space and innovation after spending almost a decade in the automotive industry.

The funny side fact is that over a decade ago, Katharina and Fabian were studying together International Business in our dual career at Bosch and IBM, so it is an inspiring catch-up, and I am sure our listeners are as excited as me what these 7 places look like and to learn about these spatial dimensions

You can reach out to Katharina via
www.7places.de · linkedIN · instagram · XING

and stay tuned for the 7places App, which is currently in Beta in the AppStore

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In this episode, I am speaking with Marcus Druen about the dance of change. He shares hacks for digital meetings and staying creative in the pandemic & how he is helping his clients to thrive.

Marcus truly embodies what he talks about and uses mindful sessions in his own daily routines but as well in the facilitation of change mixed up with artistic interventions.

We kickstart the conversation with his early moments of truth and how Marcus got into his current role facilitating audacious change, which starts with you, NOW.

Marcus has a large toolbox of innovative methods that help him in coaching with resonance and facilitate the dialogue with businesspeople, who want to lead this audacious change with the insight that there is no courage without vulnerability.

Enjoy this inspiring conversation with Marcus and share your learnings with us

Here is the link to Marcus´ new podcast which currently covers the topic of Wholeness:
https://leadingaudaciouschange.buzzsprout.com

Other than that, the best way for people to connect with Marcus is on LinkedIn or on Telegram t.me/marcusdruen

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Radha Agrawal is a shining powerhouse. After experiencing frustration with the nightlife scene, she felt the urge to bring people together and create real connections and community. Wanting to maintain all the things she loved about going out (dancing, creativity, connection) but leave the unsavory spilled drinks and bouncers behind, she launched Daybreaker, a sober early morning dance party that now has over 500K members who participate worldwide.

Radha and Fabian get to know each other during a 2015 San Francisco Daybreaker and the Giant DUNDU was a special surprise for the dancing crowd in the Bay Area. The reconnection after her book launch in Los Angeles while Fabian was performing with the Giants of Light at the World´s Best concluded in a ecstatic dance with Baby Soleil in Radah´s belly and the pandemic invited them to cross the big pond virtually and have DUNDU join the Digital Dance parties.

Radha shares her entrepreneurial spirit with a three step approach how to find a start-up idea and showcases powerfully why the mindset of iteration is perfection helps to get things started. With her fam of Daybreaker she organises massive online dance-outs and strives to build Joy institutes around the globe. You can experience this Joy practise with the on-demand online training D.O.S.E. (14 days for free) that helps you to connect your neurotransmitter into a vibrant cocktail.

In the conversation we covered her journey out of investment banking into becoming a experience designer and community architect, the power of rituals and the need for Belonging.

We also recommend to read her Book Belong which is a masterpiece as even before the pandemic the world has been in a state of disconnection and Belong brings powerful tools into the game to "go in to go out" and illustrates in a very visual way how we have to rethink old structures (updating the pyramid of needs)

45 minutes with the super spreader of energy just dance away and we can't wait to play together again

As if that wasn’t incredible enough, Radha is the Co-Founder of THINX period underwear which she created with her twin sister Miki Agrawal, is launching a new business, LiveItUp, and now she’s launching her new book, Belong, about finding your people, creating meaningful community, and living a more connected life.

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It is celebration time and time to say thank you. In this episode look back full of gratitude and reflect the inside of 19 episode with change makers, artists and entrepreneurs and guide you on the outlook what to expect.

For a lecture, that I was giving at at University about Managing and Leading in Arts & Cultural space, I reflected on the wisdom that was shared with me - the comparison & combination of the business and art hats, that we have to be switching from time to time, the inflection points that are opening these "windows of imagination" and as well the technological advances that are there to come.

For the future, I am looking forward to work on a higher frequency ( weekly) and to produced more content out of the wisdom with infographics, blog articles and sound bites.

The topics have been wide spread so far from my areas of interest and passion ranging from puppetry to workshop facilitation, agency work, storytelling all the way to the social impact.

With the in-depth series, I want to give a more profound but also diverse insight and kick-starting with the "Masters of Clowning" one area that has opened my eyes profoundly. From there on, I am super excited in the advances to technology (AR,VR,AI) but as well trends such as NFT / Crypo Art and how this provides options to create new business models as an artepreneur / entrepenartist or futartist.

Also announcing the ideas around my book "Create your own fusion" that will be accompanied with a workshop series and connecting the dots of my journey to kickstart the authorship voyage.

Once more, a big thank you to all the helping hands on the way, the listeners, the interviewees and to You.

Let me know what you like and what you would change and let us See Arts together

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🎭www.see-arts.org

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This podcast is with purpose and a call-to-action. This weekend, Phare - the Cambodian Circus is hosting the PhareGala21 and due to Covid it is happening online. In order to get more attention Phare has challenged itself and goes for the Guiness World Record for the longest Circus Show (24 hours + 1 minute). With over 90 artists and the approach of blending the different circus production into something unique, you can be excited.

In the conversation Osman shares his believe of the transformative power of the Arts and gives us an insight into the situation for Cambodia and especially the Phare Social Performing Enterprise through Corona


How to Join the Gala:
Worldwide! Settle down comfortably in front of your screen, at the most convenient hour in your time zone. There will be two repeated gala events to make sure as many people as possible can enjoy.

**US / CANADA - SATURDAY MARCH 6TH**
7pm (PST)
or
9pm (CST)

**AUSTRALIA / ASIA / EUROPE - SUNDAY MARCH 7TH**
1.30pm (ACDT)
or
10am or 8pm (ICT)
or
2pm (CET)
or
1.30pm (CET for French speakers)

***HOW TO JOIN***
You can register in less than a minute here: www.bit.ly/pharegala21

*****WHO WE ARE*****

Phare Phare Ponleu Selpak was founded more than a quarter of a century ago, by nine Cambodians, who grew up in a refugee camp after surviving the genocide of the Khmer Rouge, and their French arts teacher. Resilience and hope has been in Phare’s DNA from the very beginning, and from a simple arts school it blossomed into the multi-faceted creative hub it is today.

Phare educates and trains thousands of children and youth who come from challenging backgrounds. Most receive a mainstream education which helps them thrive as adults, but others become artists, performers and musicians who keep Cambodia's creative culture alive after its almost total destruction by the Khmer Rouge. We offer them social support, education and arts programs so they can build their future and support their families through creative careers.

*****WHY THIS EVENT IS ESSENTIAL FOR OUR SURVIVAL*****

Over the years we have sought not to rely on handouts for our work and reached 60% financial self-sustainability through ticket sales to our celebrated and famous circus. Unfortunately, COVID-19 shut down our performances and left us with a dramatic shortfall. Today we are very concerned about our community and the most vulnerable who depend on our support on a daily basis. We need to raise money to keep our life-saving, life-changing programmes alive during this crisis.

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Today, we are talking about the future of the events industry and I have the big pleasure to welcome Christopher Werth with us – he is the Director of Strategy & Concept of VOK DAMS – globally leading event agency head-quartered in Wuppertal with offices from Shanghai to New York and Sao Paulo. He has made an interesting professional journey that has led him to this challenging position, and I can´t wait to get his global perspective of the future of our beloved meeting and events industry, the creative surprises of 2020 and what to expect in the future with a look into technological advances, the role of the arts and the methodology Vok Dams uses to create meaningful encounters and stay ahead.

In the conversation, we explore current technologies such as VR and Christopher reveals his passion for both the opera and gaming. He takes us on his journey from assistant director in theatres, via stations as EXPO2020, and copywriting jobs into live communication. Today it feels as a perfect fusion and looking backwards it does totally make sense, but on the road it wasn't clear at all. It was about following the passion and taking the leap of faith in the right moments

He shared the analogy of the story of "hare & tortoise" and how it relates to the slow and quick hunches in the creative process hence showcasing the power and importance of creative (self-)confidence.

A fruitful discussion and exchange of the flow of events, adrenalin in the digital arena and 6 major steps to take into consideration if you want to create a events that matter:
Hybrid is here to stay.
Concept is key and below 6 spices Christopher mentioned

1st: Interaction, participation, co-creation
2nd: Sensory experience, haptic moment
3rd: For digital - plan it shorter episodes - not full days
4th: Timing and precise dramturgy
5th: environment for networking:Learn from TV - they are doing a lot to make it look interesting
6th: The Power of Content:
--> if you mix these 6 factors, you can have a successful (digital) event

Christopher's Gaming Column
http://culturmag.de/author/christopher-werth

White Papier: The learning from the hybrid & digital journey
https://www.vokdams.de/news/detail/article/the-learnings-from-439-hybrid-and-digital-events.html

Reach out to him @krrystoffer for more inspiration and meet him as well on diverse sets of Clubhouse talks and connect on LinkedIn
If you want to learn more about his company VOKDAMS.de and their methodology
and follow us on Instagram @SeeArtsNow - share your feedback and your learnings from this episode.

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Today, we are talking about creative pivots and the Event Design Collective has been shaping the way towards better events. The whole events industry got massively disrupted and we want to ask Ruud Jansen about the state of the union of events: The Switzerland based Entrepreneur Ruud Janssen has been an innovator and game changer in the Hospitality and Meetings & Events Industry since 1994. With his business partner Roel Frissen he co-created Event Canvas methodology and with an evergrowing community, this collective aims at creating common language for Meetings & Events.
Ruud shares with us with story of growing up in different countries around the globe and experience a variety of cultures with a fascination for learning languages.
For him the event canvas is what sheet music is to musician. A way to decode and collaboratively understand that the goal of an event is to create a certain change within the stakeholders and ultimately create value.

The power of a piece of paper lays in the context that people can relate to it and how memories and stories used to be shared, the printing press allowed the further spreading and learning of the past knowledge beyond verbal storytelling. The event canvas takes the gut feeling that we all have and makes it more accessible and visible.

In the process, that I have gone through as well to be come a Certified Event Designer, there are certain challenges as a team but this process showcases once more that if you are learning together, you are staying together as the curious way of learning something also bonds synapse and at the same time powerful human connection are built.
Nobody likes to change but in the present moment we need to get digital dexterity to stay on top of our game what Ruud accomplished with his team through continuously testing, prototyping and setting a certain standard. (e.g. a spare modem!!)
He stays motivated through learning and in his mastermind practise he appreciates the work of Paul Rulkens and his theme of strategic quitting.
An interesting way to discover the digital pivot is for Ruud that awareness that the from home facilitation allows him some 60-70 days due to no travelling. He recommends to use these times for new experiences and not doing more of what has already been done. HIs master decompression hack is the alphorn which also helped him to become a more reliable member of the local musical community.

He recommends to hack your own creativity in talking and listening to inspiring persons and explore unexplored spaces together with them. Meanwhile, he loves these adventures, there is also some highly systemic parts of his life e.g. the rhythmic clock of his dogs.

The main chance of events from an organisational perspective is as well that is gives an outside person a DNA of the company - a gradient of the abilities and on the long run, events can be also viewed as "living organism" with a certain human note to it - meaning that events that have happened for more than two decades might be in a mid-life crisis with the need to reinvent and other events going through a teenage phase or are still in a diaper-start-up mode. It is interesting to discover the rejuvenation potential or at least stay young at heart.

For the online facilitation, it requires some ability to improvise and think three steps ahead, but at the same time one hack is to point out upfront that "if we don't break anything, we aren't experiencing" hard enough as a kind of jail free card with connotation to celebrate failure.

More information about the Event Design Collective with great free resources www.eventdesigncollective.com

#EventCanvas

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Today, we are diving into the world of puppetry and I am so excited to have Caroline Bernier Dionne with me. Since 2007, she has integrated puppetry into her multidisciplinary artistic practice. Her many talents include multiple styles of puppet manipulation, interpretive movement, clowning, stilt-walking, and figure skating. Caroline graduated with a degree in theater and worked for several theater companies, film, and television. Recently, she performed on ice with Cirque du Soleil on the touring show Axel. She investigates the intersections between live performance and cinematographic capture and Caroline loves to share her work with the local puppetry community and connect puppeteers all over the globe.

In the podcast, we exchange about Giant puppets, the importance of breath and the early magical moments of truth while getting to know collective animated puppets and the bond it shapes.

From there, we explored the possibilities that digital formats bring along for puppetry but as well for the promotion of the arts.

You can join the free Online Puppet Gala 2021 on January 30th.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/puppet-podcast-gala-2021-tickets-136207298697

Also check out Caroline's Podcast and her website where she showcases in a beautiful way how to
https://www.puppetpodcast.com
https://www.patreon.com/puppetpodcast
https://www.instagram.com/puppetpodcast/

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