Alice Lovelace: How to thrive as a creative change agent.

<h2>Episode 76: Alice Lovelace: How to Thrive as a Creative Change Agent <strong>(Reprise)</strong></h2><p>Lately, we have heard from many artists and arts organizations who are joining the creative change movement. In response, we are revisiting Alice's story of creativity, chutzpah, and courage as a <em>peaceful disrupter</em> making serious change across the deep south under the most challenging conditions. </p><p><strong>For more inspiring change maker stories also check out the Change the Story Collection: </strong></p><h2>Threshold Questions &amp; Delicious Quotes</h2><p><strong>What is "This Poem" really about?</strong></p><p>This poem is a cultural hybrid </p><p>Travelin' everywhere</p><p>Belongin' nowhere</p><p>Irresponsible,&nbsp;Irreverent </p><p>And totally irrelevant</p><p><strong>What do you mean by Peaceful Disrupter?</strong></p><p><em>I am never happy with the status quo. So, I'm always looking for ways to disrupt the status quo and to move it in a more progressive [way] or [by] empowering those who I see are being left behind.</em></p><p><em>And that has to happen a lot, they have to be those who make other people uncomfortable, so that in their discomfort they actually deeply contemplate change. Because when we are comfortable, we don't contemplate change.</em></p><p><em>... I'm a peaceful disruptor. I don't get loud. I don't, I definitely look for opportunities to shift power and to shift the conversation...</em></p><p><strong>What does "asking permission" mean in a classroom?</strong></p><p><em>When I walk into a classroom, the first thing I say to my class is I asked permission to be there. And often the teachers don't understand that, but I will say to the students, “this is your community, and I am an interloper, and other adults have made a decision that I should be here, but the rightful decision-makers are you because you were the one who had the power to make this a success or to make it a failure”. So, I always ask their permission.</em></p><p><strong>How can you fight the power of t