S2 E19: Disrupt with Heleya de Barros and James Miles

<p>During this episode of <em>Why Change?</em> co-host Jeff M. Poulin chats with Heleya de Barros and James Miles about their new podcast, <em>Disrupt: Ideas to Cultivate the Creative Generation</em>. Heleya and James discuss their histories as teaching artists, executive directors, and professors in cultivating the most impactful practice among arts educators.</p> <p>In this episode you’ll learn:</p> <ol> <li>About the new podcast<em> Disrupt</em> and its goals;</li> <li>How teaching artists, arts educators, and organizational leaders can disrupt our field of practice (in good ways); and</li> <li>How we can make things easier and normalize humanity.</li> </ol> <p><a href="https://creative-generation.org/disrupt"><u>Check out the trailer for </u><u><em>Disrupt: Ideas to Cultivate the Creative Generation</em></u><u> here. </u></a><u><br> <br> </u>ABOUT HELEYA DE BARROS:</p> <p>Heleya<em> </em>is an actor, teaching artist, and arts education advocate whose work focus on how to use theatre skills across disciplines and subject areas. She has worked in arts education in California, New York, and Washington with such organizations as The New School College for Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, The Center for Arts Education, People's Theatre Project, Young Audiences New York, The Geffen Playhouse, The Los Angeles Music Center, The Orange County Performing Arts Center, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, Will &amp; Company, CRE Outreach, and 24th Street Theatre.</p> <p>Heleya is the Co-Executive Director of the Teaching Artists Guild working to support and expand the national teaching artistry field and is the Co-Director of Arts Education of Arts Corps in Seattle, WA. She is an adjunct faculty member at Highline College in the Youth Development Program and sits on the Advisory Councils for Classical KING FM and Highline College in Washington.</p> <p>ABOUT JAMES MILES:</p> <p>James Miles <em>(he/him)</em> is originally from Chicago and moved to Seattle from Brooklyn, NY where h