Redesigning School

Why the Arts Matter and How to be a Good Neighbor

October 30, 2019 Terry Dubow, Julia Griffin, Ambrose Faturoti, Daniel Gray-Kontar. Season 2 Episode 4
Redesigning School
Why the Arts Matter and How to be a Good Neighbor
Show Notes

It's a bit of a challenge to write an episode title for a conversation with Daniel Gray-Kontar, Executive Artistic Director of Twelve Literary Arts. This arts organization in historic Glenville on Cleveland's east side has a mission to bring "performance poetry to public spaces, while supporting poets and writers of all ages with youth programming, adult professional development, and brave spaces to dream, write, and teach into reality a world of social justice and equity."

 First, Daniel is brilliant, so the conversation ran wide and dug deep. Second, the stakes he outlines were so potent that no clever phrasing -- at least none we could think of -- could rightly capture the import of his work.

In this episode, Julia and Terry were joined by Ambrose Faturoti, Hawken's Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Justice for Student Life and a member of the design team for The Mastery School of Hawken. They spoke with Daniel about the intersection of arts and social justice and so much more.

To see Daniel and Twelve Literary Arts in action, check out these videos. Get ready to be inspired.