{"podcast":{"title":"ART IS CHANGE: Strategies & Skills for Activist Artists & Cultural Organizers","slug":"art-is-change-strategies-skills-for-activist-artists-cultural-organizers-917696","podcast_index_feed_id":917696,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/change-the-story-chan/","website_url":"https://change-the-story-chan.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/a5e6de18-2f7c-48cb-af4d-742987fd3494/Art-is-Change-FINALX3K26.jpg","author":"Bill Cleveland","episode_count":187,"summary":"Can your art help dismantle injustice, shift systems, or spark healing in places like homeless shelters, emergency rooms, or city planning meetings? If you’re passionate about making a real difference through creativity, ART IS CHANGE (formerly known as Change the Story / Change the World) is your front-row seat to the real-world impact of art and social change. Hosted by author, musician, and researcher Bill Cleveland, each episode brings you deep into the lives and work of activist artists and cultural organizers who are doing more than dreaming—they’re transforming communities around the world. You’ll discover: • Proven strategies for thriving as an artist for change in complex, real-world settings • How to build meaningful, lasting partnerships that support your mission and your art • Lessons from global leaders creating cultural blueprints for justice, empathy, and resilience ▶️ Start with fan-favorite Episodes 86 and 87: Lessons From an Art and Change Pioneer—a double-dose of inspiration and practical insight.- https://change-the-story-chan.captivate.fm/episode/bighart-bigstory-redux/","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T00:17:13.305728+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/art-is-change-strategies-skills-for-activist-artists-cultural-organizers-917696"},"episode":{"title":"160: METRA - A Climate Revolution With Songs","slug":"160-metra-a-climate-revolution-with-songs","published_at":"2026-01-14T11:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/art-is-change-strategies-skills-for-activist-artists-cultural-organizers-917696/160-metra-a-climate-revolution-with-songs","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/art-is-change-strategies-skills-for-activist-artists-cultural-organizers-917696","url":"https://change-the-story-chan.captivate.fm/episode/metra-","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/248a2645-a563-40a8-92f3-ee49fcfd944c.mp3","summary":"What if a Musical Could Help us Tell the Truth About Climate Change? In this episode, Bill Cleveland sits down with theater director Emily Hartford and composer–storyteller Ned Hardford to explore Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs —a nine-episode musical audio drama that reimagines an ancient Greek myth as a near-future climate story. What starts as a conversation about craft opens into deeper territory: imagination as resistance, music as pedagogy, and why genuinely new stories don’t come from algorithms—they come from people doing long, human work together. In it, we explore three big questions at the heart of Metra and the moment we’re living in now: How music, story, and the human voice reach places that facts, lectures, and policy arguments can’t What it looks like to tell a climate story without fear-mongering or “disaster porn,” How artists can build work that others can actually use,—turning art-making into cultural infrastructure rather than a one-off production. Listen in to discover how art, music, and story can help us practice a different future—and why Metra just might be the kind of narrative infrastructure we need right now. People Bill Cleveland Host of Change the Story / Change the World and founder of the Center for the Study of Art & Community. Emily Hartford Theater director, writer, and producer; founding member of Flux Theater Ensemble and co-creator of Metra . Ned Hartford Composer, songwriter, audio engineer, and co-creator of Metra , focused on musical storytelling and audio drama. Alan Lomax Folklorist and field-recording pioneer whose work capturing the emotional power of the human voice is referenced in the episode. Enoch Rutherford Old-time banjo player recorded by Alan Lomax in Virginia; referenced through a story of lineage, lis…","meta_description":"What if a Musical Could Help us Tell the Truth About Climate Change? 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