Arts Interview: Four Artists From Fire In The Heart | It’s A Question Of Balance 6 February 2016

Broadcast on 6 February 2016 on KSCO AM 1080, KSCO 104.1 FM, KOMY AM 1340, and KSCO.com Live Stream.

It's A Question Of Balance radio show balances the intellectual with the creative, exploring whether we have more in common than divides us through thought-provoking conversations - out and about with people on the street on different topics, and in the studio with inspiring guests from the arts. Balance is not a compromise. Balance is truth distilled from many places creating cohesive understanding.  

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In-Depth Arts Interview with Four Artists From the Inspiring Show Fire In The Heart

This week as her special guests from the arts Ruth Copland is pleased to be interviewing Deborah Allen, Brittney Buffo, Tom North, and Gina Rene from the inspiring show Fire In The Heart. Created and produced by director, producer, actress, writer, and screenwriter Deborah Allen, Fire In The Heart is a celebration of how the performing arts can be used to address trauma and recovery. Fire In The Heart features multiple artists showing how the arts can help us process, heal, and transcend traumatic events, whether they be in our own lives or the lives of others, while entertaining and enriching us at the same time. Fire In The Heart features professional performers from many music genres including hip-hop, gospel, classical, and opera, as well as film-makers, actors and poets, all of whom have used the arts in their own lives to address trauma and recovery from issues including substance abuse, violence, and major health issues. Artists include hip-hop artists The Luminaries, Carnegie Hall cellist Lisa Lancaster, recording artist Delores Burgess, and musical director and performing artist Stephan Terry. Fire In The Heart is designed as a way for the community to come together around what we are collectively experiencing and experience the arts as a powerful transformative lifeline, with the potential to be life-changing for some. Cabrillo College in California is presenting Fire In The Heart, as Cabrillo Theatre Arts’ 2016 Evening of World Theatre and Ruth Copland has four of the performers with her on the show - creator and producer of Fire In The Heart, Deborah Allen; film-maker Brittney Buffo; memoirist Tom North; and hip-hop artist, singer-songwriter, and story-teller Gina Rene.

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