Hosted by Kevin Lee-Y Green and Terrill Williams

Featuring filmmaker, poet, and organizer Ricki Nelson

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Ricki Nelson, a Wilmington native, UNCW graduate, and reigning Miss Black North Carolina USA, is having an amazing year. Her film "I Am Not Your Black Girl" recently won a film festival and her TikTok community is continuing to grow. She sat down with Somewhere & Elsewhere to talk about her work including the launch of her organization Black Creatives Social Club.

Hosted by Kevin Lee-Y Green and Terrill Williams

Featuring filmmaker and producer Dru Richards

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Somewhere and Elsewhere sits down with Wilmington independent filmmaker Dru Richards. Richards describes has journey to picking up the camera and how he sustains himself creating work.

Hosted by Kevin Lee-Y Green and Terrill Williams

Featuring artist and producer Regina McLeod

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Regina McLeod is a longtime artist and producer working in coastal North Carolina and nationally. Her company, Cleod Nine Productions is currently producing Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery, a play by Shay Youngblood. Terrill and Kevin sit down in the Shoresides' studios to learn about McLeod's background and recent projects.

Somewhere & Elsewhere sat down with Kim Henry of Theatre for All to learn more about this amazing company in coastal North Carolina. Theatre for all was born out of a desire that people with disabilities deserve and are important members of our arts community.

Learn more about Theatre for All and how to get involved.

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Coming up on Somewhere and Elsewhere.

Around the country, traditional regional theater companies are struggling.

A recent report says shares that theater companies stil of various sizes are in deep financial trouble, in what is rapidly turning into the most severe crisis in the 70-year history of the regional theater movemen.

But a new refrain is being heard. Small Means All.

Theater companies are finding new ways and new audiences.

What does this all mean for the coastal region’s arts? And what does it mean for these community theater companies that hold a mirror to their communities, reflecting their stories, struggles, and triumphs?

In an upcoming report, we will explore what Smalls Means All for the coastal region theater scene.

We are following Techmoja Dance and Theater Company as they create a new work on sexual trauma in rural Black communities in the South. In this episode founder Kevin Lee-Y Green talks developing work informed by the place he lives - coastal North Carolina.

Kevin has a conversation with Thomas F. DeFrantz who is a scholar, dancer, choreographer, and the author of Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture. DeFrantz speaks to strategies for touring, as well as the process of creating new work. (note this interview was done while DeFrantz was based in North Carolina / please check link to his site for updated bio information)

Quiet As It's Kept follows choreographer Kevin Lee-Y Green as he creates a new dance work addressing sexual trauma through the lens of Blackness and southern culture. While there are a few tough stories in this podcast series this is a story about the power of dance and culture to build resilience in ourselves and communities.

We are following Techmoja Dance and Theater Company as they create a new work on sexual trauma in rural Black communities in the South. In this episode founder Kevin Lee-Y Green talks about what informed his decision to return home to Bolivia, North Carolina to create dance. He describes the act of creating Techmoja, in the face of white dominated arts ecology in coastal Carolina, as an act of rebellion. Kevin introduces us to company member Terrill Williams as we learn about the context for Black artists making work in small southern towns. We learn that many art spaces were built by enslaved people and ironically Black artists have difficulty accessing those spaces as their whole selves.

Quiet As It's Kept follows choreographer Kevin Lee-Y Green as he creates a new dance work addressing sexual trauma through the lens of Blackness and southern culture. While there are a few tough stories in this podcast series this is a story about the power of dance and culture to build resilience in ourselves and communities.

This episode starts with our host Kevin sharing a traumatic experience from his teenage years. He shares this with you, the listener, so that you can better understand the context for his effort to create a new dance work addressing sexual trauma. Some listeners might find this story upsetting, so please take care of your needs. Kevin shares a little more about the Techmoja company and their mission and brings his friend therapist Franchon Francees into the conversation. Francees talks about the role racial identity plays in understand sexual trauma and the steps to take for healing .

Quiet As It's Kept follows choreographer Kevin Lee-Y Green as he creates a new dance work addressing sexual trauma through the lens of Blackness and southern culture. While there are a few tough stories in this podcast series this is a story about the power of dance and culture to build resilience in ourselves and communities.