SeeArts Podcast 🌟 Building the co-creative Bridge between Arts & Business 🎭🚀

Radha Agrawal is a shining powerhouse. After experiencing frustration with the nightlife scene, she felt the urge to bring people together and create real connections and community. Wanting to maintain all the things she loved about going out (dancing, creativity, connection) but leave the unsavory spilled drinks and bouncers behind, she launched Daybreaker, a sober early morning dance party that now has over 500K members who participate worldwide.
Radha and Fabian get to know each other during a 2015 San Francisco Daybreaker and the Giant DUNDU was a special surprise for the dancing crowd in the Bay Area. The reconnection after her book launch in Los Angeles while Fabian was performing with the Giants of Light at the World ́s Best concluded in a ecstatic dance with Baby Soleil in Radah ́s belly and the pandemic invited them to cross the big pond virtually and have DUNDU join the Digital Dance parties.
Radha shares her entrepreneurial spirit with a three step approach how to find a start-up idea and showcases powerfully why the mindset of iteration is perfection helps to get things started. With her fam of Daybreaker she organises massive online dance-outs and strives to build Joy institutes around the globe. You can experience this Joy practise with the on-demand online training D.O.S.E. (14 days for free) that helps you to connect your neurotransmitter into a vibrant cocktail.
In the conversation we covered her journey out of investment banking into becoming a experience designer and community architect, the power of rituals and the need for Belonging.
We also recommend to read her Book Belong which is a masterpiece as even before the pandemic the world has been in a state of disconnection and Belong brings powerful tools into the game to "go in to go out" and illustrates in a very visual way how we have to rethink old structures (updating the pyramid of needs)
45 minutes with the super spreader of energy just dance away and we can't wait to play together again
As if that wasn’t incredible enough, Radha is the Co-Founder of THINX period underwear which she created with her twin sister Miki Agrawal, is launching a new business, LiveItUp, and now she’s launching her new book, Belong, about finding your people, creating meaningful community, and living a more connected life.

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This podcast is with purpose and a call-to-action. This weekend, Phare - the Cambodian Circus is hosting the PhareGala21 and due to Covid it is happening online. In order to get more attention Phare has challenged itself and goes for the Guiness World Record for the longest Circus Show (24 hours + 1 minute). With over 90 artists and the approach of blending the different circus production into something unique, you can be excited.
In the conversation Osman shares his believe of the transformative power of the Arts and gives us an insight into the situation for Cambodia and especially the Phare Social Performing Enterprise through Corona
How to Join the Gala:
Worldwide! Settle down comfortably in front of your screen, at the most convenient hour in your time zone. There will be two repeated gala events to make sure as many people as possible can enjoy.

**US / CANADA - SATURDAY MARCH 6TH**
7pm (PST)
or
9pm (CST)

**AUSTRALIA / ASIA / EUROPE - SUNDAY MARCH 7TH**
1.30pm (ACDT)
or
10am or 8pm (ICT)
or
2pm (CET)
or
1.30pm (CET for French speakers)

***HOW TO JOIN***
You can register in less than a minute here: www.bit.ly/pharegala21

*****WHO WE ARE*****

Phare Phare Ponleu Selpak was founded more than a quarter of a century ago, by nine Cambodians, who grew up in a refugee camp after surviving the genocide of the Khmer Rouge, and their French arts teacher. Resilience and hope has been in Phare’s DNA from the very beginning, and from a simple arts school it blossomed into the multi-faceted creative hub it is today.

Phare educates and trains thousands of children and youth who come from challenging backgrounds. Most receive a mainstream education which helps them thrive as adults, but others become artists, performers and musicians who keep Cambodia's creative culture alive after its almost total destruction by the Khmer Rouge. We offer them social support, education and arts programs so they can build their future and support their families through creative careers.

*****WHY THIS EVENT IS ESSENTIAL FOR OUR SURVIVAL*****

Over the years we have sought not to rely on handouts for our work and reached 60% financial self-sustainability through ticket sales to our celebrated and famous circus. Unfortunately, COVID-19 shut down our performances and left us with a dramatic shortfall. Today we are very concerned about our community and the most vulnerable who depend on our support on a daily basis. We need to raise money to keep our life-saving, life-changing programmes alive during this crisis.

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We celebrate our 10th episode with the Art of Storytelling:
We get to know Brendan, who grew up in Australia and at an early age got inspired in the world of contemporary circus with physical storytelling. Touring the world as a kid and training heavily while attending school brought him then into the world of dance and physical theatre:
From creative productions that filled town squares, he had the chance to take part in the ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000.
With 23 years, Brendan changed roles and left the stage behind to bring his own visions as a creative director to his global audiences and followed the increasing personal desire to create something personal and unique: Empowered by a variety of scholarships and development grants, Brendan explored global theater companies (such as Groupe F) and on this journey found is very own style of staging that can be currently witnessed within BattleRoyal:
BattleRoyal in a way describes the struggle and fight of all artists to follow their passion, but also to make a living without simply following a commercial path, and as we learn in the podcast, BattleRoyal has become this sweet spot for Brendan.
Though the Covid-Times also slowed down the "business as usual", it also freed the creative interdisciplinary team from the "regular" noise and allowed a focused inspiring work for the celebration of Esch 2022 as European cultural Capital.
Brendan is an executive creative director with 20+ years of experience in the culture, event, and entertainment sectors. He works at the intersection of creative strategy and emerging technology to help a diverse mix of clients conceptualize and bring new engaging activations to life.
Having spent a career consulting for cultural organizations and corporate enterprises, he had a unique vantage point on how these diverse sectors approach strategy and milestone events.
Over the last 5 years, he has helped to re-tell the intricate histories of several Fortune 500 firms and directed a series of large-scale cultural events throughout Europe and the Middle East.
His base is theatre, however, he ́s always indulged in using all available technologies to tell a compelling tale. Brendan spent years on major Olympic and sporting ceremonies and with this background, he established his skills at telling stories to diverse, mass audiences.
In 2018 he co-produced a landmark documentary symphonic film on Berlin and its eclectic subculture. 'Symphony of Now' featured some of Germany's top electronic music acts. And as well as being featured on in-flight programs, SoN toured various festivals, cinemas, and media installations around the world.
The award-winning 'battleROYAL' was his first company and baby. Founded in 2011, they are a diverse team of bold creatives and event professionals, passionately working between the domains of culture and commerce.
We come from theatre, ground-breaking events, and exceptional Olympic ceremonies.
Our mind-set is hybrid. We encourage interactive experiences and authentic engagements. We tell stories in grand dimensions.
The next wave of digitalization that is coming to the events and entertainment markets is exciting. battleROYAL believes that refined and explosive moments can be experienced within the digital domain, with the added benefit of unquestionable reach. Their ability to capture mass audiences with even the most intimate activation is now a reality. And at battleROYAL, the team is passionately implementing these digital strategies into everything they touch.
More about bR here: www.battleROYAL.berlin

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It is celebration time and time to say thank you. In this episode look back full of gratitude and reflect the inside of 19 episode with change makers, artists and entrepreneurs and guide you on the outlook what to expect.
For a lecture, that I was giving at at University about Managing and Leading in Arts & Cultural space, I reflected on the wisdom that was shared with me - the comparison & combination of the business and art hats, that we have to be switching from time to time, the inflection points that are opening these "windows of imagination" and as well the technological advances that are there to come.
For the future, I am looking forward to work on a higher frequency ( weekly) and to produced more content out of the wisdom with infographics, blog articles and sound bites.
The topics have been wide spread so far from my areas of interest and passion ranging from puppetry to workshop facilitation, agency work, storytelling all the way to the social impact.
With the in-depth series, I want to give a more profound but also diverse insight and kick-starting with the "Masters of Clowning" one area that has opened my eyes profoundly. From there on, I am super excited in the advances to technology (AR,VR,AI) but as well trends such as NFT / Crypo Art and how this provides options to create new business models as an artepreneur / entrepenartist or futartist.
Also announcing the ideas around my book "Create your own fusion" that will be accompanied with a workshop series and connecting the dots of my journey to kickstart the authorship voyage.
Once more, a big thank you to all the helping hands on the way, the listeners, the interviewees and to You.
Let me know what you like and what you would change and let us See Arts together
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Anthony takes us on his journey of becoming: Landing in Grenoble at the European Juggling Convention opened his horizon and he couldn't return to the UK where he had graduated in Chemistry but travelled and found then his creative home base in Rome. From there he started blending together different performing and movement disciplines, attended the Dimitri School in Ascona and until today he performs in a unique way and teaches a very holistic approach of performance and art in one of a kind retreats. With his both theatrical and philosophical views, he is contributing to an ever evolving circus scene and is still hungry and more than that full of play.
Fabian was diving in with him into moments of flow, the approaches shared in Pearls of Juggling and as well how he is creativity pivoting with online courses as all live shows are still cancelled.
The conversation led to deeply philosophical topics from the future of education towards areas about give & take and how the balance that we can learn through juggling & movement can also shape our lives.
Biography:
Anthony Trahair is an advocate of the transformative power of play for individuals, groups, processes and just about everything!
Playfulness has played a central role in his activities for many years.
In juggling, in Yoga for children, as facilitator and in life.
He believes that we can all live better when we (re)learn to play and take ourselves a little less seriously!

Author of the book Pearls of Juggling in English, Italian and soon German!
https://pearlsofjuggling.wordpress.com

Anthony created the playfulness festival GIOCOSAMENTE and is founder of the project PlayfuLife. www.giocosamentefestival.eu

www.playfulife.org
Follow him on his journey
https://www.facebook.com/pearlsofjugglingthebook/

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