Creative Pois-On

For our series '#CreativityWillSaveUs​ Phase 2, When Venues Close, Windows Open, Visions into the Future', our editor in chief Tommaso Cartia interviews singer-songwriter and music creator Cassandra Raffaele.

The Artist discusses her brand new music and how much art and creativity had save her during the harsh times of the lockdown, envisioning a future full of artistic authenticity and inspirational messages to share with her audience.

From the minute 25:00​ Cassandra performs her brand new song 'La mia anarchia ama te'
At 29:00​ enjoy the artist contribution to our series #CreativityWillSaveUs​. She performs 'My Friends' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

An Award-Winning, Sicilian artist sensation, Cassandra Raffaele is a true multi-instrumentalist, gifted lyricists, and histrionic producer, strong of many international experiences. Cassandra is today considered one of the most interesting and eclectic talents of Italy's music scene.

More about Cassandra Raffaele:
http://www.cassandraraffaele.net​

Enjoy here the #CreativityWillSaveUs​ Episode featuring Cassandra:

https://youtu.be/DJ3PoIeBvNs​

For our series '#CreativityWillSaveUs Phase 2, When Venues Close, Windows Open, A Vision into the Future', Herman Cornejo, Principal Dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, launches his newly created dance company, D A N C E L I V E, featuring some of NYC’s most talented performers.

An innovative concept that transfers and transforms the ballet art form into a digital, live and hyper-realistic immersive experience, realized in partnership with the visionary genius of photo-artist, director, and documentarian Steven Sebring.

In conversation with our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia, Herman Cornejo presents the first show of the project “New York Alive”, which had its Virtual World Premiere on Saturday, January 30, 2021, streaming on the @veeps platform.

For more info, see our article about DANCELIVE here:
http://creativepoisn.com/storytelier-ballet-has-never-been-this-a-live/

What's the future of Broadway? For our series #CreativityWillSaveUs - When Venues Close, Windows Open, our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia and our Artistic & Business Director Daniela Pavan, envision it with Ilene Rosen, Managing Partner at RPM, a full-service advertising agency servicing the live entertainment industry. The agency curates the promotion and the marketing of some of the most iconic Broadway shows including, Hamilton, Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera, and the recent Moulin Rouge! and Mrs. Doubtfire, which production is currently on hold due to the COVID-19 emergency.

An inspiring conversation with the the performing artist who sets a beautiful example of passion for his craft, dedication and perseverance. Jacopo Rampini will be one of the protagonists of a major, upcoming Ryan Murphy production. Good Luck Jacopo from the Creative Pois-On Team! Ready, Set, Imagine.

Directly from Brussels, Conceptual Artist PETERMFRIESS is the protagonist of a new episode of our series #CreativityWillSaveUs - When Venues Close, Windows Open - conducted by our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia. A vision into the future post-COVID-19.

For our series #CreativityWillSaveUs Phase 2 - When Venues Close, Windows Open - our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia interviews artist Marco Gallotta who brings us into his artistic world of paper-cutting soulful portraits, and shares with us the experience of starring in his first movie - Waiting For Woody - directed by Claudio Napoli with protagonist actor Yari Gugliucci recently presented at the prestigious 77th Venice Film Festival.

For more info about Marco Gallotta:

https://www.instagram.com/marcogallotta/?hl=it

#CreativityWillSaveUs Episode featuring Marco Gallotta:

https://youtu.be/NUYomV908R4

What does the future hold for our next generation? We try to envision it with the new protagonist of our series #CreativityWillSaveUs Phase 2 - When Venues Close, Windows Open. He is Celebrity Actor, Model and Communications Professional Shaun Melady, a young eclectic talent whose perseverance, resilience and passion for the arts is a model to follow and a beacon of hope for the next generations opening up the windows of their future in a world post-COVID-19. 

Please find here more info on Shaun Melady - https://theluxuriast.com

For our series #CreativityWillSaveUs, When Venues Close, Windows Open, our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia interviews Playwright/Filmmaker and Director Marco Calvani envisioning the future of the entertainment business post-COVID-19. An insightful conversation recollecting, some of Marco Calvani's many artistic accomplishments such as his prestigious collaborations with names like Oscar-winning actresses Estelle Parsons, Melissa Leo, Marisa Tomei; and exploring his current projects and wishes for the future.

What's the future of classical music in times of COVID-19? Our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia discusses it with International Pianist Cristiana Pegoraro, Artistic Director of the Narnia Festival, for our new series #CreativityWillSaveUs Phase 2 When Venues Close, Windows Open. A post-COVID-19 vision into the future. 

An "enlightened" conversation with Peruvian-American Light Sculptor Installations Artist Grimanesa Amorós - Master of Light - that breaks through all of the darkness, the unknown, and the mental and physical clutter that the pandemic has brought into our lives. A brighter vision into our future provided by one of the most relevant artists and mentors of our times. 

What's the future of the art business post-COVID19? What's the role of an artist in rebuilding our future after such a disruptive time of turmoil and transformation? Our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia  - explores these topics with International Multimedia Artist Annalaura di Luggo  for our series CreativityWillSaveUs Phase 2 - When Venues Close, Windows Open. A post-COVID-19 vision into the future. An illuminating conversation with the polyhedric artist who takes the audience on a journey through her artistic world, from her pioneer photographs of the human iris in works like "Eye-I"; "Blind Vision", to her visual studies on the topics of nature and biodiversity in "Genesis", exposed at the prestigious 58th Venice Biennale, and her docu-film Napoli Eden, a behind the scenes on her life and career with the backdrop of Naples (Italy), Annalaura's hometown and continuous inspiration for her creations. Developed in collaboration with Hollywood director, producer, writer, and documentarian Stanely Isaacs, the movie is currently winning prestigious prizes all over the world.

What's the future of Broadway? We envision it with this soulful interview with amazingly gifted actress & singer Kayla Davion, a Broadway's star on the rise, who was currently playing Tina Turner in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, before the pandemic hit. Our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia explores with the African American performing artist the current state of affairs within the entertainment business and the value and the importance of the #blacklivesmatters movement in our contemporary society. Also, the artist gifts the audience with a heartfelt interpretation of the gospel hymn His Eye Is On The Sparrow.

What's the future of NYC's local businesses? For our new series, #CreativityWillSaveUs Phase 2 - When Venues Close, Windows Open, our Artistic Director Daniela Pavan and our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia, interview Nic Faitos, Senior Partner at Starbright Floral Design NYC, one of the top 50 most successful florist's enterprise in the entire U.S. providing flowers for clients like American Express, Cartier, Google, Bergdorf Goodman, Ernst & Young. How is Nic Faito's creative mind imagining new innovative strategies for his business in the era post-COVID19?

Ready, Set, Imagine! Enjoy the podcast version of our Instagram Live @creativepois_on interview with International Singer-Songwriter Alessandra Salerno

Our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia interviews the artist for Creative Pois-On #CreativityWillSaveUs Phase 2 series. Alessandra Salerno's song - Faith Within Your Hands - is the official soundtrack of the series.

Our Artistic Director Daniela Pavan and our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia - discuss the new editorial line of the #CreativityWillSaveUs Phase 2 project with the mission to explore the link between creativity and new businesses to redesign new innovative models for the future post COVID-19

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#CreativityWillSaveUs goes rainbow for a special episode celebrating 2020 Pride Month happening in this very unprecedented times of the COVID-19. In this episode, we give voice to some extraordinary artists of the LGBTQ+ community who share with us how they turned to their creative outlets to navigate the lockdown and how are they keep on marching, virtually this year, for a more tolerant, equalitarian, and peaceful society. #AllLivesMatters.
Featuring:
Photographer/Cinematographer and Digital Artist Claudio Napoli, who decided to fill the emptiness of the NYC's streets that this year, for the first time since 1969, will not see their proud LGBTQ+ community marching for its rights, with an inspirational recollection of the last three Pride that he participated in.

From David James Parr's play Slap & Tickle, Actress Pooya Mohseni and Actor Sebastian LaCause perform a sweetly ill-fated love affair featuring a gay man and a transgender woman. This piece was recorded in quarantine and is part of the Pride Plays Series 2020 co-produced by Actor Michael Urie. Watch the full video here.

Rob Driemeyer, Actor, Producer, and Comedian and now Host of Broadway Barfly - a weekly video-series that pairs theater, lure with classic cocktails and historical context. For this special Barfly Rob goes "somewhere over the rainbow" paying homage to Judy Garland and her link with the 1969 riots against police harassment and brutality at Stonewall Inn.
Follow Rob's Barfly series on Instagram @RobertDriemeyer

Singer-songwriter Erene Mastrangeli shares her inspirational message on the power of art, creativity, and resilience during these very critical times and heals us with an exquisite live version of her song "We Are Treasures" off her new album.

Photographer Thomas Cluderay gives us an exclusive peek on the Washington D.C. quarantine, where he lives, through his collection "Stoop Sessions in the COVID Age".
For more info on Thomas and the series: http://www.tcluderayphoto.com/stoopse...

From Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Actor Larry Buzzeo performs one of his favorites cheerful tunes, What a Wonderful World, part of his "Quarantine Karaoke". The backdrop for the performance is a beautiful walk on the Fort Lauderdale beach that Larry recorded last summer, wishing for the world to safely reopen its wonders.

In this episode: NYC-based Award-winning Make-Up Artist Angela Valentino - @AngieValentinoNyc - who collaborates with prestigious fashion & beauty brands, including New York Fashion Week, Philippe Plein, Moncler, Bikkembergs, the one and only Donatella Versace. She transforms her face into living works of art and sends her positive resilient message to the global community of artists.

NYC-based Singer & Songwriter Hadiza Dockeray shares with us the raw emotion of her life's experience of the state of emergency in New York City when she struggled to reach a beloved one in need from her home to the other side of the city. And then she lifts our spirits with a performance of her original song "Truce".

NYC-based Concert Pianist Chantal Balestri. The artist is also the President of the  NY World Piano Teachers Association and Artistic Director of the Lunigiana International Music Festival. She shares her passion for her art, playing a piece with her beloved piano, and she also introduces one of her piano students.

American Storyteller, Writer, Artist & Art Curator Sabrina Wirth, opens her home, her heart, and her art to us showing also how she is spending some of her quarantine's time repurposing fabric from former silk ties and bandanas to create Corona face masks. Sabrina is also the host of the #CreativityWillSaveUs podcast episodes.

Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of our #CreativityWillSaveUs Podcast series! This special project is a video and podcast series where prominent figures from the international world of art, culture and entertainment come together to reflect on the central value that art brings to all humanity during these challenging quarantine times of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative is also designed to support the global community of artists who are seeing all of their venues temporarily shutting down to safely prevent the spreading of the Corona Virus. I invite you all to go check our Web Series on the Official Creative Pois-On Youtube Channel. And today we have a very special guest: Lorenzo Thione 

Tony-Award Winning Broadway producer and the co-creator and lead producer of Allegiance , the Broadway musical starring George Takei  and Lea Salonga , of which Lorenzo also directed and produced the 2016 film. He previously co-founded startups such as Powerset (acquired by Microsoft in 2008, which is the tech heart of Bing) and Artify.it; he is an investor, board member, and advisor for startups such as Figure Eight (now Appian), Weights & Biases, CrowdMed, Famo.us, Gobble, Just, and Lucid, and many more. Lorenzo is also the co-founder and board chair emeritus of StartOut, leading non-profit dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship within the LGBTQ community and is an outspoken LGBT advocate who was also named one of the most influential LGBTQ people in tech in 2014 and 2018 by Business Insider. He is also the co-founder and CEO of The Social Edge , a social media marketing and consulting firm with a focus on Broadway theater and nonprofit communications. His production company Sing Out, Louise!  recently co-produced several successful plays on Broadway, from Slave Play  to The Inheritance and he is part of the producers of the musical Mrs. Doubtfire which, due to the current state of emergency, has been suspended and we all hope it will reopen soon!

Ready for this amazing interview?

Part 5 of #CreativityWillSaveUs, the special project thought, written and produced by Tommaso Cartia and Daniela Pavan, Artistic Directors of Creative Pois-On, where prominent figures from the world of art, culture, and entertainment come together to reflect on the central value that art brings to humanity during the challenging times of the global pandemic emergency. And, in support of the global community of artists who are seeing all of their venues temporarily shutting down to safely prevent the spreading of the Corona Virus.   In this episode: 

• Italian Singer-Songwriter & Actor Peppe Voltarelli - considered one of the greatest Ambassadors of the Mediterranean folk music tradition that he brings in his successful concerts all over the world from Europe, Canada, the U.S., and Latin America. He sends his message of hope and performs his original song "Tu Volissi Ridere". 
• Anthony Michael Martinez - NYC-based Actor, Teaching Artist & Shakespeare Aficionado, accepted the NY's Public Theater BRAVE NEW SHAKESPEARE challenge, where many actors perform scenes from the Master of theater in quarantine. He performs a "Quarantined Romeo" from Romeo & Juliet - Balcony Scene act 2.2. "There is a world elsewhere beyond these 'CORONA' walls!" 
• Pianist & Composer Alessandro Martire - introduced by the enchanting atmosphere of The Floating Moving Concert Festival - his original idea where musicians perform while traversing Lake Como in Italy. The pianist also performs his original piece "Ena", from his new album "Share the World and sends his message of hope to the world battling the global pandemic. 
• NYC-based artist Marco Gallotta reflects on the essential value of art and the performing arts hit hard by the current state of emergency, channeling into his new series of papercutting masked figures, a tribute to all of the firs responders confronting the COVID-19 every day. 

Part 3 of #CreativityWillSaveUs, the special project thought, written and produced by Tommaso Cartia and Daniela Pavan, Artistic Directors of Creative Pois-On, where prominent figures from the world of art, culture, and entertainment come together to reflect on the central value that art brings to humanity during the challenging times of the global pandemic emergency. And, in support of the global community of artists who are seeing all of their venues temporarily shutting down to safely prevent the spreading of the Corona Virus.

In this episode:

International Artist – Leading Figurative Sculptor Lorenzo Quinn. He gifts us with a profoundly moving homage to Gaia – The Mother Earth – inviting through his art the global community to reach a higher level of awareness during this critical time.

Principal Dancer of The American Ballet Theatre – Herman Cornejo. He pays tribute to Wihelm Burmann – master teacher of ballet stars recently passed away because of Corona Virus complications.

NYC-based Italian American Actor - Jacopo Rampini. The NYC based Italian American Actor pays tribute to Italy by reciting an English version of the lyrics of “L’anno che verrà” from Italian Singer-Songwriter Lucio Dalla.

International Pianist & Artistic Director of the Narnia Festival – Cristiana Pegoraro. She sends her positive message of faith and resilience performing the Gioachino Rossini’s aria “Largo al factotum” from The Barber of Seville, arranged for the piano by her.

NYC-based Actress and Playwright Shelly Ramoni presenting her original piece The Light Within - a touching reflection on the current state of emergency.

American based Agent, Music Supervisor & Producer - Fois Music Founder – Giovanni Arcadu – who has worked at major TV and movie soundtracks, like Paolo Bonvino’s “Medici- Masters of Florence” with Dustin Hoffman, and with many prominent artists including Andrea Bocelli.
Find more about Giovanni Arcadu here: http://www.foismusic.com

Narrated by writer and art curator Sabrina With
Ready, Set, Imagine

Part 2 of #CreativityWillSaveUs, the special project thought, written and produced by Tommaso Cartia and Daniela Pavan, Artistic Directors of Creative Pois-On, where prominent figures from the world of art, culture, and entertainment come together to reflect on the central value that art brings to humanity during the challenging times of the global pandemic emergency. And, in support of the global community of artists who are seeing all of their venues temporarily shutting down to safely prevent the spreading of the Corona Virus.

In this episode:

Multidisciplinary artist Annalaura di Luggo

Actress and an Audie-nominated and SOVAS Award-winning audiobook narrator Julie McKay

NYC-based, International Writer, Director, and Broadway Dramaturg Marco Calvani

Writer, Playwright, Producer, and Editor David James Parr, presenting a piece from his poetry book - Personal Training: Poetry & Exercise Tips - performed by actor James Wells

Ready, Set, Imagine!

Episode 1 of #CreativityWillSaveUs, the special project thought, written and produced by Creative Pois-On where prominent figures from the world of art, culture, and entertainment come together to reflect on the central value that art brings to humanity during the challenging times of the global pandemic emergency. And, in support of the global community of artists who are seeing all of their venues temporarily shutting down to safely prevent the spreading of the Corona Virus - featuring a thoughtful homage by actors J. Stephen Brantley and Nicolas Mongiardo-Cooper to Terrence MacNally - legendary Tony award-winning playwright, recently passed away because of Corona Virus complications.

In this episode:

Singer, Actress, and Broadway Sensation Kayla Davion who plays Tina Turner in Tina The Musical on Broadway
Principal Dancer of the American Ballet Theater Herman Cornejo
NYC-based Multidisciplinary artist Grimanesa Amoros
Actor and Playwright J.Stephen Brantley  and Actor Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper
Actress, Producer, Writer, Director, and Transgender Activist Pooya Mohseni
International Singer-Songwriter Alessandra Salerno whose song 'Faith Within Your Hands', is the official soundtrack of #CreativityWillSaveUs.

Watch here the presentation of the project by Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia - Artistic Director and Editor in Chief of Creative Pois-On:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umx1L

This episode is also available on the Creative Pois-On YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3BYm9pA5wM&t=162s

This is a very challenging moment for the whole world facing the pandemic emergency so at Creative Pois-On we felt that this is the time for us to go back to basics, to the essential DNA of our mission. We are here for you to provide you with the powers of creativity and imagination through our stories. So, we thought to produce a new series of episodes #CreativityWillSaveUs – that could be inspirational for all of us and give us tools to navigate these hard times.

In this episode, American writer, translator, interpreter and Chair of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, Michael F. Moore, in conversation with our Artistic Director Tommaso Cartia, explores how much literature, art, and rereading also the classics can help us understand our current state emergency and make the best out of our creative powers.

#CreativityWillSaveUs

As you may know, this month of March our main topic was supposed to be “ON STAGE”, with a focus on the storytelling of the theater and the entertainment business. We were proceeding in that direction and I invite you for example to listen to our latest Creative Interview episode with Singer and Actress Kayla Davion, who plays Tina Turner in Tina: The Broadway Musical

But, this emergency situation we are going through because of the corona virus outbreak, changed a lot our lives in just few weeks, and a lot of the lives of the many performers and creatives out there. The theaters and the entertainment venues are all closed, so we decided to change our plans.

You may probably see it as a time of uncertainty and certainly we are going through a lot of stress and anxiety. But, you are not alone. As human beings, we are all experiencing the same feeling. We want to let you know that we are here for you, to provide you the power of creativity and imagination through stories. The show will go on and creativity will save us. So, we thought to create a series of episodes – Creativity will Save Us - that could be inspirational for all of us, and give us tools to navigate these hard times, from a humanistic as well as business point of view.
Steven Spielberg said to replace fear with curiosity. And being in quarantine will give us time to learn new skills and prepare ourselves for all the opportunities that will be available after the corona virus disappears from our lives.

“Creativity is not just for artists”, dancer Twyla Tharp said, and I couldn’t agree more. She continues stating “It’s for business people looking for a new way to close a sale; it’s for engineers trying to solve a problem; it’s for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.”

Isolation and quarantine are great opportunities to prioritize our well-being, but also a time to invest energy to become more productive.

Artistic Director Daniela Pavan in conversation with Model and Digital Strategist Mara De Los Santos, who you might remember as the very first host of our first Creative Pois-On Podcast series, will discuss some creative ways to keep your mind active and your business active during this unusual moment!

Ready, Set, Imagine!

The Creative Interview Episode special guest of the month is Actress and Singer, Kayla Davion  who stars in Tina: the Broadway Musical  - as an understudy for the role of Tina Turner.

Artistic Directors of Creative Pois-On, Tommaso Cartia and Daniela Pavan, interview the performer who brings us on the stage of a Broadway production, and behind the scenes. Kayla Davion mirrors herself in the iconic Tina Turner to reveal all of the strength and the resilience that it takes to be a woman and an African American woman performer in the entertainment business, navigating through the fears and the fragilities she faced growing up, that made her the Queen of the stage she is today.

Welcome to the 'Creative Pois-On Podcast' Season 2 dedicated to the art of storytelling. This March we are ‘ON STAGE’ exploring the storytelling of the world of entertainment, and also of all of the passion, the courage and the fearlessness that it takes to go on the stage of our own life, conquering the demons of any stage fright, to live as the protagonists of the most truthful idea that we have of ourselves. 

Any creative process, whether it is writing a book, painting a picture, bringing to life a character, bringing to life our own identity or presenting business ideas, is followed by a critical moment, before stepping into a stage, that is filled with trepidation, but also with fear and anxiety, and adrenaline, that we can either channel into pure energy that sustains us on stage, or that overwhelms us and make us want to run away and go hide with our insecurities. A second before the debut. 

Artistic Directors Tommaso Cartia and Daniela Pavan discuss the topics of the month and present the setlist of the special guests that will join the conversation in the upcoming episodes. Like Actress and Singer Kayla Davion from Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway; International Singer-Songwriter Alessandra Salerno; Author Erica Jong; Broadway Playwright, Dramaturg and Director Marco Calvani, among others. High-end personalities and professionals from the world of entertainment will discuss their relationship with the stage and the concept of 'stage fright' both on the podcast series and on the Creative Pois-On editorial project 'The Storytelier', that has recently welcomed some new gifted authors – Writer and Playwright David James Parr, Journalist and Writer Sabrina Wirth and Writer and Journalist Pamela Fernandes. Check it out on www.creativepoisn.com

Ready, set, imagine!

February is gone, but Love has never left the air at Creative Pois-On. Our March series begins with a true act of Love, our Creative Interview to mythical novelist, satirist, poetess and quintessential feminist icon, Erica Jong. Our Artistic Directors, Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia, sit down for an intimate conversation with the revolutionary author, exploring what role Love & Erotism play in her narratives, poetical aesthetic, and emotional and intellectual journey as a woman who so fearlessly broke so many taboos that were imprisoning the liberal body expression of women, from the 70’s to our ‘times up’ times, starting from her masterpiece, Fear of Flying. Jong opens up also about her creative process and the fears that writers face 'on the stage' of their own craft; and about her long-lasting love for Italy and her exceptional encounters with authors like Fernanda Pivano and Umberto Eco. In March, Creative Pois-On is "On Stage", and we kick off our series with an absolute protagonist on and off stage - Mrs. Erica Jong. Ready, set, imagine!

Steve Jobs once said “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

And this is what we will explore today together. We are in the heart of Flatiron, in New York, at Heard City, a super vibrant audio production and post-production studio that works on exciting commercial as well as entertainment projects...which is also partner of Creative Pois-On! Founded in 2012 by Phil Loeb, Keith Reynaud and Gloria Pitagorsky, Heard City today is one of the top performing audio post production companies in the industry with offices in Manhattan and Dumbo, and offers sound design and mixing for the advertising, television and film industries and works with brands including AT&T, IBM, CNN and Google.

Today we have the pleasure to converse with Gloria Pitagorsky, founder and Managing Director at Heard City. Gloria is also committed to mentoring and supporting women in technology, film and advertising roles, and serves on the mentoring committee for She Runs It and Center for Arts Education. She is a new wave patron of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and sits on the Board Of Directors of Food Bank for New York City, The Tank, NYCA Charter School and AICP. She is a runner and ran the New York City marathon in 2017 supporting several non for profit organizations including Committee to Protect Journalists, NRDC, Center for Reproductive Rights and EveryMotherCounts. And she manages Gipsy Road Tea, a fabulous tea project.
Happy listening!

Our Creative Being Episode of February, dedicated to the storytelling of Love & Erotism, features a special guest, who, starting from his last name, perfectly gives voice to the themes of the month -- Fine Art and Portrait Photographer Steven 'Love' Menendez - Our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia interviews the NYC based artist, who with his stunningly beautiful nudes explores alchemical territories where bodies, souls and nature melt into one, in sanctimonious unison. The inspiring conversation covers also Menendez's activism and political commitment, specifically within New York's gay community, and how his art wishes to inspire also the young generations to find a center, a wholeness, and a healthier balance between their bodies and their souls. Ready, set, imagine... and fall in love with Steven!

Welcome to the Creative Pois-On Podcast –  Season 2 – dedicated to the art of Storytelling. It’s a cold February in New York City but we promise you to warm up your heart and ignite your senses with the voluptuous journey of the month that every year celebrates love in all of its forms. We are lucky enough to be joined this month by some very powerful voices of today's art and literature scene who have been ventured in the realms of romance, sensuality, sexual emancipation, and women's and gender studies.  We start this romantic journey at the Black Book Gallery, in DUMBO, New York, that is showing an enchanting exhibition - the 'INK Series' by Fine Art photographer and Master of visual storytelling, Reka Nyari. Our Artistic Directors, Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia sat down with the artist for an intimate conversation, telling Nyari's story through the empowering beauty and the unbreakable spirit of the stories of the women she frames in time with inked remarkable marks. A sensual awakening. Ready, set... and fall in love with Reka!

Anaïs Nin once said “Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry” The quintessential poetess of the storytelling of sensuality and romance welcomes to the second month of Season 2 of the Creative Pois-On Podcast dedicated to the themes of love, sex and erotism. Artistic Directors, Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia, present the sensual journey of the month that will see them joined by some powerful voices of today's art and literature scene that have been ventured in the realms of romance, sensuality, sexual emancipation, and women's and gender studies. Including, groundbreaking writer and feminist icon, Erica Jong; Fine Arts photographer and visual storyteller Reka Nyari who has been deciphering the poetry of the female body in all of its nuances and Fine Arts photographer & fashion photographer Steven Love Menendez who reflects on the spirituality of the male body in connection with nature. There is going to be room also for a conversation on the business of the pop-porno culture and the phenomenon of the dating apps! So... ready, set, imagine!

Special Creative Interview with Refik Anadol -  the world-known Turkish media artist and director living in the U.S. who works in the fields of site-specific public art with a parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performances - spectacular, immersive installations. His works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts through machine intelligence. 

Artistic Directors of Creative Pois-On, Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia, met the artist at the Dream Downtown Hotel very close to the ARTECHOUSE, that hosted, until this January, Anadol's latest installation in New York, Machine Hallucination, a large-scale hallucination indeed, of what our contemporary, overly digitalized world is today. In this fascination conversation, the artist takes us hand in hand inside of his exceptional world at the intersection of science, media, architecture, art, and spirituality, dipping his brush in our collective consciousness, memory, and dreams.

Artistic Director and Editor in Chief of Creative Pois-On, Tommaso Cartia, and our host for the month of January, math teacher and actor Jerry Campbell Clark, discuss the evolution of the art of storytelling, from the primitive graffiti to the Instagram stories, and they also introduce the Creative Storytelling workshop, out soon on Creative Pois-On. Stay creatively tuned and... ready, set, imagine!

“All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.” 'Aristotle, Poetics'

 Welcome to Season 2 of the Creative Pois-On Podcast! It’s a new year and a new time for stories, to tell them, to live them, to reflect on them. Any type of story, any type of human dynamic and interaction is indeed an action, a certain movement in space and time, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. And within the arch of this movement, we condense and consume all of the different emotions, all of the good and all of the bad of our lifetime existential experiences. From the first act of coming to life to the final act, we live a story, and the art of telling that story, it’s a given talent; through our actions, our everyday decisions, occurrences, we are already telling stories, aware or not that we are telling them; to someone, to our own inner circle of friends and family, in our work environment or to ourselves, in the secrecy of our consciousness. 

Our new host, mathematics professor, and actor Jerry Campbell-Clark, discusses the topics of Season 2, focused on the themes of Storytelling, with Artistic Directors of Creative Pois-On Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia.

We inaugurate our Season 2 of the Creative Pois-On Podcast dedicated to the theme of Storytelling. And we do it with a true master of storytelling and of cinema, DGA, BAFTA award-winning and Oscars, Emmys, and Golden Globe Awards Nominee, director Michael Apted. Our Artistic Directors Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia, interview the iconic filmmaker whose eclectic career spanned from TV to the big screen, from cult movies like Coal Miner's Daughter starring the Oscar-winning Sissy Spacek, and recipient of seven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, to Gorillas in the Mist with Sigourney Weaver, Nell with Jodie Foster, to blockbusters like James Bond - The World is not Enough. The occasion is the release of 63 Up, the ninth installment from the Up Series, Michael Apted's epic documentary saga exploring all of the different layers of the British class system. Since 1964, the film director followed 14 British people interviewing them since they were 7 years old and coming back to check in with them every 7 years. A 63 years work of devotion and of unconditional love for his country, an "emotional bed", like Apted likes to address his narratives, to lie and reflect on our own existential paths.

A special gift for the Holidays! Our DANCEmber month's Creative Interview sparks with elegance and grace featuring the Principal Dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, Herman Cornejo. Our Artistic Directors Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia interview the extraordinary dancer who American Journalist from The New Yorker Joan Acocella addressed as; "the most technically accomplished male ballet dancer in the United States;" and critic Claudia La Rocco as "not a fairy-tale prince," but "something more interesting, and more useful, really, for ballet: a believable, 21st-century hero." The Argentine-born ballet sensation is the pure incarnation of the essence of movement and of the courage, perseverance, and discipline, required to be breakthrough in the ballet world. He is someone who also faced and fought, with proud and resilience, some of the canons of the world of ballet that were against him. A citizen of the world, Herman shared with us also his thoughts about being an artist and an immigrant in the U.S., in an open-hearted conversation that showed all of his honesty and humanity, those qualities that make him not a far-away prince put on a pedestal for his audience, but someone who the younger generation can perceive as a positive role-model.

Our Editor in Chief Tommaso Cartia, interviews Actress, Musician, Dancer, and Entrepreneur Wendy Makkena, who stars alongside Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson and Chris Cooper in 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' directed by Marielle Heller – narrating the life of the beloved Television Icon Fred Rogers. Best known for her lovely role Sister Mary Robert in Siter Act 1 & 2 alongside Whoopi Goldberg, Makkena is an eclectic artist performing on very successful Tony Awards Winning shows on Broadway and TV. She is also a classically trained Julliard harpist performing at Carnegie​ Hall, a dancer, six-year with Balanchine’s New York City Ballet, and the founder of a successful start-up. The actress recounts her journey as an artist from her stellar debut in Sister Act to her pitch-perfect interpretation of Dorothy in 'A Beautiful Day'.

The month of November dedicated to the theme of Light and Enlightenment ends with a sparkling surprise! Introduced by our host of the month, Author David James Parr; our Artistic Director Tommaso Cartia interviews Multimedia Neapolitan Artist Annalaura di Luggo and explores her collaboration with Hollywood Director, Writer and Producer Stanley Isaacs. Di Luggo is an experimental artist fusing different art mediums, materials and suggestions to stimulate the conversation about urgent social issues. She is a pioneer and the inventor of a macro-photographic camera capable of shooting the human iris; Annalaura brought the theme of Light at the center of her aesthetic research by catching our profound identity mirrored in the spark of our eyes. Photographing different types of people and personalities, from celebrities to the people of her own hometown, the artist gives back the light and the vision also to the blind people with her series "Blind Vision," and she is bringing her magical camera into the world of the people with the Down syndrome. She is also producing movies, documenting her work, and with the mystical connection she established with Mr. Stanley Isaacs; she is now bringing her visions to the United States. So enjoy our special Creative Being episode and happy Thanksgiving from the Creative Poison Podcast team! Ready, set, imagine!

The Creative Directors of Creative Pois-On, Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia, sat down with Grimanesa Amorós - Master of Light. An artist who exemplary embodies and exudes the theme of the month of November's Podcat: Enlightenment.​ Daniela and Tommaso gently turned through the pages of the artist’s extraordinarily eventful life to paint a vivid chiaroscuro portrait of the woman behind the art, and the art behind the woman, circling the earth with her light in the attempt to make sense of her lovingly romance with the unknown.