Hogfish Resonance: A Regenerative Arts Podcast

The Audience: Hearing the Hogfish audience experience (cultivating community)

Hogfish Resonance podcast host Hillary Webb interviews three audience members from Hogfish's 2022 and 2023 seasons to see how the regenerative arts is registering with our audience. Are we connecting audience to performer to company in a new way? 1) Kathy Smith, author, community activist, long time resident of Wolfe's Neck Center, and a featured in the show audience member as the "deus ex machina" in Hogfish's inaugural production of Gluck's The Magic Tree. 2) Glaisma Perez Silva, coordinator of student disability services at the Southern Maine Community College, audience member of Hogfish's 2023 production of CarmXn and LatinX Perspectives in the Performing Arts. 3) Mary Johnston Letellier, Maine born soprano, voice teacher, president of the Maine National Association of Teachers of Singing, and audience member of CarmXn.

Billy Bustamante: Removing the "Other" from story-telling (Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion)

Hogfish podcast host Hillary Webb speaks with director, choreographer, teacher, and actor Billy Bustamante about the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the stories we tell, how we tell them, and how we cultivate the next generation of artists and audiences.

Audrey Luna: Cultivating Regenerative Artists (The Alexander Technique)

Hogfish Resonance podcast host Hillary Webb interviews Audrey Luna, Hogfish advisory board member, Regenerative Artist Residency Faculty, Alexander Technique & Singing specialist, and soprano about how Hogfish is experimenting with new ways of cultivating artists, and how the Alexander Technique work at the center of Hogfish's residency encourages artists to bring their full selves to their art-making.

Lynn Shafer: Beckett Castle Rose Garden (animism & the Hogfish home)

Hogfish Resonance podcast host Hillary Webb speaks with Lynn Shafer, head gardener of the Beckett Castle rose garden for 39 years, home of the Hogfish artist residency. Lynn shares what it is like to be on the site of Beckett Castle surrounded by heirloom roses on the rocky cliffs of Maine with the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean, some of the work it takes to bring the vision to a reality, and how he sees the relationship between the arts and nature and Hogfish's work to bring them back into connection, in the lives of artists and audience members.

Maria Brea: 2022 & 2023 Artist-in-Residence (regenerative arts residency)

Hogfish Resonance host Hillary Webb interviews 2022 and 2023 artist-in-residence, soprano Maria Brea, during the fall of 2022 in between her two residencies. The conversation starts off with Maria sharing her incredible story of first falling in love with opera in her home country of Venezuela and her journey to becoming a successful opera singer currently living in the United States.
Hillary and Maria then dive into what makes the Hogfish regenerative artist residency so special, what it is like to be a singer in the opera business today, and why and how the Hogfish regenerative arts residency is seeking to create positive change in the lives of our artists, our audiences, and the industry at large.

Laura Careless: She-Wolves (artistic wintering and rewilding)

Hogfish Resonance host Hillary Webb interviews Brighton based dance artist Laura Careless about the creation and performance during Hogfish's 2023 season of her one-woman show She-Wolves. https://www.shewolvesproject.com/
The She-Wolves Project raises awareness of the women who ruled England before Elizabeth through physical theatre performance and arts-based education. The book and BBC series by historian Helen Castor has been adapted into a one-woman physical theatre show by performer Laura Careless. In an exhilarating blend of dance, theatre, song, illustrated projections and original sound design, it tells the stories of five extraordinary royal women and follows the path they paved to the golden age of Gloriana. 
Hillary and Laura discuss ideas including the fruits of allowing for artistic wintering, the energetic rewards of re-wilding our techniques and selves, women's representation in the arts, and much more on their search to discover what is the regenerative arts.

Matt & Edwin Cahill: An Introduction to Hogfish (regenerative arts)

First a brief introduction to Hogfish Resonance Podcast host - author, cultural anthropologist, and mixed-media storyteller Hillary Webb followed by an interview with Hogfish co-founders & directors Matt and Edwin Cahill about the origins of Hogfish, why they are interested in the regenerative arts, and the purpose of the Hogfish Resonance Podcast.