The Alchemy of the Heart. The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Shaku Selvakumar. Shaku Selvakumar, poet, author, and communications leader with multinational and start-up experience (IBM, Shell Oil, and AI tech companies), teaches us how to summon our creativity. She guides us in a process to transform our ʻscaredʻ hearts […]
Save Your Life with Art and Poetry: Part 2 (The Creative Life)
We ‘Contain Multitudes’. The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Joshua Kight. We learn that when we get into the habit of writing poetry, we continually surprise ourselves with new layers of thought. To paraphrase Walt Whitman, we discover ‘the multitudes within.’ Kight teaches how poetry differs from prose. Prose is […]
Save Your Life with Art and Poetry- Part 1 (The Creative Life)
Falling Back in Love with Your Life. The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Joshua Kight. We learn how to use art and poetry to ‘save our life’ from career artist, poet, and teacher Joshua Kight. We walk through a series of his life crises and learn his process of putting […]
Celebrating Women who Tell our Stories (Sister Power)
In Honor of Women’s History Month 2023. The host for this show is Sharon Yarbrough. The guests are Jacalyn Eyvonne and Connie L. Hall. To mark Women’s History Month, which honors women’s contributions in the country, meet two extraordinary women whose impact resonates across the nation. Women have long been instrumental in passing on our […]
Sisters Across Oceans 2 (Sister Power)
HIWA:Hawaii to West African Poetry Exchange. The host for this show is Sharon Thomas Yarbrough. The guests are Sandra A. Simms, Apiorkor Seyiram Ashong-Abbey, Karla Brundage and Britney Tachie. The idea for this collection, Sisters Across Oceans, was inspired by the much needed conversation between influential Black women across the African diaspora. What occurred was […]
Never Justify Your Truth (Sister Power)
Black Females Navigating. The host for this show is Sharon Thomas Yarbrough. The guests are Sequoia Carr-Brown, Daphne Barbee-Wooten and Kathryn Waddell Takara. What types of tropes have been ascribed to black women (BW) to justify blatant disrespect of our minds and bodies. How have tropes hindered the progress of black women? How has the […]
Sisters Across Oceans (Sister Power)
HIWA: Hawaii to West Africa Poetry Exchange. The host for this show is Sharon Thomas Yarbrough. The guests are Daphne Barbee-Wooten, Kathryn Waddell Takara and Kimberly Keys. The idea for this collection, Sisters Across Oceans, was inspired by the much needed conversation between influential Black women across the African diaspora. West Oakland to West Africa […]
The Accidental Creative (The Creative Life)
The hosts for this episode are Phyllis Blees and Darlene Boyd. The guest for this episode is Jane Horan. Horan takes us on a journey of rediscovering her creative path. By looking back at her life and career choices, she comes full circle in discovering through her “Moments of Realization” on how she became an […]
Blood Sweat and Breastmilk (Finding Respect In The Chaos)
This week, Poet, Ashley Nakanishi, joins Cynthia Lee Sinclair in a discussion about how creativity can help relieve past trauma. Ashley will talk about her ancestry, her book Blood Sweat and Breastmilk, and what she has planned for the future. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday […]
The Liquidity Project with Daniel Reynolds
Donna Blanchard speaks with collaborative artist/documentary filmmaker Daniel Reynolds about the power of combining poetry and paintings in the “Liquidity Project.” The host for this episode was Donna Blanchard. The host for this episode was Donna Blanchard. The host for this episode was Donna Blanchard.