In Community & Company
A podcast program presenting inspiring conversations about how communities galvanize. Galvanize means "shock or excite (a community) into taking action". How does a community spark into action? Produced by the Community Engagement Program at Point Park University. This podcast examines the challenges of communities and how they come together, fall apart and galvanize. The program is co-produced and hosted by Eric Sloss PhD student at Point Park University, Executive Producer, Dr. Heather Starr-Fiedler, Studio Coordinator, Nick Ruffalo, and recorded in the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University in front of a live studio audience. For tickets to watch a taping of IC&C email [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
helping those experiencing a disability can galvanize communities
In this episode we speak to India Christian, President and CEO of Christian Home Healthcare, to discuss how helping older generations and those experiencing disabilities can rally a community
Arts in the Community: how clothing can provide a voice for those in the community
Daniel Grier is the founder of Splashed by DKG. https://splashedbydkg.com
how skateboarding can build a community
Shred Your Fears gives women, trans and/or non-binary people a safe and comfortable space to learn to skateboard. If you are looking to try something new, get out of your comfort zone, and challenge …
Arts in Community: how an artist uses activism and storytelling to build community
Darcy Trunzo is a multi-media artist born in Homer City, Pennsylvania whose many careers and pursuits have fueled and informed her unrelenting creative and investigative pursuits. A true coal miner’s…
how a music festival helped define a neighborhood
we talk with Cody Walters, a music festival producer, who started a small music event to help define a neighborhood of the Northside of Pittsburgh, PA USA and turned it into a global brand with hundr…
how furniture can rally a community
We often overlook how important maintaining the items in one’s home is and the things inside it.We often like to think we are way more advanced in designing our home than we think. The way we positio…
Arts in Community: Interview with printmaker Stefan Hoffman
how printmaking can build community
In this episode we explore how printmaking can activate a community. We discuss this topic is Joe Lupo, Professor of Art at West Virginia University and a board member of Artists Image Resource (AIR)…
how fashion can spark community empowerment
In this episode we explore how fashion can activate a community. We do this with Tereneh Idia a Pittsburgh raised and internationally based fashion designer and the founder an Creative Director of gl…
how trails can rally small towns and big cities
how communities can galvanize around older adults
how food can connect, heal, and help people
The philosophy of Sprezzatura is that food is love. Food and hospitality are the source of belonging, nourishment, growth, and community, Jennifer exclaims, while committing to giving back to the com…
how architecture and neighborhoods activate communities
Arts in Community: how street performers make community
how sustainability and trauma create community
how trees build community
how corporate social responsibility can influence millennials
how food insecurity empowers a community
how sport and soccer builds community
