Creative Guts

Jan 21 2025 244 ep. 28 mins 6
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Creative Guts is a podcast focused on the pursuit of creativity. This interview-style podcast will explore the roots of creativity, dive into the hearts of creators, and discover how creativity connects with the world around us.

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Julia Trueblood and Karin Trachtenberg

Jan 21 2025 43 mins  
In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat (virtually) with Julia Trueblood and Karin Trachtenberg! Julia is an actor and producer; Karin is a theater maker, filmmaker, and director. Julia and Karin’s film “Three A.M.” was featured and won the ‘Heartstrings’ Award in Creative Guts’ film festival in June 2024. In this episode

Why do you serve Creative Guts?

Jan 14 2025 10 mins  
In today’s episode, some of the Creative Guts Board of Directors chat about why they serve this small but mighty nonprofit and why the arts are important to New Hampshire. They reflect on how important creativity is for everyone, creativity as an economic driver for our communities, and what makes Creative Guts unique. Learn more about Creative Guts at www.CreativeGutsPodcast.c

Ruby Shabazz

Jan 07 2025 40 mins  
In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman chat (virtually) with Ruby Shabazz! Ruby is a singer, songwriter, and performer who writes, records, and performs her music solo and with a live band. In this episode, we talk about Ruby’s early musical inspirations (Mariah Carey!) and her evolution from pop and love songs about boys to music with m

Nate Twombly

Dec 10 2024 47 mins  
In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with artist Nate Twombly! Nate is a freelance illustrator whose work includes drawings and paintings based on New England, seasonality, camping, sports, music, robots, and sometimes folklore and sci-fi. Nate primarily creates his illustrations digitally these days, but has dabbled with everyt

Creative Catalogue Seventy-Nine

Dec 03 2024 10 mins  
The Creative Guts’ team is back with another installment of Creative Catalogues! In these mini episodes, someone from the Creative Guts’ team will share a glimpse at the inspiring, creative things and folks they think you ought to know about. This week’s episode is being hosted by Laura, one of the co-founders and hosts of Creative Guts and the artist behind Artful Harper Stu

Becky Field

Nov 19 2024 50 mins  
In this episode of Creative Guts hosts Laura Harper Lake and Becky Barsi interview award-winning photographer Becky Field. They discuss Becky's transition from a career in wildlife ecology to photography, her project "Different Roots, Common Dreams" documenting New Hampshire's immigrant communities, and her latest work "Finding Home: Portraits and Memories of Immigrants." Becky sha

RMFA: Off the Wall with Matt Gerding

Nov 12 2024 12 mins  
Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, New Hampshire. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their

Shayla Gerkin and Hazel Tompkins

Nov 06 2024 50 mins  
In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Sarah Wrightsman sit down with Shayla Gerkin and Hazel Tompkins, two NH Teen Poet Laureates! The mission of the NH Teen Poet Laureate team is to maintain the accessibility of poetry for all NH teens, and to spread the power of writing. In this episode, we’re going to talk about how! The NH Teen Poet Laureate team c

Concord Multicultural Festival Montage

Oct 22 2024 17 mins  
In this episode of Creative Guts, co-hosts Laura Harper Lake and Angie Lane interview a variety of creatives and makers at the Concord Multicultural Festival! The Concord Multicultural Festival is an annual celebration of the cultural diversity in the Capital Region in New Hampshire. This vibrant event celebrates a rich diversity in the area and promotes cultural understanding and

Love Letter to a Place: Call for Art & Writing!

Oct 15 2024 7 mins  
In this mini episode of Creative Guts, Laura and Sarah chat about our call for art and writing for our Fall 2024 Zine, with a theme of Love Letter to a Place. We’re seeking writing and visual works that share the places that inspire, have a personally significant meaning, or that you simply love. ELIGIBILITY: Creatives 18 years and older, from any country, are welcome to apply w