37: Emmy on Emmy feat. guest host Emmy Bean (AKA where I've been)
Welcome to The Violet Vulture!
This episode is a little different. I'm back from my hiatus and mixing it up by being interviewed by my dear friend and colleague in the creative arts: Emmy Bean.
In this episode, we'll get into the following and then some:
- What triggered the hiatus and what's new
- How The Violet Vulture will look different (we love a new era)
- My new new diagnoses and outlook
- We talk cicadas (not in the way you'd think)
- How masking your neurodivergence can trigger chronic people-pleasing (even if you have to do it for your survival)
- The tea on why I refer to myself as a Final Girl (spoiler: it has 3 meanings)
- And I answer my own signature question
If you've been wondering where the hell I've been (loca) and what the deal is with being a self-professed Final Girl, this one is for you.
About Our Guest Host:
Emmy Bean (she/her) is a singer and performer whose interdisciplinary work combines improvisation, conversation, folk tunes, narrative, poetic inquiry, fabricated histories and embodied expression. Her most recent project Her Only Light is an illumination of the songs of Connie Converse, staged arranged for vocalist and chamber ensemble. She writes songs, sings, and improvises with 80 Foots and The Possible. She performed in Facility Theater’s Little Match Girl Passion and created sound and music for their production of Phoebe in Winter. She has collaborated with Opera-Matic, Theater Oobleck, the Neo-Futurists, Beyond This Point, and ~Nois saxophone quartet. Her solo show You’re His Child has been seen at the Pivot Arts Festival and Rhino Fest here in Chicago. She holds a Masters degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Columbia College Chicago.
Her Only Light:
On the occasion of Connie Converse’s 100th birthday, Emmy will be performing Her Only Light, a staged and orchestrated illumination of the art songs and folk songs of Connie Converse. These will be performed as interconnected chamber theatrical works, featuring Emmy as vocalist. The songs are arranged and conducted by composer and multi-instrumentalist Ronnie Kuller for a 6-piece ensemble of violin, viola, cello, harp, and clarinets. Story quilts created by artist Lizi Breit guide the audience through the worlds created by Connie Converse and the people and ideas that inhabit them.
After the concert there will be a celebration –with cake!– and an array of Connie’s songs performed by a cavalcade of musicians who have been influenced by her trailblazing work and enduring legacy: Angela James, Emma Hospelhorn, Ami Saraiya, Eiren Caffall, Lawrence Tome, Tom Musick, Chris Schoen, Stacy Erenberg, Julie Pomerleau and more. For more information, visit heronlylight.com.
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