Care: Damani Leidsman (community care, inclusivity in the cultural sector)

In this second episode of Care, Yun and Rae speak with Damani Leidsman about community care, power building, the dutch cultural sector and mentorship. Damani Leidsman grew up in The Netherlands and Suriname. He is a performance artist, maker, educator, and freelance consultant and producer. Damani is mostly busy with  strengthening queer and black communities to create room for new radical art. Alongside his creative projects, he advises organisations on issues of talent development, art education, diversity and how to create a healthy creative climate. Read transcript here Hosted by Yun Lee and Rae Parnell Produced by Hans Poel Music by Sro - Bring Back and Chad Crouch - Algorithms Transcribed by Sarafina van Ast This BARTALK episode is made possible with the generous support of Stroom Den Haag and iii.

Om Podcasten

BARTALK is a lecture-performance-storytelling series that usually happens physically in a bar in The Hague. Each edition has a theme and brings guests from different backgrounds (art, psychology, media technology, music, drag, martial arts, kink, math) to share their perspectives under the same subject. Past themes have included death and the afterlife, a history of burning, the living archive, and more. Ultimately, BARTALK is a model of knowledge-sharing as community-building