Episodes 65
Avg. Duration 1h 5m
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Since May 2022
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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About This Podcast

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing.

With diverse, national and international artists, I'm exploring the importance of the Arts and why it makes a big difference to our mental, societal and democratic health. Scroll down for all episodes.


Can the Arts change the global epidemic of mental illness, loneliness, the polarization of our communities and global conflict? The dedicated podcast website has news, videos and interview transcriptions at:  www.canartsaveus.com

Be inspired, we talk hip-hop poetry, Islamic architecture building peace, tap dance in protest, surrealism and WWII, life as a drag King, music in war, belonging and Syrian architecture, the Art School for the Homeless, the 1970s West Indian Front Room, inclusive dance and wheelchair acrobatics, British-Pakistani, Black-British, Jewish, and Irish poets and spoken word artists, giant ceramic statements, film and end of life, graffiti art and Muslim faith, shamanic storytelling, a Cameroonian clay addict, a world leading sculptor and icons of Justice, voices of Windrush, prison art, Chilean, Indonesian, Ugandan art, nuns and number one albums, and much, much more. I hope you'll join us!

I’m grateful to all of my guests for taking part and to be able to share their reviews too.

© Can Art Save Us? All rights reserved. Content is for informational purposes only and not professional advice. Guest views are their own.

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The Art House - 2025 Feature

Dec 07, 2025 1h 19m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. After nine seasons, 65 episodes and more than 6,000 downloads, I'm very grateful that this independent podcast…

1925: Culture, Conflict and Creativity.

Nov 18, 2025 58m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Tom Lutz, is a celebrated author, travel photographer, founder of the Los Angeles Review of Books and a…

Resistance and Renewal; Ugandan Wisdoms

Oct 22, 2025 1h 7m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Birungi Kawooya is a self-taught British-Ugandan artist, wellbeing researcher, and creative facilitator. Her…

The Art of PR - Democratised & Unleashed.

Sep 23, 2025 56m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Today, public relations is powered by digital storytelling, inclusivity, immersive experiences, data and…

From Doctor to Patient to Artist and Activist

Jul 13, 2025 49m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. You may be someone who has already experienced a 360 life change through ill health, or are currently…

Chile's Mother of Protest Songs and Folk Power.

Feb 20, 2025 1h 5m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Professor Ericka Verba, is the director of Latin American Studies at California State University. She's an…

Creative Destruction in a Globalised World

Feb 20, 2025 1h 13m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Tere Chad is a multidisciplinary artist and curator from Chile, currently based in London. She is fast rising…

"Superb and authentic," the best classical pianist of his generation.

Feb 20, 2025 48m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Nicola Avramovich is not only considered one of Serbia's finest classical pianists, but one of the best of his…

Indonesian Indigenous Arts & Culture IS Care

Feb 20, 2025 1h 3m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Gabriela Elisabeth Edawani Fernandez, known as Ina Leah, is a transdisciplinary artist and her work is rooted…

Tiling Towns with Joy, Community HeART

Feb 20, 2025 57m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Jane Wright is a ceramicist, violinist and champion of community arts. A West Yorkshire born musician and…

The Sensory Therapy of Art

Nov 12, 2024 1h 1m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. David Emmanuel Noel, is a visual and interdisciplinary artist who often splits his time between New York and…

Survivor. A Child's Holocaust. Unique Animation & Archival Accuracy.

Oct 11, 2024 59m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Sometimes it seems people are just born gifted and Zoom Rockman started his working  artistic life from the…

Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Arts, Animal and Eco Justice.

Sep 21, 2024 59m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer, activist, academic and mother. Sunaura is the Assistant Professor in the…

Seeing Beyond Masks; Ancient and Social.

Sep 21, 2024 1h 18m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Tonye Ekine is one of the top 40 British Rising Stars recognized by the Royal Society of British Artists. He…

Number One Albums, Nuns & Myths

Sep 21, 2024 1h 6m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. What's it like to be the least likely artists to have two hit, number one albums on Decca Records, one of the…

Time Travel and Art to Reclaim Your History

Sep 21, 2024 1h 12m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. A first for the series, a mother and daughter, discussing parallels between their work. They have both…

Dancing Scientist Unleashes his Inner Roo! Global Winner.

Apr 17, 2024 1h 13m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. This episode is about "Joyful madness" and a brilliant collaboration between Science and the Arts. Dr. Weliton…

The Art of Incarceration - Groundbreaking Prison Art and Documentary

Mar 13, 2024 1h 19m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. What happens when the judicial system we're taught to trust is in fact part of a complex web of systemic…

Acting, Awards, Arts, Activism, a loved Actress - Julie Hesmondhalgh

Mar 13, 2024 1h 14m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Julie Hesmondhalgh is one of Britain’s most loved actresses, she plays roles for stage and screen that tackle…

The Inner Spirit of Story and Soul of Literature

Mar 13, 2024 1h 2m Transcript

Can Art Save Us? – Conversations on Arts, Mental Health, Social Justice & Wellbeing. Dennis Clausen, is a professor of American Literature and Screenwriting at the University of San Diego in the…

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