Hart House Radio

This month's Hart House Conversations explores the Human Library Concept, a project that aims to promote empathy and understanding through the "borrowing of Human Books", and allowing you to have a conversations with someone about life experiences very different from your own. Trish Starling, an Outreach and Inclusion Facilitator at Hart House and organizer of the event, has a coversation with 2 of the "Human Books" - Sapphire Woods and Mike Ormsby.

This episode of Hart House Conversations features 2 interviews about sleep and wellness. In the first half of the show, John Monahan interviews the curatorial team behind the Figures of Sleep exhibit, opening at the Art Museum in January. The exhibit examines sleep as it is interpreted through the arts. The second half of the show features a discussion with two Health and Wellness Program Coordinators at the University of Toronto about the results of the National College Health Assessment the behaviors and habits of university students, as well as strategies and resources available for improving students' well-being on campus.

This episode of Hart House Conversations, we talk with four first-year students as they share their early experiences on campus and their expectations for the future.  

A live broadcast of an episode of Hart House Conversations focusing on the importance of stories as tools for social change. History is often said to be written by the "victors" which leaves important stories silenced or ignored. This Hart House Conversations will explore what kinds of social change can happen when those stories are given a platform and those voices are amplified to broader audiences. This winter, a diverse team of podcasters at Hart House called the Storyweavers have worked diligently to gather a selection of these courageous and transformative stories. The project culminated in a live panel discussion about the importance of storytelling both locally and globally as a tool for social change and subversive self-expression.

In partnership with the Hancock Lecture and in an effort to give voice to the complexities of Anti-Black racism, Hart House Conversations continues the dialogue around the Black experience and education sparked by Chizoba Imoka this year's Hancock Lecture speaker. Join guest host Adrien Leckie, Student Life Coordinator at University College as he sits down with a lively student panel to take the tri-campus temperature of the Black experience on campus. Hear the perspectives, lived experiences and hopes for a more inclusive future with Malia Omale and Bukama Muntu, student members of the Hancock Lecture Advisory Committee, Tsitsi Machera a first year student at Woodsworth College and Nana Frimpong VP Equity from UTSCU.

Our September 25, 2017 show features an interview on Resiliency (4:30), and music and conversation with the cast of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch (31:00), playing through until October 7th at Hart House Theatre.