Episode 22 - Nick Slie

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I am proud to offer this conversation with my Soul Brotha, Nick Slie. Here, Nick shares some of his Cajun family history as he speaks of being Spiritually rooted in his instincts and the ancestral connections therein.  An artist that creates work that lives outside, Nick says "we are nature," so returning to being in the great mysteries and gentleness of outdoors returns him to his goal of being a better person. He speaks of harm done through lack of vulnerability/and not allowing people to show up and help - and he talks about what doing his "sacred man work" that his Mom charged him with looks like. He does this work in formal and informal ways, such as a piece he directed titled, Esell: Ballad of a Land Man with Robert Martin, that looks at domination behavior and patriarchy. Currently Nick is working on a new piece that looks at rivers and grieving - the loss of land in Louisiana - and harnessing the power of collective grief to decide how we live with loss vs acting like we will solve loss through equations and science.

Nick Slie is a New Orleans-born performer, producer and cultural organizer and the Co-Artistic Director of Mondo Bizarro. Since 2002, Nick has toured a wide array of imaginative projects to art centers, universities and outdoor locations in 38 states across the country and abroad. However, he is most proud of the work he does at home, in Southeast Lousiana, where the water kisses the land. Nick’s creative endeavors range from interdisciplinary solo performances to large-scale community festivals, from innovative digital storytelling projects to site-responsive productions. For more than a decade, he has been passionately engaged in rebuilding his hometown of New Orleans, collaborating across sectors on a vast array of local performance and arts-based civic engagement projects. From 2004- 2008, he served on the Executive Committee of Alternate ROOTS and is the former board chair for the Network of Ensemble Theaters. He currently serves on the board for Goat in the Road. Nick is thrilled to be currently directing Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man in addition to launching a new project with Mondo Bizarro called Invisible Rivers. 

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