Using Your Art to Be a Voice For Others with Reema Zaman

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Reema Zaman, writer, visual artist, and actress joins us to talk about using her art to become a voice for people who don’t have one.

Highlights:

How curiosity enables us to cultivate self-awareness
Leveraging writing to find clarity and comfort in our lives
Becoming the author of your own life
The golden thread that exists in each of our lives
Creating narratives of resilience and choice
How to deal with the questions we’ll never have answers to
Why pain gives us an opportunity to gain strength
Why forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give to yourself
Creative lessons learned from the world of acting and theater

Quotes

Art gives voice to so many other things that would otherwise remain quiet.

Every time something painful happens it tests your loyalty to yourself

For me watching pain turn into poetry is the biggest high – Reema

When you’re an actor you’re the instrument that communicates the story

You don’t want to tell the story, you want to feel the story.

All art is an act of intimacy and vulnerability.

Reema Zaman is a writer, actress, and artist from Bangladesh.

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0:00.0	writing down one's thoughts it helps you clarify and process and organize them and
0:05.0	look for the subtext between the lines, look for the connections between the lines,
0:10.3	look for the answers that are threaded through if you just take a bit of
0:16.4	effort and time just really look for them. That's I mean it's the gorgeous thing I
0:21.0	about you know I always say my mission is this golden thread that's woven through my
0:26.7	narrative but I feel so everyone has a golden thread woven through their
0:31.6	narrative if they just take a bit of conscious effort
0:37.2	to look for it and piece together the signs and messages that are really all around you.
0:43.4	I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the Unmistakable Creative
0:50.5	Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the
0:53.6	most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving
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