Creativity+presents Play: Grace Loescher & Nick Brunner

Thursday, July 18 • 5:30pm

Grace Loescher & Nick Brunner

Creativity + Play

This summer, Creativity+ is hosting the second Speakers Series of 2019. The theme is Play: an activity essential to creativity and social well-being, but often overlooked as frivolous or unproductive. Each Creativity+ Play event will feature conversations with two speakers from diverse backgrounds offering their unique perspective on the topic. First up are Grace Loescher and Nick Brunner.

Grace Loescher

Grace Loescher is a practicing artist, published poet, professional advocate for homeless youth, part time emcee/host, and full time activist. She is also a failed gardener and semi-professional tinkerer. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art and has exhibited works in a variety of locations including an interactive installation of a life size confessional booth in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Orlando FL.

Grace is the co-founder and host of Speak Out Sacramento, a local open mic and breeding ground for creatives. For the past four years, Grace has served as a trusted member of the Waking the Village team, a local nonprofit working to better the lives of Sacramento’s homeless youth. During her time at Waking the Village, Grace dreamt up and currently runs the Creation District, a safe haven for creation, discovery, activism, daring, and dream-making for Sacramento’s youth and young adults experiencing homelessness and economic instability.

She partners with local charter schools to teach social justice through the arts as well as with the national nonprofit, College Track, to teach art, theatre, and writing to high school students from underserved communities. In her spare time, Grace can be found producing Broadway musicals in her backyard and scavenging treasures from other people’s trash piles.

Her work can be found at www.gracemakesstuff.com

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Nick Brunner

Nick Brunner grew up in rural Illinois with his sister and parents within a vast expanse of corn fields. He discovered NPR in college when he was hired to work at WGLT-FM in Normal, Illinois (the real name of a real town). That’s where he came to appreciate the colors public broadcasting painted amid a drab and predictable radio landscape. His delusions of sophistication often don’t match his modest lifestyle and as a result, he spends time trying to find just the right wine to accompany Tuna Helper… A Shiraz works well.

Thursday, July 18 • 5:30pm

WAL Community Room • 1108 R St, Sacramento, CA 95811

Use the 12th Street Entrance | Doors open at 5:30pm, talks start at 6:00pm

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