A Celebration of California’s Local Poets Laureate
On October 6th, Engaging the Senses Foundation (ETSF), in partnership with the California Arts Council, and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs/McGroarty Arts Center is…
The Story of Everything
With this project, Engaging the Senses Foundation is helping to fulfill our commitment to raising awareness about our collective responsibility for the earth and her sustainability….
Trying to Listen, Learning to Speak
If someone listens, deeply, you’ve been heard, which helps you absorb it, and you can lay it at the feet of the right god. — Anne…
The Crisis at Our Border: A Call to Action from Engaging the Senses Foundation
I am a daughter of immigrants. My mother is Norwegian, from the small southern island of Notteroy. She was a teenager during WWII, when Norway was…
Youth Poet Laureate Haviland Whiting and the Premiere of Mississippi Requiem
We’re so pleased to share with you our trip to the Nashville Film Festival where we helped premiere Mississippi Requiem, a film executive produced by Engaging…
Mvto Joy Harjo
In May, we added another segment to our documentary-in-production, Be the Beauty, when we had the remarkable privilege of interviewing indigenous…
SlammaJamma Celebration of Hope and Poetry
I recently saw a BBC clip about the artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis — who devoted her time in Theresienstadt to teaching and sharing art with the children…
Margaret Randall
Today, we’re celebrating our work with Margaret Randall, poet, feminist, activist, and long-term mentor to our Creative Director Sabrina! A powerful interview for our film-in-production, Be the…
Diane di Prima, Founding Mother of the Beat Movement
Diane di Prima is one of the founding mothers of the Beat Movement, but while the seminal (!) men of the era are extremely well known, too many people either don’t know or have forgotten about the women like Diane…
What’s New
What’s New this week is … a sense of renewed hope, after a time when we’ve all been adjusting to an extremely challenging political and social…