The Who, What, and Why Behind Creative Reverberations

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This is the page where you can learn a bit about the who, what, and why behind Creative Reverberations.

What is this?

Creative Reverberations is a place to learn from artists about art and creativity.

Each week I publish an interview with someone who works in the arts—as an actor, musician, filmmaker, editor, composer, author, painter, illustrator, makeup artist, cartoonist, special effects designer, jewelry maker, poet, or similar role—about their work, their creative process, their influences, and how they break through creative blocks.

And each week’s conversation reaffirms my belief that in this hectic, stressful, anxiety-fueled, AI-saturated world, creativity and artistry are the things that will save us.

So, if you’re a book reader, movie watcher, TV viewer, word writer, poetry seeker, music listener, song maker, museumgoer, jewelry wearer, cartoon admirer, theater supporter, or just a general, all-around arts lover, Creative Reverberations is for you.

Cool. Why did you start it?

I launched this publication for a very selfish reason: I’d been feeling stuck. Creatively, professionally, personally.

After being hit with a double whammy—a breast cancer diagnosis and the loss of a long-time writing gig—in late 2023, I decided to take some time off. After returning to work two months (and one double mastectomy) later, I realized that both I and the publishing world had changed drastically.

Many of the sites and publications I had turned to for a daily news fix, an entertaining read, or a thoughtful pop culture analysis had reduced staff or shut down altogether. And I wasn’t sure who I was anymore as a writer.

So, I did what I always do: I turned to the work of my favorite authors, musicians, performers, and artists, seeking inspiration. I read books and articles and essays on creativity and art. I watched documentaries and attended live theater and revisited favorite films and pored over song lyrics.

And while doing so, I realized that when the world seems at its darkest, it is the artists who bring the light.

I began to wonder: Who do the artists themselves turn to? Who provides the artists behind these works with the fuel they need to spark a creative fire? Who is my favorite artist’s favorite artist? And how can their favorite artist—and the inspiration they’ve gleaned from that individual’s work—help to inspire the rest of us?

And that’s how Creative Reverberations was born.

Great. And who are you, exactly?

I’m a Boston-born, upstate NY-based Gen Xer with a long career in the arts and entertainment fields. Throughout my career, I’ve worked as a personal assistant to a television actor-producer, an executive assistant to the head of an animation company, a film festival director, a film programmer, a production assistant on indie films, a fundraiser for multiple nonprofit arts organizations, and a freelance entertainment journalist.

My writing has been published in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Cut, AARP, Shondaland, Writer’s Digest Magazine, Real Simple, Next Avenue, FLOOD Magazine, BrainWise Media, and SFGate, among many others. (You can find my full portfolio at sandraebejer.com.)

Much of my work over the past 5 years has focused on conversations with individuals in creative fields. I’ve interviewed everyone from Academy Award-winning icons and chart-topping rock stars to indie singer-songwriters and character actors.

Through each of my many professional roles, I’ve witnessed firsthand the transformative power of the arts.

But don’t just take it from me. Here’s what a few of my incredible interview subjects have shared:

“...what art and creativity and mindfulness practices give us is a tool to recenter internally and to slow down the anxiety and to slow down the over-anxious mind. It’s very hard to not feel very disoriented and disillusioned right now. And it may not seem that art is going to be your immediate tool to make the world a better place, but it may just very well make you better, and therefore you can interact with the world from a more balanced place.”—Leah Song, Rising Appalachia

“...in its finest form, this medium can really change people’s lives. It can introduce people to concepts and structures and behaviors and ways of life that are perhaps more evolved than stuff they have originally been exposed to. I’m trying to be diplomatic about saying people can learn how to be better fucking people by the stories that are told on stage.”—Mackenzie Astin, actor

“...stories and the feelings that we get to share together through them are the nourishment of our humanity.”—Joe Hill, documentary filmmaker

OK, let’s say I subscribe. What do I get?

Every Friday an inspiring, educational, entertaining, wide-ranging conversation will be delivered right to your inbox. Interviews go behind a paywall after a few weeks, but paid subscribers have access to everything in the archives, plus extra goodies like bonus content, outtakes from past interviews, recommendations, and music playlists.

Does it cost anything?

At the moment, weekly interviews are free. If you’d like the extra goodies—playlists, recommendations, access to the archives of past interviews, etc.—you can subscribe for the low price of $5/month or $50/year. (Which is really like 14-17 cents a day.)

Running this publication is essentially a full-time job, and paid subscriptions make it sustainable. For the cost of a cup of coffee a month—or just pennies a day—you can help keep this work going.

I’m in! How do I subscribe?

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Thanks so very much! I hope you’ll join me on this exploration of all things creative.

PS: If you want to connect on social media, you can find me on Instagram.