Welcome to this episode of the Culture of You with Columbus' own Scott Woods. He is most notably held as the last election's write in and unofficial Mayor.
In this episode, we discuss culture bearing, event production, balance professionally and personally, creating the microcosms of the world you want to see in community, and more art. It is a beautiful and fully authentic conversation that will bring you closer to being a proper fan of Scott Woods' work and also me and my work.
Here is a little bit about Scott to start your learning. What a gift Scott Woods is to Columbus, to our communities, and especially to me. I am so grateful for his honesty, his wisdom, his logic, his heart and his transparent criticism. We all could stand to learn a lot from Scott's lived experience. I am releasing this on the first day of October after another very successful Rhapsody and Refrain for the month of September. 30 poets in 30 days. Flowers to Scott and all the ways he creates culture in Columbus.
Scott Woods is an Emmy award-winning writer and event organizer in Columbus, Ohio, and founder of Streetlight Guild, a performing arts non-profit. Woods is the author of three books and has been featured multiple times in national press, including appearances on National Public Radio. He is the Greater Columbus Arts Council winner of the 2017 Columbus Makes Art Excellence Award for his event series “Holler: 31 Days of Columbus Black Art", and a 2018 Columbus Foundation Spirit of Columbus Award recipient. He is the 2022 winner of the Press Club of Cleveland’s Ohio Excellence in Journalism award for Best in Ohio Essay Writing. He is the co-founder of the Writers’ Block Poetry Night and in 2006 became the first poet to ever complete a 24-hour solo poetry reading…a feat he bested seven more times without repeating a single poem.
Find Scott at www.scottwoodswrites.net and/or www.streetlightguild.org.
We would love to hear from you all as the conversation with Scott Woods is always just the beginning of more conversations.
