Tonight on the Podcast:
Caelin Graber and Mark Abare - founders of The Hearing Room.
Listen in! hearingroom.net/the-woodshed-podcast.
Caelin is what I would call, a certified creative person. She loves art, creating art, music, writing, poetry, community, and is a champion of the environment. She is an educator, a nurse, musician, songwriter, and a person that is always looking for beauty in its raw form.
The Hearing Room is the seed she planted in the community. She took a leap of faith to launch a venue that has a diverse open-ended array of creative possibilities.
As for myself, when Caelin was cultivating the idea of opening an art & performance center, I was floored by the vision she had, and how determined she was of how to make it a reality. We worked on the idea over all meals, while we both at our “real” jobs, and even while we were out playing music, talking with folks…whatever. To create a unique space such as ours, requires a dedication and commitment that – unless you’ve done it, you have no idea.
We would be driving to cities and scouting locations, asking people where “hot spots” are, and always have our radar up for leads. The internet gave us some great tools to be able to find available space, street maps so we could virtually scout neighborhoods, and by chance, while driving to a patient’s house in Lowell (she was doing community nursing), she found what would become the home of The Hearing Room at 119 Chelmsford Street.
The Hearing Room opened about two years ago with the mission of providing a space for creativity in all of its forms. It was founded and financed by local artists and musicians for local artists and musicians. Its conception is rooted in the fundamental principle that creativity is one of the most distinguishing features of humans; that it resides in everyone and there is never enough of it around. We are a grassroots effort and we seek to grow organically in response to the needs of the community.