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Making Connections at a Photoshoot
By Katie Gee – “Keeping the photoshoot light and happy will, in turn, make the photos, and the subjects in them, light and happy.”
Getting Started with Cosplay
By Alyssa Caldwell – Seeing all the people dressed up as their favorite characters showed me that cosplay is pretty much whatever you want it to be.
Representing the Savior on Stage
By Tristi Pinkston – A play that reverently features the words of the Savior can be a testimony-building experience—if we take care to depict the Savior appropriately and well.
Using YouTube and Social Media to Inspire and Help Others Grow Spiritually
By Aspen Bailey – God magnifies efforts and the Spirit always testifies of truth in any form. Living a life patterned after the Savior’s example is testament enough for the world to notice.
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How to Publish Your Audiobook for Less
By Sapphire Hodges – Authors can do a lot of the work themselves for less cost and learn something along the way.
Called to Create: Interview with New Host Connie Sokol
By Rachelle Christensen – Called To Create is part devotional, part scripture, part life experience, part kitchen table chat. You’re getting all the things in one podcast.
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Minority Voices & the Power of Podcasting
By: Tyler B. Nelson – The power of podcasting is immeasurable, because it is the power of voice. It can educate. It can uplift. It can inspire. Podcasting allows us to sit down and spark the needed conversations about topics that are crucial to this day and age.
Questions Every Writer Should Ask Themselves
By Steve Dunn Hanson – How we answer the “Why” and “Where” questions will affect the content, quality, and impact of our creativity. But those responses beg another question: is our writing congruous with who we really want to be eternally?
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Remembering Heaven: A Documentary and My Appreciation to LDSPMA For Making It Happen
By Sarah Hinze – For many years I have collected stories about heaven—not only the heaven we go home to, but the heaven we come from before we are born. Through connections made at the 2018 LDSPMA Conference, I was able to turn these stories into an award-winning documentary.
Aaron Merrell: Working in the Film Industry
By Trina Boice – Check out a recent BYU-Idaho Forum presentation, featuring Aaron Merrell, who is a senior producer for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint’s Publishing Services Department. In the forum, Aaron gives a behind-the-scenes look into producing the Book of Mormon Videos series. He also shares insights about working in the film industry.
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Podcasting: Why You Should Think About Trying It
By Ashley Fontes – The steps for starting a podcast are very similar to starting a blog . . . and there is no one saying you can’t have both. My podcast allows me to reach my audience where they are in ways that my blog can’t. While my blog talks mostly to caregivers and teachers, my podcast can reach straight out to yogis.
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4 Lessons I Learned from the BYU Folk Dance Ensemble
By Laura Arnold – Dance can change the way we see the world. As we learn about other cultures, dance teaches us to share joy and light with all of God’s children.
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Acting with Juice Boxes: Exploring Indian Breathing Techniques
By Brittany Passmore – I certainly don’t consider myself a professional actress by any means, but I cherish the memories I have from participating in school and community productions. Because we have so many talented and aspiring actors and actresses in our membership, I wanted to talk about a breathing technique I learned from my high school theatre teacher about rasa boxes.
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Latter-day Profiles
Latter-day Profiles is a collaborative effort of students, faculty, and staff at Brigham Young University-Idaho. The program features in-depth interviews with noteworthy members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Guests range from leaders in business and industry to educators, to musicians and authors to volunteers. All have stories to tell that are interesting, informative, and thought-provoking. Latter-day…
18 Books and Podcasts Recommended by LDSPMA Members
By LDSPMA – LDSPMA is all about publications and media. But which publications? Which media? Before we jump into our March theme—“A Month of Editing”—let’s see what LDSPMA members and friends are immersing themselves in.
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Dressing the Naked Hand: The World’s Greatest Guide to Making Staging and Performing with Puppets
by Amy White With tons of color photographs and a DVD with over 2 hours of hilarious instructional videos, this is the perfect how-to book for all levels of puppetry skill, from beginners to master artisans. With instructions on making hand puppets, turning stuffed animals into puppets, building hand puppets, performing, inventing voices, building stages, and more, this is the…
“The Fighting Preacher” Delivers a Knockout and Tugs at the Heart
By Alice M. Batzel – In Christensen’s final remarks to the audience attending the premiere [of The Fighting Preacher], he said, “My hope is that this film will go out and inspire others to be kinder to one another.” That takes courage and faith. That’s what Willard and Rebecca Bean had. That’s what Christensen has.
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