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e169 louise adongo - we’re all artists
Season 5 Episode 169
How can we remind ourselves that we're all creative and we're all artists? I think that we need all parts of ourselves to be able to navigate this transition that we're in as a species and as a part …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
e168 felicia young - together through art
Season 5 Episode 168
Community arts became my initial quest in the 1980’s as a reaction against the commercial art world. How can art participate in a functional way to connect not just art educated people, but our overa…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
e167 barbara cuerden - tending the garden of art
Season 5 Episode 167
The garden doesn't have to be something that's instrumental. It can be just a place where you sit, where you're thinking of growing something, you know, where the sun shines and where photosynthesis …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
e166 david maggs - the art of being
Season 5 Episode 166
What you do as an artist is crucial. Do not abandon that for a desire to serve a kind of utilitarian purpose of ‘I'm gonna make sure people know more’. The faith in knowing more is the siren song of …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
e165 bill crandall - art can change us
Season 5 Episode 165
Being an artist, or making art, in the context of climate is more about being a kind of light in the darkness, making us believe in ourselves and believe in the future so that we want to endeavor to …
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
e164 jimmy ung - proximity proportionate responsibility
Season 5 Episode 164
Proximity proportionate responsibility: if we were to do an inventory of where all the things we own were made, that would give us a very interesting map of where our responsibility, our attention an…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
e163 transition innovation group - art and defeatism
Season 5 Episode 163
I’m wanting something from art, which I think is much deeper, is a re-imagination of what it means to be human. I feel like we've instrumentalized and trivialized art and actually lost its capacity t…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
e162 terri hron - an ecological lens
Season 5 Episode 162
I think as musicians we have particular concerns that perhaps looking at those through an ecological lens can be helpful. One of them is to think about the structures of funding which allow us to ope…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
bonus episode - solar eclipse 2024
Season 5
This is a special bilingual episode of the conscient podcast recorded on April 8, 2024 during the solar eclipse in Ottawa. The same recording can be found on both the conscious podcast and the consc…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
e161 alchemize circle - a conversation with kamea chayne
Season 5 Episode 161
'It's kind of like sacred medicine or sacred plant medicine in a way where it meets you where you are, based on your intentions, on your setting, your relationships and everything. Where that space i…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago