Podcast Episodes

e213 stephen huddart – so much to do

Season 6 Episode 213

The arts have that capacity to be powerful broadcasters, conveyors of messages, invitations to celebration, reflection, storytelling, narrative building and so on. There's a vital role here for the a…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

e212 max wyman – taking action

Season 6 Episode 212

There's been a real lack of positive action and response from the arts community to these existential questions that confront us. And I really wonder whether that's not because they're simply bewilde…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

e211 azul carolina duque - art as medicine

Season 6 Episode 211

I think there is a responsibility we have as artists to relate to our artistry responsibly. And that has to do with sensing into our artistic sensibility as a medicine or a gift that we were given to…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

e210 roundtable – art and science

Season 6 Episode 210

Hey there

Welcome to the first conscient roundtable conversation recorded on Saturday March 1, 2025 in Tiohtià:ke (also known as Montreal). 

This episode features local artists, activists and cultural …

Published on 9 months ago

e209 robert and peter janes – telling the truth through art

Season 6 Episode 209

I think that the first thing artists have to do is to start telling the truth. You know, just like climate change five or six years ago, you just didn't really want to talk about it. You got shunned …

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

a calm presence - looking youth in the eyes

Season 5

I’ve been (earnestly) taking courses, workshops and seminars these last few years, while producing over 300 podcasts about art and ecology, as my way of helping future generations prepare for what we…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

a calm presence - a conscient rethink

Season 5

Note: to read this posting on a calm presence see a conscient rethink

a conscient rethink

What needs to be said? Who needs to say it? Who wants to hear it? How does it help? 

February 16th, 2025, on th…

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

a calm presence - mending structures

Season 5

Note: I wrote this facebook posting this morning (February 11, 2025) that I’m repurposing as a calm presence essay and as a bonus episode of conscient. 

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We need social media spaces that are non pr…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

ENCORE e01 terrified - climate denial bubble

Season 5

What triggered my climate denial bubble to burst? I feel compelled to share this personal experience, in the hope that it might help others who are also struggling with the current sustainability cri…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

a calm presence - prepare, bend, sustain

Season 5

prepare, bend, sustain

what I learned in the first 3 weeks of surviving the future 2025

Note: the original posting on my a calm presence Substack is here. 

Sarah Heynen, Executive Director of the Canadi…

Published on 11 months ago