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radical listening

  • e98 epilogue – perspectives on season 3

    ‘I came to realize that in season three that I continue to be very deeply moved by the layering of words and soundscapes. There’s something about it, when new contexts for listening are created, that I find it very stimulating. It’s like the spirits of the sounds are actually speaking directly to me and that…

  • e88 robin mathews – on radical listening & political poetry

    ‘I don’t know how many people in Canada who would immediately understand what radical listening is, because it would occur to me that the listener would have to be sensitized beforehand in order to listen radically, so that the radical listening is a secondary function of becoming radicalized in a political matter or political level.…

  • e83 the greatest mass movement in history

    ‘This episode lasts 59 seconds. I want to share a November 13th, 2021, tweet by British writer and climate activist George Monbiot: ‘Now we have no choice but to raise the scale of civil disobedience until we have built the greatest mass movement in history. We do not consent to the destruction of our life…

  • e78 milena droumeva – art needs to get on the street

    ‘I think art needs to get on the street, because raising awareness in a gallery is really speaking to the choir. I’ll leave raising awareness, because we both agree that the time for that has passed, but I think art needs to revert back to artisan and crafts, in the sense that imagination can lead…

  • e77 seth klein – identifying a shared vision and a set of actions

    ‘I think the same model (climate emergency coalitions) could and should be used by SCALE to have these arts and culture groups come together, identify a shared vision and a shared set of actions that together constitute a true climate emergency agenda for the arts and culture sector. That’s step one and then agreement to…

  • e75 radical listening as climate action

    ‘To me, radical listening is about stepping out of our comfort zone when we listen. Radical listening about thinking beyond what we think we know when we listen. Radical listening is about recognizing our biases, both conscious and unconscious. It’s about listening actively and sincerely. Ultimately, it’s about getting to the truth and facing reality.’…

  • e71 green sessions debrief

    ‘The Green Sessions was invented because this small group of people got together and decided we wanted to do something that created impact. I’m really interested in new and more opportunities for us to collaborate as a sector and putting people into focus and a place of knowledge on this agenda’ – Emma Stenning e71…

  • e70 one step at a time

    ‘We make choices by not making choices And we live with unbearable consequences We hear alarm bells, but do not respond We cling to uncertainty like a sad song We act as if unaware and innocent We are cognitively dissonant’ … * e70 one step at a time is a monologue that I recorded on…

  • e69 soundwalk in the dark

    ‘It’s 4 56 am on Tuesday, rather than Wednesday, September 29th. I’m about to do something I’ve never done before, a soundwalk in the dark. I wanted to share with you this experience of walking in the dark and see what happens.’ e69 soundwalk in the dark is a monologue that I recorded on September 29th,…

  • e65 drifting into season 3

    ‘What I’m looking for, ultimately, is an anchoring point: where are we at and what can we do to ensure the continuation of life?’ * e65 drifting into season 3 is a monologue that I recorded on September 13th 2021, in one take, while drifting in a kayak on the Preston River, Duhamel Québec, that explains what…