Andreas Kornevall sat down with Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran and had a conversation around didactic fiction, making art with our fears and hopes and how to start the wheels turning in a way that lobbyists and governments aren't.

Conscious art making is an act of resistance.

We speak of how there was a time when Skalds and Bards were highly valued and how we can revive this today through poetry, song, painting and textiles. Ceallaigh has worked with ancient ballads in a dozens of variations that were written down. Also, quantum physics tells us that we may well live in a multiverse and we hear about the great horse Sleipner and what it means to travel between worlds. Join us in this latest episode of the Hagstone Podcast.

Bio: Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran holds hold B.A. in Celtic Studies from the University of Toronto, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Maine, and a PhD in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She is also an author, poet, and musician under the name C.S. MacCath. Her long-running Folklore & Fiction Project integrates these passions with a focus on folklore scholarship aimed at storytellers, and she brings a deep appreciation of animism, ecology, and folkloristics to her own storytelling. You can find her online at csmaccath.com, folkloreandfiction.com, and linktr.ee/csmaccath

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