In this week’s episode, we are privileged to have Stanford Thompson with us, and to dive into “Music as a Social Service”. We cover the learning lessons from the 10 first years of Play On Philly - the organisation he founded. We deconstruct their model, learn how to build community through music,🎶🎵 and explore what the future holds when many communities will face struggle in a post-covid world.🙏

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Recalling the work of Paul Rucker, from 2018 in Richmond.

Years go by and structural racism keeps on haunting society, pretty much everywhere on the Planet.

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Music track: The Last Chieftain, by Christian Scott

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Camille

No talking today, just a song that magically came up in my playlist while I was writing up yesterday’s episode (Cosmic #022). A beautiful art piece by Daughter, which illustrates masterful messaging, and masterful execution, and a song written from intentions that may be completely different from the ones we may  be assuming… who knows? That’s what’s cosmic about it randomly popping up yesterday….Enjoy!

Lyrics from the song “Landfill” by Daughter

Throw me in a landfill

Don't think about the consequences

Throw me in the dirt pit

Don't think about the choices that you make

Throw me in the water

Don't think about the splash I will create

Leave me at the altar

Knowing all the things you just escaped

Push me out to sea

On a little boat that you made

Out of the evergreen that you helped your father cut away

Leave me on the tracks

To wait until the morning train arrives

Don't you dare look back

Walk away

Catch up with the sunrise

'Cause this is torturous electricity

Between both of us and this is

Dangerous 'cause I want you so much

But I hate your guts

I hate you

So leave me in the cold

Wait until the snow covers me up

So I cannot move

So I'm just embedded in the frost

Then leave me in the rain

Wait until my clothes cling to my frame

Wipe away your tear stains

Thought you said you didn't feel pain

Well this is torturous electricity

Between both of us and this is

Dangerous, 'cause I want you so much

But I hate your guts. I want you so much

But I hate your guts.

Well this is torturous

Electricity between both of us

And this is dangerous 'cause I want you so much

But I hate your guts

I want you so much but I hate your guts

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Camille

This episode features “Paisatges de Plàstic”  an art piece by Elena Villalba, Xénia Cros, Pau Galceràn, Oriol Ruiz and Lydia Moreno from the Art School of Olot @artdissenyolot in Catalunya.

There are things  happening in the world that are extremely harmful to society and to the environment, but are quite... boring to talk about. Boring because it’s complex, It’s visually non appealing, it’s distant, it’s silent, it’s grey…

How do we deal with this as a society, in an era where people's attention span is shorter than ever and the competitive media landscape pushes content production to the edges of dramatic, sensational, crazy, and... “you won’t believe what happens next”? This is a real question for artists, storytellers and other influencers of culture who care about impact: how do we deal with “important, but not sexy”…

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Camille

This week our investigation features Marc Garrett from @Furtherfield. We talk about decentralisation, democratisation, empowering self-organised collectives, disruption of the art space, technological enablers such as blockchain, and why network culture matters.

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A genuine joyful smile will always be perceived as a genuine joyful smile by other human beings. A threat to joyful activism?

Featured illustration by @rikwilkinsonartist

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Camille

Paradigm shifts take place in the mind.

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Camille

History, and daily life keeps showing us how vulnerable we are to ‘the truth’. What is the truth?

We think something is true, until it’s not true anymore, until there is a better truth… a better truth because it became demonstrably true, and contradicts or suppresses the previous one.

This episode is the first one of our deep dive on paradigms. It features the work of the Yes Men

In this episode, we start exploring the purpose and possibilities of black humour - a form of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that considers human existence as ironic and pointless. Through this livemix, Camille revisits an interview with Comics Author Pieter de Poortere, the creator of the hilarious comics character Dickie.

Links to the  Dickie’s website, Instagram and Facebook on www.cosmic.show