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Musicians Ken Field and Michael Holt talk about their band's new album, Dancy Pants. You're invited to their album release party on July 20th at Prez Hall.

Two rockers from Ani Difranco's Righteous Babe Records Jocelyn Mackenzie and Kristin Ford are performing with Rachel Sage in Wellfleet at a house concert. Check out their awesome interview!

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Ukrainian-born singer Marichka Marczyk reports on her interviews with families who were in Russian camps. Just back from being embedded with a battalion in Kiev and Donbas, she shares her recent experience there, as well as her new single from her music project educating people about the abduction of 20,000 Ukrainian children.

Medical microbiologist Elena Getmanova teaches tango. She's throwing a party at Prez Hall July 12th and 19th and you're invited. 

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In this podcast visual artists Penny Gamble-Williams and Jennifer Staples of Bowen's Arrow and storyteller/musician Mwalim Daphunkee Professor talk about the landmark gallery exhibition, All Our Relations: Art of the Wampanoag Nation happening now through June 29th at the Cotuit Center for the Arts. 

The exhibition is co-curated by Mashpee Wampanoag Paula Peters and Michelle St. John, a member of the Board of Directors of CCftA. All My Relations features over 100 contemporary works of 26 artists from music to pottery, jewelry to storytelling. It's the largest collection of Wampanoag art ever assembled in one space.

Also, June 28th and 29th on Martha's Vineyard The Truth and Joy Festival is happening.  https://mvdiversitycoalition.org/truth-and-joy-june.../Soul 

Plus, Wamptronica's Soul on the Move, presented by Oversoul Theatre Collective, Inc., is a pop-up dance party series turning city parks into open-air celebrations of rhythm, community, and summertime energy. From Monte's Park to Buttonwood and Abolitionist's Row, New Bedford's green spaces are alive with the sound of soul this summer. SOUL on the MOVE, 

WAMPTRONICA, is New Bedford's genre-blurring DJ collective, spinning a kinetic blend of Soulful House, Rare Groove, Afrobeat, and Deep Afro Jazz.

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Director Kahane Corn Cooperman and producer Innbo Shim talk about their film, Creede USA, about the impact of a theater on a small conversative mountain town that saw its boom when it was established for mining in the late 1800s.

Filmmaker Kim A. Snyder tells the story of book banning and witch hunt of librarians in Texas and Florida in the documentary, The Librarians. 

Co-director Elliott Kennerson talks about Love Birds, the study that discovered lesbian seagulls who became a mascot for a movement.  

Filmmaker Allison Argo talks about Forever Home which follows a couple who build a refuge for abused and orphaned farm animals with natural and sustainable 

Filmmaker Paulo Marinou-Blanco talks about his tragic comedy  Dreaming of Lions which addresses terminal illness and euthanasia. It's about an intimate friendship that forms between a depressed mortician who asks his dead clients for advice and former professor who wants to be done with her pain.

Tech Disclaimer: My computer died, so I cobbled this together quickly without my normal equipment and intro/outro, etc. Pardon the editing. 

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Emerald Trinket Walker discusses teaching history through music, movement and performance. Her program Undesirable Elements at Global Kids has performed at many locations including Columbia University, Council on Foreign Relations, Lincoln Center Institute, Apollo Theater, Sarah Lawrence College, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, United Nations Special Session on Children, New York University, Museum of Television & Radio.

Their performance at the Global Kids Annual Conference addresses a new theme each year, and is based on Ping Chong’s award-winning piece, now in its 31st year of international production.  

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This episode focuses on fear and empathy in humans and other animals. Dr. Abigail Marsh also talks about our biological predisposition toward empathy and care, how adolescent brains evolved to rebel and take risks, why teens are more anxious than in previous generations, and psychopathy as a spectrum. Find out why fearful expressions evolved to protect us and why we love cute animals so much. 

Dr. Marsh was rescued by the heroic act of stranger which led her to study altruism. In studying empathy, she began by studying the brains of those who are empathy deficient, or what we call psychopathic. She found that psychopathy is on a spectrum, which includes people who are anti-psychopathic. She also found it all connects with fear and the neurological function and structure of the amygdala. The amygdala is complicated and it has two main axonal pathways which connect it with other parts of the brain. Oxytocin modulates the amygdala in a way that it supports nurturing care, even in the case of danger or threat, related to protection of others at the expense of protection of self, as with caring for those in need and in the case of saving a stranger's life. 

People with altruistic behaviors have larger amygdalas and people with psychopathic behavior have significantly smaller amygdalas! But there are interventions that can change and influence the development of the brain in adolescence. Children can grow out of callous behaviors. 

Dr. Marsh is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Georgetown University where she directs the Laboratory on Social and Affective Neuroscience. She is the author of The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between.

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We speak with Carol Bosco Baumann, chief executive officer of Cape Wellness Collaborative. She shares what brought her to the Cape, her personal connection with the mission of CWC, and what's happening this year at the annual Cape Cod Women’s Music Festival. We also speak with retired reverend Jamie Faile who served for 35 years as a Presbyterian pastor in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Michigan before moving to Cape Cod. As a transgender woman Jamie is a member of PFLAG Cape Cod, active in Pilgrim Congregational Church, and an Outreach Volunteer with the Center for Coastal Studies.  

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Jenny Wood is a travel guide and retreat facilitator, taking groups on "authentic, immersive, transformational travel experiences to support personal and global healing and peacemaking". With a background in acupuncture and 5 elements coaching, Jenny Wood is a unique travel guide who customizes your oversees adventures. We talk about her recent retreats from adventures from from Costa Rica to Morocco, from Dublin to Oaxaca. 

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Multi-instrumentalist Ed Pias earned his degrees in music from the University of Washington in Seattle, Cal Arts, and Berklee, he studied the pakhawaj drum in Bangladesh and India, but it wasn't until he was asked to help a man transition from his hospice bed, that he discovered the healing power of music and connected with the healing power of music. From there he began exploring native American flute. Here we discuss bird song, connecting with loved ones through bird encounters, and connecting to animals through music.