In Episode 10 Dr. Kelly Bulkeley talks about keeping a dream journal, dreams and prophecy, and building a dream library. Interview starts at 30:20.

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We talk about:

• How Kelly’s nightmares early on in life led him to dreamwork

• A powerful dream he had the summer of 1981

• Dream-sharing, trust and respect

• What made Kelly do a 180-degree shift with his dream research

• The pattern language of dreams

• What moved him to write his book The Scribes of Sleep: Insights from the Most Important Dream Journals in History

• Benjamin Banneker’s dream journal

• Tracking our dreams personally and collectively and how this can contribute to human potential

• Where Kelly believes the first or early dream journals are located

• Lucrecia de León, a 21-year-old prophetic dreamer who lived in the late 16th century

• His perspective on the ways people respond to prophetic dreamers

• Dreaming being a part of socialization and cultural education

• Finding a community of like-minded dreamers

• How different parts of ourselves try to get our attention through dreams

• Dream interpretation as play and dream-sharing practiced with a spirit of play

• How dreaming is gendered

• Men’s dreams

• Remembering our dream lineages / dream teachers and ancestors / who has influenced our dream journey

• The dream library he and his wife are building + SO much more!

RESOURCES:

• Website: Kelly Bulkeley | Dream Research & Education

• Books: Scribes of Sleep: Insights from the Most Important Dream Journals in History | Lucrecia the Dreamer: Introduction | Stanford University Press | Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition | Big Dreams: The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion

• Dream Library Foundation

• Sleep and Dream Database

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• Jeremy Taylor and Kathryn Taylor

• Dream Power by Dr. Ann Faraday

• Apela Colorado and Ryan Hurd

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In Episode 09, Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri talks about life as an Ecosystemic Designer, her thoughts on the future, creating hearths and telling stories through food, and carrying on the legacy of her father, John Tagiuri. Interview starts at 23:37.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedImage Description: Lily kneels down next to three different bags with lime green gloves next to one of her shoes. She looks up as if talking with other people and points to a large crack in the ground filled with dark brown soil. She wears a jean jacket covering a blue shirt and jean pants, as well as black boots with a paisley design. On the top of her head is brown sunglasses. The image captures Lily 'mending cracks in the streets of Paris with soil, seeds, flowers and pollinator plants as a form of guerrilla gardening. Her intention is to create places of refuge in concrete jungles for pollinators like bees and butterflies'. Photo Credit: Liza VoloshinLily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri is an Ecosystemic Designer and Eco-futurist whose practice is aimed at public engagement, ecological equity, and joy. Her work addresses emerging climates and conditions of cities specifically pertaining to clean water, food sovereignty, fresh air, and green space. Through the construction of ecosystemic tools, material experimentation, collaborations, and installations, she responds to the ecological circumstances we are collectively contending with.

Her work has been shown internationally including at the Museum of the City of New York, MoMA PS1, NYC by Design, Extraperlo Madrid, and The London Design Biennale among others. Clients, partners, and collaborators include ATOPOS, Clearwater, Studio Lily Kwong, Pen America, A/D/O, Skinvolve, Invisible North, JW Marriott, Herban Cura, Esperanza Spalding, Field meridians/ MOLD Magazine, and Generation Conscious. She teaches at Parsons Paris, co-directs Le Gout summer art and design intensive and has taught at Pratt, Central Saint Martins MA Industrial Design, the Innovation Design Engineering Program at Royal College of Arts and Imperial College, and 1-5 in Korea.

We talk about:

• How Lily makes ecosystemic tools

• Seed gathering and food along coastlines

• Lily being encouraged to make and build things at a young age

• Making as a language

• The role of people who identify as futurists and/or actively engaging with futurisms

• Futurisms and power dynamics

• Lily’s imagination and how she experiences her imagination

• Collective imagination

• Every day dreams (like making a chocolate cake for your grandma!)

• Facilitating conversations and gatherings in different countries about ecosystems and eco-futurism through food, cooking and communal meals

• How food can tell stories

• Lily’s love for making ovens and creating hearths

• Her collaborative project Solstice Kitchen

• Foraging and eating different edible seaweeds from tidepools in Brittany, on the west coast of France

• The rich life of tidepools: Sea stars, sea slugs, periwinkles, sea urchins, abalone, scallops, mussels, seaweed and more

• West Coast and East Coast tidepools in the United States

• Her father being a wild creative force and big dreamer, his recent passing and carrying on his legacy

• One of the last experiences Lily had with her father

• Joy in the small moments + SO much more!

RESOURCES:

Website: Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri

Instagram: @lilysayhey

Meals: Eating La Seine in Paris, France, River Bed Picnic and Foraging the Tideline both in Athens, Greece, and Edible Geology in Berlin, Germany

Writings: Incase of Emergency: Seed Saving as a Strategy for Disaster and Food Forecast: SALT - Surviving Salinity

Projects: Solstice Kitchen + Eating Water: Food for Emerging Climates, Flood, Rising Water and Drought

Lily’s father, John Tagiuri’s Website: JTStudios

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• Manos Bazanis - agronomist and botanist (Foraging the Tideline collaborator)

• Imprudence

• Afrotectopia

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In Episode 08, Patricia Larenas talks about her artistic practice capturing the majesty of trees and connecting with the land through drawing and painting with locally foraged soils, charcoal paint from wildfires and prescribed burns, and using renewable, recycled, and handmade papers. Interview starts at 19:54.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedImage Description: Patricia wears light blue jeans, a dark blue sweater and a tan hat. She stands next to the trunk of a giant Joshua tree both pointing and looking up at the tree. In the background are more Joshua trees, a mountain and a clear bright blue sky. “Grief is love, deeper than hope is action” –Terry Tempest WilliamsMy artwork is an expression of my love for this world, and my grief at potentially losing it.I ask: as an artist, what is the most impactful thing that I can create at this time of planetary crisis?Influenced by the threat of environmental collapse and the climate crisis, increasingly my materials are no longer anonymous commodities. My process often includes collecting local soils and charcoal from wildfires to make paint, together with using renewable, recycled, and handmade papers.This intentional process provides intimacy to materials, to place, and the living earth.And by offering hands-on workshops in making charcoal paint from wildfires and prescribed burns, or making paint from locally foraged soils, I engage participants to experience an intimate and somatic connection with the land.People are motivated to save what they love (as noted by John Muir Laws and others).Through these events my art practice includes partnering with local non-profit land trusts (Peninsula Open Space Trust and The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County) together with state and local redwood parks to promote healthy ecosystems and sustainable practices (San Vicente Redwoods and Henry Cowell State Park).

From the Spring of 2021 to 2023 Patricia was an Artist in Residence with Canopy (www.canopy.org) collaborating to advocate growing the urban forest on the San Francisco Peninsula. Since 2023 she has been collaborating with local land agencies by conducting workshops to promote and educate about good fire management in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She teaches classes on drawing trees and book arts through the Atherton Arts Foundation, and is an exhibiting member of the Northern California Society of Botanical Artists (NCalSBA), a chapter of the American Society of Botanical Artists.

Patricia's work has been exhibited in various venues around the Bay Area. She studied in the Filoli Botanical Art Certificate Program in Woodside, California, and holds a B.A. degree in Studio Art and a Master's degree in Public Administration, both from San Jose State University. During the 1990’s she was an exhibiting ceramic artist and a member of the Mountain View Potters studio. She is a horticulturist and ran her own garden design business for 7 years. After a gap in creative work where she focused on raising her two children, she returned to her art practice.

Patricia was born in Chile and immigrated to the USA with her family. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and a menagerie of trees.

We talk about:

• Patricia’s trip to Mexico

• Patricia connecting with trees by drawing their portraits

• Her studies of Botanical Art

• Oak trees in her neighborhood

• The lives of trees

• New-old thinking about fire

• Shared (fire) histories between trees and human beings

• Spending time and bonding with trees

• Creating intimacy with the materials she works with in her practice

• The history of papermaking

• Making pigments from soil and charcoal

• Sitting with Joshua trees

• Giving back to the land

• Processing traumatic fires through art and somatics

• One of Patricia’s childhood memories of a neighborhood tree

• Drawing trees in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the Sierra Nevada and the Mojave Desert, among other places

• The 2020 CZU fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains

• Her artwork being a way to process and express her climate anxiety and grief, explore hope and take care of her mental and emotional health

• Patricia’s collaborative work and budding partnerships

• Daydreaming with trees + SO much more!

RESOURCES:

Website: Patricia Larenas Fine Art

Blog: Ephemeral Paper, Making Paint with the Colors of the Land and When a Tree is a Book + more!

Instagram: plarenas_onpaper

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• Cold Canyon Fire Journals: Green shoots and Silver Linings in the Ashes by Robin Lee Carlson

• Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft

• Pigments Revealed International

• Big Basin's Story: The CZU Lightning Complex Fire

• The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking, by Drew Luan Matott and Gretchen M. Miller

• Hand Papermaking Magazine

• Peace Paper and Combat Paper

• Helen Hiebert Studio

• North American Hand Papermakers

• Únashay Grief Sanctuary

• 36th Annual Bioneers Conference: Revolution from the Heart of Nature

• Hispanic Access Foundation

• Latino Outdoors

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On Episode 07, Dani Mercury talks about Mugwort as a portal plant, Grandmother and spiritual teacher, Liberatory Ecology, the magic of wetlands and animism as a worldview. Interview starts at 27:40.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedImage Description: Dani stands in front of a plant with green leaves, long stems and white and purple flowers. In the blurred background are what look like trees and bushes that are different shades of green. Dani wears a black shirt with a light brown jacket. A necklace with round beads that are different shades of brown, beige and peach hangs around their neck. They look directly into the camera smiling. Photo Credit: Lindsey ForgDani Mercury (they/them) is a cuir Mexican interdisciplinary artist, herbalist, educator, and espiritista. Working primarily in painting, printmaking, and altar building, they create expressive, biophilic scenes that explore themes of ancestral medicine, queer ecology, death and decolonial embodiment. Dani is called to the work of restoring belonging with the land and nurturing ecologies of liberation. They are guided by their lineage —ancestors and descendants— as a participant in the death, transformation and creation involved in healing from colonialism and replanting future possibilities by shaping present conditions, beliefs, and ways of being.

We talk about:

• Dani moving from Mexico City to the wetlands and woodlands of Massachusetts

• Giving love to wetlands through song and prayer

• Starting their herbal journey at The People’s Medicine School

• Mugwort as a portal plant, Grandmother and spiritual teacher

• Being ruled by the moon as a Cancer Rising and being guided by Mugwort as a lunar plant

• How Grandmother Mugwort helps them exist in their multiplicity, integrate reality and supports their desires, various interests and creative expression

• Dani’s Mugwort Medicine Dream Lab

• Celebrating and uplifting mutable energies in astrology (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces)

• Curanderismo, or traditional Mexican folk medicine

• The collective imagination, inheritance, magic and spirit of Mexico

• Liberatory Ecology; an emerging framework they are developing

• Plants and liberation work being deeply intertwined

• Soul loss and soil remediation work

• Dani’s experience visiting mangroves for the first time in Borikén (Puerto Rico)

• Mangrove restoration in the town of Piñones located in Loíza

• When mangroves cry

• Displacement and ecological disruption in Borikén

• The songs, magic and medicine of wetlands

• Being nomadic, relationship-tending in different places and tattooing on the road

• Spending time in New Mexico to connect with their lineage of medicine

• Ancient ocean desert lands, geologic formations and legacy

• Dani’s ecological role in their family and lineages as a grief-tender, and how the land has supported Dani in processing their grief

• What’s giving them life right now + SO much more!

RESOURCES:

• Website: www.mercurymovesme.com

• Instagram: @mercurymovesme

• Substack: mercury moves me

• The People’s Medicine School

• Mugwort Medicine Dream Lab

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• The Petty Herbalist Podcast

• Nature Needs a New Pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let’s Start by Ditching “It” by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• “The Danger of a Single Story” TEDx by Chimamanda Adichie

• The history of Watch Night

• Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas Judith A. Carney

• Lunar thinker, spirit healer, creative exorcist and astrologer, Johnathan Koe

• World Wetlands Day

• Ancient Ocean Memories by Kim Etsitty

• High Mountains, Ancient Shells, and the Wonder of Deep Time

  by Katy Kelleher

• Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

• Burdock plant

HOW TO SUPPORT DANI’S WORK:

Subscribe to: mercury moves me

Get a Stick-and- poke tattoo!

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In Episode 06, Sherese talks about her interest in etymology, sound and word play, her upcoming poetry manuscript, mermaids and her first time to Senegal. Interview starts at 26:21.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedGraphic Description: In the background is a dark blue night sky with a large beige colored moon, plump grey clouds and squiggly grey-blue lines also representing clouds and white dots representing stars. Sherese poses in front of the round circle of moon wearing a dark blue blouse that reveals her neck and shoulders. She also wears a grey colored crescent moon earring in her left hear. She looks almost directly at the viewer. Graphic Credit: Moon tarot portrait by Omi the brujaSherese Francis Sherese Francis (she/they) describes themselves as an AlkyMist of the I-Magination, finding expression through poetry, interdisciplinary arts (collage, book and paper arts, sound and performance art, text art), workshop facilitation, editing, and literary curation. Her(e) work takes inspiration from her(e) Afro-Caribbean heritage (Barbados and Dominica), and studies in Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Arts, mythology and etymology. Some of their work has been published in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Furious Flower, Obsidian, Rootwork Journal, The Caribbean Writer, The Operating System, Cosmonauts Avenue, No Dear, Apex Magazine, Bone Bouquet, African Voices, Newtown Literary, and Free Verse. Additionally, Sherese has published four chapbooks, Lucy’s Bone Scrolls (Three Legged Elephant, 2017), Variations on Sett/ling Seed/ling (Harlequin Creature, 2018), Recycling a Why That Rules Over My Sacred Sight (DoubleCross Press, 2021) and Lady Liberty Smashing Stones (THRASH Press, 2022), and edited a poetry anthology/guided journal, Baby Suggs and a Purple Butterfly (Get Fresh Books, 2024). Sherese won Inverted Syntax’s 2024 Aggrey Book Prize for Poetry for PollyNation: A Seminary of Self, which will be published in 2027.

Sherese has received grants and awards from Queens Council on the Arts, NYFA, NYSCA and The Caribbean Writer, residencies from WorksonWater, LMCC, Akademie Schloss Solitude and SeaSalted Honey in Senegal, and fellowships from Voodoonauts, Baldwin for the Arts and Anaphora Arts. Besides publications, Sherese has had her(e) work featured in various exhibitions and showcases from NY Live Arts, Queens Public Library, York College Arts Gallery, King Manor Museum, WorksOnWater, Flushing Town Hall, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Bliss On Bliss, Maleza Proyectos, Flux Factory, The Rubenstein Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School Mercy Gallery, Flux Factory, and Ely Center for Contemporary Art.

We talk about:

• How Sherese’s childhood informed their poetry practice

• The ancestral roots of words, the memories and histories connected to a word and the somatic dimensions around words

• The fluidity of language

• The relationship between language, perception and power dynamics

• Her upcoming poetry manuscript called An/D De Wata Br eaks Bre aks B reaks: An Automythic Err/Or as a mythological and oracular text

• Sherese’s poetic mother and exploring ‘mothering tongues’

• Phillis Wheatley Peters as an oracle and trickster, and one of her last poems “Ocean”, which she wrote while crossing the Atlantic Ocean from London to Boston in 1773 after promoting her first book of poetry in England.

• Sherese’s contribution to ‘a merfolk happening’ in 2023

• Oceanic imagery, Venus and Neptune, and celestial depictions of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the etching “The Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies”

• Sherese as a river or ocean mermaid and/or deity of deep reflection

• The interactivity of time, oceanic memory and being deeply connected to the past, which is inspired from her review of Rasheedah Phillips’ new book Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space & Time

• Collective / Community Genius

• Sherese learning more about her Afro-Caribbean heritage (Barbados and Dominica)

• Their first time to the Continent of Africa to visit the country of Senegal + SO much more!

RESOURCES:

• Website: http://futuristicallyancient.com

• Instagram: @afutureancient

• Newsletter: Return Key: A Declaration of Interdependence

• Listen to: Voyage of Kianda (from Angola to the Caribbean)(Art Formerly Known As The Sable Venus Speaks Back) by Sherese Francis + their radio broadcast sound- review of Rasheedah Phillip’s new book Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space & Time

• Read: Phillis Wheatley Peters’ poem “Ocean”

• Check out examples of Sherese’s ReVer(b)sions Lab: Poetry and Knowledge and Architexture: Touch and Text

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• a merfolk happening

• Biomythography in Audre Lorde’s “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name”

• Rasheedah Phillips + Black Quantum Futurism

• A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne Brand

• Lewis Latimer House

HOW TO SUPPORT SHERESE’S WORK:

• Subscribe to: Return Key: A Declaration of Interdependence (Substack) + Futuristically Ancient - Creating Alkymic Xperiments with Inner aRKiVes (Patreon)

• Tip/Donate to: her Ko-fi page and/or Cashapp: @afutureancient1 / Paypal: sheresefrancis1 (at) gmail.com.

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In Episode 05, Joyell Arvella talks about her interest in languages and travel, writing as a divination practice and her perspective on birthwork as a traditional midwife.

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Photo Credit: Anu SaharJoyell Arvella, JD (she/her) has been a traditional birth worker for 20 years and is on track to become a Certified Professional Midwife.Through her work as a medicine woman, teacher, and writer she weaves her gifts to support communities through tangible integration.While Joyell no longer works in international human rights law, her background in law and racial equity strategy informs her approach to reproductive autonomy.After sitting with griots and elders to learn the overlaps of midwifery, plant wisdom, and ancestral practices on 5 continents, Joyell created the first birth worker residency to combat burnout, Wombs of Wata, and integration apprenticeship, Lineage in Praxis. When she is not supporting wombs, you can find her designing the first birth and death oracle deck, soaking in a bathtub somewhere in the world, writing her first birthing memoir, or learning another language.

We talk about:

• Joyell growing up in Kent County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland

• Why she has an affinity for languages

• Tapping into other languages outside English

• The value of traveling and communicating with people in their language

• Being set on an ancestral birthwork path at the age of 16

• Coming from a lineage of midwives who have worked with the portal of birth and death

• Tending to her intuitive fire

• Wombs of Wata Birthworker Residency and how it’s growing and changing

• Her passion to re-educate people about out-of-hospital and hospital births

• How traditional midwives provide a variety of skill sets and continuity of care

• The lasting impact of birth

• Sharing and processing our birth stories

• Birth and grief work

• Midwifing herself through uncertainty and waiting

• Her preference for freshwaters like streams, lakes, waterfalls and rivers

• Excavating her relationship with the ocean, particularly as a Daughter of the African Diaspora

• When the ocean took her in Tanzania

• Encountering faeries while on the Backwaters in India

• Joyell’s midwifery practice being inspired by mangrove trees

• (Analog) Writing as a divination practice

• Being a scribe for her bloodlines + SO much more!

RESOURCES:

• Website: The Mangrove Midwife

• Newsletter: bloodwater

• Instagram: @themangrovemidwife

• Wombs of Wata Birthworker Residency

• Song yet Sung by James McBride

HOW TO SUPPORT JOYELL’S WORK:

1. Subscribe to bloodwater

2. Purchase her midwifery registry

3. Contribute to Joyell’s GoFundMe to earn her license

4. Donate space or supplies towards Reroot the Village

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On Episode 04, Nicole Providence France-Coe talks about her experiences being a Mother, the voice as a portal and facilitating ancestor work. Interview starts at 27:45

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedImage Description: Nicole sits in front of a light blue wall wearing a yellow white and blue, tie dye shirt, necklace made out of long and round beads that are different shades of brown, gold hoop earrings and a gold nose piercing. She holds an object in her right hand at eye level that is made out of a yellow string and bead, white seashell and multicolored beads mostly blue, brown, white and beige beads that dangle past her chin. A small hole is cut in the middle of the seashell in which Nicole looks through with one eye. Nicole is a devotee to Great Mystery and all Its beauty, pleasure, liminality, and dismantling power. She is more at home in the Unknown than the Binary and the Static. Being born onto Earth as a mixed race, queer, neurodivergent human has provided the blood and bone blueprint for learning how to dance in the cracks. Nicole relates deeply to the archetypal energy of the Trickster and weaves that energy into her everyday life as a mother, artist, oracle, shamanic practitioner, floral worshiper and ancestral guide.

We talk about:

• The love and labor of being a Mother

• Stewarding her children as Ancestral Beings

• Nicole being from the bayou waters of Louisiana

• The ways her lineages and Guidance showed up during her childhood

• Singing and music always being a part of Nicole’s family

• Being mixed-race and getting to know her maternal and paternal lines

• Nicole being a Kontomblé Voice Diviner and Voice Divinations

• Pluto transforming the Root System or 4th House of Nicole’s astrology chart

• Life as a psychopomp, which in Nicole’s words is someone who walks with the living and the dead and acts as a bridge between worlds

• The voice as a portal for Ancestors to come through

• 12th House vibes and the planet Mercury in astrology

• Exploring liberation sounds and frequencies

• The role of (re)birth in Nicole’s ancestor work

• Nicole’s hope for what the land and ancestors can do in regards to personal, familial and collective healing and strength

• Weaving new stories / Spider Medicine being a part of her Motherline

• Nicole’s offering Candle in the Void + SO much more!

RESOURCES:

• Instagram: @nicolefrancecoe

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• Marissa Correia + Womb School

• School for the Ecocene

• The Telepathy Tapes / These Kids Are TELEPATHIC! They Can Read Minds, See Auras & Speak to The Other Side! | Ky Dickens

• Astrology and Solar System Exploration via NASA *please note, NASA is an independent agency of the US federal government. Their website is one resource out of many different kinds of understandings, knowledge production and presentation around the solar system

HOW TO SUPPORT NICOLE’S WORK:

Donate to her GoFundMe Campaign!

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On Episode 03, Michaela Harrison talks about the whale community she has been connecting with over the last seven years in Bahia, Brasil (dolphins are in the mix too!), whale medicine and the healing power of the voice, sound and music.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedImage Description: Michaela stands at the edge of a white and blue boat sailing in the ocean, facing several humpback whales right in front of her who have surfaced from down below. She wears a white shirt and a white skirt. In the background is the wide expanse of the ocean reflecting the grayish blues of the sky.

Source: Whale Whispering Blog - Grupo Competitivo/Come TogetherMichaela A. Harrison is a recently-returned Washington, D.C. native whose career is rooted in relaying the healing, transformational power of music through song. She has performed nationally and internationally as a soloist and with various bands and musical collectives. As a resident of New Orleans for over 17 years, Michaela established an enthusiastic following at local venues such as Café Istanbul, Second Vine Wine, Ashé Cultural Arts Center and Three Keys at the Ace Hotel.

Michaela began singing in the Baptist church at age five. Her musical style incorporates her gospel roots as well as a diverse range of genres including jazz, blues, R & B, soul, samba, MPB and African traditional music. As a protégé of Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey In The Rock, Michaela is well-versed in spirituals, work songs, and African American protest music from the Civil Rights era. With a four-octave range and a vocal quality that runs the gamut from pristine sweetness to fiercely powerful belting, Michaela has often been compared to such greats as Minnie Riperton and Mahalia Jackson, though she maintains a signature style that distinguishes her voice as easily recognizable no matter what she is singing. Her soulful, heartfelt delivery of both covers and original music has often moved audiences to tears.

Holding a Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Service and a Master's in Africana Studies, Michaela has also studied and lived in East Africa and Brazil. Fluent in French and Portuguese, and familiar with Spanish and Swahili, Michaela has an expanded repertoire of world music and renders songs in their original languages. She infuses her performances with insightful commentary based on her multi-cultural perspective, simultaneously uplifting and educating audiences.

We talk about:

• Michaela’s musical influences and the musical traditions that raised her

• Carrying the consciousness of the continent of Africa while cultivating Afro-Diasporic identity

• Being an Intergalactic siren and the intention for healing being the core of Michaela’s song work

• Michaela’s experiences developing trust with whales and surrendering to the unknown

• What are the experiences of whaling from the whale’s perspectives?

• Being aware of other beings’ histories in addition to the histories of human beings (i.e. what’s happened in the past from the viewpoint of whales)

• The importance of interspecies relationship-building

• Being an animal whisperer most of her life

• Telepathic Communication and it being integral to decolonization work

• Her collaboration with marine biologists and oceanographers

• Whale Whispering being an ancestral calling

• The interaction between enslaved Africans on slave ships and whales during the Middle Passage

• Co-creating sounds and songs with whales and Ancestors to survive and live in this moment

• The Whale-Womb connection and Intergenerational Womb Healing, especially within the context of colonization on the continent of Africa and the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade

• The relationship the people of Bahia, Brasil have with the sea

• Whale Whispering gatherings

• Water work as an act of repair + SO much more!

COLLABORATERS:

• Projeto Baleia Jubarte based in Praia do Forte, Bahia, Brasil

RESOURCES:

• Website: www.michaelaharrison.org + Whale Whispering Blog

• Instagram: @realmichaelaharrison

• Listen to: “Love Wins”, “We are One: Ancestral Flow” and “I Hear You: Together We Heal”

• Read: “Murmurations: What the Whale Whispered” via YES Magazine

HOW TO SUPPORT MICHAELA’S WORK:

Support Whale Whispering by making a donation on her website and/or going to her Music Marketplace page and listening to/downloading various releases with the whales under "Conversations with The Whales". Each track is $7 USD.

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On Episode 02, Nora Almeida talks about her pool and Open Water Swimming experiences in New York City and Latin America, water work and the collaborative projects she is working on, as well as being an Activator in her local community and city.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedImage Description: Nora swims with black goggles and a red swim cap in beautiful turquoise waters with a bright yellow buoy attached to her body, trailing behind her so any nearby boats are aware of her. In the background is a bright blue sky with whisps of white clouds.Nora Almeida is an urban swimmer, performance artist, educator, and activist based in Lenapehoking. Her art explores intersections of archiving, environmental investigation, and spatial disruption. Recent public artworks—Last Street End in Gowanus (2021), Land Use Intervention Library (2022), Creek: Two Cavities of the Heart (ongoing), and Open Water (ongoing)—focus on relationships between people and environmentally disturbed, post-industrial waterfront spaces.

We talk about:

• Pool Access in New York City

• How the start of pandemic in 2020 changed Nora’s swimming life

• How Nora documents her open water swims

• Living with chronic pain

• Attuning to the water and environment while swimming

• Being conscious of when it rains in NYC and how rain impacts Combined Sewage Overflow

• Swimming in the Tapiche River in the Peruvian Amazon and a Volcanic lagoon in Nicaragua, as well as swimming experiences in Lima, Peru, Cali, Columbia and the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador

• Volunteering at Project Amazonas in Tapiche, Peru and Buenaventura Peru in Venado Verde

• Swimming with/near different animals like a seal, dolphins and iguanas

• The one-time Nora needed a rescue

• Her interest in people who live near ecologically disturbed land and water

• Nora’s Open Water Project which involves noticing, oral history gathering and environmental stewardship

• The act of cleaning public spaces (i.e beaches) activating conversations and connection

• The memory of water and flooding in NYC (i.e. Coffey Park in Red Hook)

• How flooding impacts Public Housing residents in NYC and Nora’s interest in people’s experiences with flooding, particularly in Red Hook, Brooklyn

• Experimenting with archival inquiry and activations, especially with the body

• The Hydrofeminist Map Collective exploring what it means to be a hydrofeminist, as well as embodied map-making while spending time with the East River this winter

• What comes up for people when they think about/connect with water?

COLLABORATERS

• iki nakagawa (our project is Creek: Two Cavities of the Heart)

• Hydrofeminist Map Collective (website in progress but I have some documentation here). Members: Nora Almeida, Estefania Mompean Botias, andrea haenggi, Jordan Packer

• Open Water pop-ups: Jordan Packer (Hydrofeminist Map Collective), Olive Toran (Climate Action Emergency Toolkit), Aiesha Bennett (Designer and Photography)

ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE SUPPORTED NORA’S WATER WORK

• Culture Push, Works on Water, Gowanus Dredgers, NYC Parks Stewardship Team and Nora’s open water swimming community at Brighton Beach: CIBBOWS

RESOURCES:

• Website: www.noraalmeida.com

• Instagram: @norasays

• Read: "Leavings”

HOW TO SUPPORT NORA’S WORK:

Follow the podcast on Instagram @throughlinepodcast

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In the first episode I talk about my next adventure starting a year long podcast focused on a variety of topics related to water like mangrove trees, mermaids, oceanic worldmaking and more!

Simone Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and cultural worker mostly making work about/with water. You can find her living, traveling and dreaming in the (or) Aquatic Universe.

I talk about:

• Where I grew up

• All the life directions I’ve been interested in

• The framework, worldview and personal cosmology I’m creating to understand myself and navigate life

• What it’s really like living in the Aquatic Universe

• Water as a throughline

• Walking the path of a dried-out arroyo in New Mexico

• The style of the podcast

• What I want to talk about on this podcast

• The role of astrology in starting this project

• Using free resources to start a podcast

RESOURCES:

• Instagram: @throughlinepodcast

• Subscribe to my newsletter "Dispatches from the Celestial Sea”

• The Desert Issue from The Funambulist Magazine

Follow the podcast on Instagram @throughlinepodcast

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