Tripping with Tripp

THANK YOU for all the listens, likes, subscribes and reviews for the podcast. Much appreciated. This episode is our Season Finale for Tripping with Tripp​ + New Beginnings at Habitable Spaces​ with our new remote interview technology. A recap of the MANY major events that occurred from March 2020 to today and how it weaves throughout our interviews. Stay tuned for a totally different Season 2 with TrippnLarry and the Catskill region of New York State.

Queer Nomadic Ceramist, Artist and Writer Sweeney Brown shares how they came to Habitable Spaces, their art and their sobriety journey. Also, Sweeney will describe their stay at Habitable Spaces during quarantine and what they love most about the farm.

In this episode, we talk about imagination, dream spaces, and utopia schools. Our guest is Jamie “Idea” Iglehart. Jamie is a multimedia artist, teacher, professor of visual narrative at the City University of New York. We explore Jamie's work, the dream spaces, and the line between imagination transitioning to building concrete worlds. We also talk about her social and experimental projects involving play. We also discuss her works in a variety of disciplines and Jamie’s educational platforms that democratize learning such as free schools.

Stay tuned to learn more about utopian fantasy, dream interpretation, personal iconography and utopian concept.

Beto Rincón is a farmer, artist, teacher, and dancer working at Teatro in Seguin, TX. While teaching in Pittsburgh, PA, he met a student who would eventually be a volunteer farmer at Habitable Spaces farm and artist residency. Beto’s involvement with Teatro dates back to when he started dancing folkloric dance at the age of four. His mother also played Mariachi guitar while he was in the womb, the reason he was born with the rhythm that made him a drummer.

Since then, Beto has been a member of some of Teatro’s award-winning groups, a dance intern, instructor, and now works as Ballet Folklorico (folkloric dance) Artistic Director with Teatro, a nonprofit whose mission is to provide a better understanding of the Mexican-American people through the promotion and practice of arts.

He has also participated in Teatro’s Agroecology and Artist in Education programs where he has taught Mexican-American culture through performing Ballet Folklorico and lectures.

Beto also shares his culinary and food passion, a skill he mastered since he was 15, passed down to him from his grandmother who taught boys how to cook because she didn’t have any girls.

Meet Beto Rincón, Ballet Folklorico Artistic Director!

How much do you know about mushrooms? Some of us only know mushrooms from a plate and have little to no knowledge about them. In this episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing local mycologist, farmer and teacher, Ali Stone. Ali and I will be talking about all things mushies and mycelium. Ali will tell us how the pandemic has changed the world, her utopia, and post-pan travel goals. Ali has a passion for mycology. Also, she loves teaching farming and mycology to other people.

Art has many facets, and we have multi-faceted artists. In this episode, I interview two talented Brooklyn-based artists Cat Glennon and Ken Madore. Cat and Ken were resident artists at Habitable Spaces working on a fabulous stained glass mosaic wall they will be telling us about.

Cat and Ken will be sharing their art journey, how they dealt with the early days of Corona living with housemates in an old hotel, their history with the farm, their projects, and visions for their art. Also, the artists will be sharing words of wisdom for people who want to take a similar journey to theirs.

Listen in and learn!

Two volunteer farmers from the Netherlands, Jerry and Sanne, share the experiences they had traveling to to Cuba before arriving in New Orleans, then the farm. They'll tell us what their first impressions were and give us highlights from their stay.

When Covid-19 restrictions started, the two farmers were here in the United States. Their home country (Netherlands) restricted all flights. Jerry and Sanne got locked out of their country. After consulting with their family and friends in the Netherlands, they decided to continue exploring the US in a mobile home. One thing they knew for sure was the fact that they could always come back to Habitable Spaces and be welcome.

Christina Lee Shane was one of the first volunteer farmers and is an operations consultant and project manager working in diverse fields from software and social media to farm to table businesses. Christina has volunteered as an Outreach Coordinator at Habitable Spaces since 2012 and at WWOOF (Worldwide Opportunities On Organic Farms). In early 2020, she represented the “Yang Gang” and volunteered on the trail for Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign, where she met many friends and acquaintances she has stayed in touch with since.

In this episode, we chat about our chance meetings under disco balls, her journey and political experiences, working as a volunteer, how the pandemic has revealed our system's vulnerabilities and so much more.

THIS is Magic Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, a FIRECRACKER born to Puerto Rican immigrant parents near the Bronx River Projects and Yankee Stadium. Growing up she was known as a bookworm outsider, "artsy," "the new wave chick," "wanna-be white," and "from the 'hood" until graduating from the arts-target high school that the show FAME was based on. That intersectionality grew to be reflected in the concepts she works with in her artwork, shown all over the world. With her drawing skills, she had early success in NYC showing at some of the top galleries with her graphic mural drawings and performance installation pieces. Most recently she performed at the National Portrait Gallery. Wanda left NYC for a calling to teach young minds as she was offered professorship opportunity in Florida. She’s on the tenured track at Central Florida University as Associate Professor, which many artists aspire to, but never succeed. 

This Artist in Residence was one of the first characters I met on my arrival at the farm in March of 2020, just as lockdown began. Wanda did such a superb follow up on social media after leaving the farm, I decided to interview her again to talk about all the crazy shit we've seen in the period of a year, plus how our experiences living at the farm have affected us. We had a BALL together during these interviews!

CREDITS | Producer - Caitlin Pierce | Editor - Ben Montoya | Train Town Band Members: Seth Armstrong - Song Writer, Vocals, Guitar | Jerry McNulty - Steel Guitar | Dru Bengsston - Bass | Music Producer - David Beck | SPECIAL THANKS: 2020 Audio Podcast Fellows at Stony Brook University-Manhattan​ [PodcastFellows.com]

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