conscient podcast

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[frogs 2017 05 22, Preston River, QC]

Welcome to the conscient podcast. My name is Claude Schryer. 

Season 1 was about exploring how the arts contribute to environmental awareness and a…

• I think the arts and culture more widely has a huge role to play in shaping our belief systems and values that determine the way that we relate to the environment.

Sholeh Johnston, e08, conscient podc…

• What does it mean to be creative facilitators in the age of climate change in the midst of a disaster? Some learnings: self-care is community care, good solutions scale up and the need to work with t…

• It’s about asking where do I start?  Maybe you don't know exactly where you want to end up yet, but if you start somewhere and are curious, try things and get feedback, and you keep iterating, ultima…

• The way to make artists and arts organizations thrive is to make sure that climate change is a part of their thoughts, business plans and strategic plans because the timeline is short and severe clim…

• Scientists tell us the what (observable evidence of what's happening or what's coming). Artists can provide the so what (why is it important? what does it mean? why should we care?). Sustainablists p…

• There's a textile metaphor of culture where our actions just weave into the weft that's already there and change the pattern and shift and alter things… 

Andrew Freiband, Creative Climate Leadership U…

• I look for artists and the cultural sector to help us envisage a future that's positive. We've tended to spend our whole time talking to each other about how bad it is and I'm looking for some hope.

D…

• Ask yourself: what are you? What do you, as an artist, want to perpetuate in the world? Is what you're doing perpetuating the values and the culture that you want to see? 

Eliana Dunlap, Creative Clim…

• Art is a practice of expanding consciousness, which gives us a tremendous opportunity to explore and to embody possibility and to engage with the earth as it continues to change and with each other.

R…

• It’s like this critter, this virus, this nature, has moved in to this realm of culture and we're watching things drop away that we created and use to define ourselves as human, versus animal: this li…

• I think the arts, and culture more widely, has a huge role to play in shaping our belief systems and values that determine the way that we relate to the environment.

Sholeh Johnston, CCL USA, March, 2…

• Are we willing to divest from our arts practices, or to change radically our performance practices, in order to make necessary changes and concessions?

milton lim, conscient podcast, january 2020, ott…

• I really believe that what we call arts in this culture now, its role is to inform, form and transform the nature of cultures in relation with the world.  I think that's what we're talking about when…

• Art can speak to people in meaningful ways that really does call on us to respond to this differently. So wherever you are, anywhere in the world, you will almost certainly have some kind of creative…

• What triggered my climate denial bubble to burst? I feel compelled to share this personal experience, in the hope that it might help others who are also struggling with the current sustainability cri…