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Inspiring you with bold stories from Christian activists - people who have embraced the ancient call to action and who will inspire us to do the same. From the Praxis Centre for Hope and Activism. praxiscentre.org twitter @hopefulactivism facebook @hopefulactivists Music used with permission, thank you Dr J and Mira. https://drjpresents.bandcamp.com/
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Social Justice & Activism - The Creative Process - Activists, Environmental, Indigenous Groups, Artists and Writers Talk Diversity, Equity and inclusion
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Social Justice & Activism episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to activists, environmental organizations, indigenous groups, artists, writers & others who have devoted their life to making a difference. Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, leaders & public figures share real experience ...
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Education, The Creative Process: Educators, Writers, Artists, Activists Talk Teachers, Schools & Creativity
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Education episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to educators, writers, artists, activists, teachers, librarians in the arts, STEM & other disciplines. To listen to ALL arts & education episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, a ...
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Two sisters exploring the good deeds and activism of celebrities, beyond the usual news headlines of scandal and sensationalism
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“Innovation Activists: Designing Health Care’s Future” addresses some of health care’s biggest challenges while providing innovators – past, present and future – with practical advice on how to design a future that better serves our patients, colleagues, organizations and society.
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Climate Organizing Shorts is your climate activist’s guide to movement building. Each episode features a short but inspiring conversation with a climate organizer about a topic in building an inclusive and effective movement.
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Toen Steve Vranakis begin november 2017 het podium van het Creativity World Forum in Aarhus betrad, wisten we dat het interessant zou worden. De man, zoon van Griekse migranten, ging zeven jaar geleden na een decennialange carrière in de advertentiewereld bij Google aan de slag. Daar werkt hij bij het Creative Lab, zo’n beetje de speeltuin van een van ’s werelds grootste techbedrijven. In Denemarken vertelde hij over ‘creatieve activisten’, mensen die geloven dat technologie en creativiteit ...
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Meet some of Southern Africa's most talented musicians. Discover their stories and hear their work. But this podcast is about more than that. Each artist is also passionate about keeping traditional African music alive, evolving and, above all, heard. Each one is an African Music Activist.
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On Storytelling & The Human Condition with Booker Prize Winner PAUL LYNCH
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“We narrate the story of our lives to ourselves. We narrate it in linear fashion. And I know many writers have played with time in all sorts of amazing ways, but we're storytellers. This is what we do. And if you give the brain a story, a prepackaged story, you're giving a cheesecake. That's what it wants. That's why it loves stories. That's why o…
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On Storytelling & The Human Condition with Booker Prize Winner PAUL LYNCH
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“We narrate the story of our lives to ourselves. We narrate it in linear fashion. And I know many writers have played with time in all sorts of amazing ways, but we're storytellers. This is what we do. And if you give the brain a story, a prepackaged story, you're giving a cheesecake. That's what it wants. That's why it loves stories. That's why o…
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OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE - Environmentalists, Artists, Scientists & Earth Defenders Share their Stories
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We are privileged to present the voices of individuals dedicated to effecting change and mitigating the harm inflicted upon our precious planet. These are individuals deeply committed to the core values that drive positive transformation. Thank you for tuning in to our episodes and for your ongoing dedication to stewarding our planet, not just on E…
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OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE - Environmentalists, Artists, Scientists & Earth Defenders Share their Stories
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We are privileged to present the voices of individuals dedicated to effecting change and mitigating the harm inflicted upon our precious planet. These are individuals deeply committed to the core values that drive positive transformation. Thank you for tuning in to our episodes and for your ongoing dedication to stewarding our planet, not just on E…
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Performance, Politics, Art & Society w/ Sociologist RICHARD SENNETT - Highlights
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“I'm really interested in the relation between performance and ritual. Where do those two separate?” Richard Sennett grew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, attended the Juilliard School in New York, and then studied social relations at Harvard. Over the last five decades, he has written about social life in cities, changes in labo…
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The Performer: Art, Life, Politics with RICHARD SENNETT, Sociologist & Author
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“We look at creative work as though the very creative process itself is something good. These are tools of expression, and like any tool, you can use them to damage something or to make something. They can be turned to very malign purposes, for instance, in the operas of Wagner. So I wanted to do this set of books, I want to show what is kind of th…
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Exploring the Extremes of the Human Experience with Neurologist DR. GUY LESCHZINER - Highlights
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“One of the things that hopefully my books illustrate is that everybody's mind is different. And one of the amazing things about the human experience–and indeed that manifests in terms of art and creativity–is that when we have such different minds, that is why all this creativity, all this art is possible.” Dr. Guy Leschziner is the author of The …
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Sleep, The Nocturnal Brain & The Biology of Being Human w/ DR. GUY LESCHZINER, Neurologist
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“ I'm fascinated by the extremes of the human experience, partly because it is so far removed from our own experience of life. In another way, when you look at people who have neurological disorders or diseases, these are really nature's experiments. They are ways of trying to understand how the brain works for all of us. By extrapolation from look…
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ADAM MOSS - Fmr. Editor of New York Magazine, Author, Artist on Creativity as a Process - Highlights
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“When I was working at the Times and the Times Magazine, on one Tuesday morning, the towers fell. September 11, 2001. The magazine had a 10-day lead time, so it was a weekly that was essentially 10 days old by the time it came out. We came to work and realized the world had changed, and the entire process, the magazine had been made for over a hund…
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On Postactivism, Justice & Decolonization with BAYO AKOMOLAFE - Highlights
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“So, post-activism is not ‘post-activism’ in the sense of being after activism. It is not supposed to be a through line to results or resolutions or solutions.” Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, writer, public intellectual, and the founder of the Emergence Network. His work, which he names post-activism, marks an earth-wide effort …
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On Postactivism, Justice & Decolonization with BAYO AKOMOLAFE - Highlights
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“So, post-activism is not ‘post-activism’ in the sense of being after activism. It is not supposed to be a through line to results or resolutions or solutions.” Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, writer, public intellectual, and the founder of the Emergence Network. His work, which he names post-activism, marks an earth-wide effort …
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The Future of Activism: When Solutions Become Problems w/ BAYO AKOMOLAFE
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“I learn more than anything else from my children. My son, he's seven, he's autistic, and I call him my prophet for a reason. He teaches me to meet myself in ways that are usually very stunning. I can get information from other people; I can read a book here and there, but it's very rare to come across such an embodiment of grace, possibility, and …
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The Future of Activism: When Solutions Become Problems w/ BAYO AKOMOLAFE
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“I learn more than anything else from my children. My son, he's seven, he's autistic, and I call him my prophet for a reason. He teaches me to meet myself in ways that are usually very stunning. I can get information from other people; I can read a book here and there, but it's very rare to come across such an embodiment of grace, possibility, and …
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KATIE KITAMURA on Language, Identity & the Search for Agency - Highlights
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“This novel is the third in what I see as a little set of books that all feature unnamed female protagonists who have experienced varying degrees of passivity and agency in their lives. They're all women who speak the words of other people.” Katie Kitamura is the author five novels, most recently Audition and Intimacies, which was named one of the …
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Art, Performance & the Illusion of Agency - KATIE KITAMURA on her new novel AUDITION
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“I'm really interested in the formal aspect of characters who are channeling language, who are speaking the words of other people, and in characters who are aware of how little agency they actually have, who have passivity forced upon them, who perhaps even embrace their passivity to a certain extent but eventually seek out where they can enact the…
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JARON LANIER on Tech, Music, Creativity & Who Owns the Future - Highlights
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“What I meant when I said there is no AI is that I don't think we serve ourselves well when we put our own technology up as if it were a new God that we created. I think we confuse ourselves too easily. This goes back to Alan Turing, the main founder of computer science, who had this idea of the Turing test. In the test, you can't tell whether the …
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AI, Virtual Reality & Dawn of the New Everything w/ JARON LANIER, Father of VR, Musician, Author
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“AI is obviously the dominant topic in tech lately, and I think occasionally there's AI that's nonsense, and occasionally there's AI that's great. I love finding new proteins for medicine and so on. I don't think we serve ourselves well when we put our own technology up as if it were a new God that we created. I think we're really getting a little …
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Why is there so much conflict over people, land and resources? AUDREA LIM - Highlights
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“When I first started writing this book, it really foregrounded the problems within our land ownership system, which treats land as a commodity. The way we talk about land and issues like racial and food justice reflects this. We tend to focus on the problems, attaching big concepts to them, such as racial justice or environmental justice. I realiz…
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Why is there so much conflict over people, land and resources? AUDREA LIM - Highlights
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“When I first started writing this book, it really foregrounded the problems within our land ownership system, which treats land as a commodity. The way we talk about land and issues like racial and food justice reflects this. We tend to focus on the problems, attaching big concepts to them, such as racial justice or environmental justice. I realiz…
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Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? JAMES FISHKIN - Highlights
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“The three ills of democracy that I propose to address with this method, which we've perfected over the last several decades. Democracy is supposed to make some connection with the "will of the people." But how can we estimate the will of the people when everyone is trying to manipulate it?” James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in Interna…
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Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? JAMES FISHKIN - Highlights
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“The three ills of democracy that I propose to address with this method, which we've perfected over the last several decades. Democracy is supposed to make some connection with the "will of the people." But how can we estimate the will of the people when everyone is trying to manipulate it?” James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in Interna…
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Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty & Climate Chaos with AUDREA LIM
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Why is there so much conflict over people, land, and resources? How can we rethink capitalism and land ownership to create a fairer, more equitable society? Audrea Lim is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer and journalist whose work focuses on land, energy, and the environment. Her writing has appeared in TheNew Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, the N…
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Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty & Climate Chaos with AUDREA LIM
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Why is there so much conflict over people, land, and resources? How can we rethink capitalism and land ownership to create a fairer, more equitable society? Audrea Lim is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer and journalist whose work focuses on land, energy, and the environment. Her writing has appeared in TheNew Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, the N…
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Discipleship in Action {ProximityxHopefulActivists}
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What does it mean to follow Jesus today? Abi Thomas dives into the lives of four incredible guests who are living as apprentices to Jesus for this special episode with the amazing team at Proximity. Expect inspiring stories, practical insights, and some surprising moments as we explore: ✨ Learning and doing on-the-job discipleship ✨ Whole-life disc…
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What is Deliberative Democracy & How Can it Serve Society? w/ JAMES S. FISHKIN
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“Deliberative democracy is itself, when properly done, a kind of democracy that can speak to the interests of a community. And we need that all over the world.” James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy), Se…
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