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The Creativity Cafe
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For the creatively adventurous, this is The Creativity Cafe Podcast. Hosts Paige and Jordana answer your questions about creativity, share ideas to spark your creative practice, and interview creatives from all over the world. So grab a cup of tea and join us in discovering new creative landscapes, here on The Creativity Café.Paige Baldwin Ando: Writer and Creativity Coachwww.wholeselfcreative.comhttps://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative/Jordana Matsuda: Illustrator https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration/
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Jewelry Made for All with Lia D'Apote
Lia D'Apote is a jewelry artist who's originally from Italy, and has been living in Tallinn, Estonia for four years. With her primary media being sterling silver or brass and including some precious gemstones, Lia crafts pieces that aim to help every woman connect with her feminine power and be...
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Exploring Creative Curiosity with Ashley Rodriguez Reed
Ashley Rodriguez Reed is an artist, designer, and educator with over 15 years of experience. Her creative path started in a childhood full of imagination and messes. Today, she works from her home studio in Japan, raising three kids and making art along the way. She is inspired by the natural...
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Art Curation with Thara Ladrech
From interior design and styling workshops to pop-up events and gallery scenogrophies, Thara Ladrech creates environments that inspire and connect. In her impressive and storied career, Thara has reimagined IKEA stores, developed concept stores, and staged floral intallations in the Ikebana...
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The Joy of Whimsical Art with Ronide Comeau
Using Instagram as her medium, Ronide Comeau creates videos and digital comics that strive to bring out the whimsical in black girls and women who have felt like they weren't a part of the stereotype of what a black girl can be. With humour, playfulness, and delightful curiosity, Ronide invites…
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Creative Curiosity with Dana Batho
Dana Batho is an artist, teacher, and veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces. After a training injury ended her career as a RCAF Intelligence Officer, she returned to her artistic roots as a way to heal and help inspire others to be creative. Having recently returned to oil painting after a 15 year...
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Working with Intuition to Make Art with Jordana Matsuda
In this episode, Paige interviews Jordana to discover what she has been working on behind the scenes and how her creative journey has evolved over the last few years. Additionally, discover all the details about Jordana's upcoming exhibition in Tokyo. Find out more about Jordana:...
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Embracing Your Online Style with Ruth Lever
Ruth Lever is the creative force behind Rule Design, helping entrepreneurs turn their brands and websites into customer magnets. With brand strategy and SEO-friendly web design, she builds brands that fuel business growth and looks epic doing it. Ruth offered some good advice and insights on how…
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Creating Art for Change and Healing with Henna Bakhshi
Henna Bakhshi is a self-taught artist creating art for change and healing. Through her work, she strives to tell under-represented stories and start conversations that lead to connections, community, and liberation. Henna believes art has the power to change hearts and minds and hopes her art…
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Creating Breath-by-Breath with Filiz Soyak
Filiz Soyak is an interdisciplinary artist creating through intuitive mark-making in painting, fiber, clay, and installation, whose work has been exhibited and collected internationally for over two decades. Her work explores territories of intuition, subconsciousness, and is about creating and...
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Coaching Creative Powerhouses with Paige Baldwin Ando
We are back with episode 1 of season 6, and we are so excited to be introducing you to some very special people from all over the world. Today, though, I am speaking to my co-host Paige about the work she does to help creative people bring their dreams to fruition....
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Interweaving Music, Magic, and Astrology with Sorcha Chisholm
Originally from Adelaide, Australia, songwriter, musician, poet, and podcaster, Sorcha Chisholm has been living in Tokyo since 2004. With a voice and demeanour that both soothe and intrigue, Sorcha's work invites us into a world that asks us to go deep and get real. Her monthly podcast, The Witch...
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The Joy of Creative Play with Raj Kaur
Originally from London, Raj Kaur has spent the last six years living in Bavaria, in the south of Germany. Combining her professional work as a freelance Design Director for Brands with her art and illustration practice, Raj's work covers a vast array of explorations. She strives to find the…
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The Power of Feminine Art with Miho Murakami
Miho Murakami is a Filipino-Japanese fashion designer and self-taught muralist and painter based in Tokyo. She draws inspiration from the vibrant interplay of colors in nature, infusing her art with a deep appreciation for cultural diversity and feminine beauty. Her work is characterized by a...
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Writing for a Certain Age with Jean Shields Fleming
Jean Shields Fleming is an American novelist and both the founder and editor in chief of Certain Age, a magazine dedicated to unleashing women's power, one story at a time. Chock full of poems, reflections, and other features, Certain Age shares wisdom, perspective, truth-telling, and opinion…
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Colourful Mosaic Art with Caroline Jariwala
Caroline Jariwala is an ethical mosaic artist based in the West Midlands in the UK. Caroline creates vibrant, lively mosaics with varied themes using chipped, rejected, thrown away and second hand crockery and cheap tiles that would ordinarily be destined for landfill. By using these materials…
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Femininity Through Fabric Art with Ema Shin
Ema Shin is a Melbourne-based artist who was born and raised in Niigata, Japan. After studying printmaking at Tama Art University in Tokyo, Ema completed a Master of Fine Art Degree at Aichi University of the Arts in Aichi, Japan. Her recent solo exhibition, Hearts of Absent Women, is a…
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Welcome to Season 5 with Paige and Jordana
We are so excited to be back with you all and today to kick off season 5 we are catching up on how we are both feeling and what we have been up to since the end of season 4. As always, if you have a question for us for our regular Ask Us Anything segment, please get in touch with us by email or…
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VIDEO PODCAST! Introducing The Motherhood Project
We have a special episode for you today! Paige and Mioko Mochizuki (Season 1 guest), sit down with Jordana, Haneka Azuma and Laura Pearson to discuss a deeply meaningful project Paige and Mioko started over a year ago, The Motherhood Project. The Motherhood Project was born when Art Educator…
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Introducing The Motherhood Project
We have a special episode for you today! Paige and Mioko Mochizuki (season 1 guest), sit down with Jordana, Haneka Azuma and Laura Pearson to discuss a deeply meaningful project Paige and Mioko started over a year ago, The Motherhood Project. The Motherhood Project was born when Art Educator…
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Collaborating with the Natural World with Ava Roth
Ava Roth is a Toronto-based encaustic painter, embroiderer and mixed-media artist who's spent the past decade working almost exclusively with beeswax. Ava is fundamentally guided and inspired by the organic and local materials she relies on, such as Canadian beeswax, foraged wood, birch bark,...
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Channelling Creative Flow with Satsuki Shibuya
In her abstract pieces that blend mesmerizing colors and shapes, Satsuki Shibuya, a native of Los Angeles, California, invites us to notice the ways the energies of the unseen world can be translated into something more tangible. While the primary medium she might be known for is watercolor, she...
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Meet the Illustrators from The Emerging Queendom
In this special episode, we interviewed all 4 of the illustrators commissioned to create images for the upcoming publication of the book Paige Co-created with Maria, The Emerging Queendom. It was fascinating to hear how each illustrator approached the project so listen as we learn more about this...
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The Emerging Queendom book with Maria and Paige.
The Emerging Queendom book is a creative collaboration between Maria, a fiber artist and cross stitch designer from Tallinn (Estonia) and Paige, a writer and creativity coach from Tokyo (Japan). Perfect for fans of fantasy and fiber arts alike, The Emerging Queendom is a celebration of strength,...
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Altered Books with Isobelle Ouzman
Isobelle Ouzman is a multinational artist who creates intricate, magical worlds through her work as an Altered Book Artist in Bratislava, Slovakia. Having been born in Leeds, in the United Kingdom, Isobelle relocated to Washington state in the US as a teenager. Through her work with altered…
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Bending Time with YA Author Clara Kumagai
Clara Kumagai is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. Her fiction and non-fiction for children and adults has been published in The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Banshee and The Kyoto Journal. Her debut YA novel, Catfish Rolling blends magical realism with Japanese myth in a story about grief, memory...
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The Joy of Baking with Stacey Ward of Mornington Crescent
Owner of Mornington Crescent Baking School and Bakery here in Tokyo, Japan, Stacey Ward originally hails from the Stockport, in the UK. Through the bakery, Stacey teaches people to make delicacies that might be different from what they're used to, but give them new baking skills and a fresh...
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A Colorful Chat with Dar James
Through her bold and innovative use of vibrant color, painter Dar James invites us into a world of striking shapes and textures. From her home in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania in the United States, Dar is a full-time working and teaching artist, the writer and illustrator of six picture books...
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Land Art with Mayumi Nakabayashi
Born on the eastern edge of the Eurasian continent, in Hokkaido, Japan, Mayumi Nakabayashi has now spent 24 years on its western end, in the Republic of Ireland. While Mayumi's primary medium of expression is Land Art, which is art that's made through and with natural materials in the…
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Joyful Fabric Arts with Rosemary of The NuaNua
The Nuanua is a colourful creative space created by Rosemary, an artist and designer living in Sydney Australia. Starting with woven wall hangings, her creative journey has moved into more fibre art including punch needle and the most recent addition of rug tufting. The name of her creative space...
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Intuitive Embroidery with Lindsey Gradolph
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States, Lindsey Gradolph has lived in various parts of Japan since 2009. Using repurposed denim and other secondhand or vintage textiles, Lindsey creates abstract, intuitive embroidery works that each compose their own little universes.…
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Inspired Glass Mosaics with Siobhan Allen
Inspired by the interplay of light and colour with geometric patterns, and the work of the great Catalan artist Gaudi, our guest Siobhan Allen creates multi-hued stained glass mosaics that express the sacredness and divinity inherent in the world around her. Previously a bodywork therapist...
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Wrapping up Season 3
Season three has finished, and Jordana and Paige share their thoughts about what themes came up throughout the season. Thank you for listening and for all your wonderful questions throughout the season. We look forward to seeing you again in 2024 for season four.
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Through a Devoted Lens with Lisa Knight
Born in Sydney, Australia, self-taught photographer and videographer Lisa Knight now makes her home here in Tokyo, Japan. Through her work for Tokyo Weekender, Tokyo's longest-running English-language magazine, Lisa provides glimpses into life in the capital that reveal the pulsing aliveness of…
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Celebrating the Intersectional with Nina Alberg
Hailing originally from the Caribbean island of Curacao, Nina Alberg has lived in the Netherlands since the age of 17. Under the name Mimi Moffie, she creates bold, vibrant digital illustrations inspired by women, and that represent Black women in particular. Combining evocative words with vivid...
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How Things Go Together with Kat Chetram
Originally form London in the United Kingdom, Kat Chetram has lived in Tokyo since 2014. While her primary medium is photography, Kat also dabbles in graphic design, writing, and painting. Kat's street photography invites viewers to get curious about ourselves, others, and the world around us, so...
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Sustainable Art with Melissa Finkenbiner
Having been born and raised in rural Ohio in the United States, Melissa Finkenbiner has now lived and created art in the US, Myanmar, Armenia, Zimbabwe, and Japan. As a cross-disciplined fine artist and metalsmith, all of Melissa's work is linked by recycled and sustainable materials with earthy...
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Shaping Functional Art with Ceramicist Laura Pearson
Originally from Scotland, ceramicist Laura Pearson has lived in Japan for 8 years. Now based in Shonan Kamakura--a seaside town about an hour from Tokyo--Laura creates unique homeware pieces that center the user's connection with the items they use every day. Paying mind to the textural and…
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Getting on Stage with Kate Sikora
Kate Sikora is a singer-songwriter from New Jersey, USA, who now lives in Tokyo, Japan. Kate has been writing lyrics and poetry since she could pick up a pen, and started learning guitar at age 12 in order to turn her poetry into songs. Kate’s emphasis has always been on lyrics, with the music...
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Intuitive Seascapes with Jo Payne
Originally from London, Jo Payne has spent the last ten years living on the North Devon Coast, by way of Surrey and Kent. A self-taught artist, Jo creates atmospheric and elemental sea and sky paintings that are riveting in their scope and emotional impact. Driven and inspired by her coastal...
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The Power of Voice with Tenie Sangma
Since moving to Japan from India in 2007, Tenie Sangma has made Tokyo her home. Using her vast array of skills in the field of Speech and Drama, Tenie helps young people develop confidence and build skills in communication, and in expressing their creativity. Making self-expression accessible to...
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When Science Meets Art with Selin Balci
Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Selin Balci has lived in the United States since 2003. There, she's blazed her own trail in the field of bio-art, a new direction in contemporary art that utilizes living organisms. Having been a researcher of microscopic pathogens in forests before beginning her...
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Thoughts on Season 2
In this episode Paige and Jordana talk about the themes that came up over season 2, what resonated with them, and what they are both working on at the moment. Email us your Ask Us Anything questions here: [email protected] Or DM here: https://instagram.com/thecreativitycafe21 Paige...
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The Art of Global Living with Karen M. Ricks
As a worldschooler, a chef, and a yoga instructor, Karen Ricks weaves learning into everything she does. Having lived in over a dozen countries on four continents as she educates, cooks, and soaks up her own learning, Karen's work intertwines the cultures she comes into contact with and honors...
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Building Sewing Confidence with Aims Watts
Hailing from Canberra, Australia, Aims Watts has lived in six different countries and is about to make Fiji the next! Her most long-lasting home outside Australia has been Japan, where she started Indy Bindy Fabrics, featuring unique fabrics lovingly made by extraordinary artisans throughout…
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Trusting the Inner Voice with Caroline Storie
Originally from the UK, Caroline Storie now makes her home on the stunningly beautiful Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. After years of working with stitching on paper, Caroline is currently in the midst of a shift where she's exploring other creative pulls. Her current interest is in...
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The Joy of Podcasting with Jayne Nakata
Originally from New Zealand, Jayne Nakata is the award-winning host of the #1 podcast for international women living in Japan: Transformations with Jayne. She's also the co-host of the Japan and NZ business podcast, Jandals in Japan. In 2021, Jayne started PodLaunch with Jayne, which helps...
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The Importance of Home with Elle C. Wolfe
From her home near Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States, Elle C. Wolfe ushers her interior design clients into environments that reflect who they really are. Working with mood boards to guide the experience, she leads people from a home environment they might not really like, to one that evokes...
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Lifting Our Voices with Annie Nakahara-Knight
From Scotland to England to France to Japan, Annie Nakahara-Knight has brought her love of music-making along with her every step of the way. Passionate about sharing music with everyone, regardless of their background or training, Annie has led various groups and classes in strengthening...
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A Journey Through Creativity and Motherhood: An Interview with Helena Svendsen
Having made her home in 8 different countries over the course of her life, Helena Svendsen's work explores the nature of a different form of home: the body of a woman, specifically as it takes on the role of mother. Through her own experience becoming a mother, Helena's attention fell to the ways...
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When in Doubt, Draw: An interview with Divya Marie Kato
Divya Kato is a British-Indian artist and educator who has been working in Japan for over seventeen years and drawing since receiving her first pack of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle crayons. From an art scholarship to The Royal Masonic School, to a Fine Art degree that led her to Tokyo where she…
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For the creatively adventurous, this is The Creativity Cafe Podcast. Hosts Paige and Jordana answer your questions about creativity, share ideas to spark your creative practice, and interview creatives from all over the world. So grab a cup of tea and join us in discovering new creative landscapes, here on The Creativity Café.Paige Baldwin Ando: Writer and Creativity Coachwww.wholeselfcreative.comhttps://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative/Jordana Matsuda: Illustrator https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration/
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