All Episodes
conscient podcast — 243 episodes
a calm presence - pressing pause
e244 roundtable – death as transformation
ENCORE e41 jen rae – emergency preparedness
a calm presence - uplift
e243 francisco rodriguez – amazon awareness
e242 roundtable - dissolving boundaries
e241 roundtable – everyday habits for transforming systems
e240 claudia salguero – community, beauty, nature
e239 roundtable – imagining in public e2 - artist perspectives on social impact
e238 roundtable – sonic research group - low tech
e237 helen yung – art as refuge
e236 keiko torigoe – the power of listening
e235 lallan – art from the soil
e234 emily marie séguin – a sense of community
e233 andrew freiband – care as artistic practice
e232 meghan moe beitiks - angles of consequence
e231 kelly wilhelm – what can we contribute?
e230 sarah peebles – how can we reciprocate?
e229 don hill – amplifying voices
e228 rafael zen – artists as dreamers
e227 judith marcuse – spiritual strengthening
e226 roundtable - listening in relation
e225 hildegard westerkamp – when we were young
e224 sarah heynen – food as a solution that invites people in
e223 anonymous - #downtowncritters
e222 wendalyn bartley – restoring our connection with nature
e221 annais linares and ben finley – arts-based kin making
e220 tina pearson – what is art anyway?
e219 adam kahane – radical engagement
e218 roundtable - surviving the future
e217 devora neumark - sitting with emotions
e216 roundtable – in memoriam tracey friesen
e215 chris creighton-kelly – optimism of the will
e214 roundtable – this moment in canadian culture
e213 stephen huddart – so much to do
e212 max wyman – taking action
e211 azul carolina duque - art as medicine
e210 roundtable – art and science
e209 robert and peter janes – telling the truth through art
ENCORE e01 terrified - climate denial bubble
ENCORE e85 tracey friesen (in memoriam) - narratives of resilience
e208 clara schryer - science as story
e207 kenneth newby - living with grace
e206 arno kopecky - art as an inexhaustible resource
e205 sheila james - create, heal, love
e204 sophie weider - hearing young voices through art
e203 leslie reid - climate as art
e202 coman poon - what are you doing with your life ?
e201 robin sokoloski - why arts matter
e200 maggie chang - the power of art
e199 judi pearl - an ineffable shift
e198 tim brodhead - later is too late
e197 zan chandler - other ways of responding to the world
e196 alice irene whittaker (part 2) - homing, a book review
e195 emma bugg - art, scholarship and environment
e194 owais lightwala and sgs - manifesting for now
e193 yin paradies - interweaving everything with everything else
e192 julia matamoros - cultural transformation & art
e191 luc lalande - community arts during times of crisis
e190 kim fry - appealing to hearts and souls
e189 tanya kalmanovitch - mobilizing the power of the arts
e188 dawit seto - talking about climate through art
e187 alice irene whittaker - caring for the planet I love
e186 yahya aka semzyiri - collective liberation as planetary right
e185 sandra laronde - home never leaves you
e184 cpamo ai panel - from precarity to stability
world listening day 2024 - listening to the weave of time
e183 imagining in public - cultural leadership in a changing world
e182 ian garrett - modelling what we want on the other side
e181 dawn dale - reconnecting with nature through art
e180 mary edwards - capturing the beauty and terror of reality
e179 katrine claassens and sébastian méric de bellefon - art, science and climate leadership
e178 podium 2024 - what more can we sing and do?
e177 asma khan - unknownness as a playground for artists
e176 annette hegel - art is a tactic
e175 sabine breitsameter - an aesthetic of care
e174 julie andreyev - more-than-human creativity
e173 kelly mcinnes - late stage remedy
e172 beth carruthers - a living sentient place
e171 kimberly skye richards - dept of utopian arts & letters
e170 sonic research group (part 2)
e169 louise adongo - we’re all artists
e168 felicia young - together through art
e167 barbara cuerden - tending the garden of art
e166 david maggs - the art of being
e165 bill crandall - art can change us
e164 jimmy ung - proximity proportionate responsibility
e163 transition innovation group - art and defeatism
e162 terri hron - an ecological lens
bonus episode - solar eclipse 2024
e161 alchemize circle - a conversation with kamea chayne
e160 shannon litzenberger - a culture of collective thriving
e159 jane marsland - it’s all about balance
e158 bob sirman - engaging with the artistic experience
e157 sonic research group (part 1)
e156 siobhan angus - camera geologica
e155 sanita fejzic - peasant futurisms
e154 riel schryer - the art of history and gaming
e153 full circle - how can we support those who are frightened by the ecological crisis and in need of a calm presence?
e152 questions - what do you question?
e151 rain - can you hear the sound of catastrophe in the rain and thunder?
e150 compactor - are there strange sounds on your street?
e149 spinning - let the sound take you wherever it might in your imagination
60 Minute Cities Ottawa (revisited)
e148 ai - what is the sound of modernity for you?
e147 worlding - what worlding stories do you hear ?
e146 countdown - can you turn back time?
e145 bear - what do you think about grieving our dying planet and sitting with this sadness?
e144 drifting - can you go with the flow?
e143 defeatism - what are you not ready to see?
e142 consent - do keep listening
bonus episode - unlearning through sound
e141 filature - what does gatineau sound like?
e140 saturation - how can we tap into our boundless streams of love, connection and meaning?
e139 stream - this episode. Is about listening. to this stream. for 5 minutes. enjoy.
e138 rouge - fishy, where are you?
e137 ritardando - do slowing down sounds slow you down?
e136 electricity - are. you. powerless?
e135 layers - how do you feel now?
e134 drops - are you a drop of water?
e133 deconstruction - how can you constructively deconstruct?
e132 slow - how does the pace of speech relate to the sound of modernity?
e131 modernity - are you modernity?
e130 fiction - what stories do you want to hear?
e117 portrait of robin mathews (bonus episode)
e129 world listening day - what does world listening day mean to you?
e128 revisited - what does decolonized listening sound like to you?
e127 halfway - towards what are you midway?
e126 sleepless - what keeps you up at night?
e125 observer - how do you respond to climate news?
e125 promenade - how do you soundwalk?
e123 maps - what possibilities do you not yet know?
e122 quiet - stop and listen
e121 rumble - what killed dr decibel?
e120 metro - stop and listen
e119 construction - how does the sound of construction affect you?
e118 toilet - where does your shit go?
e117 - deeper into the forest (bonus)
e117 - deeper into the forest
e116 loss - what does ecological loss sound like where you live?
e115 ordinary - open your window and listen, what do you hear?
e114 privilege - what are the privileges in your life?
e113 soundwalk (part 2) - how can we deepen our listening?
e113 soundwalk (part 1) - what is my position in listening ?
e112 listening - how can listening help ?
e111 traps - what are the traps in your life?
e110 drain - where does your bathwater go?
e109 being - how can we listen through art?
e108 2048 - what speculative fiction stories inhabit you?
e107 harm - what do you not know?
e106 fire - what can we do about our collective indifference?
e105 rope - how did this episode make you feel?
e104 time - what does a very small moment in a much larger space sound like?
e103 heat - what does decarbonization sound like to you?
e102 aesthetics - how can we 'de-modernize' art?
e101 tension - how do you feel now?
e00 what is sounding modernity?
e99 (b) winter soundscape revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (composition only)
e99 winter diary revisited – homage to r. murray schafer (25′ introduction + 40′ composition + 3′ credits)
e98 epilogue – perspectives on season 3
e97 chantal chagnon, kevin jesuino, melanie kloetzel – climate art web
e96 joan sullivan – the liminal space between what was and what’s next
e95 charles c. smith & kevin a. ormsby – IBPOC arts in planetary renewal
e94 devon hardy – data is a powerful thing
e93 anthony garoufalis-auger – national cultural climate policy
e92 santee smith – about SKéN:NEN and interconnectedness
e91 keith barker – telling a really good story
e90 shannon litzenberger – state of emergence : why we need artists right now
e89 excerpts from ben okri’s ‘artists must confront the climate crisis’
e88 robin mathews – on radical listening & political poetry
e87 kendra fanconi – on the artist brigade, ben okri, eco-restoration, eco-grief & reauthoring the world
e86 arts policy, equity and activism class at centennial college
e85 tracey friesen – narratives of resilience for a post carbon world
e84 viviane gosselin + mauro vescera of the museum of vancouver
e83 the greatest mass movement in history
e82 washable paint
e81 – inspiration
e79 manifesto – accelerating climate action through the power of arts, culture and heritage
e78 milena droumeva – art needs to get on the street
e77 seth klein – identifying a shared vision and a set of actions
e76 kim richards – seeding a green new theatre in canada
e75 radical listening as climate action
e74 letting go
e73 judith marcuse – finding the energy to keep moving
e72 richard wagamese’s what comes from spirit
e71 green sessions debrief
e70 one step at a time
e69 soundwalk in the dark
e68 andrew davies and no. 9 gardens
e67 wanna be an ally
e66 stillness
e65 drifting into season 3
e64 a case study (part 2)
e63 a case study (part 1)
e62 compilation – season / saison 2
e61 sokoloski – from research to action
e59 pearl – positive tipping points
e58 huddart – the arts show us what is possible
e54 garrett – empowering artists
e53 kalmanovitch – nurturing imagination
e52 mahtani – listening and connecting
e51 hiser – the emotional wheel of climate
e50 newton – imagining the future we want
e49 windatt – hoslitic messages
e47 keeptwo – reconciliation to heal the earth
e46 badham – creating artistic space to think
e45 abbott – a compassionate, just and sustainable world
e44 bilodeau – the arts are good at changing culture
e43 haley – climate as a cultural issue
e42 rosen – when the climate threat becomes real
e41 rae – a preparedness mindset
e40 frasz – integrating awakeness in daily life
e39 engle – the integral role of the arts in societal change
e38 zenith – art as medicine to metabolize charge
e36 fanconi – towards carbon positive work
e35 salas – adapting to reality
e33 toscano – what we’re fighting for
e31 morrow – artists as reporters
e30 maggs – art and the world after this
e29 loy – the bodhisattva path
don’t listen to this episode – something Cage said
e26 klein – rallying through art
e25 shaw – a sense of purpose
e24 weaving – the good, possible and beautiful
e23 appadurai – what does a just transition look like?
e22 westerkamp – slowing down through listening
e21 dufresne – capitalism is over
e19 reality – quotes and composition
e18 ccl usa – a compilation of 10 episodes
e17 piro – creative facilitators in the age of climate change
e16 delaparra – start somewhere and be curious
e15 chasansky – make climate a part of strategic planning
e14 kirn – scientists, artists and sustainablists
e13 freiband – weaving art into action
e12 liverman – looking for some hope
e11 dunlap – perpetuating the values that you want to see
e10 mwase – expanding consciousness
e09 mcmahon – watching things drop away
e08 johnston – the arts shape our belief systems
e06 lim – making necessary concessions
e05 carruthers – art that informs, forms and transforms
e03 tickell – creative cultural allegiances
e01 terrified – triggering my climate denial bubble to burst