conscient podcast
Episodes
e50 newton – imagining the future we want
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are so many amazing people across this country who are helping to make change and are holding such a powerful vision for what the future can be....
e49 windatt – hoslitic messages
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What if you tasked the arts sector with how to make messages, not about the crisis, but on the shifts in behavior that are necessary on a more meaning...
e47 keeptwo – reconciliation to heal the earth
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the work that I do and the book that I've just had published called, We All Go Back to the Land, it's really an exploration of that Original Agree...
e46 badham – creating artistic space to think
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I think going forward, there's a lot that the arts can do. Philosophically art is one of the only places that we can still ask these questions, play o...
e45 abbott – a compassionate, just and sustainable world
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The notion of reality and the way we grasp reality as humans is so deeply subjective, but it's also socially constructed, and so, as a filmmaker - and...
e44 bilodeau – the arts are good at changing culture
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I think of the arts as planting a seed and activism as being the quickest way you can get from A to B. So activism is like, this is what we're going t...
e43 haley – climate as a cultural issue
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is actually a cultural issue, not a scientific issue. Science has been extremely good at identifying the symptoms and looking at the wa...
e42 rosen – when the climate threat becomes real
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The idea of enough is very interesting to me. The idea that the planet doesn't have enough for us on our current trajectory is at the heart of that....
e41 rae – a preparedness mindset
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The thing about a preparedness mindset is that you are thinking into the future and so if one of those scenarios happens, you've already mentally prep...
e40 frasz – integrating awakeness in daily life
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is a lot of awareness and interest in making change and yet change still isn't really happening, at least not at the pace or scale that we need....
e39 engle – the integral role of the arts in societal change
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The role of artists and culture is fundamental and so necessary, and we need so much more of it and not only on the side. The role of arts and culture...
e38 zenith – art as medicine to metabolize charge
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Art is the medicine that actually allows us to metabolize charge. It allows us to metabolize trauma. It takes the intensity that's left in the system,...
e36 fanconi – towards carbon positive work
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Twist at Creative Carbon Scotland talks about the transformation from a Culture of Consumerism to a Culture of Stewardship, and we are the cultu...
e35 salas – adapting to reality
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I find that more and more artists are interested in understanding how to change their practice and how to adapt it to current circumstances. I really ...
e33 toscano – what we’re fighting for
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's artists who not only can craft a good story, but also we can tell the story that's the hardest to tell and that is the story about the impacts of...
e31 morrow – artists as reporters
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I think that artists are for the most part in tune with what's going on in the world. We're all reporters, somehow journalists, who translate our mess...
e30 maggs – art and the world after this
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Complexity is the world built of relationships and it's a very different thing to engage what is true or real in a complexity framework than it is to ...
e29 loy – the bodhisattva path
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some people would say, OK, we have a climate crisis, so we’ve got to shift as quickly as possible as we can from fossil fuels to renewable sources o...
don’t listen to this episode – something Cage said
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The idea came to me while biking. I thought... what if I stated, over and over, that people need to wake up to the reality of the climate emergency. y...
e26 klein – rallying through art
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here would be my challenge to artists today. We're beginning to see artists across many artistic domains producing climate and climate emergency art, ...
e25 shaw – a sense of purpose
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's a real blessing to feel a sense of purpose that in these times. It's a real blessing to be able to take the feelings of fear and grief and actual...
e24 weaving – the good, possible and beautiful
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The recognition, and finding ways to assist people, in an awareness of all the good, the possible and the beautiful and where those things can lead, i...
e23 appadurai – what does a just transition look like?
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The climate crisis and the broader ecological crisis is a symptom of the deeper disease, which is that rift from nature, that seed of domination, of a...
e22 westerkamp – slowing down through listening
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We need toallow for time to pass without any action, without any solutions and to just experience it. I think that a slowdown is an absolute - if ther...
e21 dufresne – capitalism is over
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I think capitalism is over, but the problem is we have nothing to replace it with. Here's when we need artists, and others, to tell us what kind of vi...
e19 reality – quotes and composition
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(episode script)[frogs 2017 05 22, Preston River, QC]Welcome to the conscient podcast. My name is Claude Schryer. Season 1 was about exploring how t...
e18 ccl usa – a compilation of 10 episodes
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
e17 piro – creative facilitators in the age of climate change
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, go...
e16 delaparra – start somewhere and be curious
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
e15 chasansky – make climate a part of strategic planning
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 pl...
e14 kirn – scientists, artists and sustainablists
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
e13 freiband – weaving art into action
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 thing...
e12 liverman – looking for some hope
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ab...
e11 dunlap – perpetuating the values that you want to see
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
e10 mwase – expanding consciousness
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Art is a practice of expanding consciousness, which gives us a tremendous opportunity to explore and to embody possibility and to engage with the eart...
e09 mcmahon – watching things drop away
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
e08 johnston – the arts shape our belief systems
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
e06 lim – making necessary concessions
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are we willing to divest from our arts practices, or to change radically our performance practices, in order to make necessary changes and concessions...
e05 carruthers – art that informs, forms and transforms
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 wor...
e03 tickell – creative cultural allegiances
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
e01 terrified – triggering my climate denial bubble to burst
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...