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Wedgwood's Coffee Break ConversationChallenges & Hope for the Next Generation w/ Dr. Dan Gowdy & Jessica KnothSend us a textIn this episode, Hillary sits down with Dr. Dan Gowdy (President & CEO of Wedgwood Christian Services) and Jessica Knoth (Principal of Zeeland East High School) to discuss the latest research on child well-being in Michigan and what it means for kids and families.They unpack the mental health challenges youth are facing, the crucial role schools play in support, and why listening and mentoring can make all the difference. Together, they highlight the power of community collaboration and share reasons to stay hopeful about the future.If you care...
2025-09-0331 min
Sonic ActsAdriana Knouf – Some Fragments of XenologyAccompanied by her modular synthesiser, xenologist scholar and artist Adriana Knouf's presentation is proposed as a love letter. Eschewing the binary logic that pervades Western thinking, Knouf argues that all beings – trans*, cis, and xeno – are in a constant process of flux and transformation, always already more-than-human. From syringes of oestrogen to the trajectories of satellites orbiting the Earth, she investigates ongoing and future processes of ‘xenomogrifications’ – the becoming of something else.Following her talk, Adriana Knouf also sat down with Hannah Pezzack to talk about everything from Elon Musk and SpaceX, to fungi and making synth parts...
2024-08-2957 min
Sonic ActsImani Jacqueline Brown – Forest Islands of our Ecological DiasporaIn Louisiana, artist, activist, writer, and architectural researcher Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers Black antebellum cemeteries – portals to recover and remember Afro-diasporic ecological praxes.Between 1820 and 1865, enslaved people were forced to clear Louisiana’s primordial forests to make way for the expansion of cane. They preserved small sections of forest where their loved ones were interred. These groves are both remnants of the erased bottomland hardwood forest and carefully stewarded microecologies – time capsules of lifeworlds that thrived against all odds in the back-a-plantations. There, enslaved people tended gardens and planted trees; organised dances and rituals; exchanged information and id...
2024-08-2343 min
Sonic ActsAstrida Neimanis, M Murphy – Discussion with Sissel Marie TonnFollowing lectures from scholars Astrida Neimanis and M Murphy at Sonic Acts Biennial 2024, both were joined on the Symposium stage by artist Sissel Marie Tonn for a conversation addressing many topics, from pollution and violence, to language, creative methods, and direct action. Guided by questions from the audience, they also address indigenous knowledge and research, discussing how to negotiate one's position within Western science and university systems, as well as direct action methods.24 Feb 2024Amsterdam, Netherlands→ Explore more of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 programme at 2024.sonicacts.comCredit:...
2024-08-1654 min
Sonic ActsAstrida Neimanis – Holdfast (Learning Feeling)Author and researcher Astrida Neimanis gives the opening lecture at Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 Symposium. In a time of extinction and climate catastrophe, how are we to feel? Feeling intensifies, but also wavers. Feeling's temporal container pulses, its membrane now more porous: the past seeps in, the future jumps the gun. Feeling anything swims in the wake of what once was, and is burdened by what will or will not remain tomorrow. How do species-strangers care for and hold one another? What do we touch when we touch another, and what touches us back? Meditating on various instances of multispecies...
2024-08-1646 min
Sonic ActsJuan Arturo García – A Minor Event in the History of Atomic TimekeepingIn this performative lecture, artist Juan Arturo García presents his research project about a nuclear reactor in Colombia. Radioactivity, earthquakes, and applications like geochronology are used as props to explore the paradoxes of trying to visualise inaccessible phenomena. García’s translation, or poetics of displacement, taps into the present cultural, mystical, and political consequences of technological deployments in Latin America. The lecture is followed by a Q&A session with Professor Alice Twemlow and audience members.25 Feb 2024Amsterdam, The Netherlands→ Explore more of the Sonic Acts Bienni...
2024-08-0942 min
Sonic ActsMargarida Mendes – Sensorial EcologiesResearcher, educator, and curator Margarida Mendes’ lecture asks how our understanding of the environment is shaped on different scales from the way we sense, to social protocols and intergovernmental infrastructures. For Mendes, a collective sense of our surroundings is formed by practices and policies that mould our ecological pedagogies and politics, giving space (or not) to future worlds. Through her work she transmits an ontology of the sensory, starting with her experiments in listening to riverine sites that are undergoing transformation. Addressing acts of sensory co-emergence as non-linear and intertwined with ecosystems, she questions how the protocols of listening in...
2024-07-3155 min
Sonic ActsHira Nabi – How To Love A TreeIn her live multichannel performance ‘How to Love a Tree’, Hira Nabi weaves together whispered narratives from sylvan landscapes, misty mountain sides, ghosts of extraction and British imperialism, inviting us into forest time. Part of an ongoing artistic project, launched in 2019, ‘How to Love a Tree’ documents the former colonial hill stations in the blue pine forests of Murree and the Galiyat region of Pakistan. Nabi sees these places as ecosystems that are crumbling, marked by a history of imperial rule. She focuses on making remnants of this painful past visible in what are now tourist destinations in the hills. H...
2024-07-0327 min
Spectrum-Zeeland Community Hospital WellspringThe Z Experience Feb. 9On the Feb. 9, 2023 segment, Meredith Schrotenboer chatted with Jessica Knoth and Mike Reynolds of Zeeland East High School about the collaboration that Corewell Health-Zeeland Hospital has with Zeeland Public Schools about career choices for students.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2023-02-0915 min
Happy WritingG.G. Knoth talks Mental Health & Self-Care for AuthorsToday we talk with author G.G. Knoth about her book, Whisper Screaming in a Crowded Room, mental health for authors, and more.
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2020-07-1430 min