MixedMedia Talks Amelia

 Dr. Jacqueline Dilworth is a a poet and writer of poems who plays, writes them as well as stories and non-fiction, and translates old French texts. She's also a musician who uses her musical skills in writing, performance art, spoken word, and to create radio shows of eclectic and free form music and spoken word on The Jackalope Hour out of Beautiful Uptight Downtown Goldfield Nevada. She's also the Mayor of the celebrated NadaDada Performance art series.
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In this episode we discuss what is, DADA, the role of deceit, theft, and fabrication vs, found art, the confluences of thinking dualistically about Darkness vs light and why she's drawn to the one over the other, hiding stories in performance art, and of course, her muppet analog.

You can find and support her work by visiting her Linktree: Linktree:

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LisaRuth Elliott is a visual artist using found material to create her paper collages. She is also a fiber artist, weaver, experimenter of plant dyes on textiles, and public muralist. Inspired by beauty in the textures and patterns around her and what has been cast aside, she transforms the banal into new and dynamic combinations showcasing human occupation. She is prompted by the stories and landscape of San Francisco, of Yelamu and its creatures, as she learns about and stewards unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land as an urban farmer and is deeply interested in the exploration and understanding of place. It infuses all of her work, from being a public historian to creating art.

In this episode we discuss what's unique in the landscapes that offer gifts of materials for creative composition, both found and grown.  We also discuss seasonality and sustainability of native plant materials in landscapes, and the fact that tracking changes through time is a part of the process, listening to the materials, and having conversations through abstract/ non-representational art.

You can find and support her current and future offerings through her website:
www.lisaruthcreates.com
more up to date work on IG at @lisaruthcreates or @sfurbanwanderer.

Her collaborative poetry collage exhibition of the book
What unseen thing blows wishes across my surface? with San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck is on display at the San Francisco Public Library main branch, 6th floor:
until 16 February 2023.  a collaborative poetry/collage project showcasing the daily work done during the pandemic.  https://sfpl.org/exhibits/2022/11/05/what-unseen-thing-blows-wishes-across-my-surface#

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LisaRuth  isthe Irish Consulate of San Francisco’s chosen artist to participate in a global project: “Common Threads” in celebration of St. Brigid’s Day 2023. As an Irish-American using materials endemic to this place where she lives, she contributes a small part of a larger cloak/quilt to be assembled from pieces coming from all over the world and to be exhibited in Dublin in February 2023. Her textile square is made of plant-dyed silk with cotton backing using California native plants as dyes. https://www.ireland.ie/en/st-brigids-day/common-threads/

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CW: mentions of addiction, recovery, swearing

Karina Blackheart is a Writer, teacher, mentor, ritualist--intent on elevating our daily experience from mundane, ordinary and irritating to meaningful, delightful, nd sacred.  Whether she's weaving words, provoking, kneeding bread, walking the dog, or leading or teaching others how to lead a firewalking ceremony, she's stalking beauty, power and meaning and is rarely disappointed.

In this episode,
Karina discusses art up close vs at a safe distance,  being a provacateur, transformation. Then we wander into ceremony, tradition, addiction and accessing ecstasy through our own body's chemicals and emotional states. And finish the winding conversation with the importance of silence and accountabilibuddies. Finally, we go over where to find the connections that remind us of our sacredness exactly as we are, and which muppet she would be.

You can find and support her current and future offerings through her website: https://Karinabheart.com.
Her transformative firewalking sessions at https://GLOWfirewalking.com
her Patreon subscription works at https://www.patreon.com/karinabheart
and her  Book: Distillations through her website, and The Witch's Book of Silence on Amazon

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LisaMaria Martinez (LM) is a blind mom living in the SF bay Area. She rocks a weekly FB Live episode with her bestie, Blind broad Serena Olsen,  called The Blind Grind. She loves breaking down origami and and loves to teach it and other artforms non-visually to other blind people, and not blind people. LM also  makes her own beauty products such as lotion, chapstick, and face cleansers and... life-coaching to help you access your greatest sense of joy.
 
Serena Olsen is the Frugal Foodie, writer, culinarian, and food creative adventuring at the intersection of food & happiness. Superpowers: sweeping the fridge & repurposing leftovers, and sniffing and tasting. Feed the body & feed the soul.❤️‍🔥 Her other arts include textile and writing arts, and podcast co-creation.

In this episode we start with and three way conversation between me and other podcast hosts!!! from the FB live series, the Blind Grind, and dive right into the very notion of creativity, and valuation of art, breaking barriers of what people believe you're capable of with audio descriptions for art forms, intersections of accessibility, time as a finite resource vs. outsourcing it using the privilege of capital, travel and what being among other cultures teaches, reclaiming identity, breaking assumptive limitations, and the vulnerability of being seen being creative.

You can find and support their current and future projects at: https://.itstartswithquiche.com and on facebook, for weekly live sessions.
email them directly at LM at bayareablindmom dot com and theblindgrindpod at gmail dot com


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In This Episode we speak with, Sheldon Epps who has directed major productions on and off Broadway, in London and at many theatres across America. In addition, he has had an active television career helming some of the classic shows of recent years, Frasier, Girlfriends, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond, Sister Sister and more. He was the artistic director of the renowned Pasadena playhouse for two decades, and currently serves as senior artistic advisor at historic Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

In this episode we speak about the trajectory from loving theater at age 8, learning everything about theater and moving from acting, to finally reaching his calling as an American director. We discuss  the responsibilities of artists and audiences, getting the best of other creators by letting them work their magic, the particular intersections of art forms that comprise theater, what are some of the hurdles to black directors successes, racism by omission and the roles people don't even consider you for, getting surprising responses from an audience as the highest compliment, the nature of beauty, writing his memoir on finding joy and overcoming, beautiful moments, and doing the things no one imagined you'd do, in  his recent book, My Own Directions, available now at independent retailers nationwide and, at https://www.amazon.com/My-Own-Directions-Journey-American/dp/1476688583
We also discuss his upcoming release, Christmas Party Crashers, premiering, Nov 17 on BET+.

Contact his publicist, Lesley Brandon at brander@monogrammanagementgroup.com for engagements and inquiries.

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Miss Post Mortem is a Mortician, aesthetician, costume/ theatrical make-up specialist, and Baker, who brings care and dedication to her craft of transforming loved ones's experiences with their dead, through skill and heart.
We talk aaaallll about death. 

This needs ALL the content Warnings, throughout. For mature audiences only. Explicit depictions, mentions of violence, We include many things gruesome, graphic, gross, shunning, mutilation, organ harvesting, What ARE embalmers willing to do for families vs, what's legally and ethically off-limits, trans-rights and changes in law over time.

In this episode, including almost 45 minutes of bonus content specifically for Halloween. we speak candidly about: Death and funerary practices as art, spiritual calling, and sacred trust. We go deeeeep into hard topics that relate to all things that happen as the body breaks down, we pull apart the sinew of stereotypes surrounding mortuary practices, depictions of embalming technique, the weirdly funny things that come up or get covered up,.

Never ask a mortician about the funerary N word. relating goth sensibilities to her work, practices from around the world, Learning on an apprentice program, and continuing education at movie special effects trade shows, and what muppets she'd be.

You can email her questions directly at misspostmortem at gmail dot com or find her as MissPostMorten

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