The Qreative Life

Amanda Quraishi
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The Qreative Life

Join host Amanda Quraishi for a new podcast series featuring writers, poets, painters, musicians, photographers and more (both the professional and the passionately amateur) and learn how they have prioritized their creativity and are living their best creative lives.

  1. 2024/10/09

    S2E16 - Love is for Evermore (Jena Kirkpatrick, Jackie O'Brien, Erin Walter)

    In this episode, Q talks to Jena Kirkpatrick of Evermore.org, Jackie O’Brien of The Bright Light Social Hour, and Erin Walter of Parker Woodland about grief, and the role art plays in processing after monumental loss.  Buy tickets for Love is Evermore benefit show on 11/17/24:  https://evermore.org/love-is-for-evermore Find Evermore online: Website: https://evermore.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/EvermoreforAll Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvermoreForAll Find Jackie O’Brien online: tblsh Website: https://www.thebrightlightsocialhour.com tblsh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tblsh Starflake Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsjackobrien Find Erin Walter online: Parker Woodland Website: https://www.parkerwoodland.com Parker Woodland Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parkerwoodlandband Parker Woodland Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parkerwoodlandband

    59 分钟

  2. 2024/09/10

    TQL - S2E15 - Tarik Trad

    In this episode, Q talks to her friend Tarik Trad, founder of Focus Relief Photography for Charity. They discuss Tarik's lifelong love of photography, a chance encounter that led him to Antarctica, and his passion for service that resulted in founding Focus Relief. Tarik is a wildlife photographer, digital strategist, storyteller and author who’s photography has led him to explore and capture distant and not-so-distant destinations, such as the Antarctic Peninsula; the Galapagos Islands; Havana, Cuba; Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska; the Na Pali Coast of Hawaii; the Lacandon Jungle of Mexico; the backcountry of Yosemite and Patagonia; and many other unique places across the globe. He has worked for such industry giants as the Los Angeles Times, Ernst & Young and Northrop Grumman and served as a backcountry ranger in Yosemite National Park. In 2022, he published his first book, “Antarctica – A Photographic Expedition.” In a limited-edition run, this full-sized, 92-page coffee table book is filled with nearly 100 one-of-a-kind photos along with intimate stories from his transformative journey. It sold out almost immediately. He was born, raised, and resides in the Los Angeles area where, among other things, he is trying to understand why we drive on a parkway yet park on a driveway. Find Tarik online: Focus Relief - www.focusrelief.com Photo Blog - www.tariktrad.com/in-a-flash The Way South - A Digital Expedition of the Antarctic Peninsula www.focusrelief.com/tws Find Tarik on social media: instagram.com/tarikofthenorth facebook.com/tarikofthenorth

    56 分钟

  3. 2024/08/13

    TQL - S2E14 - Erin Walter & Andrew Solin of Parker Woodland

    In this episode Q hangs out with Erin Walter and Andrew Solin of the indie rock trio, Parker Woodland. The three of them discuss the evolution of Parker Woodland, their respective creative histories and processes, and their new album “There’s No Such Thing as Time” due out in September 2024.  More about Parker Woodland: Fast-rising indie rock trio Parker Woodland began as neighbors jamming in a small church in Austin, TX, and soon evolved into a powerful, sweat-soaked live experience. At the center is joyfully expressive frontwoman Erin Walter, a justice activist from the Girls Rock Camp and LGBTQIA+ scene, and Unitarian Universalist minister. 
The World’s On Fire (and We Still Fall In Love) -- Parker Woodland's 2021 debut EP, recorded with Jonas Wilson of Mr. Pink Records -- pulses with life-affirming energy, fuzzy riffs, and catchy, shout-along vocals. Parker Woodland spent 2021-22 putting out a live EP and music video trilogy, all while on a unique 120-city virtual tour (including a peace benefit with Willie Nelson, a women’s conference, Rock the Vote events, and UU churches). In 2022, guitarist Andrew Solin and drummer Keri Cinquina joined Parker Woodland, and the band began writing their first full-length album, playing a cathartic new live set of pandemic-era anthems. "When you write a song, that’s often where you discover what you really believe," Walter says. "I believe life is short, beautiful, and hard, and we will get through it together.” Read The Austin Chronicle’s coverage of the first single and video from their new album, "Makeup, " inspired by the fight for trans youth rights in Texas.  Find Parker Woodland online: Website [parkerwoodland.com] Spotify  Bands In Town Soundcloud Connect with Parker Woodland on social media: Instagram [instagram.com/parkerwoodlandband] Facebook [facebook.com/parkerwoodland] X [x.com/parkerwoodland]

    58 分钟

  4. 2024/07/14

    TQL - S2E13 - Roanna Flowers

    In this episode, Q talks with Austin-based writer and author Roanna Flowers about Roanna's lifelong obsession with the written word, how she 'found her voice', and the benefits of breaking your own rules to overcome creative resistance. About Roanna: Roanna Flowers is a writer based in Austin, Texas. Her short story "The Bitches of Eastwick" was recently published in the anthology, Mixed Bag of Tricks. She is the writer of three award-winning short films, one of which played in over 30 festivals world-wide including the Cannes Short Film Corner. Roanna is the former editor of Treatment Today magazine, for which she interviewed the Ann Richards, General Colin Powell, and composer Paul Williams. Her claim to fame was asking a question that made Ann Richards speechless. Find Roanna Online: Website / Blog Connect with Roanna: BlueSky X Instagram Read Roanna Mixed Bag of Tricks (anthology)

    1 小时 6 分钟

  5. 2024/06/29

    TQL - S2E12 - Debra Haas

    In this episode of TQL podcast, Q talks with her friend Debra Haas about making jewelry and why its so important to her as a creative act. They discuss the difference between an art and a craft; how important it is to listen to practice self-care as an artist; and the value of having creative community. About Debra Haas: After 30+ years as a parent and policy wonk, Deb started taking introductory metal-smithing classes when she became an empty nester. The pandemic forced a premature hiatus, but now she's back at the bench living he best life, taking classes at Austin Community College in the jewelry department - for the pure joy of learning and creating. Find Deb on Social Media: Instagram (@facetsofmyself) Shout out to: Petals Inc.

    56 分钟

  6. 2024/06/16

    S2E11 - Nelson Valente Aguilar

    In this episode of The Qreative Life podcast, Q is joined by musician and frontman Nelson Valente Aguilar, founder of the nuevo cumbia band Como Las Movies. Listen as Aguilar describes the origins of his musical career, starting when he was five-years-old, and listen as he overcomes social, economic and creative obstacles to lead one of the most exciting emerging American-based Latin acts of the past decade. Nelson Valente Aguilar, an Austinite by way of the border town McAllen Texas, is chief composer for his indie-cumbia-pop project, Como Las Movies. He combines his pan-Latin and contemporary influences into a duality that NPR described as “...a colorful, cultural soundscape from a unique blend of instruments.” KCRW observes that their music “is occupies a space where traditional Tejano, Cumbia, and Son Jarocho music meet face to face with synth-heavy new wave inspiration. It’s not a dense space with many inhabitants…in fact they may be there by themselves.” Joel Moya, Remezcla says “Don’t be surprised if you hear them in the near future on the big screen, scoring the next mexploitation movie, and Kevin Curtin, The Austin Chronicle adds CLM’s musical palette is “...expressly cinematic, but thrives on spacey Latin pop tunes…” Listen to Como Las Movies (and buy their music + merch) on Bandcamp: Como Las Movies Follow Como Las Movies on Social Media: Instagram TikTok

    1 小时 28 分钟

  7. 2024/05/31

    TQL S2E10 - Geoff Marslett

    Geoff Marslett is a director, writer, producer, animator and actor. His career started with the punk rock animated short Monkey vs. Robot before directing three narrative films Quantum Cowboys, MARS and Loves Her Gun, as well as producing on and acting in the experimental feature documentary Yakona and the upcoming film Before I Fade Away Into Nothing. He has appeared onscreen in films like Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Tombstone Rashomon and even a TV guest starring role as the unibomber. He currently resides in Tucson, Austin and Boulder, splitting his time between filmmaking and teaching. His work has played at over 100 festivals including SXSW, Sundance, BFI London; and he was named one of Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Filmmakers to Watch in 2009. He is launching his first ever online writing platform on Substack later this year to share some of his anecdotal experience in this crazy biz. He grew up a cowboy with an interest in physics and art, and has a place in his heart for feral cats. He still loves making things. FIND GEOFF ONLINE: Swerve Pictures [swervepictures.com] IMDB [imdb.com/name/nm0004082] Youtube [youtube.com/user/swervepictures] Vimeo [vimeo.com/channels/785892] FIND GEOFF ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Personal Instagram - @gmarslett Film Instagram - @quantum_cowboys

    1 小时 44 分钟

  8. 2024/05/15

    TQL S2E9 - Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed

    Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed is a political strategist, storyteller, and artist based in Los Angeles. She creates at the intersection of counternarratives and culture-shifting as a South Asian American Muslim 2nd-gen woman. She’s turned out over 500,000 Asian American voters, recorded five years of the award winning Good Muslim Bad Muslim podcast and made #MuslimVDay cards for a decade. Her essays are published in the anthologies, New Moons, Pretty Bitches, Whiter, Good Girls Marry Doctors, Love Inshallah, and in numerous online publications. She’s published poetry collections Emdash and Ellipses (2016) & The Day The Moon Split in Two (2020), is featured in Tia Chucha’s Coiled Serpent (2016) and her poetry has been commissioned by the Center for Cultural Power, PolicyLink, the Garment Worker Center, KPCC’s Unheard LA, and more. In July 2023, her first solo visual art show “Aunties with Deadly Stare” was exhibited at LA Artcore and her art has been shown in various exhibits including the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in the Acts of Faith exhibit and the Smithsonian APA Center’s “H-1B” exhibit. A protest sign she designed for the 2017 Women’s March sits in the permanent archives of the Smithsonian Museum of American History. Her latest poetry collection “Grasping At This Planet Just to Believe” will be published April 2024 with Writ Large Projects. Website [www.tazzystar.me] Etsy Shop [https://www.etsy.com/shop/TazzyStarShop] New Poetry Book OUT NOW - "Grasping at this Planet Just to Believe" [https://www.writlargeprojects.com/shop/p/tanzila-ahmed-grasping-at-this-planet]

    1 小时
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Join host Amanda Quraishi for a new podcast series featuring writers, poets, painters, musicians, photographers and more (both the professional and the passionately amateur) and learn how they have prioritized their creativity and are living their best creative lives.

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  • 创作者
    Amanda Quraishi
  • 活跃年份
    2023年 - 2024年
  • 单集
    17
  • 分级
    儿童适宜
  • 版权
    © Amanda Quraishi
  • 节目网站
    The Qreative Life

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