Month: February 2025

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363 Sara Jecko “Inviting Wildness”

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Sara Jecko is a musician, mom, performer, educator, and ecopsychologist in the Hudson Valley.

Her work focuses on inviting our wildly creative nature to re-establish authentic and flourishing relationships with ourselves, and with the rest of life on Earth.

Sara’s private practice –> small organization, Inviting Wildness, runs workshops and events that cultivate wildlife advocacy through arts-based and ecopsychological education for all ages. One of these events, “Wilder”, is coming up in May at Keegan Ales, and aims to raise awareness and funds for cetacean sanctuaries!

She is enthralled by the wild and what wildness means to us, feels at home on stage yet weird about showbiz, and is especially moved to help free animals from exploitative captivity.

Today we speak about Sara’s background and experience as a music maker and teacher, how she became interested in “the wild” and cetaceans, and all about her work to help children and adults relate to the earth and it’s inhabitants and step into their own wildness. Plus she plays some of her music for us!

You can find the Tom Pretty’s upcoming performances here, and more about Inviting Wildness happenings on Instagram.

Some special local events: Hudson Valley Women in Business, 10 year Anniversary Celebration, Wednesday March 5th at the Upstate Table.

Money Talks with Working for Women and Third Eye Associates on March 6th at Bard, Multi Purpose Room at Bertlesman Campus.

Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.

Our show music is from Shana Falana!

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362 Barbara Bravo “Garden Day” and Rebecca Martin “SHE”

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Joining me in the first hour of the show is Barbara Bravo, CCE Master Gardener Volunteer and Garden Day Coordinator to talk about “Garden with Confidence” happening on April 5th at SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, New York. The Master Gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Extension are delighted to unveil Garden Day 2025 class offerings that are designed to inspire and equip both novices and experienced gardeners. This year’s range of classes will provide hands on learning experiences, expert guidance, and practical tips to help attendees grow vibrant, sustainable gardens. From tackling garden challenges to enhancing your plant knowledge, these engaging classes will foster a deeper connection to nature and encourage ecological responsibility. This all-day gardening extravaganza, featuring 16 classes is taught by our dedicated Master Gardener Volunteers. Garden Day will take place on April 5, from 8:30 am to 4 pm at SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY. The day kicks-off with a Keynote Address that will be delivered by Michael Hagen, Curator of the Native Plant Garden and the Rock Garden at the New York Botanical Garden. In Michael’s address, entitled “The Challenges of a Public Native Plant Garden: Maintenance, Interpretation and Compromise” he will explore the New York Botanical Garden’s commitment to highlighting the native flora of northeastern North America, a vision that traces back to its founding Director and its evolution into a completely reimagined and significantly expanded native plant garden. This presentation will address some of the unexpected challenges, evolving maintenance strategies, and key lessons learned over the past decade since the garden’s reopening. In addition to attending the Keynote address, you have the opportunity to choose four enriching classes out of the 16 available options, designed to elevate your gardening skills so that you will Garden with Confidence.

Joining me in the second hour is musician and activist Rebecca Martin. She has shaped a singular career devoted to the beauty and possibility of pure creative discovery. After getting her start as co-founder of the pioneering jazz-pop duo Once Blue, the New York-based singer/songwriter went on to release a series of acclaimed solo albums animated by the quiet force of her captivating vocals, and collaborating along the way with her husband, the jazz bassist Larry Grenadier and luminaries Argentine pianist Guillermo Klein and legendary jazz drummer Paul Motian.

Produced by Rebecca Martin and recorded in Portugal by Mário Barreiros, SHE features 13 original songs that blend voice and acoustic guitar to create a minimalistic yet powerful sound with deep emotional resonance. Exploring themes of identity, transformation, and the passage of time, the album fosters a reflective, meditative space that invites listeners to fully immerse themselves in its introspective atmosphere.

In one of her boldest turns to date, Martin’s new album SHE (Sunnyside Records) marks her first body of work made entirely on her own. Martin graces every moment of SHE with the clarity and character of her distinct vocal phrasing. As revealed throughout her new recording, Martin’s commitment to creating space informs nearly all aspects of her artistry, including everything from the album’s sparse orchestration to her underlying desire to summon a gratifying sense of stillness within all those who listen. Rebecca will be performing songs from the album joined by Clare Manchon and Anthea White on background vocals during the album’s Release Party at The Local on February 28th in Saugerties.

Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.

Our show music is from Shana Falana!

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361 Lexa Walsh “Artist, Cultural Worker and Experience Maker”

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It’s another installment of Spirituality and Politics with Marielena Ferrer. Joining us today is… Lexa Walsh an artist, cultural worker and experience maker.  Her upbringing as the only bad athlete in a family of fifteen in the Philadelphia suburbs, and coming of age in the Bay Area post punk cultural scene of the 1990’s informs her interest in alternative lifestyles, economies and communities. With a background in both sculpture and social practice, Walsh makes site specific projects, exhibitions, publications and objects, using an array of materials including ceramics and textiles, employing social engagement, institutional critique, and radical hospitality to question hierarchies, power and value.  She recently relocated from Oakland, CA to the Hudson Valley. 

The In Between: Tea Talks are series’ of intimate facilitated discussions over home cooked meals that bring together conflicting populations of artists, activists, workers, Veterans, civilians, and others in a hospitable environment so each may share their positions in a safe yet open and critical dialogue. The goals of the project are to: 

  • Complicate the current good vs, evil/us vs. them narrative while eliciting understanding and extracting nuances from all sides. 
  • Engage in local micro politics while placing these issues in the larger current political landscape.
  • Create a space for hospitable democracy.
  • Share understanding about issues affecting our communities to a broader audience.

Walsh founded the experimental music and performance venue the Heinz Afterworld Lounge, and co-founded and conceived of the all women, all toy instrument ensemble Toychestra.  Walsh worked for many years as a curator and administrator at CESTA, an international art center in Czech republic, whose team created radical curatorial projects to foster cross-cultural understanding. She founded Oakland Stock & Soup for Social & Racial Justice, and the Bay Area Contemporary Art Archive. She is a graduate of Portland State University’s Art & Social Practice MFA program and was Social Practice Artist in Residence in Portland Art Museum’s Education department. She was a recipient of Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Award, the CEC Artslink Award, the Gunk Grant and was a de Young Artist Fellow. Walsh has participated in projects, exhibitions and performances at Apexart, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, FOR-SITE, Grand Central Art Center, Kala Art Institute, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, NIAD, Oakland Museum of California, SFMOMA, Smack Mellon, Walker Art Center, Williams College Museum of Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and has done several international artist residencies, tours and projects in Europe and Asia.

Lexa and Marielena are co-hosting a Tea Talk at Unison Arts on Saturday, March 1st from 3-5pm. There’s also a Destroy to Create event happening at Unison this Saturday, February 15th. More info and to RSVP here!

Here are your Full Moon Vibes!

Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.

Our show music is from Shana Falana!

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360 Shauna Cummins “Wishcraft”

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Today I get to speak with Shauna Cummins, a certified Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner with a private practice in New York, author of Wishcraft (2021), holder of ceremonies, multi-disciplinary artist and founder of Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis and MindMassageHotline.

She is the resident event hypnotist at The Four Seasons Hotel New York Downton and regularly teaches workshops and conducts ceremonies in NYC and abroad. She also creates hypnotic sound art and installations and her work has been featured internationally at The National Gallery of Denmark, The Queens Museum of New York, The Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Borealis Music Festival, Obonjan Island and in publications such as The Independent, YAHOO News and The Numinous among others.

She’s also held residencies in hotels and wellbeing centres, such as ACE Hotel Mediums Residency, The James Hotel Downtown NYC, Nomade Hotel Tulum, Maha Rose Brooklyn, and Obonjan Island Croatia.

The method she developed and works with is called Wishcraft. Wishcraft is self-hypnosis that teaches the art of well-wishing as a practice for changing thought patterns and beliefs, turning wishes into action.

She received the board certification through the National Guild of Hypnotists in 2012 and started working as a Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner. She’s also worked as an artist and entrepreneur in NYC and abroad for over fifteen years.  Her life’s passion is helping people help themselves through the healing art of hypnosis.

Today we talk about her big pivot to hypnosis work from a previous unfulfilling career and how she stays in tuned with what makes her heart sing. Shauna walks us through the five pillars of Wishcraft and shares what her regular practices are to stay in touch with her inner knowing and desires. Personally, it was a very inspiring conversation that I hope you enjoy!

In honor of the weekend’s holidays, I pull a card to get us into the Imbolc mood… The Kiss from Kim Kran’s archetype deck. And here’s your New Moon musings too!

Today’s show was engineered by Ian Seda from Radiokingston.org.

Our show music is from Shana Falana!

Feel free to email me, say hello: she@iwantwhatshehas.org

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