July 2025 – i want what SHE has

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383 Spirituality and Politics “Living Together and Making Art in the County Jail”

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It’s Theresa and Marielena talking the art of living together on Spirituality and Politics. First up, a share about a special local happening. On Sunday, July 21, Hey Neighbor Food Club is hosting their first event at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston (4–6pm). It’s a preorder-and-pickup food event featuring handmade dishes — tamales, pupusas, empanadas — prepared by a small group of incredible local chefs, most of whom are female immigrants launching their very first food businesses.

The chefs are part of the Briico Food Academy, which helps new entrepreneurs build sustainable income, community connections, and confidence through food, without needing outside capital or formal business experience. Each meal tells a story of migration, tradition, and resilience, and proceeds go directly to the chefs.

Marielena shares her experience teaching art to women incarcerated at the Ulster County Jail and the many interactions that taught her about them and their lives including surprising insights through the vision boards the women created, their creative writing exercises, and how they collaborated with one another. Through that experience she shares her thoughts about how living together in an incarcerated setting can teach us about the art of living together in a broader community. The womens’ art “Voices Unbound” is currently exhibited at Unison in New Paltz now through August 31st.

This weekend is Upstate Art Weekend. Lots is happening, including some amazing events at Unison.

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

Our show music is from Shana Falana!

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382 Singha Hon “Visual Storyteller and Community Caretaker”

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Singha Hon is a visual artist, illustrator, designer, and educator from New York City.

Her work is inspired by nature, dreams, community, and mythology, and the many threads that weave us all together. As a teaching artist, she has taught on subjects ranging from drawing, portraiture, sculpture, printmaking, cyanotyping to an intergenerational cohort of students.

She has worked as a teaching artist with The W.O.W. Project through their storefront residency and through the Creatives Rebuild New York program. She is currently a Public Artist in Residence through the PAIR program with DCLA in NYC.

Her murals and installations exist across New York, including in downtown Manhattan and in Kingston, NY.

Today Singha talks about her early relationship with art and how she eventually finds a way to align her passion for storytelling through art with her values in a way that supports her continued creation. She talks about what inspires her work, nature, mythology and dreams and how these relate to both her personal life and her work. Singha shares the mythology that inspired her Lunar Calendar, “Door Gods, Our Community Protectors,” “Black Bear // Dreams of the Mountains,” and “Welcoming Dreams, A Return.” She speaks passionately about the need to expand the narrative that’s available to the collective, including a return to earlier narratives and those to be imagined as a way towards a brighter future. We also meander into shared thoughts on how it can be hard to say “No” unless we’re held within a giving culture.

Here’s your Full Moon Astrology !

I also mention the Hey Neighbor Food Project which is having it’s first pick up on July 21st with a pre-order date of July 16th.