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e243 was the last episode of season 6. I’m now on a break from hosting and producing conscient podcast and balado conscient episodes until further notice, except for narration of ‘a calm presence’ Substack posting and occasional ENCORE episodes. Comments and questions are always welcome: claude [at] conscient [dot] ca

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01:10:00

e216 roundtable – in memoriam tracey friesen

conscient podcast ·

2025/04/18

Hey there faithful and brave conscient listeners, Welcome to the second conscient roundtable conversation. This one was recorded on Sunday, March 16, 2025 in Vancouver. In a minute you’ll hear an acknowledgement about the original stewards of these lands followed by a minute of silent contemplation.Normally, conscient roundtables feature a group of artists and cultural workers talking about their passions, fears and dreams and, in fact, we did do this, but this was a special episode of the conscient

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00:15:01

e215 chris creighton-kelly – optimism of the will

conscient podcast ·

2025/04/16

I would say that while there's absolutely no question that we're in a crisis, there's no question about multi crisis. I'm not sure we're in the state of collapse. And I think that methodology, that vision, that understanding of the world can lead to... You were talking about it a few minutes ago, doom scrolling and just doom. I find that that can create a lot of inertia in people, a lot of hopelessness and pessimism. I have a colleague in the US, Arlene Goldbard, and she's quoting (Antonio) Gramsci

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01:16:30

e214 roundtable – this moment in canadian culture

conscient podcast ·

2025/04/13

I think, as has already been mentioned by a number of you, that we need to slow down, not speed up. This is a moment for really slow thinking and to be listening and to be doing deep listening. I like this concept that we use, again in Primary Colours. Instead of thinking of outreach and trying to convince people and tell them about how great the arts are, we need to do in-reach, we need to go into communities and listen to people, go where people are and understand what it is they understand about

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00:15:01

e213 stephen huddart – so much to do

conscient podcast ·

2025/04/13

The arts have that capacity to be powerful broadcasters, conveyors of messages, invitations to celebration, reflection, storytelling, narrative building and so on. There's a vital role here for the arts. But like the rest of society, frankly, whether it's the banking system or government we're simply not doing it well enough that we could say we're satisfied with how much is happening and everything's going to be okay. It's not. If we just stopped now, chaos and worse are due. It's not to say that

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00:15:01

e212 max wyman – taking action

conscient podcast ·

2025/04/06

There's been a real lack of positive action and response from the arts community to these existential questions that confront us. And I really wonder whether that's not because they're simply bewildered by what's been going on. They're terrified, most of them. A lot of the conversation that goes on that I'm aware of has to do with the precariousness of existence for the artist. There is no there's no solid ground for them to work on when there's no money. So they're afraid to rock the boat, one

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00:15:01

e211 azul carolina duque - art as medicine

conscient podcast ·

2025/04/05

I think there is a responsibility we have as artists to relate to our artistry responsibly. And that has to do with sensing into our artistic sensibility as a medicine or a gift that we were given to come into this embodiment, to become the people that we are and share this medicine with the people in our community around us. And I think it's about asking the question, what is a medicine that I can bring? Not from a place of heroism, not from a place of saviorism, but from a place of genuinely,

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01:38:54

e210 roundtable – art and science

conscient podcast ·

2025/03/31

Hey thereWelcome to the first conscient roundtable conversation recorded on Saturday March 1, 2025 in Tiohtià:ke (also known as Montreal). This episode features local artists, activists and cultural workers Alyssa Scott, Devon Hardy, Jimmy Ung, Katrine Claassens, Sophie Weider, Sébastian Méric de Bellefon and myself (I’m actually from Ottawa) talking about our passions, fears and dreams and engaging in some playful banter, though, I have to say, this group had some pretty serious issues on their

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00:15:00

e209 robert and peter janes – telling the truth...

conscient podcast ·

2025/03/20

I think that the first thing artists have to do is to start telling the truth. You know, just like climate change five or six years ago, you just didn't really want to talk about it. You got shunned in polite company if you talked about it. Now we have the c word, right? We've got collapse. But the conversation hasn't started yet. And I think just broadly speaking, the artistic community… The best of the artistic community, has always been on the edge, right? The social edge. Pushing, complaining,

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00:28:02

a calm presence - looking youth in the eyes

conscient podcast ·

2025/03/13

I’ve been (earnestly) taking courses, workshops and seminars these last few years, while producing over 300 podcasts about art and ecology, as my way of helping future generations prepare for what we are leaving them. My most recent learning and unlearning exercise is Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive 2025, a 10 week course inspired by the work of British ecologist David Fleming. I wrote about the first three weeks of the course in prepare, bend, sustain posting (also available in audio). So

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00:14:39

a calm presence - a conscient rethink

conscient podcast ·

2025/02/25

Note: to read this posting on a calm presence see a conscient rethink a conscient rethinkWhat needs to be said? Who needs to say it? Who wants to hear it? How does it help? February 16th, 2025, on the unceded lands of the Algonquin-Anishinaabe people.I started publishing the conscient podcast and balado conscient in May of 2020. My goal was to ‘explore art and the ecological crisis as a learning and unlearning journey’. At that time I believed that ‘the arts and culture could play a critical role in

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00:03:39

a calm presence - mending structures

conscient podcast ·

2025/02/12

Note: I wrote this facebook posting this morning (February 11, 2025) that I’m repurposing as a calm presence essay and as a bonus episode of conscient. *Hi,We need social media spaces that are non profit, with decent values and ethics, community spirit and maturity. This will come. In the meantime we have extractive behemoths like Meta, that are nonetheless the product of human ingenuity and that are useful to help connect (even though I think having coffee with a friend or chatting by a fire is

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00:19:53

ENCORE e01 terrified - climate denial bubble

conscient podcast ·

2025/02/09

What triggered my climate denial bubble to burst? I feel compelled to share this personal experience, in the hope that it might help others who are also struggling with the current sustainability crisis and searching for a path forward…This is an ENCORE episode of the conscient podcast from season 1, episode 1, first published on April 30, 2020.Kaboom !You’ll understand what this Kaboom is about in a few minutes. This episode…explores my reaction, or at least my experience, when I became much more

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00:09:04

a calm presence - prepare, bend, sustain

conscient podcast ·

2025/01/29

prepare, bend, sustainwhat I learned in the first 3 weeks of surviving the future 2025Note: the original posting on my a calm presence Substack is here. Sarah Heynen, Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Food & Ecology, suggested I take Surviving the Future : The Deeper Dive (StF), a 10 week course offered by Sterling College, in Vermont. The course is informed by the work of English economist, cultural historian and writer David Flemingand is led by British author and activist Shaun

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00:40:09

ENCORE e85 tracey friesen (in memoriam) - narratives...

conscient podcast ·

2025/01/09

What's starting to interest me is stories of resilience for a post-carbon world. What are we going to need for our emotional well-being? It's going to be a different world, not long from now. If we do this, and we must do this, this transition has to happen and there's going to be a sense of loss and sacrifice and challenge, not just with what's happening externally from a climate point of view, but in how we're going to have to make changes to our lives and reorient our energies in terms of our

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00:31:27

a calm presence - when spirit becomes one

conscient podcast ·

2025/01/01

A bonus episode in between seasons 5 and 6, featuring my new year’s 'a calm presence' reflection on hope with writings and stories by Peter Schneider, John Crier (as told to Vanessa Andreotti), Richard Heinberg, Zia Gallina, Naomi Klein, Azul Carolina Duque, Jem Bendell, Robert R. Janes and Hildegard Westerkamp. To read the original posting on Substack see https://acalmpresence.substack.com/p/when-spirit-becomes-one-5f5 *END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHey conscient listeners,Thanks for your presence

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00:14:45

a calm presence - listen and co-create

conscient podcast ·

2024/11/09

Note: this is the audio version of my 'listen and co-create' posting on 'a calm presence'. On September 23, 2024, while driving in Victoria BC to record a conversation with educator and musician Azul Carolina Duque for conscient season 6 (to be released in 2025), I was listening to Nate Hagens' The Great Simplification episode 139 : Bioregional Futures: Reconnecting to Place for Planetary Health with regenerative living activist Daniel Christian Wahl. As I listened to the 36th minute of this

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00:06:44

flowing

conscient podcast ·

2024/11/05

flowing throughopening ever-new vistas through listening and conversation I received an email from composer Hildegard Westerkamp, about ego, and set Hildi’s words to sound. The time seems right for you to let everyone’s words flow through you - as if through a medium or force - back to all of us in ever new shapes. This creates shifts in everyone’s perception, ideas, attitudes, feelings and approaches towards the world the way it is now. I have always felt that this was precisely what I was doing

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00:06:16

a calm presence - letter to the arts community

conscient podcast ·

2024/10/27

Below is my reading of an executive summary of my ‘letter to the arts community about the ecological crisis - let’s put the climate emergency back onto our agendas’. I invite you to read the complete letter, when you get a chance, in English or in French, however this summary will give you the basics. I also invite you to submit comments on my Substack, on any of my social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linked in) or directly to claude@conscient.ca. *Dear Canadian arts and cultural sector,I

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00:02:51

trailer season 6

conscient podcast ·

2024/10/27

Hello, this is Claude Schryer.I've just completed season 5 of conscient and I'm very pleased with the result: 54 episodes in English 11 in French. I am on the top of a mountain at La Montagnarde, now where I was in residence for a week completing season 5 and thinking about the next one and wanted to just give listeners a heads up of what's coming. It won't necessarily be easy content, but I think it'll be interesting. The focus is going to be on arts and culture in times of crisis and collapse,

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00:58:56

e208 clara schryer - science as story

conscient podcast ·

2024/10/23

My interest in science is quite poetic. The things that I find the most interesting about science are when it can be woven into a story that makes sense and I think that's kind of artistic in a way: you take the scientific knowledge and make it into a more abstract kind of poetic thing.Note: I'll be back during the winter of 2025 with season 6 on the theme of 'art and culture in times of crisis and collapse'. Also, this episode was published on October 23, 2024 : our daughter Clara Schryer's 23rd

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