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Imagination State

Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer

Welcome to Imagination State, with Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer. This is a podcast about imagination: how it shapes our lives, our world, and our futures. You’ll hear from people on the frontlines of imagination: artists, writers, thinkers, activists - teachers of all kinds - who stand up to the forces that shrink our inner worlds, who open us to richer, more just futures, and who remind us that building imagination is also a form of liberation.

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Update on Imagination State Season Finale

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2025/09/16

This is an update on the episode that was supposed to go live today. My guest for this last episode of the season is an artist and art teacher living in Gaza, Noura Al Qasasia. Ahead of our interview, she and her family was pushed to pack up and move to another area of the Gaza Strip. My hope is that this interview will still happen, if Noura is willing, able, and wanting to use this platform to share about that experience and about her art and teaching. If this episode is not possible at thi...

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68:25

Interruptions to move us beyond the familiar, with...

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2025/09/09

What might an imagination curriculum look like? How is learning the art of interruption a key part of that? This week's guest is Barbara Leckie, professor at Canada's Carleton University, author of Climate Change Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time, and host of the podcast Commons Sense. Barbara’s work moves between Victorian literature, climate communication, and environmental humanities, and she is one of the most creative thinkers I know. Our conversation begins with...

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42:40

Creating the environment for discoveries to happen,...

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2025/09/02

César Jung-Harada has a wildly adventurous life: He’s a justice-oriented philosopher-inventor traversing the world’s oceans to help humanity adapt to climate change. He has built oil-spill robots, shape-shifting boats, floating cities, and hydrogen devices. The inventions range in technology and scale, but the heart and soul remains the same. César uses imagination and inclusion to scaffold all he does, believing that children, students, refugees, artists, and local “non-experts” belong at th...

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64:41

Convening between and across worlds... with Daniel...

Imagination State ·

2025/08/26

Daniel Tam-Claiborne is a writer, producer, and nonprofit leader whose work bridges cultures and builds belonging. His debut novel Transplants (Simon & Schuster, 2025), a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, follows two young women navigating borders, responsibility, and the search for home. A former Fulbright Scholar and NEA Fellow, Daniel is now Deputy Director of The Serica Initiative, where he works to illuminate Asian American stories. In this epis...

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66:20

The world beyond social media beckons... With Amelia...

Imagination State ·

2025/08/19

Send us a text This week on Imagination State, we are joined by Amelia Hruby - feminist writer, podcaster, and creator of Off the Grid, a podcast and community for people reclaiming their attention from social media. With Off the Grid and as the founder of Softer Sounds, Amelia helps artists and entrepreneurs build thriving creative lives beyond the extractive attention economies of social media. A former philosophy professor and the author of Fifty Feminist Mantras, Amelia’s work spans femin...

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63:12

Marcie Alvis Walker is writing goodness into the world

Imagination State ·

2025/08/12

Send us a text Why wouldn’t we want all stories together? We miss out when we’re segregated. Marcie’s stories open the door to her home and her heart - and, somehow, to your own. She once wrote that newsletters are like the Off-Broadway productions of what’s happening in Midtown. Her recent Love Letters on Substack feel like the main show: intimate, arresting, and something you carry with you long after it’s over. She doesn’t turn away from sorrow or injustice, but she shows us another way to...

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15:50

Goodbye Heart Gallery, hello Imagination State

Imagination State ·

2025/08/05

Send us a text Hello again, and a warm welcome to new listeners! This is the first episode of a new season and, in a way, the first chapter of an entirely new story. Old friends will remember The Heart Gallery; now, we’ve stepped out into the wider - and wilder? - landscape of the imagination. In this short opening episode, I share the tale of a matrescence-sparked imagination awakening, the first beginning of a curriculum experiment drawn from works of those on the imagination frontlines, an...

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58:45

Listening to the music of the landscape, with...

Imagination State ·

2024/11/20

Send us a textIn this episode, we step into the world of ethnomusicology with Angela Impey. Angela is a researcher, author, and senior lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where she explores the links between music, culture, and social change. Angela shares her experiences during apartheid in South Africa, where music became a powerful form of political expression, along with stories from several ethnomusicology projects across the African continent. She explains ...

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42:57

Loretta Pettway Bennett pieces a Gee's Bend quilt...

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2024/06/19

Send us a Text Message.In this episode launching on Juneteenth, come on a trip down the road from Selma, Alabama - home of the 1960s Selma Voting Rights Movement and the Selma to Montgomery marches - to the tiny little enclave of Gee’s Bend, situated in a bend of the Alabama river. This is the home of the famous Gees Bend quilters.The community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, traces its roots back to the enslaved individuals who toiled on Joseph Gee’s cotton plantation established in 1816. After the ...

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74:20

Marine Tanguy explores the sinister and heartening...

Imagination State ·

2024/05/08

Send us a Text Message.Did you know that the average person encounters 10,000 commercial images in a day? That neighborhoods where people have lower incomes tend to have more advertisements for unhealthy foods and have more stores selling and advertising commercial tobacco? That the majority of images we see of the African continent are mostly from Western sources? This is some of what I’ve learned from the new book, The Digital Detox, by Marine Tanguy, who is my guest in this episode.Manufactured

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60:22

Tara DePorte on envisioning enticing futures and...

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2024/03/28

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Métis artist Christi Belcourt on how to "make things...

Imagination State ·

2023/12/14

This episode of The Heart Gallery will take you into the history and ongoing realities of Indigenous affairs in Canada. Recent years have shed light on a painful and violent history, as well as present-day systemic challenges. From the harrowing legacy of the residential school system, which remained active until the 1990s, to the continuous struggles over land rights and cultural preservation, these unfolding revelations have sparked crucial national and international dialogues. They compel us to

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56:40

Beyond the crisis: Justin Cook on climate stories...

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2023/12/06

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55:26

What good can a museum do for global society? With...

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2023/11/29

In today's escalating humanitarian crises, the term itself is complex, influenced by various factors. The United Nations reports 235 million people needing humanitarian help, nearly double from a decade ago. These crises and the treatment of them, often rooted in colonialism, affect everything from resources to power structures, and, as discussed in the episode with Patrick Gathara, may perpetuate biased narratives by overlooking systemic issues.Against this context, Pascal Hufschmid reimagines

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90:39

Lingering in the sun with Gaelynn Lea

Imagination State ·

2023/11/22

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45:14

Inclusive storytelling from Gaza and beyond with...

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2023/11/13

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37:35

Inclusive storytelling from Gaza and beyond with...

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2023/11/10

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57:00

Taylor Freesolo Rees on tuning into the heart

Imagination State ·

2023/05/04

For the 10th episode (and the season finale!) of The Heart Gallery Podcast, I connect with my wonderful friend Taylor Freesolo Rees. Taylor is a filmmaker, documentarian, storyteller and photographer. She has won numerous film festival awards for her work exploring environmental justice, natural resource issues, the outdoor adventure industry and its various players, nonhuman creatures and our relationships with them, and much much more. Taylor has the ability to deftly weave together myriad threads

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45:10

Alisa Petrosova on weaving climate threads into...

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2023/04/26

For Episode 9 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer talks to climate story consultant Alisa Petrosova.This episode explores how the film and TV industry is doing on climate messaging. According to research from Good Energy and The Media Impact Project that analyzed 37, 453 scripted television episodes and films released from 2016 through 2020, less than 3% acknowledge climate change.Alisa works at Good Energy, which supports TV and film creators in telling stories that honestly

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70:34

John Kazior on nonhuman perspectives, greenwashing...

Imagination State ·

2023/04/20

For Episode 8 of The Heart Gallery Podcast, Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer talks to artist and writer John Kazior.Today’s guest on The Heart Gallery sparks imagination incredibly well. He is John Kazior, an American artist and writer based in Sweden. John's writing also reveals the depths of these dark arts and shares how we can come to see these efforts more clearly. He talks about how we can learn to go deeper below the surface with issues and ideas that matter the most, and how we can come to

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