Ecotone: We Make Spirits & Children
Ceremony: We make Spirits & Children Listen to land Hear spirits Make music Sing songs to land Then farm land for food Feed women and children Tambaran music “cult” of Papua New Guinea creates temples & music –to Western eyes…But if you ask them… This is an art/culture/life practice that integrates production & reproduction; generation & regeneration; This has been lost to our culture; and as a result our art practices and creativity have been severed from sources of life… How do we reconnect them? How to we bring art from gallery space to the maternal hearth? From a commodity investment in a capitalist system to nourishment for beings in the web of life?
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Stillness
Interactive performance among 20 artists and natural reversing fall in Sheepscot Maine exploring ways to re-connect to living networks in our local bioregion.
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Wild Blueberry Museum
The Maine Wild Blueberry Museum is one of the main projects that grew out of three years (2017-2020) of community engaged teaching and research in collaboration with Maine Wild Blueberry growers. To address small farmer’s concerns, the Wild Difference Project linked community partners with students from 5 university classes with the following outcomes: Launch of this online Maine Wild Blueberry Museum, Designs for the inaugural issue of Spire: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability, illustrations by student Colby Fogg Grant writing for NEH, NBRG, NextGen, with funding provided by NextGen A parallel social media/Facebook campaign, including creation of wild blueberry “emoji” in iTunes Funding for and development of a physical museum in Jonesboro, Maine Planning for a National Heritage Area in Downeast Maine Collaboration with local Washington County High schools in a mentor program to teach digital story skills and collect community blueberry raking stories for the museum I presented this material at two national community engagement conferences and planned to present “The Wild Difference: Hearing voices of small farmers and endangered plants in Downeast Maine” at the Compact20 Conference in Seattle, Washington April 2020, until it was cancelled due to COVID19. Democracy, Opportunity, and Voice (conference themes) in the […]
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Out Rowing
I am a board member of Megunticook Rowing, and have been a competitive rower since college, competing nationally with Radcliffe Crew, and internationally with the 1981 US Lightweight crew, where I stroked the 4+ to an International Gold Medal. After a few decades away, I returned to Maine and also took up rowing again as a sculler. I have since joined the coaching team for Camden High School Rowers, working especially for the women who now have opportunities I had to create by petitioning to join the boy’s track team, threatening Title IX regulations. The boys jeered, but let me run, so that now at this point in my life, I row, ski, kayak, swim side by side with the men who should always have been my brothers. A few years ago, A Maine Media Workshop colleague created a video about the meditative and healing qualities of rowing based on my rowing experiences on Megunticook Lake.
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Wild Difference
What’s the connection between Maine Wild blueberries and Indian Chutney? Meet Molly Sholler, a local Wild Blueberry farmers who makes the connection.
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Local Blues
Want to know more about local wild blueberry farmers? Doug Mott of Continuous Harmony Farm gives his family a taste of wild blueberry harvesting that keeps them coming back.
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Tributaries
Students in my New Media Digital Storytelling classes produce a variety of different types of stories. Tributaries, and online story magazine hosts some of their text/image based stories. Some have audio as well as video embedded, though they often begin with a text framing. Past projects also include Twine hypertext game/stories and iBook stories.
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Plotting Against Oedipus
Dissertation examining non-Oedipal lots as a way to disrupt and find alternatives to patriarchal narrative structures.
Explored healing of "hysterical bodies" via storytelling.
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Request For Ceremony
Gratitude Our whole way of Life is one continuous Song, one continuous Ceremony. The way we move is a dance. Ceremony is Life itself. It is the way we do things. Ceremony, to us, is the daily Life; everything we do, everything we think about is all part of that same expression…and we are thankful for it. –gkisedtanamoogk, Wampanoag Colonization All humans are, or have been, indigenous to a given place at one time. Colonization is the process of civilizing indigenous people. To civilize means to break kinship bonds between people, and to sever their ties to the land and all of its beings; To civilize is to break natural networks of interdependence and replace them with violent hierarchies of control in order to centralize power and wealth. Ceremony Request for Ceremony elicits, distributes, and records some examples of Ceremony generated by people attempting to practice or re-activate their kinship with the Beings of Creation, and to remember or reconnect to their Home. Each entry in Request for Ceremony includes a greeting which locates the contributor (character) and their relation to those already part of the local mesh (contact), as well as a description of the ceremony, location with map, […]
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