Basilica Conversation Series Podcast

The Basilica Conversation Series Podcast, hosted by Basilica Hudson Co-Founder and Director Melissa Auf der Maur explores the power of arts and culture at the intersection of climate and social advocacy. Each episode highlights people and organizations that reflect and inspire our mission to be a platform for independent and innovative voices, and to support artists, filmmakers, musicians and climate change advocates.

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Episodes

Nakita Reed: Modern World Quandaries

Unintentional Consequences of Progress and Other Modern World Quandaries This episode is a special joint re-broadcast presented in collaboration with the Tangible Remnants podcast hosted by Nakita Reed . Basilica's co-founder and director Melissa Auf der Maur sat down with Nakita Reed for an in depth conversation on polite racism, gender roles, feminism, climate change, preservation, sustainability, music, culture, inequities designed into the American system, cultural differences between the US...

Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 7

Elizabeth Sobol & Maureen Sager: Nature Art & People

NATURE, ART & PEOPLE: The Divine Union and the role they play in shaping our experience and world. This episode features Elizabeth Sobol, President and CEO of Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) and Maureen Sager , Executive Director of the Upstate Alliance for the Creative Economy (ACE). Maureen Sager is Executive Director of the Alliance for the Creative Economy (ACE), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and growing the Creative Industries in the 8-county Capital Region...

Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 6

CA Conrad, Kate Durbin & Cat Tyc: Eco Poetics

ECO POETICS: From Somatic Rituals to Everyday Trash and Everything In-between. This episode features poetry readings and conversation with CA Conrad, Kate Durbin and Cat Tyc, director of The Home School. Their upcoming season of virtual workshops offered us an opportunity to discuss the way they teach, but more specifically the rituals in which they create. The topics explored range from electronic poetry arts, to hoarders and the tricky relationship between people and things, traumas, healing a...

Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 5

R.B. Schlather & Roddy Bottum: The Future of Opera

“The Future of Opera: Sasquatch, Rip Van Winkle and Chosen Families” Conversation about the intersections of the underground world of art and the old world of opera between Opera Director / Artist R.B. Schlather and Musician Roddy Bottum . Opera was created 100s of years ago as an artistic experiment of the European elite, but after speaking to RB and Roddy we find ourselves wondering if it could stand to benefit from being reclaimed by local communities and the underworld. From DIY dioramas and...

Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Elise McMahon of LikeMindedObjects: Cross Industry Solution Hunting, Wastestream Research & Regional Manufacturing

Basilica Hudson Co-Founder and Directors speaks with Elise McMahon of LikeMindedObjects, a longtime friend and program partner, about her journey to sustainable design, advocacy for reducing landfill waste and more. Follow Basilica Hudson on all platforms @basilicahudson Follow Elise McMahon @likemindedobjects About LikeMindedObjects LMO creates furniture, accessories and custom interiors in a contemporary joyful aesthetic with a resourceful design eye looking to local materials and technologies...

May 26, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Jon Bowermaster, Susannah Bradley & Rebecca Wolff: Where The Arts Meet Green Jobs and Infrastructure

This episode is special co-broadcast of Jon Bowermaster's Green Radio Hour show, originally published on Radio Kingston. This conversation features a trio of green-thinkers and doers in Hudson, NY : SunCommon's Regional Director of Marketing Susannah Bradley; writer, publisher and City of Hudson Alderperson Rebecca Wolff; and oceans expert, journalist, author, and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster. www.basilicahudson.org Follow Basilica Hudson on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @basilicahudson Follow Jo...

May 10, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Rebecca Foon & Jesse Paris Smith of Pathway to Paris/1000 Cities: Making the Paris Agreement a Reality

Basilica Hudson Co-Founder and Director Melissa Auf der Maur interviews one of our newest board members, musician and activist Rebecca Foon, along with her Pathway To Paris co-founder Jesse Paris Smith, about their commitment to making the Paris Agreement a reality. www.basilicahudson.org Follow Basilica Hudson on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @basilicahudson Follow Pathway on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @pathway2Paris About Basilica Hudson Founded in 2010 by Melissa Auf der Maur and Tony ...

Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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