The Side Woo
By Sarah Thibault
The Side WooMay 26, 2022
Announcements! Plus a live show on Gutsy Radio
This week, Sarah takes a break from the reguarly scheduled program to announce a new live radio show on Friday April 26, from 8-10pm Pacific Time. The show will be once aired monthly on their platform, and then recorded and shared somewhere as yet to be determined. To listen you can go to https://gutsyradio.org/. The guest this week will be an encore presentation of our interview with Elisabeth Elektra, along with songs from her new EP.
Plus Sarah shares her proof that vision boards work, information about her upcoming solo show, and the guest for the next episode.
Painting the Psyche with Artist Xiao Wang
Xiao Wang (b. 1990), is a Chinese born, New York based figurative painter primarily working with oil paint. Wang’s work combines dramatic and moody color palettes with a realism approach. He creates constructed scenes from photographs of still lifes, foliage, interior spaces, landscapes, himself, his friends, and loved ones. The contents of these scenes are rooted in everyday life, while the attention to atmosphere and emotion pushes the paintings to an uncanny space. With the use of theatrical lighting and distortion or exaggeration of colors, the world depicted in Wang’s paintings is elevated to a dreamlike space. At the center of this space are human figures, often in solitude, unaware of the fourth-wall in front.
Show Notes
- Xiao Wang on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/xiaowang_artist/
- Xiao Wang website https://www.xiaowangartist.com/artist-bio
Oh! the Horror with Basement VHS hosts Luca Antonucci and Mitsu Okubo
This week Sarah chats with Basement VHS podcast and filmscreening hosts, Luca Antonucci and Mitsu Okubo. Sarah asks them about their love of horror and why it might be the best thing to get over the nighttime scaries.
About Basement VHS
The premier VHS seed bank of San Francisco! Highlights from our +3000 and counting vhs library. Basement Radio Fridays 6-8pm on Radio Valencia. Hosted by Luca and Mitsu.
Show Notes:
- Basement VHS on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/basementvhs/
- Colpa Press https://www.instagram.com/colpapress/
- Mitsu Okubo website: https://mmmitsuokubooo.bigcartel.com/
- Luca Antonucci website: https://lucaantonucci.com/
Good Endings, Breast Cancer and Loving Your Worst Characters with Author & Educator Natalie Serber
This week Sarah talks with author and educator Natalie Serber, a former mentor of hers that she met randomly - so random - during the pandemic. They talk about writing good endings, loving your worst characters, and how Natalie thrived after her breast cancer diagnosis.
About Natalie Serber:
Natalie Serber is a fiction writer, essayist, and educator. She is the author of Shout Her Lovely Name, a book that was reviewed by the NY Times Book Review, O Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle. She also wrote Community Chest, a compilation of essays written during her recovery from breast cancer.
Natalie received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Bellingham Review and Gulf Coast, among others, and her awards include the Tobias Wolff Award. She teaches writing at various universities and lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.
Show Notes
- Shout Her Lovely Name https://bookshop.org/p/books/shout-her-lovely-name-natalie-serber/7083353?ean=9780544002210
- Community Chest https://bookshop.org/p/books/community-chest-natalie-serber/11699906?ean=9780692492598
- Natalie's essay on consent https://memoirland.substack.com/p/the-accurate-term
- Read.Write.Eat Substack https://readwriteeat.substack.com/
Art & Community with Filmmaker and Gallery Director Griff Williams of Gallery 16
Sarah sat down for a chat at the Space Program Recording Studios in November 2023 to ask Griff Williams, Founder of Gallery 16 about his 30+ years running a San Francisco-gallery. We also talk about his documentary "Tell them we were here" about 8 artists making art outside the gallery system and the impact they have made on the Bay Area's many diverse and underrepresented communities.
About Gallery 16
Gallery 16 was founded in 1993 by artist Griff Williams with the primary focus of representing and advocating for the work of living contemporary artists. In addition to the regular exhibition schedule, the gallery sponsors artists talks, and hosts performances and music throughout the year. It’s our belief that the brick and mortar gallery model, to be culturally relevant, needs to embody new strategies for facilitating and presenting artist’s projects. The space, as Williams describes it, “allows for the artist to fail. We don’t create exhibitions around curatorial agendas, but extend an invitation to artists we trust and hope they use the opportunity to challenge themselves without restrictions.
Studio notes
- Gallery 16 https://gallery16.com/contact
- Gallery 16 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gallery16/
- Griff Williams website https://www.griffwilliams.com/
- Tell Them We Were Here https://tellthemwewerehere.com/
Live Panel Talk on Resilience & Joy in Art with Tara Daly, Mary Finlayson and Rachel Kaye
As part of the Pure Beauty exhibition at Eleanor Harwood, Sarah hosted a live panel discussion on Resilience and Joy with artists Tara Daly, Mary Finlayson, and Rachel Kaye. Everyone shares the trials and triumphs they have faced over the course of their careers and fields audience questions.
The conversation was recorded on March 13, 2024. To inquire about any work in the show, reach out to the gallery directly.
Show Notes
- Pure Beauty at Eleanor Harwood Gallery https://eleanorharwood.com/exhibitions/124-pure-beauty-a-group-show-with-tara-daly-mary-finlayson/works/
- Tara Daly on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ghertie/
- Mary Finlayson on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/painted_mary
- Rachel Kaye on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ray_ray_kaye/
Money Loves You with Author & Life Coach Sarah McCrum
This week host Sarah talks with author, energy worker and life coach Sarah McCrum who channeled / wrote the book Love Money, Money Loves You. Sarah M shares what money wants you to know about getting rich, enjoying life more and finding balance between woo woo stuff and the reality of the world.
About Sarah McCrum
Sarah believes in a society that is fundamentally based in love, generosity and a deep understanding of the essence of being human. Her purpose is to contribute to creating a world that works for 100% of humanity. She's an author, educator and business innovator. She's the Founder of Liberate Humanity, which is a place for learning and sharing the skills for liberation of the human spirit.Sarah has spent more than 20 years teaching and coaching business owners and their families. She's the creator of the innovative program, Thank You Money, based on the principles of her book, Love Money, Money Loves You. Over 10,000 people have completed courses with Sarah, building a relationship with money that's founded in love, abundance, generosity and nature. She's also co-Originator of LOVE TO, a group of Mutual companies that have created new financial products, backed by the regeneration and protection of nature and human quality of life. LOVE TO has been built from the ground up on the principles of Sarah's book and work. It's an example of what's possible when we build businesses based in the spirit of generosity.
Show notes
- Love Money, Money Loves You https://books.google.com/books/about/Love_Money_Money_Loves_You.html
- Sarah McCrum's website https://sarahmccrum.com/about/
- Sarah McCrum on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sarah_mccrum/
Digital Detoxing with Joe Hollier, the Co-Creator of The Light Phone
In honor of the end of Flip Phone February, this week Sarah talks with the co-creator of the Light Phone, a "dumbphone" made to help people spend less time using their phones. Most recently Light Phone has done a collaboration with Kendrick Lamar for their instantly sold-out Light Phone II this past fall.
Joe shares how he and his partner Kaiwei Tang came up with the idea for the phone, and what impact running a business has made on his creative life. We also talk about the very real addiction most of us have to our smartphones, and some strategies for stepping back from the most unproductive digital habits.
About Joe Hollier
Joe Hollier is a multi-disciplinary artist from Brooklyn. He studied design at the School of Visual Arts. He's a filmmaker, designer, director, and entrepreneur. He likes to make stop animations, collages, patterns and drawings, music videos, documentaries, and books.
Show Notes
- Joe Hollier's website: https://www.joehollier.com/
- The Light Phone: https://www.thelightphone.com/
- Kendrick Lamar x Light Phone II https://www.businessinsider.com/kendrick-lamar-launches-limited-edition-light-phone-2-2023-11
Stories That Free Us with Artist, Filmmaker & Queer Activist Jason Hanasik
This week Sarah is in San Francisco and gets the chance to talk with artist Jason Hanasik about his career as a photographer and filmmaker. Jason talks about creating GAP’s contribution to the It Gets Better Campaign, losing a sister to mental health challenges and what personal liberation can look like. Sarah shares some personal news.
About Jason
Jason Hanasik is a filmmaker, artist, journalist, and curator. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, screened at various international film festivals, and featured on the BBC, The Guardian and in The Los Angeles Times. He has curated exhibitions for the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and his scholarship has been published in the academic journal “Critical Military Studies.” Hanasik’s photography monograph, "I slowly watched him disappear," is in the research collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, and other institutions.
Show Notes:
- Personal Website: www.jasonhanasik.com
- "A Great Gay Book: Stories of Growth, Belonging and Other Queer Possibilities": https://agreatgaybook.com
- "How to Make a Pearl": https://vimeo.com/255561801
- “A Childhood on Fire” http://theguardian.com/childhood-on-fire
- “Tomorrow Will Be A Better Day In an Unknown World:" https://youtu.be/_ptvmahVE-s
Rainbow Signs with Hosts of the Lez Be Moms Podcast Lindsay Tully and Lana Williams
Lindsay and Lana are married artists, living, working and raising a baby together in Oakland, CA. They are two-thirds of the art collaborative, Bonanza, with Conrad Guevara, recently exhibiting work at the Museum of Craft and Design, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, and Gallery 16.
Lindsay is a filmmaker with experience in the documentary field and currently serves as the Senior Director at Creativebug, an online platform for craft classes.
Lana is a painter, ceramicist, author and garden designer. She owns and runs The Tender Gardener, a boutique plant shop and design company. Her first book, The Container Garden Recipe Book, published by Artisan Books will be available May 2024. Lindsay and Lana's podcast Lez Be Moms chronicles their adventures as queer parents. The show can be found wherever you get your podcasts!
Show Notes:
Lez Be Moms Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lez-be-moms/id1707595726https://open.spotify.com/show/6ndwxksX53dBZZDF2Sm8uUhttps://shows.acast.com/648e26d87404e60011793836The Tender Gardener:https://www.thetendergardener.com/Bonanza:https://www.bonanzaart.com/
Quilting for Metal Dudes with Bay Area Artist Ben Venom
The Aesthetics of Grief with Artist Amber Jean Young
This week Sarah talks with Bay Area artist Amber Jean Young about her work, grief from losing her mother, and then why she chose to have a double mastectomy and an oophorectomy after the birth of her second child.
About Amber Jean Young
Amber Jean Young (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Berkeley California. Young’s work explores ideas about place, grief, and resilience across mediums, creating vibrant patterns and plant imagery in her compositions. She has exhibited nationally including Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary, and Marrow Gallery in San Francisco, Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, Monte Vista Projects and Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles, the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. She is a 2012 Djerassi Resident Artist Program fellow. Her work has been published the San Francisco Chronicle, Palo Alto Weekly and in catalogs including The MediaMath Collection: Selected Acquisitions 2012 - 2016, A Celebration of 50 Years of Women Artists At Kenyon College, MusiCares 2010 catalog. Her art has been used on the covers and inside jackets of multiple Neil Young and Pegi Young albums and is included in the MediaMath and Fidelity Investments corporate art collections.
Show Notes
- Order Amber's Shelter In Place book https://amberjeanyoung.com/shop/p/shelter-in-place-book
- Website https://amberjeanyoung.com/
- Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amberjeanyoung
- Amber on The Residuals Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/36fYXZSCJBP0k3Pb43P998?si=20d60302551b43b6
- Sign up for Plein Air Painting in Los Angeles https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weekly-plein-air-painting-meet-ups-frogtown-in-january-tickets-777395289237?aff=oddtdtcreator
- Join Art Date Social Club via Substack: https://artdate.substack.com/subscribe
- The Side Woo Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3obgaJzgBPe7TiIN0yDm1Q
Tarot & Taschen's Library of Esoterica with Jess Hundley
This week Sarah talks with editor, creative director and co-writer of Taschen's Library of Esoterica books, Jess Hundley. Jess shares her plan for creating the as of today four encyclopedic books, Tarot, Astrology, Witchcraft and Plant Magick, and the important part the Philosophical Research Society played in finding materials for the books.
About Jess Hundley
Jessica Hundley is a Creative Director, Writer & Producer specializing in music, film, counterculture, magick and psychedelia.
As an author and editor, Hundley is currently engaged on projects for book publishers Abrams, Phaidon and Rizzoli. Hundley is also creator, author and Series Editor for Taschen Publications multivolume collection, The Library of Esoterica, a book series exploring the visual history of Tarot, Astrology and other esoteric traditions.
Recent projects as a Creative Director include overseeing staging, visuals and overall concepting for John Legend's 2021 Bigger Love Tour and Legend’s 2022-23 Las Vegas residency. Hundley continues to work collaboratively with John Legend and his team as a Creative Director and Producer, overseeing the recent launch of Legend's LOVED01 skincare line, as well as album art, limited edition book and album packaging and commercial projects. Hundley also served as co-creative director alongside Darren Romanelli on the DomeRX an immersive art experience at the 2022 FORMAT Festival. Other recent copywriting and creative directing work includes drink brand GHIA and an expansive campaign for Corona/Mexico alongside the team at CAA/Observatory.
As an author, Hundley has published over a dozen books in the last decade, an acclaimed biography on country rock icon Gram Parsons for DaCapo, a book on music and meditation with the director David Lynch, and an overview of photographs from longtime Michael Jackson photographer Todd Gray and extensive overview of the photography of Dennis Hopper from Taschen Publications.
Show notes:
- Jess Hundley https://www.jessicahundley.com/BIO
- Philosophical Research Society https://www.prs.org/
- Buy the Library of Esoterica Books and donate to charity at the same time: https://linktr.ee/thelibraryofesoterica
Manifesting with the Moon with Moonology Creator Yasmin Boland
Ever since she picked up Moonology in 2019, Sarah has been wanting to talk with Yasmin Boland, creator of Moonology the book and oracle decks inspired by the phases of the moon. Finally, this week, Sarah shares her conversation with Yasmin in early November 2023. During their conversation, Yasmin shares her career path from Journalist to Witchy Astrologer, and what led her to create a system of New Moon and Full Moon rituals to help her manifest her life goals and dreams.
About Yasmin Boland
Yasmin Boland is an award-winning astrologer and the Sunday Times best-selling Hay House author of books including Moonology and Astrology Made Easy and the creator of the Moonology oracle cards, possibly the best-selling oracle cards in the history of oracle cards. A former journalist and TV producer, Yasmin's work has been featured around the world, including Vogue, Oprah and Red, and she was recently named as one of the most spiritually influential people on the planet. Yasmin' taps into ancient lunar wisdom to explain to people that they can use Moonology and the Moon, as the most consistent and effective manifesting tool.
Show Notes
- Yasmin Boland's website https://www.yasminboland.com/about/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/planetyasminboland/
https://www.instyle.com/lifestyle/astrology/midheaven-mc-astrology-sign-career
- Yoga Journal, What Your Rising Sign in Astrology Means
- Keen, The Basics Of Astrology’s Rising Sign
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Sound & content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
What Comes After Addiction Recovery with Amir Hamaoui, Creator of the Welldim Journey Deck
This week Sarah talks with Amir Hamaoui, friend and husband of former guest Rachel Dawson. He shares his journey through recovery and how he answered the inevitable question after any major life change, "What now?" As part of his recovery process, he created a new wellness-focused oracle deck called Welldim Journey that helps people along their path to transcendence and inner peace. Plus they talk about Amir's insane adventures in kite surfing in the San Francisco Bay. About Amir Hamaoui Born, raised, and residing in California, Amir studied and practiced engineering during his early profession. Despite what most would consider milestone life achievements in career and family, alcohol was a persistent layer that began as fun and became a troublesome method to cope with typical life stresses. As time mindlessly passed, the daily suffering of addiction merged with the appearance of a high-functioning life. Fortunately, with ever-present support from friends and family and a personal dedication and persistence to sobriety, life’s path turned towards recovery, gratitude, and self-improvement. A new chapter was born with a commitment to lifelong wellness, bringing Amir back to childhood dreams as an artistic creator to help those seeking to improve their lives and community. Show Notes: The Welldim Journey Deck welldimjourney.com Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html The alternative pyramid of needs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3161123/
The Side Woo Live at The ICA San Francisco - Rupy C. Tut, Heesoo Kwon and Cate White
On November 5, 2023 Sarah hosted three guest artists at the Institute of Contemporary Art - San Francisco for a live panel discussion on creativity and what blocks it.
During their conversations they discuss where ideas come from, why do we as artists get creatively blocked and what can we do about it.
Show Notes
- Rupy C. Tut https://www.rupyctut.com/
- Rupy's show at the ICA SF: Out of Place https://www.icasf.org/exhibitions/5-out-of-place
- Heesoo Kwon welcome video https://heesookwon.com/filter/installaion/welcome-from-Heesoo
- Heesoo's show at the ICA San Jose: https://www.icasanjose.org/current-exhibitions/heesoo-kwon-leymusoom-garden/
- Cate White https://www.catewhite.com/
- Cate White's How Do You Paint Youtube Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZpBSnaYl9HO4hN0sAuHlQ
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Sound & Content Editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
Recorded at the Institute of Contemporary Art - San Francisco on November 5, 2023
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Building Queer Archives with Artist Jamil Hellu
This week we share a conversation with Sarah and Bay Area artist Jamil Hellu. They talked during a shared artist residency at the Space Program in August 2023.
About Jamil Hellu
Jamil Hellu is a visual artist whose work focuses on the fluidity of identity, cultural heritage, and queer representation, often pointing to the tensions found in the evolving discourses about sexuality. He is a Photography Lecturer in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University and is represented by Rebecca Camacho Presents in San Francisco.Through a multidisciplinary practice rooted in photography and that includes video, sculpture, and installation, Hellu’s projects interrogate the dominant patriarchal ideology of masculinity while challenging preconceived notions about gender expression. Navigating from a personal lens, he frequently incorporates his own history as an immigrant to the United States, exploring the impact of cultural hybridity. His art fosters empathy and dialogue, ultimately promoting a more inclusive and equitable world.Hellu holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Art Practice from Stanford University and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been discussed in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Artforum, and VICE. He has held multiple art residencies including at the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Public collections holding his work include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cantor Arts Center; and the Blanton Museum of Art.
Show Notes:
- https://jamilhellu.net/about
- Jamil's solo show at Rebecca Camacho, "Odyssey" https://rebeccacamacho.com/exhibitions
- Folsom Street Fair https://www.folsomstreet.org
- Pop Out https://www.dukeupress.edu/pop-out
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Sound & Content Editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
Recording Studio: The Space Program
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Artist Tarot Reading: Harnessing Nervous Energy with Katherine Vetne
Show Notes
Katherine Vetne katherinevetne.com/
Instagram www.instagram.com/kavetne/?hl=en
Palate Cleanser at Catherine Clark Gallery cclarkgallery.com/exhibitions/katherine-vetne-ccg-solo-palate-cleanser-2023
Goodbye To All That (Art World Edition) with Artist Delia Brown
This week Sarah talks Delia Brown, an artist and psychedelic-therapist-in-training living in the Bay Area. Delia shares her ups and downs of having a multi-decade career in the art world and why she is leaving it all behind.
She shares her experience getting diagnosed with cancer, her subsequent recovery, and how she came to her new career path in psychedelic therapies.
About Delia Brown
Delia Brown's work is primarily engaged in exploring desire as an individuated experience that connects the personal to the collective unconscious, often mediated through advertising and commercial culture. Referencing early bourgeois painting genres, she paints herself and her friends enacting their fantasies of being part of the leisure class, with props from snacks and beverages to million-dollar artworks functioning as important accessories in the assumption of privilege.
Show Notes
- Delia Brown http://www.deliabrown.net/
- The review Charles Labelle: https://www.frieze.com/article/delia-brown
- UCLA Doctor Sued for Harassing Patients
- Whole Foods Parking lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UFc1pr2yUU
- Revenge of the Black Prius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idG_Odfk9fI
- CIIS https://www.ciis.edu/
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Sound & Content Editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
Recording Studio: The Space Program
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Artist Tarot Reading: Perfectionism and the Shadow
This week Sarah reads for artist, activist, and podcast host Nikki Nolan. They talk about how to break from the patterns of perfectionism and let your inner Leo take center stage.
Show Notes
- Instagram: @thenikkinolan
- TikTok: @theonlynikkinolan
- Get your human design chart https://www.ihdschool.com/get-your-chart
- The AI, Data, Ethics, Privacy & Security Association: https://theassociation.ai/
- https://www.instagram.com/thenikkinolan
Healing Through EMDR & The Fluidity Of Time With Artist Ranu Mukherjee
About Ranu Mukherjee
Ranu Mukherjee’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2022-2023) de Young Museum, San Francisco (2018-2019); the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design (2017); the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2016); the Tarble Art Center, Charleston, IL (2016) and the San Jose Museum of Art, CA (2012), among others. Her most recent immersive video installations have been was presented in Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022-2023, the 2019 Karachi Biennale (2019) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016) as well as in numerous international group exhibitions. Mukherjee has been awarded a Pollock Krasner Grant (2020); a Lucas Visual Arts Fellowship at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA (2019-2022); an 18th Street Arts Center Residency, Los Angeles (2022); Facebook Artist in Residence (2020); de Young Museum Artist Studio Program (2017); the Space 118 Residency, Mumbai (2014); and a Kala Fellowship Award and Residency, Berkeley (2009). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; de Young Museum, San Francisco; the JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York; the Kadist Foundation, San Francisco and Paris; the Oakland Museum of California; the San Jose Museum of Art; and the San Francisco International Airport, among others.
Reserve your spot for the upcoming live event in San Francisco at the ICA SF about creativity and what blocks it.
November 5, 3-5pm
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-side-woo-ica-sf-a-live-talk-about-creativity-and-what-blocks-it-tickets-729930229967
Show Notes
Ranu's Website www.ranumukherjee.com/about
A+P+I Residency at Mills College mcam.mills.edu/exhibitions/api-current1.php
Artist Tarot Reading: Looking for a Career Makeover
For the first Artist Tarot Reading episode, Sarah does a reading for LA artist and curator Vivien Chung who is wondering about making a big career move. You can check out Vivien's work on her website http://www.vivienchung.com/ and her Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vivienpaints/
Reserve your spot at the Live Talk on Creativity and What Blocks It hosted by The Side Woo @ICA SF
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Following The Creative Path Wherever It Leads With Sonny Smith of Sonny & The Sunsets
This week Sarah talks with Sonny Smith about the creative process and what he has learned about sustaining inspiration for his music over multiple decades and many style changes. Recorded at The Space Program in July 2023. About Sonny Smith Sonny Smith (born 1972) is an American musician, playwright and multimedia artist from San Francisco. He has released fourteen albums since 2000, largely with group Sonny & The Sunsets. His work has variously encompassed blues, folk, pop and rock elements. AllMusic noted that his 2002 album, This Is My Story, This Is My Song, lifted him from obscurity to cult status.
Smith is a songwriter in the tradition of Ray Davies whose songs are often populated by characters with an emphasis on outcasts, weirdos, freaks, death, love and atypical transformation. They sometimes recall the 1950s era doo wop of The Falcons combined with the direct sincerity and positive spirit of Modern Lovers’ Jonathan Richman, the kitchen sink wisdom of Michael Hurley and the absurdity of The Hairy Who? art collective, as well as the dark confessional humor of cartoonists like Robert Crumb.
Show Notes
- Artist Page on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/189npwiCoBxlFNEDfiOtqu?si=KSrcJlFiQeiOAo65bcuriQ
- Pitchfork Review of A New Day With Possibilities https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sonny-and-the-sunsets-new-day-with-new-possibilities/
About The Side Woo Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault Sound & content editing: Sarah Thibault Studio and equipment provided by The Space Program Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Making the Invisible Visible with Bay Area Artist and Tattooist Christopher Martin
- This week, Sarah talks with Bay Area artist and tatooist Christopher Martin who was a resident at The Space Program in San Francisco this summer. About Christopher Martin Christopher Martin is a multidisciplinary artist from North Carolina exploring the African Diaspora and Indigenous histories. Driven by a desire to push cultural narratives, Martin confronts aesthetic perceptions of contemporary injustice. Cotton fibers are the primary medium of storytelling in order to reclaim the roots of the Atlantic slave trade. Christopher’s hand-cut and sewn monumental tapestry banners in contrasted black and white images tell a surreal story of religion, captivity, and freedom. He has been awarded the first-ever Artist-In-Residence from the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD AIR 2018), Inaugural Artist for ICA San Francisco Museum (2022), along with lectures both in the United States and Internationally. Show Notes & Sources Flaneur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur Situationists International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International Derive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rive BART running through neighborhoods https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/05/07/oakland-freeways-environmental-justice/ BART / Redlining source 2 https://projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/7thstreet-archive/category/topics/3.
- Open eye meditation - Andrew Huberman, Stanford University
- Neuroscience Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTBSGgbIvsY
- Daylight before 10am -Andrew Huberman, Stanford University
- Neuroscience Podcast https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O4gDJrTV3P4
About The Side Woo Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault Sound & Content Editing: Sarah Thibault Studio & Equipment provided by The Space Program Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Introducing Free Agent with Sarah Thibault: Nicole Mueller on how to make a mosaic mural one tiny piece at a time
This week is an off week, so I thought I would take it as an opportunity to share another project I work on called Free Agent. As part of my substack newsletter, Art Date, every month I record interviews with artists, writers, musicians, and other creative folk who have stepped outside the traditional career models to carve out their own path. Was it good? Was it bad? I want to hear about it. This episode is an interview I did with a previous guest of The Side Woo, Nicole Mueller of the Beyond The Studio podcast. I interview about hand constructing a mosaic for a large-scale public art project she did in Tempe, AZ. This is definitely more hands on than most artists who hire a fabrication studio to produce their mosaic for them.
To watch the video interview and see behind-the-scenes photos, go to https://artdate.substack.com/p/free-agent-nicole-mueller-on-how
Right now I am running a promotion. Free Agent interviews are typically for paid subscribers only, but as a way to share what I am learning with a new audience and get people caught up with my archive of interviews, I am offering full access to all my content for the next two months - ending at the end of September. Starting October 1st, if you’d like to check out Free Agent, you can support my Substack at either $6/ month or $50/a year. Or, if you’d like to become a foundational member with a minimum donation of $250/year you’ll receive a framed, limited-edition print of one of my paintings. Go to my substack about page to learn more - artdate.substack.com/about If you’re a member of Medium.com you can also follow me there as a paid member which is $5/month but gets you unlimited access to all the content on the platform. Find me at medium.com/@sarahthibault
I’ll be back next week with The Side Woo. I’ll be interviewing the wise and talented artist Christopher Martin so stay tuned for that. Thank you for listening!
Cultivating Personal Freedom through Art & Psychedelics with Artist Jud Bergeron, Co-Founder of The Space Program
Sarah talks with Bay Area artist Jud Bergeron, the co-founder of The Space Program where the episode is being recorded in San Francisco, CA. This episode covers a lot of ground, but the main throughline is talking about how to cultivate personal freedom, for yourself and how to offer space and resources for others to experience it too. Other topics include following the Grateful Dead on tour (for years), using psychedelics, close calls with serial killers, getting California sober, and what it’s like running a residency from behind the scenes.
About Jud Bergeron
Jud Bergeron is a Bay Area sculptor residing in San Francisco, his sculpture has been exhibited through out North America with a focus on New York and San Francisco. Bergeron works in myriad styles and materials but generally gravitates towards permanent materials such as bronze, stainless steel, and mild steel. Bergeron has been awarded public art commissions in a number of cities around the country and his sculpture has been in museum shows and is included in many important private collections. In addition to his practice, Bergeron is co-founder and director of The Space Program SF, an artist in residency program in San Francisco. Jud Bergeron is represented by Nancy Toomey Fine Art in San Francisco and Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen, Denmark.
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Sound & Content Editing: Sarah Thibault
Studio & Equipment provided by The Space Program
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Tending a Community and a Garden with Artist Ron Moultrie Saunders
Sarah sits down with Bay Area artist Ron Moultrie Saunders to talk about the ways in which he cultivates and tends to his many communities, with a focus on supporting African American artists in San Francisco through projects like the Black [Space] Residency and the 3.9 Collective. We talk ancestry.com, giant plants, and what it means to get art to communities who don't usually go to museums through public art. This interview was recorded at The Space Program residency.
About Ron Moultrie Saunders
Ron Moultrie Saunders, a co-founding member of the 3.9 Art Collective, is a photographic artist and landscape architect. Originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York, he currently lives in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. He creates photograms: photographs that are made without the use of a camera. His art work is in the San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Art Collection for projects he completed for the San Francisco Library, Linda Brooks-Burton Bayview Branch, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Laguna Honda Hospital and, Public Utilities Commission New Headquarters in San Francisco. He was commissioned to create works for VM Ware, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA and Dallas, TX and, for The San Francisco Travel Association (formerly SF Convention and Visitors Bureau) new offices. His art has been exhibited throughout the US including “The Secret Life of Plants”, solo shows (San Francisco International Airport and CordenPotts Gallery, San Francisco, CA), and group shows "Echoes of Bauhaus Photography Cast Long Shadows" at Ruth's Table, San Francisco, California (2020),“Self:Scape” at Middlesex County College, New Jersey(2012), “Exposed: Today’s Photography/Yesterday’s Technology” (San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art), “Measure of Time”(Oakland Museum of California at City Center). His work is published in several books including “Self Exposure: The Male Nude Self-Portrait” and “From Art to Landscape”. Recently he completed an artist-in-residence at STAR (Shipyard Trust for the Arts) in the Hunter’s Point Shipyard in San Francisco. His studio is located at Minnesota Street Project Studio in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco.
Show Notes
- ronmsaunders.com
- 3.9 Collective
- Black [Space] Residency
- Minnesota Street Project
- Discussion Around Black Reparations in San Francisco
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Sound & Content Editing: Sarah Thibault
Studio & Equipment provided by The Space Program
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Tarot & The Collective Unconscious with Shannon Knight of The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast
In this episode, Sarah talks with podcast host, psychotherapist, and tarot aficionado Shannon Knight of The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast. They discuss synchronicities, the collective unconscious, and ways to engage with tarot beyond traditional divination.
About Shannon Knight
Shannon Knight (she/her) is a queer psychotherapist licensed in both Arizona and Florida where she specializes in working with individuals and couples. Shannon received her B.A. in Applied Clinical Psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology and her M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. She is the host of The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast and creator/facilitator of The Symposium community where she invites folks to meet at the intersection of tarot and mental health to explore tarot’s inherent psychological function of promoting self-reflection and healing.
Show notes
- Instagram @TheTarotDiagnosis
- www.TheTarotDiagnosis.com
- Tarot & The Hero's Journey Workshop through The Side Woo
- Rachel Pollack - 78 Degrees of Wisdom
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Artist Libby Black on Learning to Stay Present with Addiction, Lesbian Visibility and Swimming The Rock
This is the first of 10 episodes that I recorded and produced at The Space Program Residency in San Francisco. The first in the series is a conversation with artist and educator Libby Black. We talk about sobriety, lesbian visibility, teaching before and after the pandemic, and that time she swam The Rock, yes Alcatraz.
About Libby Black
Libby Black is a painter, drawer, and sculptural installation artist living in Berkeley, CA. Her artwork charts a path through personal history and a broader cultural context to explore the intersection of politics, feminism, LGBTQ+ identity, consumerism, addiction, notions of value, and desire. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with such shows as “California Love” at Galerie Droste in Wupertal, Germany; “Bay Area Now 4” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; “California Biennial” at the Orange County Museum of Art; and at numerous galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Black has been an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA; Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA; and Spaces in Cleveland, OH. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Flash Art, and The New York Times. She received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1999 and an MFA at the California College of the Arts in 2001. Libby is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University.
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
On-site Producer: Bryan Lovett
Sound & Content Editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
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Satellite & Land Art with Artist Rachelle Reichert
For this week’s episode, Sarah talks with artist Rachelle Reichert. Rachelle shares more information about her process, her undying interest in rocks, and what she does to stay positive despite the bleak news around the climate crisis and industrialization. About Rachelle Reichert Rachelle Reichert is a visual artist and art educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California (Chochenyo Ohlone territory). Rachelle works in a variety of media to explore landscapes permanently altered by climate change and industrialization. She is interested in earth observation satellite imagery- how nature is composed in images and then circulated to a public, algorithmic visions, and natural systems to view how nature is manipulated by human behavior. Her research focuses on sites of specific extracted materials: salt, clay, lithium. Research findings are interpreted through drawings, photographs, and mixed-media artworks that focus on materials found at the site. Artworks embody multi-scale complexities of observing the natural world, both human and machine, and the emotional connections between the two. Artwork is included in many public and private collections, including the Center for Art+Environment Archives at the Nevada Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archive, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Library, Facebook, and Adobe, Inc. Reichert has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Center for Contemporary Art at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, and September Gallery.
Her work has been reviewed and published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Make: Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler and New American Paintings and she has completed permanent commissions for the Ritz Mandarin Oriental in Madrid, Spain and Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, CA. She has presented her artwork at the California Climate Change Symposium, the San Francisco State of the Estuary Conference, and the American Geophysical Union Meeting and regularly lectures on her artwork and research.
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
What Role Does Our Inner Voice Have in Medicine with Researcher Tracy Poff
For this week’s episode, Sarah talks with researcher Tracy Poff who is doing her PhD on Medical Intuitives. After visiting a medical medium for an unexplained illness in her family, she felt compelled to study transpersonal psychology and then pursue her doctorate in medical intuitive practices. We talk about what exactly that is, how to discern a good one when meeting someone for the first time, and a general discussion of how intuition can inform all our decisions to make us more in tune with ourselves - a favorite topic on The Side Woo.
About Tracy L. W. Poff
Tracy L. W. Poff is a student of Life whose work in the world is to infuse everyday living with the light of divine context. She holds an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School, and an MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Straddling the worlds of intellect and intuition, Tracy is a soul-centered guide whose quest and teaching is to know thyself. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Transpersonal Psychology program at Sofia University in Palo Alto, California, and the focus of her doctoral research is medical intuition, also known as medical clairvoyance. Medical intuition is a perceptual skill that uses non-local awareness, or extrasensory perception, to assess health conditions of another person. The phenomenon of medical intuition is a fresh area of study within academics and through her work, Tracy hopes to deepen understanding and raise awareness of our intuitive capacity as human beings.
Show Notes
- Author of Living Deeply, Marilyn Schlitz https://marilynschlitz.com/writing/#writing-books
- NOMI, an organization recently launched to bring standards to the field of medical intuition: https://www.nomimedicalintuition.org
- Art Date Substack artdate.substack.com
- Wave Collective
- Space Program SF - Artist Residency
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Restorative Justice with Artist Amy M. Ho
Sarah talks with artist and activist Amy M. Ho. Amy talks about her work as an art teacher for an art-in-prison program at San Quentin Correctional Facility and how in 2021, her father was tragically killed during a mugging in downtown Oakland. Amy shares how her background in social justice activism with the prison system, has reinforced her belief in restorative justice, despite being touched personally by violent crime.
About Amy M. Ho
Amy M. Ho builds video and spatial installations that bring attention to our existence as both physical and psychological beings. Amy completed her undergraduate degree in Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley and her MFA at Mills College in Oakland, CA. She was selected as a KQED Woman to Watch in 2017, received a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artists Grant in 2013 and once won a costume contest at Emmy's Spaghetti Shack dressed as a fusilli pasta. Amy was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Bay Area Now 7 in 2014 and was a 2013 fellowship artist at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA. She has previously exhibited at the San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA, the Elmhurst Art Museum in Elmhurst, IL, and at the San Diego State University Downtown Art Gallery. Amy is a trustee at OUTPOST in Norwich, UK. She lives in Bozeman, MT and is currently designing a board game about dogs.
Show notes
- Amy M. Ho website
- Amy's Royal NoneSuch Gallery project: Spaces from Yesterday
- Art Date Substack
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Battling Toxic Masculinity with Trans Artist Eli Thorne
This week, to kick off Pride Month, Liz and Sarah talk with trans artist, Eli Thorne. We talk with Eli about his experience coming out and transitioning as a trans man, dating as a man for the first time on the hellscape known as Tinder (where he ended up finding love), the Faustian bargain of Instagram success, and how he feels about becoming a dad with his long-time partner.
About Eli Thorne
Eli Thorne was b.1986 in Harrogate, England, and raised in the mountains of Santa
Cruz, California. He received his BFA at UC Berkeley. Later received his MFA from Mills
College. As a trans paitnter and sculptor, his art practice aims to reconcile and negotiate
his own sense of and relationship to manhood. His work has been shown in various
spaces in the Bay Area; Mills College Art Museum, Southern Exposure, Root Division,
Gallery 16, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, and Et Al. He has given
talks at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and UC Berkeley and was a featured artist in
the KQED Artist series Redefining Pride. Eli currently lives and maintains his art
practice in Upstate, NY.
Show notes
- Eli's Instagram
- Eli's show at Royal Nonesuch Gallery, "Yellow #5, Bruh"
- Zencastr for audio and video recording
- Tech For Campaigns
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Darrow Bernstein
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
Sound Effects from Pond5
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Inara George Of The Bird and The Bee On Beauty and Aging As a Performer
Harnessing Intuition with Artist, Educator and Intuitive Rachel Dawson + Paranormal in Sedona
This week Sarah talks with friend of the show, Rachel Dawson. Rachel shares the way her connection to her intuition has evolved throughout her life.
About Rachel Dawson
Rachel Dawson is an artist, educator, and intuitive located in Oakland, CA. She makes connections between her artistic practice and metaphysical processes, seeking to render the invisible visible and to materialize the immaterial. She is interested in how spiritual wellness practices are attached to a “feminine” space, such as the history of witchcraft and its connection to agency, medicines, and
power objects. As an artist, she sees her role as a medium within the feminized space of her intuitive practice and the process of art-making.
Raised in Southern California, she has spent the last two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. When she is not in the studio making art, she is teaching art to gifted middle school and high school students. She received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, after she received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been
exhibited in the US, Mexico, and Canada.
Show notes
- Rachel Dawson’s Instagram & Website
- SMART Recovery & Al Anon
- Sedona vortexes
- What causes Northern Lights
- The Center for New Age UFO Tours
- Art Date with Sarah Thibault
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
Sound Effect from Pixabay
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
When Old Structures No Longer Fit with Artist Rebekah Goldstein
This week Sarah sits down with Bay Area artist, Rebekah Goldstein. They talk about the way we define success and failures and look back at an ArtForum article, The Loser Thing, which examines a period in the 90s where failure was at the forefront of people's minds. Sarah and Rebekah discuss whether failure, and it's artistic counterpoint, the masterpiece, are useful in terms of how we look at art. Rebekah shares how her experience becoming a mother and how that transformed her painting.
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Show Notes
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
Sound Effect from Pixabay
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
On Building An Art Career After Bankruptcy With Artist Kelly Lynn Jones + A Ghost Story
This week on the Side Woo we talk with LA-based artist and former long-time Bay Area resident Kelly Lynn Jones. I was really inspired by Kelly’s story and asked her to come on to talk about how she in 2018 she made the decision to file for bankruptcy for her store Little Paper Planes, which was a super cute boutique on Valencia Street in the Mission District of SF. It came as a bit of a shock to those on the outside and I was really impressed by how transparent Kelly was while going through this challenging time that many would look at as a failure. But instead, Kelly saw it as a chance to change her life. She and her family eventually moved back to LA where she grew up, and began recommitting herself to her art practice. Three years after returning, Kelly’s first solo show in LA sold out affording her the chance to pursue her art more seriously than she had for a decade since graduate school.
BONUS: Listen all the way to the end for some special ghost-related content. Spoiler: it involves ouiji boards. Really people don’t use them.
About Kelly Lynn Jones
Kelly Lynn Jones (b. 1977 Los Angeles, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist. She earned a BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Jones has shown her work in multiple group exhibitions including The Pit, La Loma Projects, The Lab, Kala Art Institute, The Berkeley Museum, Southern Exposure, Bedford Gallery, NURTUREart, and Charlotte Street Foundation. Her work has been highlighted in The Wing’s 2020 publication, San Francisco Chronicle, and Museums Press. Kelly Lynn Jones is represented by The Pit, Los Angeles.
Show Notes
- Kelly Lynn Jone's Website
- KLJ Instagram
- The Pit
- Ouija Boards
- RIP Little Paper Planes - from the Mission Local
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
Sound Effect from Pixabay
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Prophetic Dreams, Channeling Prince & the Power of Music with Elisabeth Elektra
This week Liz and Sarah talk with Glasgow-based, cosmic-pop musician, performer and magickal practitioner Elisabeth Elektra about their magickal tendencies and prophetic dreams, including one in which they dreamt about the bombing of the Machester Ariana Grande concert the night that it happened. They share their love and affinity for both Prince and yes, Freddie Mercury, as well as what they see as the power of performing and music to connect people.
About Elisabeth Elektra
Glasgow-based musician Elisabeth Elektra (she/they) delivers poignant, deeply melodic art-pop anthems. Elektra released their self-produced debut ‘Mercurial’ in 2020 to widespread critical acclaim. Something spectacular, and something different...that’s the best way of describing the music of Elisabeth Elektra. A songwriter, producer, and performer drawing from the cosmic and the familiar to create pop music that’s as addictive and spine-tingling as the stories we’ve been telling for centuries.
Show Notes
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault Host: Elizabeth Bernstein Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle, Sound Effect from Pixabay The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Carissa Potter Of People I've Loved On The Never Ending Quest For Meaning
This week we talk with the prolific Carissa Potter. She’s the founder of People I’ve Loved, and the host of the podcast Bad at Keeping Secrets. Carissa’s illustrations are gentle line drawings that tackle big subjects like emotional messiness, boundaries, and the search for meaning in a wild, imperfect world. Her newsletter and podcast interviews get into the nitty gritty of what it means to be alive and exist in a body while embodying the different roles of woman, mother, wife, and artist. We talk about much of this and more in our episode while unpacking the structures and systems we use to try and make sense of it all. About Carissa Potter Carissa Potter is a human longing for connection. She writes books, makes art & public commissions, and hosts the series Bad At Keeping Secrets (one of Substack’s featured newsletters of 2022) where she talks to other humans about the mess of being alive. Carissa is the founder of People I’ve Loved, the author of three books, one of AdAge’s 24 Most Inspiring People of 2021, and one of Cosmo Magazine’s 24 people making the world a better place. She lives in Oakland California with her daughter, partner, dad, and neighborhood cats. Show Notes
- Bad At Keeping Secrets Newsletter and Podcast
- People I've Loved Website
- Gary Zukav, Seat of the Soul
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault Host: Elizabeth Bernstein Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle, Sound Effect from Pixabay The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Taking Back Control: Advocating for Patient Consent with Bay Area Artist, Podcast Host and Activist Nikki Nolan
In this episode, Patron Saint of The Side Woo, Nikki Nolan shares her story about how she began advocating for patient rights, specifically a requirement for stricter regulations around medical consent. After a traumatic experience with a Bay Area medical facility in which her requests for an all-female staff during an ob-gyn procedure were denied, Nikki began researching how to implement policies that favor the agency of patients within medical institutions. Sarah shares her own traumatic experiences within the medical industry. And Nikki and Sarah discuss the benefits of having an internal locus of control on one's sense of self-worth, and self-efficacy and how patient consent will help to further that in vulnerable populations.
About Nikki Nolan
Nikki Nolan is a conceptual artist, designer, and podcaster based in Oakland, CA. Her thought-provoking work tackles important social issues, exemplified in her two podcasts, "Matter of Life and Debt" and "Disability Bandwidth". Nikki holds a master's degree in art with a specialization in interactive media from Pratt Institute, where she explored the effects of online media on human memory. She also has a bachelor's degree in sculpture and photography and a certificate in web development. Through her passion for art, design, and podcasting, Nikki Nolan inspires others to innovate with her unique perspective.
Show Notes
https://nnolan.com/- Nikki Nolan's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thenikkinolan/
- Nikki Nolan's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikkinolan/
- Matter of Life and Debt Podcast https://matteroflifeanddebt.com/
- Disability Bandwidth Podcast https://disabilitybandwidth.com/
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle, Sound Effect from Pixabay
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
On The Elder and The Outcast with San Francisco-based Adobe Books Director Heather Holt
This week on The Side Woo, we talk with Adobe Books Director, former SECA Coordinator, and long-time Bay Area native Heather Holt. The conversation looks at what it means to be queen of a scene, and what it was like on the outside after Heather left her former husband for a married man. Plus, bonus shout out to Valley Girl culture.
About Heather Holt
Heather Holt graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis in photography and performance. She currently oversees all aspects of Adobe Books organizational systems including volunteer scheduling, operating all aspects of business management, community relations, book scouting, curating, conflict management, grant writing and PR. Heather was formerly the ED of ArtSpan, the producers of SF Open Studios where she reversed a three year budget deficit and launched a strategic planning process with the staff, community served and BOD to strengthen and enrich the impact the organization has on sustaining local and regional California artists. Prior to ArtSpan, Heather worked at the SFMOMA from 2004-2010 as the SECA Coordinator - supporting the museum's art award and exhibition program for local, Bay Area artists. Heather volunteered as a Summer Teachers Assistant at Lilydale Spiritualist Community in Upstate NY and has participated as SEVA for the Spirit Weavers Gathering in Southern Oregon. She enjoys tarot, astral travel, meditation and writing. When she is not working, you will find her dancing midweek at the clubs, cooking and hanging out with her family. She lives part time in San Francisco, Sonoma Valley and Upstate NY.
Show Notes
- Adobe Books
- SECA Award with SFMOMA
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault & Elizabeth Bernstein
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle, Sound Effect from Pixabay
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Revolutionizing Mental Health with Integrative & Addiction Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Dr. Raghu Appasani
Our guest this week, Dr. Raghu Appasani, an integrative & addiction psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and neuroscientist, is trying to revolutionize mental health from the inside out. We unpack alternative modes of healing and how can we start to transform the way mental health is diagnosed and treated. He shares his work serving as the Chief Medical Officer of PYM (Prepare Your Mind), a wellness brand that produces supplements based on amino acids to support mental health, and why they work.
About Raghu Appasani
Dr. Raghu Kiran Appasani is an Integrative Psychiatrist, Neuroscientist, and Social Entrepreneur focused on bridging the gap between western and eastern practices to create a wholesome society by taking a proactive approach to health. Currently, he is an Addiction Psychiatry Fellow at the University of California-San Francisco where is also a member of the TrPR (Translational Psychedelic Research Program) team where he is focusing on the treatment of mental illness using psilocybin. His current interests lie at the intersection of psychodynamic psychotherapy, integrative/nutritional psychiatry, mental health literacy, advocacy, wellness, entrepreneurship, and psychedelics. His alter-ego's life goal is to become a chef integrating farm-to-table experiences in stunning landscapes around the world.
Show Notes
- Raghu's website
- Prepare Your Mind (PYM)
- The MINDS Foundation
- The Mood Cure: The 4-Step Program to Take Charge of Your Emotions--Today by Julia Ross
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault & Elizabeth Bernstein
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle, Sound Effect from Pixabay
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Energetic Boundaries for Empaths with Small Spells Founder Rachel Howe
Sarah and Liz talk with Rachel Howe, an LA-based witch, healer and illustrator of the Small Spells tarot deck about her book Witch Ethics. They talk astrology, mercury in Pisces and the importance of creating good energetic boundaries between you and the (spirit) world.
Rachel is a Los Angeles-based illustrator, reiki healer, stick and poke tattoo artist, a potter, a tarot card reader, and a writer.
Show Notes
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound editing: Sarah Thibault
Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com
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On Democratizing the Spiritualist Community with Wiccan Spiritualist Minister Cody Blair
Freddie Mercury and Other Ghost Celebrities with Shannon Taggart
We invite back photographer and spiritualism scholar Shannon Taggert to tell us her stories about Freddie Mercury from the Spiritualism community. She tells us celebrity ghost stories about Freddie, Michael Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, and Elvis. Plus, we dish on the idea of sex with ghosts ( first dibs on Sex With Ghosts as a band name).
About Shannon Taggart
Shannon Taggart is an artist and author based in St. Paul, MN. In a past life, she contributed to printed publications, including TIME, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, Discover, New York, Wall Street Journal, and Reader’s Digest. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and recognized by PDN, Nikon, Magnum Photos + Inge Morath Foundation, American Photography, International Photography Awards, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Her first monograph, SÉANCE (Fulgur Press, 2019), was named ‘One of the Best Photobooks of 2019’ by TIME and will be re-released by Atelier Éditions in December 2022. Currently, Shannon is working on an illustrated book about The Society for Research on Rapport and Telekinesis (SORRAT), one of the most exotic cases in the history of psychical research.
Show Notes
https://www.shannontaggart.com/
Elvis Afterlife, the Unusual Psychic Experiences Surrounding The Death of a Superstar by Raymond Moody
Everything You Need to Know About Ghost Sex via The Cut (paywall)
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound editing: Sarah Thibault
Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through NINA ARNETTE, a media production company and metaphysical hub. To learn more about NINA ARNETTE go to https://ninaarnette.co.
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Tarot is F'ing Cool with Amelia of the Carnelian Keep
About Amelia Whitehouse
Hello! I am Amelia of The Carnelian Keep- a Tarot Reader, Dream Interpreter, Events coordinator, Podcaster, Illustrator, Tarot Teacher, Writer, and astrology enthusiast- living and working in sexy Edinburgh, Scotland. I have been reading and studying Tarot cards for over 20 years, reading for friends for 12 years, reading for clients in Edinburgh (and globally) for 7 years and teaching Tarot online for 2 years. During that time I have read cards at countless events, in shops, at hen parties, in cars and, through the magic of technology for people all over the world! Astrology is a part of my practice that I value immensely and is such a vast topic of study and discussion that I am learning more about it all the time. I love learning from other Tarot readers, astrologers, and diviners – my Libra Stellium and I believe that a strong magickal community is key to keeping the craft alive and well.
Show Notes
- Amelia / Carnelian Keep on Instagram
- Carnelian Keep (book a tarot reading with Amelia)
- Tarot Is F*cking Cool the Podcast
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound editing: Sarah Thibault
Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through NINA ARNETTE, a media production company and metaphysical hub. To learn more about NINA ARNETTE go to https://ninaarnette.co.
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Understanding Energy Work with Usui Reiki Master & Writer Erica Wallace Moore
Erica Wallace Moore is an Usui-trained Reiki Master Instructor. She conducts in-person and Remote Reiki sessions with included intuitive guided conversation. She specializes is providing a safe and welcoming environment to utilize relaxation as a focus to connect with inner being and Spirit. She listens and helps to clear energetic blockages, helps clients to discover the vibrational energetic self, and to focus on intention setting for the life and well-being most desired.
Show Notes:
- Erica Wallace Moore website
- "Los Desparecidos" on Watson Review
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- What is Reiki
Show Partners
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound editing: Sarah Thibault
Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through NINA ARNETTE, a media production company and metaphysical hub. To learn more about NINA ARNETTE go to https://ninaarnette.co.
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Purging Obsession, Revenge and Secrets with Artist and Podcast Host Kate Rhoades
About Kate Rhoades
Kate Rhoades’ lives and works in Oakland, California. Her videos, paintings and publications probe the ever-mutating art world. Her work has been presented in the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Santa Fe International New Media Festival. Rhoades has participated in exhibitions at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Southern Exposure in San Francisco, and various venues, publications, hotel rooms and alleyways across North America and Europe. Since 2014 she has co-hosted the Bay Area's number one arts and culture podcast, Congratulations Pine Tree. Rhoades is also one of the Fleishhacker Foundation's Eureka Fellowship grantees for 2018.
Show Notes:
- Kate Rhoades website
- Kate Rhoades Instagram
- Congratulations Pine Tree
- Maysoun Wazwaz, co-host on Congratulations Pine Tree
- Required Skimming
- Julia Bryan-Wilson
- Death of An Artist
- Ana Mendieta
Show Partner
Tech For Campaigns
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound editing: Sarah Thibault
Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through NINA ARNETTE, a media production company and metaphysical hub. To learn more about NINA ARNETTE go to https://ninaarnette.co.
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Spiritualism and Photography with Shannon Taggart
About Shannon Taggart
Shannon Taggart is an artist and author based in St. Paul, MN. In a past life, she contributed to printed publications, including TIME, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, Discover, New York, Wall Street Journal, and Reader’s Digest. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and recognized by PDN, Nikon, Magnum Photos + Inge Morath Foundation, American Photography, International Photography Awards, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Her first monograph, SÉANCE (Fulgur Press, 2019), was named ‘One of the Best Photobooks of 2019’ by TIME and will be re-released by Atelier Éditions in December 2022. Currently, Shannon is working on an illustrated book about The Society for Research on Rapport and Telekinesis (SORRAT), one of the most exotic cases in the history of psychical research.
Show notes:
- Pre-order Shannon Taggart: Seance in its 2nd print. The first edition was reviewed as ‘One of the Best Photobooks of 2019’— TIME
- https://www.shannontaggart.com/
- Spiritualism
- Lily Dale, NY: Western New York's home for mediumship and spiritual healing since 1879.
- Oscar Gustav Rejlander - the father of art photography
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound editing: Sarah Thibault
Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through NINA ARNETTE, a media production company and metaphysical hub. To learn more about NINA ARNETTE go to https://ninaarnette.co.
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com
Folk Magic and the Occult Humanities Conference with Jesse Bransford
About Jesse Bransford
Jesse Bransford is a New York-based artist whose work is exhibited internationally at venues including The Carnegie Museum of Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center and the CCA Wattis Museum among others. He holds degrees from the New School for Social Research (BA), Parsons School of Design (BFA) and Columbia University (MFA). An associate professor of art at New York University, Bransford's work has been involved with belief and the visual systems it creates since the 1990s. Recent work has focused on the folk magic of the Norse traditions, specifically the talismanic stave spells and the seiðr traditions. Parts of this work are collected in the recently published book from Fulgur Press, “A Book of Staves (Galdrastafabók).” He lectures widely on his work and the topics surrounding his work. He is the co-organizer of the biennial Occult Humanities Conference and an editorial member of the Black Mirror Network.
Show Partners
Tech For Campaigns
About The Side Woo
Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault
Host: Elizabeth Bernstein
Sound editing: Sarah Thibault
Content editing: Sarah Thibault
Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle
The Side Woo is a podcast created through NINA ARNETTE, a media production company and metaphysical hub. To learn more about NINA ARNETTE go to https://ninaarnette.co.
For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com