HEALING WISDOM: Recent Episodes
Pandora Peoples
HEALING WISDOM explores the healing aspects of the arts, mind-body-soul connections and the spiritual aspects of every day living. Healing Wisdom is a weekly morning talk show speaks with authors, filmmakers, comedians, scientists, historians, activists, actors, musicians, doctors, artists, holistic health care providers, and environmental heroes, discussing their passions and the and issues of the day. Since 2013, Pandora Peoples has hosted and produced Healing Wisdom on Outermost Radio, airing on WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown and WFMR 91.3 FM in Orleans.
Send us Fan Mail
In this episode we speak with creators and facilitators of the first Outer Cape Dance Festival Ellynne Skove, Karen Bernard, David and Leda Iannitelli.
Send us Fan Mail
We Can is celebrating 25 years of helping Cape Cod women thrive. We Can offers workshops, legal advice, and resources during transitions in their lives. We Can supports women as caregivers, starting businesses, buying homes, going through divorce, health challenges, looking to start new careers and going through financial hardships. They provide women with support and resources for a myriad of changes including big crossroads.
In this podcast I speak with executive director Lisa Guyon about the organization and their fundraising events and workshops.
Send us Fan Mail
This 10 person vocal ensemble shares traditional Baltic, Slavic and Eastern European musical harmonies. This year they are celebrating their 45th anniversary with an album, Kolo, meaning circle, wheel, and a spiraling communal line dance.
"The cosmic cycle of creation, growth, destruction, and renewal.... the eternal turning of seasons, and the shared rhythms of lives woven together. For Kitka, the kolo also represents our always-evolving circle of voices, a close-knit creative community of women bound by breath and friendship. This lovingly curated collection of traditional and newly imagined songs invites listeners into our kolo, a place where giving voice and deep listening revolve in a timeless dance of dissonance and harmony."
They will be performing June 18, 5:30pm at Redwood Grove Concert Series in San Francisco, CA, June 20 8pm at Old First Concerts in San Francisco, CA and June 21 5-9pm at Garden of Memory at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, CA.
kitka.org
Send us Fan Mail
By Hook or By Crook screened at Sundance 25 years ago. It was ahead of its time. This groundbreaking and restored film releases in NYC on June 12th and in Los Angeles on June16th, and expands to additional cities throughout the US. By Hook or By Crook won Audience and Jury Awards at SXSW and Outfest. The film follows two freaky grifters who unite in an anti-authoritarian tale of friendship and redemption. The film has been compared with Cassavetes Mickey and Nicky and Midnight Cowboy. The filmmakers look to inspirations like The Celebration and A Woman Under the Influence. Before they were filmmakers they opened a bar in San Francisco's Mission District called, Red Dora's Bearded Lady and Truckstop. It was a legendary feminist and lesbian coffeehouse famed for memorable performances.
Send us Fan Mail
Jen Villa, Executive Director of the nonprofit Love Live Local advocates for small businesses. Love Live Local has been supporting small business owners through their publications, festivals, and educational resources since 2013. Jen also co-owns and runs The West End with her husband Blane Toedt. The Hyannis hotspot is a 1920's inspired-restaurant and craft cocktails bar which makes a lovely spot for private events.
Send us Fan Mail
Meet yoga teacher and Tula + Yoga owner Cindy Okolo. At her studio she fosters community connection and inclusion for people of all abilities. So, much so that psychiatric nurse practitioner Christy Braga de Lima asked her elderly mother to join her for Valentine's Day at the studio for their first Mother's Day without Mimi's husband after he passed. It was bring a friend to class day and despite the fact that Mimi didn't feel "stretchy anymore", she joined her daughter at class. They've been going every Sunday ever since and it's become a multigenerational tradition. They are joined by granddaughter Maya, who's beginning teaching Yoga Sculpt this May. Tula + Yoga has a great line up this May including a 40 day challenge, a full moon gathering and educational classes. You can find out more about them at https://www.tulapluscapecod.com/about-tula/
Send us Fan Mail
University of Toronto historian Anna Shternshis uncovered lost history, unveiling secrets and recovering lost songs over 12 years of in-depth investigation, researching WWII. She collaborated with talented musicians to create a new Grammy-nominated album which resurrects music Stalin tried to silence. Their new Grammy-nominated album, Yiddish Glory: The Silenced Songs of World War II comes out on April 10th.
Send us Fan Mail
Detroit bluesman Pat Smillie loves the blues, his influences range from Chuck Berry to Howlin' Wolf to Otis Clay. Pat and his band opened for Bob Seger and performed for 18,000 people at the Allstate Arena in Chicago. You can hear his inspirations in his new singles he wrote with Josh Ford, aka Motor City Josh. His vocal influences range from Joe Cocker to Dr. John. He spent 20 years in the Chicago blues scene and has stories collaborating with or encountering just about everyone. His good nature, positivity and enthusiasm are contagious. It's easy to see why musicians like Vance Kelly brought him on stage and on tour.
One of his new tunes "Back in '69" features guitarist Jim McCarty of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels fame. You may also know this Jim McCarty (not to be confused with the Yardbirds drummer) from the his Jimi Hendrix collaboration released posthumously the "Jimi/Jim Jam session" off "Nine to the Universe" or from his band Cactus (1969-1971) touted as "The American Led Zeppelin".
You can find Pat's music and more about Pat at PatSmillie.com
Send us Fan Mail
Programs at the Center for Developmental Disabilities' located at The Center at Cape Cod Village foster a deep sense of belonging. That sense of belonging creates a safe space to learn and grow. The Center's holistic and innovative programs foster social and emotional wellbeing and promote creative expression. Their focus on creating a community center for residents and day students extends into the broader community.
Programs have blossomed under the guidance of Program Coordinator Deirdre Sullivan. Her background as the director of three UU children and youth ministries, as a counselor and advocate at Independence House, and as an art facilitator is perfect for this role. Deer is passionate about nature-based explorations and cultivating a deep sense of belonging. Her approach to art facilitation and creative exploration is trauma-informed.
Newly appointed Executive Director Jeni Landers is passionate about bringing members of the broader community to the Center for special events and classes. She's also excited about technology advances. New technologies help adults with developmental disabilities do daily activities which might otherwise be challenging or impossible. Technology coupled with embodied approaches to fostering belonging (like ecosomatics) help build confidence for disabled adults finding pathways toward independence.
Send us Fan Mail
Martha Clarke discusses the astrological gifts and challenges this month. We reflect on the stellium in Aquarius at the beginning of February. We discuss Neptune and Saturn moving into Aries, Jupiter in Cancer (through June), and Uranus in Taurus (through April). We also hear a new tune from the Medusa Quartet off their first album, Weaving Gold in Broken Places.
Send us Fan Mail
Drumming together synchronizes our heartbeats. Heart solidarity releases endorphins! Drummer, singer and vocal play teacher and composer Miranda Rondeau talks about synchronicity, spontaneity and the healing power of the drum. Guest Miranda and host Pandora talk about the self expression and the creative process.
Send us Fan Mail
Dr. Robert Bray is the author of No Open Wounds: Heal Traumatic Stress NOW: Complete Recovery with Thought Field Therapy. Today he talks about his 50 year practice, the evolution in understanding of the science behind stress and trauma and the use of tapping to heal PTSD, grief and stress.
Send us Fan Mail
Eleanor Dubinsky and Dario Acosta Teich talk about their new forthcoming album, Just the Three of Us. They'll be performing a holiday concert at Wellfleet Preservation Hall at 6pm on Saturday December 20th.
Get your tickets now at wellfleetpreservationhall.org !
Here Dario talks about his indigenous Argentine roots, the folk music of Argentina his family plays and Eleanor talks about Candombe music of Argentine and Uruguay, influenced by African spiritual traditions.
Send us a text
Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts began in 1950, located in a pine forest in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California. The school was started by Bee and Max Crone, artists who believed everyone should grow up exploring all the arts. They thought nature was the best environment for that exploration. So, they brought their artist friends up the mountain, a mile above sea level, to teach in outdoor classes. The classrooms were surrounded by trees, alongside a creek, with a view of the meadow. The outdoor art classrooms had cement floors, a wood wall or two, covered by a wooden roof or a parachute. The pottery classroom was on a bluff and remnants of cast off ceramics littered the pine needles beneath. The amphitheater covered in grass, and shaded by large green parachutes, still exists today.
Wellfleetian Betsy Mellor grew up in Southern California. She attended classes in those pines at the ISOMATA. Here she talks about her father Dr. Norman Mellor, a physician, Camp Emerson science teacher and one time chair of the Idyllwild School of Conservation and Natural Science. Betsy talks about the beatnik teachers she learned from and about the incredible impact learning relaxation techniques had on her.
Send us a text
Meet Wellfleetian artist designer Andrea Pluhar who spent her summers on Cape with her family. In this show we learn about contra dance and how it came to Wellfleet.
Send us a text
We speak with actress Sallie Tighe + jazz violinist David Eure on Frederick Douglass and actor Rod Owens on William Shakespeare.
Send us a text
Actor, Director and Improv Teacher John Shuman explores his life in a staged reading of his new one man show directed by Dan Lombardo. The show features music and images to accompany his comedic memoir on his acting career. The show takes place 1-2pm at Parish Park on Saturday November 1st as part of the Pop Up Practices series from the Orleans Cultural District.
Send us a text
Vocalist Natalia Talentso talks with me about how Murmurosi's new album “Svitanok” (Dawn) features contemporary songs with traditional melodies, folktales, and lullabies. It features Greek and Middle Eastern influences as well as traditional sounds from the Carpathian Mountains.
One of their songs “Yak Pryikhav” addresses how families in Ukraine are being torn apart by Russia’s invasion. As war tears apart many families and couples, men and women returning home from the front line are unsure if the relationship they left behind is still there for them.
Send us a text
Here's my conversation with musician and storyteller Mwalim Daphunkee Professor talking about his upcoming show at Wellfleet Preservation Hall called Thunderchild happening October 10th at 7pm!
Mwalim is the co-founder of the multi-Grammy-nominated band The GroovaLottos, a multi-award-winning playwright, author, composer and educator. He's an English professor and the former director of Black Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Send us a text
Carolyn Rogers and Kevin McMahon are co-chairs of the Wellfleet Cultural Council, they are also gifted singers. Together they created The Stephens Sondheim & Schwartz Broadway Cabaret with producer Andy Lantz and fellow singer Frankie Campofelice. The performance is sold out, but it's a lovely conversation and the podcast features their music.
The second half of the podcast features actor/director Nick Cohen who started out his career with the Clod Ensemble at the Battersea Arts Centre and as an assistant director for The Royal Shakespeare Company. He became the Founder/Artistic Director of Strange Fish Theatre before moving into film and TV. He trained at the BBC Drama Directors Academy, directed episodes of 'Eastenders' and 'Doctors', and directed feature films such as 'Beginners Luck,' 'The Reeds' and 'London Unplugged'.
Nick Cohen will be performing Life with Oscar where we meet 29 Hollywood characters he met whilst living with a two-time Oscar winning producer who had been buddies with Orson Welles.
Send us a text
First, we speak with Folk duo George and Charles Clements about their show happening at Wellfleet Preservation Hall on Thursday September 18th. The twin brothers talk about their blood harmonies, being twins and growing up in a musical family.
Lou Antonucci talks about his show featuring all Harry Chapin music.
Portrait painter Taylor Fox talks about his current group art show up at The 204 through September 30th.
Send us a text
Composer, international recording and touring artist Aaron Larget-Caplan discusses John Cage, the music inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher, the history of guitar, harmonics and timber. He shares his love of baroque and contemporary music. Fascinating!
Send us a text
13, 14, 15. Were some of the most awkward times of our lives. Veteran TV actor and screenwriter David Dean Bottrell is coming to Wellfleet Preservation Hall Saturday August 2nd to share with you his most awkward, embarrassing and hilarious takes on the Teenage Wasteland of adolescence. You've seen him on Boston Legal, Mad About You, Mad Men, Dharma and Greg, Caroline and the City, Days of Our Lives, and 40 plus other shows. He's that quirky funny guy! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/teenage-wasteland-thirteen-fourteen-fifteen-tickets-1415138420109?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
I had the pleasure of chatting with actor, director and producer Paul Schuyler about his and his wife's production company Wytshark Media and his fantastic class for young filmmakers and film lovers and aspiring screenwriters on August 5th at 1:30pm at Wellfleet Preservation Hall (open to youth 10-18). You can register at https://www.wellfleetpreservationhall.org/youth-film-fest-2025
Send us a text
These workshops are for young film-lovers and young filmmakers interested in filmmaking.
Learn every aspect of filmmaking with professional filmmakers. These workshops will help you to develop and create a short, narrative or documentary which you are welcome to submit to our Wellfleet Youth Film Festival by August 22nd.
This year the 7th Annual Wellfleet Youth Film Festival takes place on Friday August 29th!
It's open to youth filmmakers from all over from ages 10-18, some classes are better suited for teens. Please see descriptions. Learn from the pros! Choose from a single class, a single day or all days and classes.
TUESDAY August 5th
10am-1pm STORYBOARDING & SCREENWRITING with Mick Thyer
1:30-4:30pm CRASH COURSE IN CREATING A STORY with Paul Schuyler
WEDNESDAY August 6th
10am-1pm ACTING AND DIRECTING with Mick Thyer
1:30-4:30pm DOCUMENTARY BASICS with Michael Koehler (recommended for teens)
THURSDAY August 7th
10am-1pm CAPTURING IMAGES TO TELL A STORY IN PHOTOS & FILM with Mischa Richter
1:30-2:30pm MUSIC FOR FILM (Audio, Mixing, Composing and Soundscapes)
3-4pm EDITING FOR FILM with Dana McCoy
FRIDAY August 8th
10am-1pm SMARTPHONE FILMMAKING with Claude Kerven (recommended for teens)
1:30-4:30pm DOC SHORTS with Lise King (recommended for teens)
Send us a text
Musicians Ken Field and Michael Holt talk about their band's new album, Dancy Pants. You're invited to their album release party on July 20th at Prez Hall.
Two rockers from Ani Difranco's Righteous Babe Records Jocelyn Mackenzie and Kristin Ford are performing with Rachel Sage in Wellfleet at a house concert. Check out their awesome interview!
Send us a text
Ukrainian-born singer Marichka Marczyk reports on her interviews with families who were in Russian camps. Just back from being embedded with a battalion in Kiev and Donbas, she shares her recent experience there, as well as her new single from her music project educating people about the abduction of 20,000 Ukrainian children.
Medical microbiologist Elena Getmanova teaches tango. She's throwing a party at Prez Hall July 12th and 19th and you're invited.
Send us a text
In this podcast visual artists Penny Gamble-Williams and Jennifer Staples of Bowen's Arrow and storyteller/musician Mwalim Daphunkee Professor talk about the landmark gallery exhibition, All Our Relations: Art of the Wampanoag Nation happening now through June 29th at the Cotuit Center for the Arts.
The exhibition is co-curated by Mashpee Wampanoag Paula Peters and Michelle St. John, a member of the Board of Directors of CCftA. All My Relations features over 100 contemporary works of 26 artists from music to pottery, jewelry to storytelling. It's the largest collection of Wampanoag art ever assembled in one space.
Also, June 28th and 29th on Martha's Vineyard The Truth and Joy Festival is happening. https://mvdiversitycoalition.org/truth-and-joy-june.../Soul
Plus, Wamptronica's Soul on the Move, presented by Oversoul Theatre Collective, Inc., is a pop-up dance party series turning city parks into open-air celebrations of rhythm, community, and summertime energy. From Monte's Park to Buttonwood and Abolitionist's Row, New Bedford's green spaces are alive with the sound of soul this summer. SOUL on the MOVE,
WAMPTRONICA, is New Bedford's genre-blurring DJ collective, spinning a kinetic blend of Soulful House, Rare Groove, Afrobeat, and Deep Afro Jazz.
Send us a text
Director Kahane Corn Cooperman and producer Innbo Shim talk about their film, Creede USA, about the impact of a theater on a small conversative mountain town that saw its boom when it was established for mining in the late 1800s.
Filmmaker Kim A. Snyder tells the story of book banning and witch hunt of librarians in Texas and Florida in the documentary, The Librarians.
Co-director Elliott Kennerson talks about Love Birds, the study that discovered lesbian seagulls who became a mascot for a movement.
Filmmaker Allison Argo talks about Forever Home which follows a couple who build a refuge for abused and orphaned farm animals with natural and sustainable
Filmmaker Paulo Marinou-Blanco talks about his tragic comedy Dreaming of Lions which addresses terminal illness and euthanasia. It's about an intimate friendship that forms between a depressed mortician who asks his dead clients for advice and former professor who wants to be done with her pain.
Tech Disclaimer: My computer died, so I cobbled this together quickly without my normal equipment and intro/outro, etc. Pardon the editing.
Send us a text
Emerald Trinket Walker discusses teaching history through music, movement and performance. Her program Undesirable Elements at Global Kids has performed at many locations including Columbia University, Council on Foreign Relations, Lincoln Center Institute, Apollo Theater, Sarah Lawrence College, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, United Nations Special Session on Children, New York University, Museum of Television & Radio.
Their performance at the Global Kids Annual Conference addresses a new theme each year, and is based on Ping Chong’s award-winning piece, now in its 31st year of international production.
Send us a text
This episode focuses on fear and empathy in humans and other animals. Dr. Abigail Marsh also talks about our biological predisposition toward empathy and care, how adolescent brains evolved to rebel and take risks, why teens are more anxious than in previous generations, and psychopathy as a spectrum. Find out why fearful expressions evolved to protect us and why we love cute animals so much.
Dr. Marsh was rescued by the heroic act of stranger which led her to study altruism. In studying empathy, she began by studying the brains of those who are empathy deficient, or what we call psychopathic. She found that psychopathy is on a spectrum, which includes people who are anti-psychopathic. She also found it all connects with fear and the neurological function and structure of the amygdala. The amygdala is complicated and it has two main axonal pathways which connect it with other parts of the brain. Oxytocin modulates the amygdala in a way that it supports nurturing care, even in the case of danger or threat, related to protection of others at the expense of protection of self, as with caring for those in need and in the case of saving a stranger's life.
People with altruistic behaviors have larger amygdalas and people with psychopathic behavior have significantly smaller amygdalas! But there are interventions that can change and influence the development of the brain in adolescence. Children can grow out of callous behaviors.
Dr. Marsh is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Georgetown University where she directs the Laboratory on Social and Affective Neuroscience. She is the author of The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between.
Send us a text
We speak with Carol Bosco Baumann, chief executive officer of Cape Wellness Collaborative. She shares what brought her to the Cape, her personal connection with the mission of CWC, and what's happening this year at the annual Cape Cod Women’s Music Festival. We also speak with retired reverend Jamie Faile who served for 35 years as a Presbyterian pastor in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Michigan before moving to Cape Cod. As a transgender woman Jamie is a member of PFLAG Cape Cod, active in Pilgrim Congregational Church, and an Outreach Volunteer with the Center for Coastal Studies.
Send us a text
Jenny Wood is a travel guide and retreat facilitator, taking groups on "authentic, immersive, transformational travel experiences to support personal and global healing and peacemaking". With a background in acupuncture and 5 elements coaching, Jenny Wood is a unique travel guide who customizes your oversees adventures. We talk about her recent retreats from adventures from from Costa Rica to Morocco, from Dublin to Oaxaca.
Send us a text
Multi-instrumentalist Ed Pias earned his degrees in music from the University of Washington in Seattle, Cal Arts, and Berklee, he studied the pakhawaj drum in Bangladesh and India, but it wasn't until he was asked to help a man transition from his hospice bed, that he discovered the healing power of music and connected with the healing power of music. From there he began exploring native American flute. Here we discuss bird song, connecting with loved ones through bird encounters, and connecting to animals through music.
Send us a text
Here history professor Michael Schoeppner talks laws that were made to hinder slave rebellions and resistance to slavery in the Antebellum South. He talks about laws meant to keep free people from moving between states and crossing state boarders and why the history of those laws is relevant today.
Send us a text
Historian professor Dr. Michael Schoeppner talks about his research on early immigration, state-to-state migration and his book Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship and Diplomacy in Antebellum South.
Send us a text
Transgender Drummer Rikki Bates and actress Musician Dana Butterfly McCoy on their new music project, Blush. They share their first two songs together and talk about transgender issues.
Send us a text
Descended from a long line of Court Griots, musician singer Salieu Suso shares his kora music, and perspective on his spiritual linage.
Send us a text
Rocket in My Pocket: Defying Gravity with Levity from the Frontiers of Space to the Frontiers of Consciousness follows author Cerridwen Fallingstar's journey as the daughter of a rocket scientist who worked on a top secret intelligence satellite during the cold war era.
Author Fallingstorm shares childhood tails and stories of raising her children and grandchildren in this charming and funny read. In this podcast we talk about her latest book. She talks about her pagan priestess path and how being a shamanic witch has influenced her approach to life.
Send us a text
“Woman!” and “I Am a Feminist” by women’s workshop facilitator and artist Deirdre Deer Sullivan
“Lesbians” by poet actress Tamora Israel
Mothers and Mentors from former teacher and drummer Lisa Brown
Words on How Women Write from mystery and historical fiction novel and poet Jeannette De Beauvoir
“We Know How to do This” byartist poet teacher Mary E. Cronin
“Boxes”by drummer Rikki Bates andmusician Dana McCoy
Homily Excerpt from attorney Lindsey Straus
“There is No Map” byformer pastor Jamie Faile presentsher piece
Send us a text
Keith Stokes, Vice President with the historical consulting firm, 1696 Heritage Group is "dedicated to helping persons and institutions of color to increase their knowledge and access to the light of truth of their unique American heritage." Learn about how the skills, culture and creations of African and indigenous heritage people built Rhode Island, New England and our American culture.
“I think the most important thing for people to recognize is, is that for African heritage people our history is so much more than our racial trauma. And, slavery is an incredibly important aspect of our history, it’s how many of us arrived here, but it shouldn’t define us. And there is so much unrecovered history that talks about the people, our culture, our heritage.
"I was fortunate to be in a household where it was really cool to be black. I mean, because I was able to connect with ancestors before enslavement, and more importantly who survived and thrived despite slavery, or despite the civil war and discrimination and Jim Crow, and even here in New England. So, for me it was a sense of power and I’m always very excited when I can connect with kids of color, particularly African heritage kids, and give them a sense of the power that they have, and that their ancestors have and again, here in Newport and we invite people to come to Newport, we have the oldest African burial ground in America, right here in Newport. It dates back to the early 18th century and many of the markers are actually carved by and represent early enslaved and free Africans, dating back to the 18th century.
"So, we’re very proud of that, because again people come to New Port and they enjoy our jazz, our sailing, our music mansions, but they don’t even realize the fact that many of the contributors to New Port’s history were people of African heritage. And when young kids get to see that and feel that I can’t tell you how excited they get, because all of the sudden history is not about them, it is them.” ~Keith Stokes
This show is a re-run for January 2022.
Send us a text
These Grammy award-winning American Roots artists Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer have traveled far and wide, playing together for 40 years. They've played on the Today Show and for the Queen of Thailand. They joined up with Chinese classical hammered dulcimer player Chao Tian for their new album From China to Appalachia. Together they've performed on NPR. Their tour will bring them to the Harwich Cultural Center on March 3rd.
Send us a text
Organizers Rick Francolini and Katie Castagno gather support for the first annual Lower Cape Pride weekend. The celebration includes a parade, BBQ, speakers and performances in Orleans and Brewster.
Send us a text
My all time favorite literature teacher Andrew Leeson has a message for you...
Send us a text
Director of Land-Sea Interaction at the Center for Coastal Studies explains Cape Cod's coast and the research being done to preserve it.
Send us a text
Award-winning musicians Suzanne Teng and Gilbert Levy of Mystic Journey talk about the healing power of music. Together they've released 7 critically acclaimed albums. Their music has appeared in numerous films, television shows and many commercials in the US, India, Germany, Korea and Mexico. Their music has contributed to soundtracks of video games including “Myst” and “Prince of Persia”.
Suzanne Teng has been described by the Los Angeles Times as a “brilliant flutist” who “plays music for the soul" Whole Life Times said Mystic Journey "…lifts the listener to a place where beauty, ecstasy and tranquility reside”
A CD compilation of theirs was distributed to over 50,000 cancer patients to aid in their recovery.
Their awards include the Independent Music Awards, International Acoustic Music Awards, Los Angeles Music Awards, New Mexico Music Awards, Native America Style Flute Awards Album of the Year, Akademia Music Awards, Global Music Awards (Gold Medal), Peace Song Awards, and InterContinental Music Awards.
You can find their music at mysticjourney.net
Send us a text
Lone Pine, CA Fire Captain Ash Seiter speaks with The Healing Wisdom Radio Show host Pandora Peoples about the LA fires. Seiter describes in detail about their first night camping next to the truck, relocating from the Palisades to the Eaton Fire and Sullivan Canyon as the Santa Ana winds changed, and dispelled myths and conspiracy theories surrounding the fires. Informative.
Send us a text
Here Healing Wisdom catches up with Ewelina Ferenc and Marta Solek from the band Polky.
They speak about the history, their immigration and the folktale that inspired their new single, Rutka. They speak about the herbalists of Poland.
"The lyrics invite listeners into the ritual of planting rue—a centuries-old herb cherished in Slavic culture as a symbol of resilience and independence. In this story, a woman plants rue while waiting for a love that may never come, yet she chooses her own path, embracing her freedom. Though love doesn’t arrive, she still finds happiness and fulfillment."
Despite centuries of persecution for witchcraft, herbal folkloric healing practices continue today. The practitioners of this traditional healing use drumming and other instruments alongside rituals and herbal medicine.
Especially important today, the song speaks to women breaking from oppressive sexist norms, while embracing love and magic that was there all along at the roots of the culture which honored women's magic.
Polky blends Americana with traditional Polish and global roots.
Send us a text
NEIGHBORS is "about all our neighbors of all colors and backgrounds in Cape Cod".
Where: Monday, January 20th, 2025 (MLK Day and Inauguration Day)
7 pm at the 204 Sisson Rd.
Harwich Cultural Arts Municipal Building!
Free, but donations will be welcome.
Judith Partelow has lived on Cape Cod for over 40 years. Her poetry has been published in numerous compilations. Her most recent book is Passion & Provocation, Selected Poems by Judith Partelow is available on Amazon. Her chapbooks include A Woman’s Heart, and Carry Me Back, A Woman’s Life in Poetry. Her first play is entitled, A Woman’s Heart. Her most recent play, a collaboration with other writers, is entitled NEIGHBORS! She is an actress, playwright, and director. www.judithpartelow.com
Mozelle talks about the Cape Symphony and Pelham House's Winter Concert Series happening January 18th-March 1st. She performs with Mike Flanagan on January 18th at the Pelham House. Tickets are available at CapeSymphony.org
Here Mozelle talks about seeing Whitney Houston in concert, being on Letterman, and meeting Was (Not Was).
Remembering The Soul explores soul healing, psychic phenomena, precognitive dreams, and ancient practices preserved in modern times.
"The series features extraordinary healers including Dr. Edward Tick, a psychologist transforming war trauma through mythology; Ibsahu Pernebsati, a Dogon wisdom keeper preserving ancient African traditions; and indigenous spiritual teachers bridging ancestral knowledge with contemporary healing.
"From Greek healing temples to African Earth Reading ceremonies, each episode reveals how the mysteries of consciousness, the unexplained power of belief, and the age-old practice of storytelling can transform our understanding of healing."
Crowdfunding page for the documentary series:
https://www.gofundme.com/.../help-complete-remembering...
In this interview with author historian Max Dashu, we learn about the ancient and modern practice of scraping rock dust from ancient symbols carved into rocks, caves as spiritual temples used for birthing and funerary ritual and the significance of spirals. Learn how to wassail the way nature-centered pre-Christian ancestors did!
Author historian and artist Max Dashu, founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives discusses the spiritual traditions of pre-classical Greece, female oracles, birthing and dream caves. Her book Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides delves into what we don't learn in school.
In this podcast we learn about just some of the myths and literary depictions of women were revised to reflect the changing status of women and the patriarchal subjugation of women.
Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae and Titanides available at https://veleda.net/ along with other books, posters, dvds
Free videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/maxdashu/videos
Stream on demand videos: https://suppressed-histories.teachable.com/
(includes Predynastic Egypt and Wiccen Herbal Wisdom)
Daily posts on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/Suppressed-Histories-Archives-333661528320/
Here's my full interview with educator and author Elaine Weintraub, author of Lighting the Trail: The African American Heritage of Martha's Vineyard: https://mvafricanamericanheritagetrail.org/
The fantastic Celtic duo Cassie and Maggie grew up in Nova Scotia on land that was in their family going back seven generations.
Cassie and Maggie will be playing a Celtic Christmas concert at The 204 Harwich Cultural Center on Tuesday December 17th and at the Gallery on Main in Falmouth on December 18th.
One day Farnaz Ohadi got in trouble at school for singing a religious song as home the previous day. Her neighbors had called her school to inform them of her transgression. The school took disciplinary action on the child. Women and girls were forbidden from singing. Her music-loving family took action and moved to Canada where Farnaz studied opera, Persian folk singing, and Flamenco cante.
Farnaz's love of music and performance art inspired her to create the collaborative project "Mashregh Ensemble" in 2012, which combine's Persian poetry with Flamenco music. She has several albums and one more on the way, Breath, slated for release in 2025. Today we’re giving you a sneak peak of her forthcoming album.
Today, she calls Sevilla, Spain her home. She travels the world performing in shows blending dance performances and her original Persian Flamenco music.
Here Hadley Luddy, CEO of the Homeless Prevention Council of Cape Cod.
This December 22nd at Truro Vineyards, participate in Rock to Stop Homelessness from 2-5pm. Join G. Love this holiday season to help our neighbors in need! Food will be available for purchase from Red River Barbecue food truck in addition to the full bar, as well as gift baskets + auction items for last-minute holiday shopping.
Mandolinist virtuoso, fiddle player, guitarist, and composer. He performs and records with his partner Hillary James, The Mandolinquents and Slim Panatella & the Mellow Virginians.
This morning on The Healing Wisdom Radio Show, Kim Moberg Music & Shannon Davis talk about their show on November 8th at the Wellfleet Preservation Hall.
Peace of Mind Nannies founder Tiesha Sinouthasy discusses the needs of neurodivergent and disabled children.
Jamala talks about filming in the Kyiv mountains and desert, Crimean tatar music, and about her Crimean great grandmother who was forced with her five children onto a train in 1944,
Heather Blume's work is in permanent collections at the British Museum in London and the Royal Coin Cabinet of Sweden in Stockholm. Her work is in collections locally at the Provincetown Art Gallery Association, the Cape Cod Museum of Art Cahoon Museum of American Art. Her next show, EYE TO I: PERSONAL EXCHANGES BY HEATHER BLUME, begins October 15th 2-5pm at the Provincetown Commons Reception. She shares the show with 8mm by Jody Johnson and Persisters by Jo Hay. The show ends October 27th.
Trumpet Player, Pianist Composer Mark Bornfield and Broadway Vocalist D'jamin Bartlett will perform Sunday at 4pm at the Academy Playhouse, a fundraiser for the Atwood Music Concert Series. Doors open at 3:30pm. Tickets available at chathamhistoricalsociety.org
Actor Ahmed Moneka was at a film festival in Canada when he got a call from his dad, saying his family was receiving death threats due to his new film The Society being released. He was a TV personality, the first black Iraqi TV presenter, and his new film drew attention to the violence being experienced by the LGBT community. Ahmed stayed in Canada and soon became at refugee while his family fled to Turkey. Stuck in Canada with no command of English, he fell back on his musical training, and connected with a Balkan musician to create a duo, The Mosquito Bar.
Ahmed began his musical journey fusing genres. His new album Kankafula features a blend of soul, funk, and rock blended with Afro-Iraqi Sufi music. Here he shares about the spiritual traditions of his family. In the 8th century his ancestors brought the East African influences to Basra, where the tradition of ecstatic dance music and lively ceremonies led by healing priests and priestesses who use music, herbs and ceremonies for healing.
Marine Mammal Scientist Rob Lott from the UK-Based organization Whale and Dolphin Conservation gives us a behind the scenes look on how the dolphins you pay to swim with are held in captivity, the effects of captivity and what is being done to stop these tour operator and marine parks.
Marine Mammal Scientist Rob Lott from the UK-Based organization Whale and Dolphin Conservation gives us a behind the scenes look on how the dolphins you pay to swim with are held in captivity, the effects of captivity and what is being done to stop these tour operator and marine parks.
Bourne Historical Commission Member and Former Bourne Fire Chief Steven Philbrick discusses his lineage with the Bourne Fire Dept., beginning with his grandfather. He also talks about a talk happening at the Truro Historical Society on Wednesday August 21st led by Atlantic Blackbox's Meadow Dibble at the Highland Museum, where he's talk about an object he inherited and gave to the Truro Historical Society, the bill of sale for an enslaved child, Hector.
Musician Bart Weisman began is music career by joining a 4-piece Air Force Band, The Diplomats. He went on to basic training, playing for dignitaries and US presidents and "society" events, before creating the Provincetown Jazz Festival. He also developed a jazz appreciation music program for kids in Cape schools. His bands include Jazz Group, Klezmer Swing Group, Smooth Jazz Group, and the Cape Cod Jazz Quartet & Trio. Listen Thursday morning at 9am on WOMR and check out Healing Wisdom podcast on apple podcasts.
Blues and folk singer songwriter Ruthie Foster has won 10 Blues Music Awards, the Grand Prix du Disque award from the Académie Charles-Cros in France, a Living Blues Critics’ Award for Female Blues Artist of the Year, and the title of an “inspiring American Artist” as a United States Artists Fellow.
Ruthie's inspired by Mahalia Jackson, Big Maybelle, Bonnie Raitt, Barbra Streisand and other luminaries. She'll be performing in Cape Cod on Thursday, August 1 at 7:00 PM. Today, we’re talking about her new album Mileage, out this month.
Susan Lambert's background in theater and music informs her therapy practice. She's narrated and edited an audio e-book, The Wild Edge of the Heart: Women Poets Raise Their Voices. The book can be found at wildedgeheart.com. Proceeds for the audio book go to theNational Institute of Reproductive Health.
Lula Music is an Arts Center that brings 100 concerts from a dozen 10-16 piece salsa bands a year to their Latin American music venue, Lula Lounge. LMAC hosts festivals and offers educational programming. The non-profit also has its own record label. Meet two of the women running LulaWorld.
Multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter Monica talks about the rodeos and late night jams of her Texan upbringing and her Vinegrass non-profit helping give kids get access to musical instruments and scholarships.
Love Jaime won the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest Film Festival.
Love Jaime tells the story of a 66-year-old Mexican-American trans woman and artist who was recently released on probation after 30 years in a men’s prison in Texas. It follows the story of her friendship with volunteer who believed in her and her art and helped to producer her first art show.
Here, we speak with Emmy-nominated news documentary producer and director Karla Murthy.
Emmy and GLAAD award-winning filmmaker Elina Street, on her short film My Best Friend playing at the Provincetown Film Society & Festival on Saturday June 15th at 6pm at Fisherman Hall. Her film follows two best friends whose relationship blurs lines when they suddenly sleep with each other. She's the co-creator/co-director Lesbian Bar Project, starring and executive produced by Lea DeLaria.
Author, filmmaker, and 4-time Emmy Winning investigative reporter John Carlos Frey talks about his documentary film, “The Little Pageant That Could” which screens Sunday, June 16th, at 6:30pm at the Art House. Tickets at http://provincetownfilm.org
In this episode here Emmy and GLAAD award-winning filmmaker Elina Street, talk about her film My Best Friend playing at the Provincetown Film Society & Festival on Thursday June 13th at 11am at the Art House and Saturday June 15th at 6pm at Fisherman Hall. Her film follows two best friends whose relationship blurs lines when they suddenly sleep with each other. She's the co-creator/co-director Lesbian Bar Project, starring and executive produced by Lea DeLaria.
**We have all heard about microplastics, but what are they doing to our bodies?
My next guest filmmaker Ben Adelman answers that question.
"Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics" screens Thursday at 1pm and Saturday June 15th at 10:30am at Water's Edge Cinema 2 as part of the Provincetown Film Society & Festival festival. https://plasticpeopledoc.com/film/**
Author, filmmaker, and 4-time Emmy Winning investigative reporter John Carlos Frey talks about his documentary film, “The Little Pageant That Could” which screens Thursday, June 13th, 4pm at Town Hall and Sunday, June 16, at 6:30pm at the Art House. The story follows the longest running drag show in America that has brought in 6 million dollars to date to help in the fight against AIDS. A New Kind of Wilderness screens Friday June 14th at 11am at Water's Edge Cinema. The film follows a family who moves to an isolated farm in the Norwegian wilderness to live off the land and get back to nature. The tragic death of mother Maria challenges their ideals and values, but the new community they discover helps them along on their healing journey.
Short versions of interviews with Girls Will Be Girls filmmaker Shuchi Talati and director of No One Asked You Ruth Leitman talk about their films screening at the Provincetown International Film Festival.
Girls Will Be Girls
Thursday June 13th at 11am at Waters Edge Cinema
Saturday June 15th at 330 at Waters Edge Cinema 2
No One Asked You
Thursday June 13th at 4pm at Water’s Edge Cinema
Saturday June 15th at 1:30pm at Water’s Edge Cinema
Melissa Ferretti speaks on Fighting for Federal Recognition for the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribal Council.
Healing in Ancient Greek could be called shamanism. Though long forgotten, these roots were at the core of what became modern Western Medicine.
Educator, children's author and musician Rand Burkert will be on The Healing Wisdom Radio Show this week on WOMR talking about “Restoration Agriculture”. "It's an ecological farming approach that addresses climate and food insecurity by focusing on biodiversity of farm ecosystems." He'll be sharing what the Food Forest Initiative is up to. Food Forest Initiative has organized upcoming talks at First Parish Brewster and Orleans Library by Taona Makunje, Founder of Creative Solutions. She'll be sharing the Restorative Agriculture she's done in Malawi villages. Talks will take place May 6th and 8th.
Iowa Blues Hall of Famer Kevin Burt is coming to Provincetown Town Hall this Saturday. He's performing with James Montgomery. Kevin's a former college football player and social worker turned pro musician. His vocals are often compared with Aaron Neville and Bill Withers. Give this show a listen and see if you agree.
https://states.aarp.org/iowa/kevin-burt-aarp-iowa-hidden-gem
Photographer Michael Joseph on his new book which captures an interstate community of vagabonds, he calls Travelers, over a period of ten years. He also discusses his new project capturing Provincetown, inspired by Norman Mailer who called Ptown the Wild West of the East Coast.
An article worth reading on Mailer is:
https://normanmailer.us/norman-mailer-s-provincetown-66943d75e164
Natalie Cressman and Ian Faquini are coming to town for their Brazilian album release party for their new album "Guinga".
This new documentary filmed during the current war in Ukraine follows a movement of 250 plus yoga teachers to unify citizens and soldiers on the front lines with yoga.
Is yoga the answer to world peace?
"My music is made in Toronto, often referred to as the “meeting place”, where I honed my artistry in jazz, R&B, and contemporary music. Yet, my roots lie in my birthplace, where I was raised on my father’s resistance anthems and Ukrainian folk songs, carrying warning signs from my ancestors. Now, my mission is to expand on my father’s legacy, and share the Ukrainian soul with others…"
Nastasia Y on her new single: "Crimea is home to the Crimean Tatars, and it’s where I spent my favourite childhood memories growing up in Ukraine. It’s also the birthplace of the war – the first place to be taken by Russia exactly 10 years ago. As we enter the 3rd year of the full scale invasion, here is a bold re-imagining of the folk song “Salgir Boyu” (The Salgir Riverbank) in Crimean Tatar – a language facing extinction. This song urges us to sing louder, and give a voice to those who live under occupation."
Scott Fitzmaurice is the founder and executive director of We Thrive Inc., the LGBTQ and Ally Community Center of the Cape and Islands Region. Scott is a professional development trainer, personal life coach, and develops and manages properties. He’s worked 30 years in the nonprofit sector.
Here Healing Wisdom caught up with bandleader Adam Elk of the Mommyheads. Just back from a tour in Sweden, we talk about their new album Coney Island Kid, and a new fan-created musical.
2-time Juno Award winner Canadian singer songwriter Kiran Ahluwalia talks about her new single "Dil" , which was first debuted as part of NPR's Tiny Desk globalFEST. Kiran’s new album Comfort Food will be coming out April 2024.
Trumpeter, band leader and Composer Frank London of the Grammy Winning The Klezmatics just released a Chanukah Album, Chronika with his Klezmer Brass All Stars. The Healing Wisdom Radio Show speaks with Frank on WOMR. We talk about his teaching music in Crimea, what Klezmer has in common with the indigenous Tatar music, how he came to write his first soundtrack - the music for the John Sayles’ film, The Brother From Another Planet and so much more.
Members of the the contemporary Nordic folk band FRÄNDER, Gabbi Dluzewski and Säde Tatar, talk about incorporating traditional Estonian and Swedish music, their new release, a climate change song called “Eternal Rain” off their album Fränder II, and living in a Bronze Age Viking village. The show will air on It WOMR with music this month.
The Grammy-nominated, Canadian-Cuban duo Okan releases their 3rd album, Okantomi, on November 8th. Vocalist/violinist Elizabeth Rodriguez and vocalist/percussionist Magdelys Savigne celebrate life and Afro-Cuban culture with this album. Tracks incorporate traditional Lucumí chants, while facing the complexities of immigration and their ambivalence about going home, because of the oppressive Cuban government. Here the couple discuss their spiritual traditions.
Do you listen to your instinct?
What are your personal safety strategies?
Michelle Morrow, RAD Instructor, Refuse to be a Victim instructor, owner of Protection For A Purpose LLC talks with me about intuition, personal safety strategies, preventing Crimes of Opportunity and her top 5 safety tips.
Award-winning Americana Singer/Songwriter Claudia Nygaard brings Little Red Riding Hood to the Academy of Performance Art in Orleans.
We talk with filmmakers energizing and uplifting story of music, cultural expression and sisterhood. Dawn Mikkelson and Keri Pickett, producer and executive director of TaikoArts Midwest Jennifer Weir and drummer artist Megan Chao-Smith talk about the spiritual art of this thousands-of-years-old Japanese tradition.
Finding Her Beat debuts in Vancouver tomorrow and will be in LA, SF, Boston, New York and other cities in October.
Finding Her Beat showcases generations of amazing female Taiko drummers who have spent their lives challenging the exclusively male Japanese spiritual tradition.
Musician Carol Band and vocalist/guitarist Conrad Warre of the British/American band, Bees Deluxe. Along with Paul Giovine and Adam Sankowski. They play an eclectic mix of modern and classic tunes. https://www.beesdeluxe.com/
Conrad's played at CBGB's and at the Hammersmith Palais. Responsible for bringing Bob Mould's band Sugar to Rykodisc, he has held various jobs including guitar-player, band manager, special-effects builder, illustrator, music journalist, as well as record company production manager.
Carol Band has graced the stage at many Boston-area clubs including Johnny D’s, Ryles, the Lilypad and The House of Blues.
Paul Giovine has opened shows for legends such as Bo Diddley, Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis. He studied Music Education at the University of Connecticut, then transferred to the Berklee College of Music. Paul studied with Mike Mangini (Extreme, Stevie Vai, Dream Theater) and Joe Pet (The Joe Perry Project). Paul has opened for artists such as The Gin Blossoms, Jessica Simpson & Colin Raye and performed live with blues guitarist Keb’ Mo.’
Adam bounced around in basement bands while in music school joining two early 2000's Boston indie troubadours: The Grownup Noise who toured much of the country many times with, and post-punk rockers Horeshands. He divides his time working as a music therapist at Mass General with oncology patients and with special needs students.
My musical guests Elizabeth Schwartz and Yale Strom talk about their new album, The Wolf and the Lamb recorded in an old synagogue in Czech Republic. The new album celebrates the traditional melodies of Central and Eastern Europe as well as influences on Klezmer from various cultures including the Roma.
In this conversation, they share some fascinating Jewish history in Spain, Ukraine, Austria and a Soviet Russian town which became a Jewish settlement.
As a writer, Schwartz co-created the award-winning audio dramas The Witches of Lublin and Debs in Canton for Suemedia Productions. One of her books, is the Sweet France of Life and Other Horror Stories. AND their documentary is narrated by Leonard Nimoy, Carpati: 50 Miles 50 Years. And they lead Jewish and ancient culture musical tours to countries which include Spain, Uzbekistan, Morocco, Croatia and Portugal.
Founding Director Rebecca Ann Robertson talks about the importance of Melipona bees in the ecosystem of the Yucatan, the unique health benefits of melipona honey, the work The Melipona Bee Project has done with modern indigenous people in the region and about the spiritual connection ancient people in the Mayan and Greece cultures had with bees.
Stephane Wremble brings new life and dimension to Django Reinhardt's swing and improvisational works, and he composes. He's headlined at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Town Hall in NYC and The Lyon Opera House in France. He has toured around the world, and performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival, Rochester International Jazz Festival, Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival in France, and many others.
What are the most requested books in prison?
Why are books in prison necessary for education, well being, and community?
My next guest represents a grassroots organization that developed book clubs and published writings from people behind bars.
In this podcast I speak with Lydia Welker , olunteer digital communications coordinator of The Appalachian Prison Book Project. APBP sends free books and provides educational opportunities to people incarcerated in prisons and jails in Appalachia.
Maria Muldaur and her band are on their, Way Past Midnight tour, celebrating the 50 year anniversary of Midnight at the Oasis with the multimedia retrospective of her 60-year-long music career, which started in Greenwich Village.
Choreographers Leda and David Iannetelli discuss their concert series M-Body, part of the Movimento Project. Author, astrologer and Astrocartographer Martha Clarke discusses Venus and Pluto in Retrograde.
Peter Dr. Harper and Bobbi Llewellyn discuss sound healing with the didgeridoo, paranormal encounters and their upcoming show.
August 19th at the Music Room
Nikki and the Barnboys at 7pm
Paul Nelson at 8pm
Harper and the Midwest Kind at 9pm
Silver Living Strategist and Keep in Mind Inc Creator Ellen Belk discusses dementia care and cognitive care.
Interviewed this fabulous woman today The Healing Wisdom Radio Show ! Actress, singer, comedian, and author Sandra Bernhard will be performing at Provincetown Town Hall on Friday July 28th! Get tickets at sandrabernhard.com
Emmy Award-nominated and Cinema Eye Honor-nominated filmmaker and impact producer Lise Balk King speaks with me about discovering her passion for documenting people with a camera, getting permission, courage, creating a safe space, and the documentary Heroin Cape Cod, USA.
Veteran folk musician Tom Rush, who was the first to record songs by Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne and James Taylor, will be performing at Payomet June 25th. Here Tom talks about the 60s folk scene, his metaphysical approach to songwriting and the evolution of folk.
Fantastic Negrito on The Healing Wisdom Radio Show on WOMR Thursday 22nd at 9am ET/6am PT WOMR 92.1 FM in Ptown/WFMR 91.3 FM in Orleans, streaming at womr.org, and on the smartphone app.
He'll be bringing his brilliance to the Payomet Performing Arts Center on August 11th. Tickets at https://tickets.payomet.org/eventperformances.asp?evt=762
Filmmakerrs Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli talk about radical optimism, and their documentary Lakota Nation vs. United States. It screens Sunday June 18th at 1pm at Water's Edge Cinema at the Provincetown Intl Film Festival.
It tells of the century-long struggle to reclaim the Black Hills, sacred land stolen in violation of treaty agreements.
Through clips of Hollywood films and TV clips we see the reinforcement of the same stereotypes that justified the stealing of land, the abuses of residential schools and other injustices done to indigenous Americans. It’s a story of reckoning, resilience and hope.
Healing Wisdom talks with filmmaker Schon Duncan, Actor Lio Mehiel, Director Agniia Galdanova, and Filmmaker Avi Zev Weider.
Director Agniia Galdanova follows the life of Gena, a queer makeup student, costumer and performance artist who dresses in otherworldly costumes made from junk and tape. She protests Russia's invasion of Ukraine and against oppression anti-LGBT laws.
Director Avi Zev Weider talks about his short, "American Santa" screening at Waters Edge Cinema Friday June 16th for its world premiere at the Provincetown Film Society & Festival
"Jovial melodies echo through the air as Black Santas, donned in their deep red cloaks and white beards, smile and pose for photographs with gleeful children and their parents. Nevertheless, buried beneath this facade of joy and bliss lies unseen and deeply ingrained American racism."
We Will Speak documents the reclamation and revitalization of the Cherokee language on the brink of extinction. It screens Thursday June 15th at 3:30pm and Saturday June 17th at 6pm at Water's Edge Cinema as part of the Provincetown International Film Festival.
In this episode, three short form interviews with filmmakers whose films are screening at the Provincetown Film Society & Festival:
1) Four-time Emmy and Peabody award-winning director Marc Levin talks about, It's Basic. His documentary on basic income pilot programs asks the question, can guaranteed income eradicate child poverty and level the racial playing field through community-centric solutions?
2) Directors Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli talk about their documentary Lakota Nation vs. United States. The documentary tells of the century-long struggle to reclaim the Black Hills, sacred land stolen in violation of treaty agreements.
Through clips of Hollywood films and TV clips we see the reinforcement of the same stereotypes that justified the stealing of land, the abuses of residential schools and other injustices done to indigenous Americans. It’s a story of reckoning, resilience and hope.
3) Filmmaker Tunde Skoran talks about her film, WHO I AM NOT, about the lives of two South African intersex people living in a gender binary world. About 150 million people worldwide are born with intersex traits, that’s about 1.7 percent of the population world wide.
It's Basic
Saturday June 17th at 6:30pm at Waters Edge Cinema
Provincetown Film Society & Festival
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Sunday June 18th at 1pm at Water's Edge Cinema
Provincetown Film Society & Festival
Who I am Not
Thursday, June 15th at 10:30am Waters Edge Cinema
Saturday, June 17th at 10:30 am Waters Edge Cinema
Provincetown Film Society & Festival
Musician Nattali Rize with Judy Mowatt (Bob Marley backup singer) and her Jamaican reggae band play at Cape Cod Music Room this June 10th.
Here guest singer musician Nattali Rize talks about her new music project with Judy Mowatt (Bob Marley's back up singer), and her upcoming performance at The Music Room June 10th.
Composer, activist, educator, singer and musician Sona Jobarteh speaks about her education advocacy and activism, speaking at UN and WHO summits, her Academy in The Gambia, and a bit about West African Mande music and culture. She performs at the Payomet Performing Arts Center July 27th.
Singer Eliana Cuevas and husband Jeremy created the Angel Falls Orchestra to carry on the tradition of her father and grandfather, Venezuelan-Afro music, and blend it with Western classical and Jazz influences. Her new album is available at ElianaCuevas.com
Japanese Guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto plays at the Wellfleet Preservation Hall Saturday May 20th at 7pm. Tickets are available at wellfleetpreservationhall.org
Author o Wampanoag Art for the Ages Lee Roscoe shares her research on Wampum and expert movement-sound instructor Rebecca Burrill shares about her upcoming retreat in Scotland.
RaMa on her sacred sites tours to India, Avalon/Glastonbury, and Egypt, discussing ancient cosmology and prophecy.
In this three interview episode featuring artists who have events April 15th and April 20th and April 22nd, and May 6th.
First, we speak with filmmaker Lisa Cortes, executive producer of the film Precious which was both Academy Award-nominated and received the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize for best drama at the Sundance Film Festival.Cortes talks about her brand new documentary, "Little Richard: I Am Everything" screens this Saturday, April 15, at 7:00pm, at Waters Edge Cinema in Provincetown. There will be a Reception and Q&A after the film. We then speak with musician Marc Berger who will be at DJ Dinah Mellin's Brick Hill House Concert April 22nd with Grammy-winning musician Steve Addabo. He talks about being inspired by the American West, his albums Ride and Folk Music.
Lastly, we speak with author, journalist and filmmaker Lee Roscoe and producer Janet Murphy Robertson about their experimental film Dreams from a Planet in Peril. We also discuss Roscoe’s book, Wampanoag Art for the Ages: Traditional and Transitional.
Flawed forensic evidence. Eye-witness misidentification. Tunnel vision by investigators. False confessions. Coercion. Paid and incentivized testimony. Systemic bias.Healing Wisdom speaks with Executive Director of the New England Innocence Project Radha Natarajan.
The podcast reveals the myths and mishandling of criminal cases which lead to wrongful conviction of innocent people.
Radio Host and DJ Pandora Peoples asked 15 Cape Cod and Boston area women artists, non-profit directors and community leaders, to share their stories and thoughts for International Women's Day. This program aired March 8th at 9-10am as part of a full day of programming for International Women's Day 2023. Some of the original music has been omitted for podcast.
Grammy-winning musician and producer John McEuen was a founding member of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and was with them 50 years. He produced Steve Martin's The Crow: New Songs for the 5 String Banjo album, and has performed with numerous musicians including Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Leon Russel, Martha Redbone, Dolly Paton, Johnny Cash, June Carter, the Allman Bothers, and so many others.
He'll be performing at the Music Room Cape Cod March 19th.
Camille Madison, Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal language educator and organizer for environmental justice discusses the illegal extractions on protected pine barrens in Cape Cod, wind turbines, and the boycott of Plimoth Pautuxet over decades of whitewashing and miseducation.
Community activist and diversity, equity and inclusion strategist Jeanne M. Morrison speaks The Healing Wisdom Radio Show on working with the economically disadvantaged, youth and people with disabilities. She talks equity, human rights, social and racial justice. Jeanne is currently serving on six local and state boards and several steering committees.
Among her many accomplishments, is developing corporate diversity and inclusion initiatives and administering state and federal civil rights programs, which have won state and national recognition.
We talk about Barnstable No Place for Hate and the Active Bystander Workshop.
See you on the radio, if not before then, Thursday March 2nd at 9am ET on WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown, WFMR 91.3 FM in Orleans, streaming at womr.org, on our WOMR app on your smart phone!
WOMR
Nashville-based Musician Claudia Nygaard on her Cape Cod concert with Kim Moberg, Monica Rizzio, Kathleen Healy and Rayssa Delorey March 8th for International Women's Day. Her entertaining, often filmic, award-winning songs cover themes of her origins, being country, love, loss, alcoholism, and her recent album Lucky Star has songs about giving a baby up for adoption and date rape. Let's talk about it!
My next guest encourages girls to explore science, discover their passion and scientific drive...
This Thursday, one of my radio guests on The Healing Wisdom Radio Show is Dr. Bonnie Bertolaet, executive director of the Science Club for Girls, a biochemist whose areas of research covered enzymology, yeast genetics, oncology (the cell cycle), and inflammation (signal transduction). Bonnie has a long history working in equity-based educational programs focused on raising awareness of physical and intellectual disabilities for children K-6th grade.
Science Club for Girls, expands opportunities for girls from communities underrepresented in STEM.
Thursday at 9am on WOMR
After decades of working with Holocaust survivors who'd been young adults during the war, Dr. Paula David began working with survivors who were children during this gruesome chapter in history. These survivors began having vivid recollections of their extremely traumatic memories as their short term memories waned. Together, Dr. Paula helped these residents create collective poetry to share their struggles with future generations. Their poetry doesn't chronicle the horrific details, but survivors were subject to many scientific experiments, forced sterilization and sexual abuse. Dr. Paula, other doctors, care workers, and nurses developed a list of triggers in addition to other information to help all loved ones and caretakers.
Some residents used the sharing of their collective poetry to help educate school children. These poems inspired, Silent Tears: The Last Yiddish Tango, a new album by Payadora Tango Ensemble. Together producer Daniel Rosenberg and Dr. Paula worked with songwriters, translators, vocalists, and musicians to create haunting songs. Some lyrics feature words from this Terrace Poetry Collective, some from Holocaust survivor Molly Applebaum and some form Anna Hana, Lenka Lichtenberg.
The heartfelt community and individualized, women-guided care created by Women's Lunch Place is responsible for the success of their programs.
Women's Lunch Place provides homeless, jobless and working poor women with more than healthy warm meals. It's both a shelter and advocacy center, as well as a community of heartfelt volunteers, staff and advocates who offer emotional, mental and physical support by providing basic necessities, counseling, trauma and substance abuse recovery, and job training focused on helping guests achieve economic empowerment and independence through individualized programs.
Here Healing Wisdom speaks with executive director Jennifer Hanlon Wigon.
Co-directors of the educational nonprofit Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Zoila Dias and Johannah Malone. MUA has been helping immigrant Latina women and girls since 1979. Since then it has expanded to teaching English to immigrant families from Latin America, Haiti, Afghanistan, and Cape Verde, and providing many various types of educational opportunities and health services. Z
From Native American Christian Minister to psychiatrist to zen roshi priest and author Duncan Shoko Sings-Alone and His Wife Dr. Priscilla Cogan have done it all.
Onyay's been heard internationally at festivals across the globe and on America's Got Talent, her music's been heard on Bravo, Lifetime, ABC, the USA Network, E!, MTV, ESPN, in commercials internationally and in the game Devil May Cry 4.
Here we hear four new releases and Onyay speaks with me about her inspirations, travels to sacred sites, breath work facilitation at retreats, and some nitty gritty transpersonal revelations.
4-time Grammy nominated Black Uhuru drummer Rangotan Smith and 6 time Steel Pan champion, vocalist and base player Sista Dee and I discuss their Cape Cod Caribbean Lounge show, touring around the world with African musicians, their Jamaican and Trinidad backgrounds and Rastafarianism.
After her mother's death, Czech Canadian Lenka Lichtenberg discovered secret poetry her grandmother had written locked in her desk. Her new album Thieves of Dreams explores this poetry written at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during WWII.
James speaks on his documentary America Will Kill You, on his brother who helped put in place legislation to protect LGBT community against hate crimes, his time hosting The Ramones release parties when his other brother was Sire Records VP, and his new documentary film on James Cotton. He was best buddies with Jr. Wells and Buddy Guy and James Cotton was like a father to him, Cotton even called him "son". James talks with healing Wisdom about the Creative Principle, talking spirituality with George Harrison for three days, hanging with his creative muse Paul Butterfield and interviewing Bonnie Raitt and Koko Taylor on his radio show.
14 music awards recipient, singer-songwriter and harmonica player Harper comes to The Music Room in West Yarmouth November 5th and 6th. Here he discusses his near death experience, being saved by First Australians as a child, discovering the Didgeridoo and how a Hopi named Running Bear changed his life. Lots of blues roots and rock inspired by Aboriginals.
Robin Lane talks about her new Americana Album, Dirt Road to Heaven, her songwriting, and her memories of playing the Beachcomber in Wellfleet with the Chartbusters. We discuss her foundation that helps people heal through trauma with songwriting workshops. Songbird Sings helps veterans, convicts and women who’ve experienced sexual trauma and domestic abuse.
Robin has upcoming shows at the Hopkington Arts Center and the Brewery in Newburyport this month. Her website is theRobinlane.com
podcast at healingwisdomradioshow.com
Musician Marc Berger discusses his love for the American West, his album Ride inspired by Country Western and Americana music and his many travels, as well as Walt Whitman and his forthcoming folk album. He shares his latest music.
Musician, producer, lyricist and author Jim McCarty wrote a book on his relationship with his late wife, their psychic connection and how their deep connection persists. He shares about her living in his heart, teaching him, and all of the funny things she does to communicate with him. His books She Walks in beauty: My Quest for the Bigger Picture is out now.
Thursday morning at 9am ET on WOMR I speak with flutist Eric Maul and John Thomas, composer, pianist, producer of Great Music on Sundays @5 and Bulgarian Fulbright grant recipient for "Music Without Borders: Bulgaria and America in Melody, Harmony and Rhythm" video series. Tickets for the their upcoming Sunday performances can be found here: https://ptownmusic.com/
8/21 The Bulgarian Piano: Tradition & Improvisation
8/28 Frets & Hammers: Bach & Beyond
9/4 Fabulous French Fantasia
9/11 Broadway: Curtain Call!
What is World Localization?
Here I speak with filmmaker and author of "Local is Our Future" director of the international non-profit Local Futures, linguist, and pioneer of the new economy movement, Helen Norberg-Hodge. Here she shares how her life was changed in 1975 when she visited the Tibetan Plateau, and met the Ladakhi people.
Jane Goodall, Naomi Klein, Brian Eno, Gabor Mate, Russel Brand, and many more voices join Helena in her documentary film to discuss this movement...Check out https://worldlocalizationday.org
Below, we discuss localization and diversification for the environment and healthy economies. Helena talks about colonization's effect on indigenous cultures. Helena talks about the consumer monoculture and the breakdown of biological and cultural diversity, erosion of food security and society in cultures around the world.
Her books include ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold half a million copies. Other books include, ‘Bringing the Food Economy Home’ and ‘From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture’.
You can find out more about Local Futures at http://localfutures.org
Airing in July on Healing Wisdom on WOMR
Award-winning, Carnegie-Hall-playing, performer of Mongolian and Tuvan music, Tamir Hargana sings in the Khoomi, throat singing style. His instruments include the Mongolian horse-head fiddle, the Mongolian lute, the Tuvan lute and a Tuvan strong instrument the Igil.
Tamir and Salieu Suso are performing at a family event in NYC this weekend, July 16-17th, as part of the Festival of Possibilities, brought to us by Foundation of New American Art. Last year, Foundation for New American Art won the "Challenge America" grant from the National Endowment for the Arts!
Tamir Hargana plays here
https://youtu.be/wZIzGlqCEso
West Gambian Kora musician Salieu Suso brings us traditional Kora music. The Kora is 21-string harp traditionally made with a gourd, cow hide and antelope strings, invented by a distant ancestor and passed down through generations. The kora music was used in royal courts to help kings make hard decisions, to decide over battle strategies and among warriors to ease trauma from battle.
More here: Salieu Suso plays here
https://youtu.be/h6Vn8ZOJfKI
What can we do to help pollinators, birds and endangered species from our backyards?
Entomologist, conservationist, and ecologist professor author Douglas Tallamy calls us to action with Homegrown National Park. Check out http://homegrownnationalpark.org
Here is a plant finder for native plants in your area to turn your yard and garden into a habitat for native wildlife and the local ecosystems https://homegrownnationalpark.org/resources-plant-finders
Esther Newton is an American anthropologist and pioneer in ethnography of lesbian and gay communities. We talk gender, drag queens, and the sexism she faced.
It is the story of the spiritual strength of the Gullah Geechee speaking people of the Atlantic coastal southern region. This airs again, Sunday at 11:30am as part of the Provicetown Intl Film Festival.
"Under the orders of General William Sherman, the ancestral home of the Gullah people was originally deeded to freed slaves after the Civil War. But when the real estate of the southern U.S. coast is eyed by the wealthy, tax hikes and land auctions threaten the homes of the people who have been stewards of the region for generations."
Midnight Madhouse Producers, actresses Ella Cannon and Jenna Rosenow discuss their flagship project, an adaptation of Cape Cod author Deborah Swiss' The Tin Ticket about the Australian convict women from Britain and Ireland who populated the continent. Ella discusses her new film releasing this Friday on Netflix, Trees of Peace, about sisterhood during the Rwandan genocide against the minority ethnic group, the Tutsis.
Lead vocalist and musician ringleader of the band, the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, discusses their latest album, A Very Unusual Head. They perform at the Spire Center in Plymouth Friday night.
Making, growing, and working with herbal medicine and Medicinal Plant School of Rhode Island owner Eliza Travisano! She shares her remedies to common ailments, first aid kits and more...She's launching her school this summer here https://medicinalplantschool.com/
The episode centers on an astrodrama, an astrological enactment, conducted by expressive arts therapist and dream healer BE Johnson...
On guitar, Tad Price
Body-based holistic health philosophy and techniques from the Breema Center with teachers Alexandra Johnson, MD (family medicine) and Angela Porter, LMFT (licensed marriage and family therapist). Here Angela and Alexandra share the 9 Principles of Harmony.
This integrative approach uses somatic therapy for bringing presence and relaxation to everything you do. It helps with anxiety, depression, healing trauma and addiction. These Breema Center teachers offer retreats for holistic practitioners, health care providers, and other professionals.
Tara Vargas Wallace on the racial wealth gap and housing insecurity on Cape Cod. We talk about Bans Off Our Bodies, the Buffalo shooting, discrimination, the history of redlining and other factors that contribute to racial inequities.
Pop singer songwriter Jann Klose discusses his new song, growing up in South Africa during apartheid, connecting with kids sharing traditional music during the Tutudesk Campaign, and Creative Visualization on Healing Wisdom, airing on WOMR streaming everywhere at womr.org
Nahua-lineage trained weather worker and singing shaman Linda Go discusses her death doula educational trainings, end-of-life from a spiritual perspective, the Tibetan book of the dead, and the importance of trauma-release yoga for aging with acceptance and end-of-life.
Dance Professor Bernard J. Brown discusses his approach to dance activism, the influences of Katherine Dunham on modern, ballet and hip hop, the history of the slave who mailed himself to freedom Henry B. Brown, the place of dance in social and political movements, homoeroticism in the system of slavery and "the lasting effects of colonialism on global communities of color through the prism of sugar, the most important harvest crop to the trans-Atlantic slave trade".
Short version of the interview. The full version will be up by the end of the day. Please, check back.
Bees are deeply woven into the cosmology and spiritual practices of many ancient cultures. The pyramid temples of the Yucatan are believed by Maya people to represent the unusual pattern of the Melipona Beehives which are shaped in tiered layers. The stingless Melipona bees are crucial in the survival of the rainforests of the Yucatan and the Amazon. It is interesting to note too, that melipona bees can be found in areas with Aztec pyramids as well.
The unusual melipona honey has been cultivated the same way for at least 3200 years. It has unique medicinal properties, and is used to treat conjunctivitis, glaucoma, and other ailments. Shamans use it ceremonially.
Grateful to have interviewed Director and Founder of the Mayan Melipona Bee Sanctuary Project, Rebecca Ann Robertson , about her organization's mission helping indigenous Mayan-speaking women learn this endangered way of life, giving them training, resources and Melipona stingless bees to continue this ancient tradition. Rebecca learned that one of the few surviving Mayan Codices reveals the deep spiritual connections earlier Maya people shared with bees.
In our FB conversation, Rebecca shares her experiences with Mayan Melipona Bee Sanctuary Project recipients, the importance of these bees to the rainforests of Mexico and the Amazon, and her time at Chichen Itza at the Equinox. For more information, check out mayanmeliponabee.org
Oakland-based birthworker and bodyworker Tsadae Neway (pronounced, Know-Why), the daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, curates safe spaces for BIPOC and bring strength and vitality to families. Her mission is to help integrate transformational mind-body healing through bodywork, counseling and plant-based foods.
Dr. Rev. Queen Mother Imakhu discusses interfaith community, her Shenu Khametic ministries and connecting with her Rosicrucian roots.
Kemetic Scholar, Shenu High Priestess, Bantu Nganga, Metaphysician, Activist and Philosopher and author Reverend Queen Mother Imakhu discusses losing her mother to Covid-19, the afterlife, the ancestors, interfaith community, and her week-long class connecting to the Warrior Goddess within. We talk about her book, Shenu: The Khametic Water Wisdom Practice.
Her ministry is comprised of an online school, food distribution, Shenu Khametic Mystic Yoga andMeditation classes, Heb Djeser Sisterhood, and domestic violence counseling services.
Musician Dolly Valentine discusses her new album and talks astrology with host Pandora Peoples. Dolly discusses the synchronicity that led to her and her partner cutting their latest album in an old church in Scotland. She discusses living in the attic of a castle in Italy, discovering an amazing book far from home and her songwriting.
Dr. Chip Thomas, physician and artist, known at Jetsonorama, shares some of his record-breaking bike trek across Africa during apartheid, meeting Walter Sisulu, uranium mining on the Navajo Nation reservation and his Covid art project in collaboration with the UN .
Keith Stokes, Vice President with the historical consulting firm, 1696 Heritage Group is "dedicated to helping persons and institutions of color to increase their knowledge and access to the light of truth of their unique American heritage." Learn about how the skills, culture and creations of African and indigenous heritage people built Rhode Island, New England and our American culture.
"When I was a very young boy, my grandmother in Newport reminded me that black history is not slavery, in fact, black history is actually a history of the people and how we survived and thrived despite slavery. So, for me it's been a life-long pursuit of telling the story of people of color from their perspective in their experience, arriving in the Americas." - Keith Stokes
Primary Care Physician and photographer Dr. Chip Thomas discusses his mission behind his poster art, the Painted Desert Project, his exhibition, "Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado" and the impact Covid has had on the Navajo Nation.
Irish astrocartograher, astrologer and writer Martha Clarke shares how to use these the major transits of 2022 to help us express ourselves creatively and shares inspiring astrological insight we can utilize in the coming months ahead.
Excited to speak with Indian-Iranian immigrant, resin and crystal artist, Touch of Light reiki school owner, and Holy Fire Karuna reiki master Raa'na.
My guest Barbara Gail, ceremonialist, performer, hand-drummer, dancer, percussionist, children’s edu-tainer, SpiritSinger, & well-seasoned facilitator of group drum & dance experiences. On this podcast we talk about her teachers Gabrielle Roth and Layne Redmond, world travel and more.
Bees were kept for their medicine, honey, propolis, royal jelly, wax, even their venom. Ancient peoples understood the healing properties of various forms of bee medicine, and their reverence reached epic proportions because both bee goddess and priestesses are depicted in many countries and multiple continents. From and rituals and rites depicting dancing and music on artifacts and cave walls, to the history of music imitating the humming and buzzing of hives, to the mythology of the Oracle at Delphi, Max shares insight into matrifocal and Goddess-worshipping cultures of Europe, Anatolia, The Mediterranean, North Africa and India.
Astrologer, Podcaster and Sacred Sites Pilgrimage priestess RaMa Danielle Marie shares her latest pilgrimage to Egypt, memories of her Avalon Glastonbury pilgrimage, and her thoughts on some powerful Astrological transits from 2020 through 2022.
Dr. Chip Thomas, physician and artist, known at Jetsonorama, shares some of his record-breaking bike trek across Africa during apartheid, meeting Walter Sisulu, uranium mining on the Navajo Nation reservation and his Covid art project in collaboration with the UN .
Keith Stokes, Vice President with the historical consulting firm, 1696 Heritage Group is "dedicated to helping persons and institutions of color to increase their knowledge and access to the light of truth of their unique American heritage." Learn about how the skills, culture and creations of African and indigenous heritage people built Rhode Island, New England and our American culture.
"When I was a very young boy, my grandmother in Newport reminded me that black history is not slavery, in fact, black history is actually a history of the people and how we survived and thrived despite slavery. So, for me it's been a life-long pursuit of telling the story of people of color from their perspective in their experience, arriving in the Americas." - Keith Stokes
Dr. Chip Thomas arrived on the Navajo Nation Reservation in 1987, and has been photographing his patients, making poster art with his photography on buildings, and gathering muralists mentees and Indigenous youth as part of his Painted Desert Project to beautify abandoned strictures and road side stands, improving the local tourist industry.
Dr. Chip Thomas discusses Covid conditions, including lack of electricity and running water on the reservation, and also the rich resources of the land itself, all owned by corporations, many based oversees.
Dr. Chip discusses his exhibition, "Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado", at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center. The exhibit focused on the little known history of indigenous Americans enslaved after the emancipation of African Americans. He tells of how a town turned a museum that glorified Lieutenant Governor Lafayette Head and Indian Agent and US Army Officer and scalper Kit Carson, a Fort and the Indian Agency responsible for perpetuating
Bees were kept for their medicine, honey, propolis, royal jelly, wax, even their venom. Ancient peoples understood the healing properties of various forms of bee medicine, and their reverence reached epic proportions because both bee goddess and priestesses are depicted in many countries and multiple continents. From and rituals and rites depicting dancing and music on artifacts and cave walls, to the history of music imitating the humming and buzzing of hives, to the mythology of the Oracle at Delphi, Max shares insight into matrifocal and Goddess-worshipping cultures of Europe, Anatolia, The Mediterranean, North Africa and India.