EPISODE 46: Hopping The Pond with Aoife Spillane-Hinks
Release Date: 06/26/2020
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Bronwen Tate writes poems about sex after miscarriage, among other things. She is brilliant, she is my friend. Recorded from my bed in 2022, I don’t entirely remember what we talked about…definitely writing, higher education, friendship, and Barbara Johnson. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. or follow us on and . Show Notes website Barbara Johnson’s essay “” Subscribe to Bronwen Tate’s Read the feature on Bronwen in Jill Hess's published in Typo Mag (as read aloud in the episode by Bronwen) Bronwen curates...
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Filmmaker Leslie Tai’s How To Have an American Baby is streaming on PBS through March 10, 2024. The POV documentary is an intimate look at the shadow economy that caters to Chinese parents who travel to the US to give birth for citizenship. We discuss the film, the commodification of American motherhood, the tragedies of infant morbidity, and what birth sounds like (in any language). Trigger warning: this episode includes discussion of death and medical malpractice. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. or follow us on and . Show Notes Watch on PBS ...
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This episode is an enlightening conversation with basket weaver and green burial expert . Content warning: Mary weaves urns and coffins. We talk a lot about death and dying in this episode. Show Notes Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. or follow us on and .
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Erin M. Riley makes narrative, painterly weavings that give voice to complex stories of domestic abuse and intimacy. We talk trauma, healing, self-splintering, and weaving. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. or follow us on and . Show Notes
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NYC Crit Club is a misleading name for the collaborative learning program that Catherine Haggarty and Hilary Doyle founded five years ago. A) You can take classes with them from anywhere in the world B) it's super inclusive (affordable!)- less a club, more a gathering. I'm teaching there in the spring and Mira Fucking Schor is teaching there in the fall..two icons! Listen on for more info. Enrollment opens August 15th. PS: We don't usually do #ads because that would break from this pod's brand of time consuming and unprofitable that Amy has built over so many years. But...
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Didier and I talk Miami, Haiti, immigrant experiences, concepts of home, and painting (of course). Also: how to not sleep train a baby. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. or follow us on and . Show Notes
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At the beginning of the pandemic artist, critic, and co-editor of Precog magazine Gaby Collins-Fernandez gave a lecture to an empty room at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. It was about The Baroque and it was brilliant. That lecture, Georgia O’Keefe, Washington Heights, and more. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. or follow us on and . Show Notes
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Colombia born artist Este Puerta went to Catholic school in Boston, performed on the streets of Argentina, and unravels the term “Vermonter.” Wounds, wombs, and other wonders in this episode. Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. or follow us on and . Show Notes
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If I could listen to a podcast and sing The Wheels On the Bus at the same time, I would listen to this week’s re-release of my conversation with Jackie Cedar, painter and founder of Good Work Gallery. I recorded it with her during the pandemic, before Ben…the cognitive equivalent of a scene you vaguely remember from a movie you once saw….
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This week's re-release is with Cassandra Jenkins! She’s on tour right now, killing it. Somebody at a party once told me this was their favorite episode. Or was it that it was the only one they listened to? Not sure. Go for it.
info_outlineTheater Director Aoife Spillane-Hinks left The United States for Ireland after graduating from college. Since then, she has directed a range of productions in both places, founded Then This Theatre, and is currently an associate artist with PICT Classic Theater. Titillated by all things Irish after watching Normal People? This episode’s for you. And, Amy sends her best wishes from inside the black hole of early motherhood.
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