Podcasts.
Keep your eyes on this page for Festival podcasts that emerged from the 2020-2021 festival, plus links to contributors Normal? themed podcasts… just for us.
Normal? Conversations
Available here & on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, & Podchaser
EPISODE 4 - GUNK | Lucy Thane & Catherine Hoffman
Lucy Thane a dancer, budding Tamalpa life/art practitioner, filmmaker, event producer, teacher & performer…meets Catherine Hoffmann, an artist who creates one to one performances as well as staged pieces that explore the intersection between performance art, theatre, absurd humour & music - to have a chat about all things GUNK, AKA. GROWN-UP NO KIDS. An openly frank & powerful conversation about the paths we choose or are chosen for us in life, and all the stuff that comes with them.
Hosts: Ray Carter, Olivia Franklin
Guests: Lucy Thane, Catherine Hoffman
Music: ILĀ
EPISODE 3 - Neurology of Power: Wellness in a Pandemic | Suzanne Alleyne, Dr Joy Jones, Dr Jerome Lubbe, Tim Rittman
For episode 3, Normal? Conversations collaborates with cultural thinker, Suzanne Alleyne’s Neurology of Power project. The Wellness in a Pandemic conversation, is not only a talk under ‘Neurology of Power presents’, but was recorded live as part of the What Next? UK-wide discussions in January 2021. The speakers first got together to chat at a Normal? Festival event back in October 2020. Suzanne speaks with LA-based physician in family medicine Dr. Joy Jones, functional neurologist Dr. Jerome Lubbe from Atlanta, and, more locally, our festival neurologist & neuroscientist Tim Rittman. This is a conversation that talks about how your brain may be acting within these times we’re living through together - backed up by science & tips. So if you’ve been feeling a bit weird lately, take a listen, and know you’re not alone in this.
Hosts: Ray Carter, Olivia Franklin
Music: ILĀ
Guests:
Suzanne Alleyne: is a London-based cultural thinker, a title she coined to describe her work as a strategist, researcher, and conversational artist. Using these mediums, she works at the intersection of academic research, business, art and culture. With a team, she explores, interrogates, & studies the big questions currently facing contemporary society. In 2016 Suzanne was one of 20 individuals awarded a major Arts Council England grant, designed to increase the diversity of leadership in arts and culture.
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Dr.Joy Jones: is a physician, musician, anthropologist & activist. As a family medicine physician, she focuses on optimizing the physical health of disenfranchised communities in need. Her global mission, “to help people become healthier, happier & whole” lead her back to psychiatry training so that she can devise strategies, & protocols, to help communities-in-crises have improved access to integrated primary & mental health care.⠀
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Dr Jerome Lubbe: is referred to as the “Patient Doctor” because it was his own quest for neurological wellbeing that led him to specialise in complex, unresolved neurological cases. He specialises in childhood developmental disorders, vestibular rehabilitation, movement disorders, concussion & brain injury rehabilitation. His practice explores how functional neurology, neuroplasticity, & tools like the Enneagram can improve holistic wellbeing. ⠀
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Tim Rittman: is a Consultant Neurologist & a Neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge. He has a particular interest in rare types of dementia, & researches how to understand dementia using brain imaging & big data analysis. He has been Scientific Adviser to the Normal? festival since 2015. Tim is also an adviser to the World Young Leaders in Dementia Steering Group.
EPISODE 2 - Susanna & Liz Howard | Sam
In this episode, Ray & Olivia introduce Susanna Howard - the artistic director of Living Words, and co-creator of Normal? Festival - and her sister, Liz. Liz’s 9 year old son Sam has a brain tumour and had to have emergency life-saving surgery. The two talk about what 2020 has done to their family, and like for so many of us, what a tough year it’s been. This is a conversation about sisterhood, parenthood, resilience, & the magic of children - and is something that might just help you out today. Sam is alive & well, and on a long road to recovery.
Hosts: Ray Carter, Olivia Franklin
Guests: Susanna Howard, Liz Howard
Music: ILĀ
EPISODE 1- Loiz Holzman & Diane Dever | The Knowing VS Growing Brain
For Normal? Festival of the Brain, Olivia Franklin & Ray Carter - two young people from Folkestone - have set to work on starting this podcast series; a space in which you can listen to conversations usually between two people, about the festival themes in the context of their own experiences. The themes are - knowing vs growing, power & touch. “This is our first go and we are learning on the way. Despite lockdown, we have gone ahead with creating these episodes over Zoom; hence the few seconds of robot talk haha. Press the play button on the right to listen, put your headphones on, and enjoy!”
Hosts: Ray Carter, Olivia Franklin
Guests: Lois Holzman, Diane Dever
Music: ILĀ
CONTRIBUTORS PODCASTS
Dr Jerome Lubbe | The Thrive NeuroTheology Podcast
Introducing our first Normal? contributor podcast suggestion. The Thrive NeuroTheology Podcast - Where self-care meets neuroscience and practical application. With Dr. Jerome Lubbe and Carl Lubbe. In our Normal? programme, Dr. Jerome is part of Neurology of Power: People, Power & a Pandemic conversation on Saturday 10 Oct.
Bangers & Mash
Listen to Byron Vincent’s - a great friend & contributor to Normal? Festival - podcast venture Bangers and Mash. Tunes, chat, poetry and comedy.
ARTCRY
LISTEN to this fab podcast conversation with Suzanne Alleyne talking to Akram Khan for ARTCRY.
In it Suzanne touches on the NEUROLOGY OF POWER, which she discussed with our festival neurologist and neuroscientist Tim Rittman, LA based family physician Dr Joy Jones and Dr Jerome D. Lubbe of thriveneuro.com fame as part of our October Normal? events. It's a galvanising chat and practical conversation - listen below.
Social Therapeutics as Play, Performance & Becoming
Lois Holzman, PH.D
Social therapeutics as a playful, performatory, philosophical methodology for person and community development is the topic explored in this episode. Influenced by three intellectual traditions, it seeks to bring meaning to our relational processes in collaborative and appreciative ways to elevate human connection and bridge cultural divides.
Avni Trivedi
Following the Touch workshop on Saturday 14th Nov with Avni - listen to this podcast episode about the free, 7 day mini-course starting on Sunday 15th Nov 20 which you may want to join.
Time to Talk | Byron Vincent on Commodification, Exploitations & Boundaries in Mental Health
Spencer Mason spoke with Byron Vincent in the latest episode of The Time to Talk Podcast. A show which speaks with a multitude of creative minds to uncover what in our daily tribulations are we still not talking about, where the problems lay in talking alone, and what practices we can endeavour in to take power away from stigma and anxiety.
In this episode the conversation navigates a myriad of topics from addiction and its relationship with mental health and diagnoses, the commodification and fetishization of mental health, and the dangers of exploitation & personal boundaries of exploring these topics creatively.
East Side Institute | All Power to the Developing!
Our festival collaborators & friends, East Side Institute, welcome you to listen to their All Power to the Developing podcast.
“At the Institute, we work to advance social change efforts that reinitiate human and community development. We support, connect and partner with committed activists, scholars, artists, helpers and healers all over the world, such as those you’ll hear from in this series.
Way back in 2003, Institute co-founders — the late Fred Newman and Lois Holzman — published a paper with the title All Power to the Developing! This phrase captures how vital it is for all people - no matter their age, circumstance, status, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation - to grow, develop and transform emotionally, socially and intellectually if we are to have a shot at creating something positive out of the intense crises we are all experiencing.
Our hope is that this podcast series will show you that, far more than a slogan, “all power to the developing” is a loving activity — a pulsing heart in an all too cruel world.”