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Imagination State
Welcome to Imagination State — a space to think critically and curiously about how imagination shapes our lives, our systems, and our futures. I'm Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer, illustrator and creative education strategist. Here, I speak with artists, writers, thinkers, teachers, and activists on the frontlines of imagination: people who challenge the forces that shrink our inner worlds and offer us invitations to more enticing and just futures composed of many worldviews.
My great hope with this podcast is to invite you into the project of your own imagination, helping you see beyond what is and into what could be.
Imagination State
Goodbye Heart Gallery, hello Imagination State
Hello again, and a warm welcome to new listeners! This is the first episode of a new season and, in a way, the first chapter of an entirely new story. Old friends will remember The Heart Gallery; now, we’ve stepped out into the wider - and wilder? - landscape of the imagination.
In this short opening episode, I share the tale of a matrescence-sparked imagination awakening, the first beginning of a curriculum experiment drawn from works of those on the imagination frontlines, and a glimpse of what’s to come this season.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Krista Tippet, On Being pod, & Adrienne Maree Brown's On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life.
- Tani Cade Bambara on making revolutionary change irresistible - secondary source.
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.
- Ocean Vuong on Talk Easy pod.
- Murmuration example.
Ideas? Visions? Imaginaries? Email rebekaryvola@gmail.com.
This episode was edited by Angela Ohlfest, typographer from Simon Walker, music from Cosmo Sheldrake.