Liza Zhurkovskaya, (Curator on the Go)  is a Toronto-based Art Curator and Art Advisor. Liza works at the Arta Gallery in the Distillery District and she owns her own online gallery, Kefiart Gallery. She is also an agent and a coach for artists. Her goal is to welcome everyone to the art world and help people collect, buy, and commission art, stress-free.We recorded our discussion during the first lockdown of 2020. Liza is bringing her passion and vision to the art world with a strong focus on community engagement. She clearly has a rare sensitivity to human emotions and inner life and I love how she finds ways to activate these invisible facets when curating exhibitions.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)

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Episode 16 - Liza Zhurkovskaya - Art, Empathy and Community

Sperry Andrews is an artist but he is foremost a scientist and founder/director of the Human Connection Institute. He and a team of international researchers have found irrefutable evidence that the whole of humanity, every man, woman, and child, is linked both psychologically and physiologically by our innate capacity for being - collectively - conscious. In collaboration with neuroscientists and film producers, he is working on creating easily accessible experiences of oneness to give a unity experience to anyone willing to participate.Sperry has given presentations on human interconnectedness and his institute&apos;s projects at the United Nations, World Business Academy, Duke University, University of Connecticut, U.C. Berkeley, and the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach. His articles have appeared in Cosmos and History, Kosmos Journal, Frontier Perspectives, Alternative Therapies and Exceptional Human Experience.Our discussion will take you &apos;in the field&apos; as Sperry transmits a state of unity consciousness so well through sharing his experiences and visions for global awakening. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)

Episode 15 - Sperry Andrews - Unity Consciousness

Sperry Andrews is an artist but he is foremost a scientist and founder/director of the Human Connection Institute. He and a team of international researchers have found irrefutable evidence that the whole of humanity, every man, woman, and child, is linked both psychologically and physiologically by our innate capacity for being - collectively - conscious. In collaboration with neuroscientists and film producers, he is working on creating easily accessible experiences of oneness to give a unity experience to anyone willing to participate.Sperry has given presentations on human interconnectedness and his institute's projects at the United Nations, World Business Academy, Duke University, University of Connecticut, U.C. Berkeley, and the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach. His articles have appeared in Cosmos and History, Kosmos Journal, Frontier Perspectives, Alternative Therapies and Exceptional Human Experience.Our discussion will take you 'in the field' as Sperry transmits a state of unity consciousness so well through sharing his experiences and visions for global awakening. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)

Today I am really happy to interview Halea Isabelle Kala from Berlin. She is an artist, a curator, a director and a cultural producer. She recently put out a documentary called Transmodernity which is so timely with the global event of our times. Her movie is really a piece of art in itself and it has been presented in numerous film festivals around the world. I invite you now to listen to our discussion where we talk about art, intersecting fields, how we can overcome individual and collective trauma, about our connection to Mother Earth and especially about the skill of elasticity in our capacity to adapt to the new emerging grounds that are before us.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)

Episode 14 - Halea Isabelle Kala - The New Now

Syama is well-known in France for her work with mandalas. She is a full-time artist and nomad and teaches her knowledge along her travels in European francophone countries like France, Belgium and Switzerland. Syama is a beautiful example of what a truly accomplished woman is. I admire the way she has put her artistic gifts forward to the service of our world. As a nomad and an artist, her life may sound to you that she experiences exceptional freedom, but wait don&apos;t romanticize too fast. You will see in this interview that her free lifestyle comes with a strong dose of courage and wisdom. The reality is that she is a single mother homeschooling and wandering in a camping car while making a living from her art!Support the show: www.patreon.com/gaiaorionSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)

Episode 13 - Wisdom from a Nomad Artist - Syama Bataillard

Syama is well-known in France for her work with mandalas. She is a full-time artist and nomad and teaches her knowledge along her travels in European francophone countries like France, Belgium and Switzerland. Syama is a beautiful example of what a truly accomplished woman is. I admire the way she has put her artistic gifts forward to the service of our world. As a nomad and an artist, her life may sound to you that she experiences exceptional freedom, but wait don't romanticize too fast. You will see in this interview that her free lifestyle comes with a strong dose of courage and wisdom. The reality is that she is a single mother homeschooling and wandering in a camping car while making a living from her art!Support the show: www.patreon.com/gaiaorionSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)

Christi Belcourt is a Michif (Métis) visual artist with a deep respect for Mother Earth and the traditions and the knowledge of her people. In addition to her paintings, she is also known as a community-based artist, environmentalist and advocate for the lands, waters and Indigenous peoples. Her meticulous painted renditions of beaded designs can be found in many museum&apos;s permanent collections. She has also won numerous art awards and accolades.Each painting is an explosion of life transmitting the interconnectedness of all-natural elements. Christi has an uncompromising voice regarding Indigenous rights, protection of the environment and its biodiversity, all the while honouring the spiritual aspects of her culture.In this conversation, we talk about the revitalization of Indigenous culture with its powerful art and cultural renaissance all over North America. We talk about how we can all connect to Mother Earth no matter what our background is. Christi also shares about all the work done by the Onaman Collective here in Canada to help conserve Indigenous culture and traditions.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)

Episode 12 - A Voice in Turtle Island - Christi Belcourt

Christi Belcourt is a Michif (Métis) visual artist with a deep respect for Mother Earth and the traditions and the knowledge of her people. In addition to her paintings, she is also known as a community-based artist, environmentalist and advocate for the lands, waters and Indigenous peoples. Her meticulous painted renditions of beaded designs can be found in many museum's permanent collections. She has also won numerous art awards and accolades.Each painting is an explosion of life transmitting the interconnectedness of all-natural elements. Christi has an uncompromising voice regarding Indigenous rights, protection of the environment and its biodiversity, all the while honouring the spiritual aspects of her culture.In this conversation, we talk about the revitalization of Indigenous culture with its powerful art and cultural renaissance all over North America. We talk about how we can all connect to Mother Earth no matter what our background is. Christi also shares about all the work done by the Onaman Collective here in Canada to help conserve Indigenous culture and traditions.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)

Christi Belcourt is a Michif (Métis) visual artist with a deep respect for Mother Earth and the traditions and the knowledge of her people. In addition to her paintings she is also known as a community based artist, environmentalist and advocate for the lands, waters and Indigenous peoples. Her meticulous painted renditions of beaded designs can be found in many museum's permanent collections. She has also won numerous art awards and accolades.Each painting is an explosion of life transmitting the interconnectedness of all natural elements. Christi has an uncompromising voice regarding Indigenous rights, protection of the environment and its biodiversity, all the while honouring the spiritual aspects of her culture.In this conversation we talk about the revitalization of Indigenous culture with its powerful art and cultural renaissance all over North America. We talk about how we can all connect to Mother Earth no matter what our background is. Christi also shares about all the work done by the Onaman Collective here in Canada to help conserve Indigenous culture and traditions.Support the show

Episode 12 - The Voice of Turtle Island - Christi Belcourt

Bruce Rimell finds himself in no artistic category (between outsider, visionary, anthropologist, queer, sacred and graffiti art!) and defines himself with the Greek word &apos;Aporia&apos; which means &apos;don&apos;t know mind&apos;. He is an internationally-exhibited visual artist, poet and independent researcher.His research specializes in the cognitive science of religion, the origins of symbolic culture in the African Middle Palaeolithic and the cognitive foundations of artistic experience.Bruce was born and raised in the county of Wiltshire, it&apos;s a landscape full of megalithic magic and he explains how this landscape helped him retained a sense of animism and wonder that we all experience as children.For as long as he can remember he has suffered with migraines that have a visionary nature. I find Bruce interesting because he shares these experiences with a very scientific neurological approach and he often says that this is what drives him to explore the origins of both humanity and the universe. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/gaiaorion)

Episode 11 - Cognition, the Sacred and the Art of Not Knowing - Bruce Rimell

Bruce Rimell finds himself in no artistic category (between outsider, visionary, anthropologist, queer, sacred and graffiti art!) and defines himself with the Greek word 'Aporia' which means 'don't know mind'. He is an internationally-exhibited visual artist, poet and independent researcher.His research specializes in the cognitive science of religion, the origins of symbolic culture in the African Middle Palaeolithic and the cognitive foundations of artistic experience.Bruce was born and raised in the county of Wiltshire, it's a landscape full of megalithic magic and he explains how this landscape helped him retained a sense of animism and wonder that we all experience as children.For as long as he can remember he has suffered with migraines that have a visionary nature. I find Bruce interesting because he shares these experiences with a very scientific neurological approach and he often says that this is what drives him to explore the origins of both humanity and the universe. Support the show

I am Gaia Orion, I am an artist and this podcast discusses art for a peaceful and flourishing world. In the past writers, musicians, artists and philosophers congregated in cafés in Paris, New York and London to meet and discuss new ideas. Together they created culture.Today we don't limit our circles to local cafés. A relatively new technology makes our world much bigger and allows us to connect with people who specifically understand us from all over the world. I am hoping to connect further with my artistic tribe by creating this new podcast.This podcast is for anyone interested in art as well as personal and societal change. I will be inviting artists, art professionals, curators, museum staff and directors, producers, art writers and art collectors to talk about how art can transform us deeply.I'd like to conduct interviews with people that care about the state of our world today and that see that art can be a catalyst for constructive change. Art can transmit the state and vision of our next step in 'evolution' and it has to be an uplifting one!Check out the new podcast website! www.gaiasartpodcast.com/My main website www.GaiaOrion.comAnd my online shop www.GaiaOrion.com/shop

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