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Conversations with Alan Eisenson
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Alan talk with interesting locals about stuff.
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Stephan Blauweiss
May 23, 201900:50:37Tap to summarizeA native of Manhattan and Hudson Valley resident since 1999, Stephen Blauweiss is an independent filmmaker and graphic designer and historian. His over 25 years of experience in both mediums encompasses all aspects, from concept through final production, including photography. Blauweiss produces work on a wide variety of subjects, from art and education to social and environmental issues. With his deep knowledge of the history of arts, including painting, architecture and music, he also produces theatrical events and museum-quality exhibitions on local history, architecture, and the arts in addition to short films about regional artists, including the history of Kingston and Woodstock arts colony and its history.
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George Koury
May 15, 201900:46:00Tap to summarizeGeorge Koury is an international psychic medium and Angel messenger.George conducts mediumship demonstrations across the United States and England, in his early days He worked with Ringling Brothers Circus as a clown and was an instructor at Ringlings Clown school. He always realized the importance of laughter and a sense of humor.George is also a respected Tarot expert and has taught Tarot at Omega institute and around the world.
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Diana Lopez
May 6, 201900:38:27Tap to summarizeJust Alan have another wonderful conversation with Diana Lopez, she is the Ulster County Organizer for Nobody leaves Mid-Hudson (NLMH). Diana has been living in Kingston for about 23 years. Diana came to the US at the age of 3. NLMH organization is a immigrant-led grassroots organization. Our vision is to create leaders in our communities and Diana has a lot of impact.
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Karen Pignatono
Apr 19, 201900:39:18Tap to summarize“Art historian —-innkeeper—-firefighter——
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Vanessa Benton
Mar 13, 201901:02:28Tap to summarizeVanessa Benton, is a Singer, Dancer, Choreographer , and has a music program on RadioKingston.org called Miss V [Tuesday's from 10 p.m. until 12 a.m.] dedicated to love. She is the daughter of famous singer Brook Benton . Vanessa feels that human nature can not live without music, because music is medicine!
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Katrina Light
Mar 5, 201901:08:32Tap to summarizeKatrina Light is the Supervisor of Food and Agricultural Programs at Bard College and works to advance local food growing, sustainable purchasing and overall agricultural efforts. Before joining Bard's Office of Sustainability, she worked for Chartwells Dining Services as their Food Sustainability Director. Katrina was raised on a farm and has taught food and agriculture focused classes at the University of Vermont, the Putney School, and currently teaches Bard's Food Systems Practicum. Katrina is passionate about hands-on learning through farming, composting and culinary education. She encourages everyone to dig a little deeper into understanding the complex factors that go into growing food from the treatment of workers and animals, to land and energy use. She hopes more individuals and institutions will join the good food movement.
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Rudy Hunter
Mar 1, 201900:44:13Tap to summarizeRudy Hunter started life as a professional dancer & magician until a back injury curtailed his dancing career and prompted him to become a bodywork expert and teacher in an effort to learn all he could to help fix his own back. Then onto fixing the backs of friends and clients. He became a Touch for Health Instructor under the direct, personal supervision of Dr. John Thie, D.C., the highly-respected founder of this terrific bodywork modality. Rudy went on to train many lay people, massage therapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors and other bodyworkers. Living in the country with bodywork skills he soon found great skill working on all kinds of animals.
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Peter Samelson
Feb 26, 201901:12:34Tap to summarizePeter Samelson insists that he doesn’t do magic; he only helps people to see it. He is an illusionist/entertainer/philosopher, blending simplicity and sophistication as he provokes thought and inspires wonder. Christened “the soft-spoken conceptualist of sorcery” by the New York Times.
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Laurent Rejto
Feb 12, 201900:57:06Tap to summarizeLaurent Rejto is the director of the Hudson Valley Film Commission that helps productions secure local crew, cast, locations, vendors, post production facilities, and more! Since 2000, the film commission has supported and worked on over 500 productions, helping to create thousands of jobs and over $200 million in regional economic development.
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Linda Weintrab
Feb 12, 201901:02:51Tap to summarizeLinda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. She has earned her reputation by making the outposts of vanguard art accessible to broad audiences. Weintraub’s books exploring contemporary art and ecology include WHAT’s NEXT? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art (2018), To LIFE! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet” (2012), and Avant-Guardians (2007), a series of textlets that include EcoCentric Topics: Pioneering Themes for Eco-Art; Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art; EnvironMentalities: Twenty-two Approaches to Eco-Art. Weintraub applies environmental concerns to her personal life by managing a sustainable homestead where she practices permaculture. She is also the author of In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Artists and Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society. She served as the director of the Edith C. Blum Art Institute located on the Bard College campus where she toured many of the fifty exhibitions she curated, and published over twenty catalogues. Weintraub was the Henry Luce Professor of Emerging Arts at Oberlin College; and currently teaches in the Nomad9 MFA program at the University of Hartford.
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