🏜️✨The Nexialist #0187caju | cashew | climate fix | great green wall | bioremediation | sever the blight | trajectories for future festivals
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save this to savour during breakfast on sunday (or right now). liniker is one of our jewels from brazil. she is also the first trans woman to be granted an immortal seat at the brazilian academy of culture. her new album, caju, is pure bliss; i got chills, i cried, i danced. she has the sweetest voice, stunning synesthetic lyrics and such a sophisticated jazzy sound mixing with other styles like pop, pagode, samba, disco and reggae. i mean, 7 minute tracks… it’s another one of these things i wish everyone understood portuguese (even if there’s a delicious track in english, so special). brainsparks: love to remember (tn#37), sonic healing (tn#11), fruity men (tn#182) 🥜cashew caju is how we spell cashew in portuguese. after moving to europe i was shocked about how many people did not know cashew nuts grow on trees and are attached to a juicy, very edible fruit. growing up in brazil cashew juice is a common thing to have at home, and you can even find it fresh in caipirinhas and other cocktails (yes, it’s amazing). so i’m using this space to share with the non-brazilians a bit more about this fruit. what i didn’t know is that cashew is from the same family as the poison ivy, and you need special equipment to take the nuts, or you burn yourself. this video shows the whole process of collecting the nuts, which explains why it’s expensive. brainsparks: pitanga aka surinam cherry (tn#109), mangoes as a propaganda tool (tn#106) 🌎climate |
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this interview mentioned by Patrick Tanguay is another reminder how we can use nature to solve some of our problems. “Toxicologist Danielle Stevenson cleans up carbon-based pollutants and heavy metals from contaminated sites using fungi and plants. She’s also training environmental justice and tribal communities in using these methods so they can remediate toxic sites on their own.” we need more people, initiatives and incentives like this.
brainsparks: fantastic fungi (tn#31), designing an economy like an ecologist (tn#112)
🦠sever the blight
i’ve been sleeping on hemlocke springs and now i’m in love. i love the zany aesthetic and vibes from her tracks. i also had to google what blight meant, and i guess it’s perfect for this edition:
blight - /blʌɪt/ - noun
-a plant disease, typically one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts.
-a thing that spoils or damages something.
brainspark: the most creative time ever (tn#183)
🧠trajectories for future festivals
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another link from Sentiers newsletter: “Lightning Rods and Serendipitous Discovery: Festivals are laboratories for new modes of social organization” by FutureEverything founder Drew Hemment. it reframed how i look at festivals, and changed its space in my mind from not only a merely fun experience, but also to a transformative tool.
This article delves into futures for festivals, exploring their potential to address societal challenges, foster resilience, and create sustainable futures through culture and creativity. It’s based on the insight that, as spaces where society reinvents itself, festivals are more than just events; they are dynamic laboratories of change, places where new forms of culture and citizenship are explored and rehearsed. Festival makers, you offer more than a stage or spotlight, you are agents of change.
i appreciate hemment’s effort to also find examples from the past. of course, it made me think of the carnaval and how they have developed in brazil to be such a huge open-air festival where we collectively expurge the bad energies.
I looked to the past to find ways to do the future. In the Feast of Fools—a popular festival across Europe from the 5th Century—social rules were turned upside down in a one-day social revolution. For the Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin medieval carnivals were powerfully creative events, when alternate worlds were made real. The next day the world goes back to the way it was before. But as a critical futures practice, this inversion, this rupture, is an opening to difference, a space and moment when other futures can be experienced and made.
brainspark: collective effervecence, gregarious (tn#11), scenius (tn#31), heterotopia (tn#90), carnaval of the invisible (tn#110), worldbuilding ft. design fiction (tn#135)
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