Onions Talk: Change making through social engagement

How can we improve the environmental health of the Planet 🌍 and the societal wellbeing for billions of living beings, including humans? What is the Everything Manifesto? How is IAM going to do this over the next billion seconds? This episode is about the urgency of the climate crisis and what we can do moving forward. Thought 🔄 action | Internet ➡️Tools | Collective Critical Hope 🌀 Futures 🌀So...

What does it mean to be seen and heard? This episode is about human connection, image making, community building, activism and listening. Andrea Luka Zimmerman is an artist, filmmaker and cultural activist whose work unveils aspects of working class experience, and that of people living on the margins of society, who are seldom seen or discussed. Using imaginative hybridity and narrative re-framin...

enspiral.com / betterworktogether.co How can we work differently? How can we work horizontally without hierarchies? How can we support each other to create change? This episode is about Enspiral and the power of networks. Enspiral started with a vision to support more people to spend their lives working to solve the greatest challenges of our time. It is a network of groups and people, a DIY colle...

Jonathan Collie is a passionate social entrepreneur. He began his career as a doctor in the NHS before moving into health IT via an MBA at University of Edinburgh. In 2016, Jonathan co-founded The Age of No Retirement CIC to radically reshape society's thinking around Age and create new solutions that embraced our longer, healthier, more productive lives. He has also been leadi...

This episode is about being human, being present, being an artist. Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野 (they/them) is an opera singer, theatre creator and co-founder of Amplified Opera based in Canada. They are queer, gender non-binary and of Japanese and German roots. We talk about race, gender, identity but also about what it means to hold space, to be empathetic and to listen. It is a genuine conversation...

This episode is about being human, being present, being an artist. Teiya Kasahara 笠原 貞野 (they/them) is an opera singer, theatre creator and co-founder of Amplified Opera based in Canada. They are queer, gender non-binary and of Japanese and German roots. We talk about race, gender, identity but also about what it means to hold space, to be empathetic and to listen. It is a genuine conversation...

Evelina Šimkutė is an artist from Lithuania who started ‘Šilainiai Project’. In this episode, we discuss the challenges in starting community projects, financial sustainability and how transforming the way we value community services will lead to the creation of social jobs and the transition into a different economy. https://silainiaiproject.com “If you love this show, please leave us a review. G...

In this episode, I talk to Katja Juhola, founder of ISEAS (International Socially Engaged Art Symposium) about our fears, anxiety and worry about the climate crisis but also about hope and action. Her concerns over climate change back in the 90s led her on her journey learning organic farming and eventually setting up an organic farm with her husband and her work in ISEAS facilitating conversation...

Josh and Janita started a farm when COVID hit Canada a couple of months ago. He did photography and then was doing his PHD on philosophy of ecology and then bam, Evermeadow Farm started and they weren't just raising two kids but also chickens and lambs. This is more than a farm. We are talking about a financially and ecologically sustainable way of creating change. We are talking about direct impa...

JoJo is a founding member of Interwoven Productions CIC. Based in Exeter, United Kingdom, the company found a way to bring together elements of circular and gift economy with socially connected Creative Placemaking to better connect people to each other and their place. In this episode, JoJo talks about their Squilometre technique, how they engage with local communities, the way they achieve finan...