THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCAST

Sol-stice Sun stands still. The longest day. The shortest night. here’s an Earth Sessions mix from me inspired by dancing at sunrise and sunsets or as Bucky Fuller put it… Sun-sight and sun-eclipse As the sun isn’t moving But we of course are on Spaceship Earth. Gratitude to all the artists and producers for creating these tracks. Full tracklist on https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast

A new Earth Sessions mix to mark the light returning, the sun rising higher, blossoms popping, life coming back, possibility… A mix of vinyl and digital spanning 30 years - deep, housey, organic, trippy, vibey, love and lively. I hope it makes you move wherever you are. With gratitude to the wonderful artists, producers and labels for these creations Tracklisting via thespaceship.earth https://www...

A live mix to honour this darker time of the year, and the darker times unfolding on Spaceship Earth. Recorded in my kitchen on a friday night. I wanted to start slow and ambient, to acknowldge the slower liminal space of winter and gradually pick up the pace. This was a mix of vinyl and digital - spanning 30 years until recent and everything in between. From ambient electronica, early rave inspir...

Last two hours of the night includes a suprise one more tune at the end of the night...

How to learn to dance with complexity, contradiction, grief, beauty, uncertainty, horror and surprise without abandoning the dance-floor Dancing feels like an interesting invitation to me for these times It invites us into the body and out of our stuck heads. It invites us into presence and relationship with life in the moment, To be present with our bodies, with each other, with other life forms...

A mix to honour this moment in the Earth's cycle. Tunes spanning 35 years, a few that were mainstays in my box of vinyl back in the late 90's. In the company of some more recent beauties. Big love to the amazing artists, producers and creators of these sonic gifts. Full tracklist on site. This is a 120-122 bpm groove. For honouring the Sun, love, life, grief and joy of being alive on Spaceship Ear...

One from the archives! Twenty three years ago - a vinyl mix in the shed at Space. FM in East London Deep tech-house vibes

Introducing the Annual 2024 - and the official Episode 100 of the Spaceship Earth Podcast. A reflection of the year gone by with a nod to what it might be showing us about the future that is unfolding. A curation of the highlights of 2024 on the podcast, it features clips, reflections, insights and learnings from many of the episodes. It’s not exhaustive, not every guest is featured but I’ve inclu...

Into the Dark - a deep, slow, wintery, sonic meander, through ambient electronic melancholy into deep house. Sounds and tracks that I’m finding connection and curiosity with in these darker, colder times of breakdown, reflection, exploration and dreaming towards the light. Tracklist on podcast website I hope you enjoy it. If you walk with it, run with it, sit with it, drive with it, cook with it....

It’s been a year since the last Earth Sessions mix. I finally got it together to record this. Mixed live in my garden studio while humanity continues to implode. Violence, suffering and despair spilling over on this Earth. These last few weeks have been overwhelming. But I remember today the power of music and dancing as one way to move the body and mind through dark times Heart vibes, to connect...

This episode has been created to honour ‘The Remix’ - our recent 3 month experiential (un)learning adventure for story rebels hosted by becoming crew. The Remix set out to explore the power of cultural stories in these times, and not in a shiny, universal, human-centered way. It was an invitation into a deep, creative, relational inquiry  - exploring the cultural stories we live by while at the sa...

Episode 75 is a reflective ramble in the woods from me your podcast host Dan Burgess. There are no guests (apart from wind, trees, a buzzard and a pigeon) The episode marks an end to this season of recordings and also to the format of conversations this year. And brings a pause in episodes until early Autumn. For me this episode was a chance to honour some shifts, reflect deeply, and to try and sp...

This episode contains two short audio essays from Christina Williams, a writer exploring the pathways that can connect us more deeply with the more-than-human world. She is passionate about complexity, systems change, and how narrative shifts can drive movements for change. Christina took part in The Remix 2023, our Stories for Life themed learning journey from Becoming Crew. She is based in Amste...

This episode is a basecamp crew conversation between Dan and fellow Becoming Crew guides Evva Semenowicz and Mark Sears. It speaks to this moment in time, where planetary boundaries are being crossed, Earth system tipping points are approaching, climate and ecological breakdown is being experienced all over western societies and yet the culture of denial, divisiveness and inaction is still dominan...

How might we make a habit of moving into uncomfortable spaces to begin cultivating new ways of being? What stories would the living world share if they had a seat at the table? What does a business in service to planet Earth look like? How might business unite behind forms of activism that can benefit the whole of society ? Matt Hocking is an extraordinary force of nature, a generous and humble be...

This offering comes from Becoming Crew Guide Mark Sears. It is an ancient myth from the Inuit tradition. It emerged from the back of the cave following our first session of our learning adventure The Remix and a provocation from Bayo Akomolafe. He invited us to consider the possibility of shapeshifting and the idea that it is only through strange encounters beyond our comprehension that new storie...

What if the health of the wild waters of the Earth are a reflection of human health? What if restoring our relationship with the wild waters on this earth was a way to restore and heal our own health ? How might moving into a more intentional relationship with water within us and around us help us through these times of fear, grief and complexity? How might cultivating practices and rituals with w...

Welcome to this first Stories for Life minisode from The SpaceShip Earth Podcast. The intention with these mini episodes is to serve up short form sonic offerings - poems, stories, readings, meditations and musical gifts. These offerings will either be riffing on 'love stories', helping us relate to ourselves, to each other and to this more than human world that we inhabit in more entangled, myste...

Love Ssega is a musician, songwriter and performing artist . He is weaving a beautifully diverse path collaborating across different art forms, whilst also speaking up for complex environmental, social and educational issues. The original frontman-songwriter of Grammy-winning Clean Bandit, he is currently Artist In Residence for Royal Festival Hall’s Philharmonia Orchestra. London-born, his music...

Why do rivers need guardians ? What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ? Can nature have legal rights? Paul Powlesland is a civil barrister, environmental activist and guardian of the River Roding in East London. Paul is shaking up what it means to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis. In this bonus episode following on from the previous long f...

Why do rivers need guardians ? What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ? Can nature have legal rights? Paul Powlesland is a civil barrister, environmental activist and guardian of the River Roding in East London. Over the last few years single handedly bringing life back to  this river and growing a community of crew re-connecting and regenerating the river and...

Why do rivers need guardians ? What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ? Can nature have legal rights? An Ocean Mic episode in collaboration with Finisterre dropping very soon, exciting on many fronts. #thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew #oceanmic

Bayo is an author, writer, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual - whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with, and queering fond formulations and configurations of hope. Bayo invites us to see the crises of our times with a post activist, post humanist lens, revealing cracks and bringing much-needed troub...

This beautiful prayer was born during the conversation between V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Bayo Akomolafe - The Promise and Limits of Restitution: Returning to 'Congo' from the Democracy & Belonging Forum. In the spirit of experimentation Bayo invited V to co-create a prayer for this moment, for what this moment calls us to attend to. A prayer for becoming other, for becoming more than human. We w...

Episode 64 with Dougald Hine. Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project. Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast. Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son. And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation. In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations t...