Podcast by Ari Clibe
23 July 2026
The Season Three finale brings together two people whose practices appear very different.
Jessica Wan is an opera singer, a coach, and the creator of The Ampersand Manifesto. She has spent years exploring how the many parts of a human life can nourish one another rather than compete with one another.
Our second guest, writer Joel Beverly, has spent years listening in a different register. His journey eventually carried him around the world, but one of the deepest discoveries he shares has nothing to do with geography. It has to do with silence. Not silence as emptiness, but silence as readiness.
While Jessica listens through song, Joel listens through stillness.
One teaches us that a voice can become a gift.
The other reminds us that silence can become one.
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09 July 2026
Discover the benefits of participation in making creative culture within community. Listen to two conversations in one episode.--Cohegent's Sue Spolan on meeting Artificial Intelligence (AI) where you can grow as a person and artist followed by Nief Norf's Alex Dally on cultivating Experimental Music where you can expand your palette of listening.
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07 July 2026
Elysia Mann is a visual artist, printmaker, weaver, educator, and environmentalist with a distinct voice emerging from her sense of place in Knoxville and the New Creative South. In our most recent book review conversation with Ari, she shares her views on Immediacy, Anna Kornbluh’s most recent publication.
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30 April 2026
Born in Slovenia into a family devoted to crystal glass making, Maja Roy is now a Knoxville sommelier and wine travel guide who leads a creative ritual of wine appreciation and engagement. Through a transformational experience with biodynamic viticulture, she walks us through her studio kitchen and into her story.
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22 April 2026
Angela Hill is a choreographer, dancer, social worker, somatic therapist, and she also is the current president of Circle Modern Dance of Knoxville. In this conversation, Angela roots her leadership in the core values of community, inclusivity, and healing following a brief story of the ritual of life and death by Ira Orchin, a frequent contributor to the podcast.
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15 April 2026
Shakti Ma Michelle, creatress of Shakti Buffalo yoga, wants us to wake up to our creative nature. She relays her personal story as a yoga teacher today who spent many years as an artist in the theater of the absurd in New York City. While Larry Bilker shares his response to the interview with Cat Maguire on human-machine interactions, Noah Frere recaps his experience at the recent Big Ears Festival.
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