Holding Unfolding

Prelude to the Holding Unfolding podcast, a series of interviews with facilitators about facilitating! This mini episode includes orientation content. Transcript online at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/04/10/holding-unfolding-podcast-intro-transcript/
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Cover art by Pharaoh Halley, on IG at @pharaohartwork
Learn more about Agile Learning Centers at nycagile.org and agilelearningcenters.org
Learn more about self-directed education at self-directed.org

HoldingUnfolding

Holding Unfolding, Intro

Episode 1 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is an interview with Mel Compo of the Agile Learning Center in New York City! Transcript at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/04/10/holding-unfolding-podcast-episode-1-with-mel-compo-transcript/
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Cover illustration by @pharaohartwork
Learn more about ALC-NYC and the "Agile Roots" Mel references at nycagile.org and agilelearningcenters.org, where I wrote a bunch of the web copy and they wrote a bunch of the "facilitation guide" from 2017.
Find them at magicalmelicorn.com, on IG at @the_melicorn, and on Pateron at https://www.patreon.com/melicorn

Holding Unfolding - episode 1 with Mel Compo

Episode 2 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is an interview with Ryan Shollenber of the Agile Learning Center in New York City! Transcript at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/holding-unfolding-episode-2-ryan-shollenberger/
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Learn more about some of the tools Ryan talks about at agilelearningcenters.org, and a lot more about the culture co-creating meeting he mentions in the article I edited with stories from a bunch of centers and published at https://www.cutter.com/offer/agile-approach-education.

Listen to "Live Like the World is Dying" podcast -- season 1, episode 23 (!?!) "Dibs on Fitness for Every Body," is the specific one we gush about -- at https://live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/8e82ffbbbe8b47ed/dibs-on-fitness-for-every-body

Cover illustration by @pharaohartwork <3

Holding Unfolding - episode 2 with Ryan Shollenberger

Episode 3 of Holding Unfolding is an interview with Anthony Galloway Jr. of Heartwood ALC in Atlanta, Georgia! Transcript at https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/holding-unfolding-episode-3-with-anthony-galloway-jr-transcript/
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Cover illustration by @pharaohartwork
Learn more about Heartwood at HeartwoodALC.org. 
Check out Anthony's art at TonyKryptonian.com and on IG at @tonykryptonian. 
Learn more about Flying Squads at flyingsquads.org.
Check out Akilah Richard's Raising Free People podcast and network, where Anthony is just starting a mini series (!!!) at raisingfreepeople.com/215/

Holding Unfolding - episode 3 with Anthony Galloway Jr.

Episode 4 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is an interview with Julia Cordero of Heartwood ALC in Atlanta, Georgia (US). Transcript at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/05/01/holding-unfolding-episode-4-with-julia-cordero-transcript/
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Cover illustration by https://www.instagram.com/pharaohartwork/
Music by https://www.bandlab.com/notdummroll
Learn more about Heartwood at https://www.heartwoodalc.org/
Check out the brilliance in this transcript from their Racial Equity and SDE event that we mention: https://www.self-directed.org/tp/racial-equity-summit/
Find the "Lit Charts" Julia references at https://www.litcharts.com/

Holding Unfolding - episode 4 with Julia Cordero

Episode 5 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is an interview with Amber Sawyer of Rivers and Roads ALC in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (US). Transcript at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/holding-unfolding-episode-5-with-amber-sawyer-transcript/
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Cover illustration by www.instagram.com/pharaohartwork/
Music by www.bandlab.com/notdummroll
Learn more about Rivers and Roads at http://riversandroadsok.com/ and on their Instagram at @riversandroadsok
They also had a cool reflective contribution to the ALC Network annual report for 2020, at https://app.gitbook.com/@nycagile/s/network2020report/~/drafts/-MOqnXiXD0umpq80-N3N/facilitators-say...#rivers-and-roads-oklahoma-city-oklahoma-usa
Follow up on the shout out of Akilah's work at https://raisingfreepeople.com/podcast/
We allude to how self-directed education is often cast as a new invention by some US white men lone geniuses; check out this piece about whose traditions we're actually building on with this practice: https://www.self-directed.org/tp/ours-first/
One resource for learning more about whose lands each ALC we're calling into these interviews from is on is https://native-land.ca/
Finally, those new to comparing education philosophies who want to learn more about those mentioned in this episode can look up John Dewey and the laboratory school as a start on the progressive education movement, Maria Montessori on Montessori schools, "The Hundred Languages of Children" on Reggio Emilia, Summerhill as an entry point for Democratic Free Schools, and the Alliance for Self-Directed Education for content on self-directed education...although there are many other starting points to explore each philosophy from.

Holding Unfolding - episode 5 with Amber Sawyer

Episode 6 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is brief process reflection and a story from a facilitator day with an ALC-NYC kid in early June of 2021. Transcript at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/holding-unfolding-episode-6-nyc-facilitation-story-transcript/
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Cover illustration by www.instagram.com/pharaohartwork/
Music by www.bandlab.com/notdummroll
Book shout-out is for "The Disordered Cosmos" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54455629-the-disordered-cosmos
Conference mentioned was hosted by https://www.self-directed.org/

Holding Unfolding - Ep 6, a New York City facilitation story

Until I Found You

Matter of Time

Emotions

A deft blend of African and Caribbean vibes that’s sure to get waistlines moving from Lagos to Kingston, the track combines Joeboy’s patois-inflected lyrics and soulful production from P.Priime  for an all-out bashment party banger.  

The Nigerian singer has played with island influences before, spicing his 2021 smash hit “Sip (Alcohol)” with Jamaican patois, but “Likkle Riddim” takes a more explicit trip to the dancehall, with Joeboy narrating an intimate dancefloor encounter like a true gyalist.

Likkle Riddim

We are joined by Nick Sever – author of the new book Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation – to discuss his excellent ethnographic research on the creation of algorithmic recommendation systems. Nick spent a long time getting to really know the people who make these systems and his book offers so much original, granular detail about the various practices, theories, and relationships that influence the engineers behind these algorithms. Nick’s book also contains extremely interesting and surprising applications of classic anthropological theory to contemporary algorithmic technology. 

••• Nick’s book – Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo183892298.html
••• Nick’s twitter – https://twitter.com/npseaver 

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Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)

240. Anthropology of Algorithms, Ethnography of Engineers, Theory of Traps (ft. Nick Seaver)

Various jams, assorted flavors.

https://www.instagram.com/djtaranyc

misc. with DJ Tara and DJ Auntie Spice @ The Lot Radio 03-26-2023

An artefact of spontaneous magic at jesscamp3. 

Sound at the Speed of Sunset aka richdecibels joined forces with Armed With Bow aka boondlllx for a late night set playing the cuddle room.

richdecibels has written about his project and what it means to slow down in attunement here 
https://open.substack.com/pub/richdecibels/p/sound-at-the-speed-of-sunset

01 - 00:00:00 - attunement
02 - 00:12:56 - breath
03 - 00:44:17 - soften
04 - 01:00:49 - swell
05 - 01:17: 40 - expand
06 - 01:24:54 - a/rise

Tones From The Cuddle Chamber

3121 Jazz Cuisine @ Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, USA 

Prince and The Revolution - Suga Mama beyoncé cover

Flawless

Flawless - background vocals (full)

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Holding Unfolding - Ep 6, a New York City facilitation story

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