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Revisiting the Fairy Potato

Posted on 01/20/202201/20/2022 by Carla Seidl

I just posted on YouTube a slideshow version of an audio piece I produced in 2015 called “Fairy Food: The Little People’s Potato.” Sometimes when investigating a topic, I end up with a lack of clarity but an expanded sense of magic and possibility. That was certainly the case here. It seems that as well…

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Old Farmer’s Ball Documentary

Posted on 02/23/202102/23/2021 by Carla Seidl

I’ve finished a new documentary on the history of the Old Farmer’s Ball, our local folk dance organization that sponsors the Thursday night contra dance at Warren Wilson College. No, sadly there has been no social dancing recently due to COVID. These interviews are from 2019, and I’m glad to finally give them voice. Working…

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Practicing Awareness

Posted on 02/19/202002/19/2020 by Carla Seidl

The past few days I have been thinking back to a radio piece I produced in 2006, a documentary called “Practicing Awareness” that was, on the surface, about the Japanese bamboo flute known as the shakuhachi, but was really about learning how to be in the world. The lesson that has been coming back to…

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