“Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.” bell hooks Kill the Bill/ Stronger On Sundays/ Radical Joy /St Sigfrid's Way/ Green of Grasses Spring brought with it [...]
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https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/listen-to-women-first-mix/s-R7LrrE7dtKY At the time of writing this song, I was inspired by Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg and The Squad, (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar) American congresswomen who banded together with shared values on inclusivity and not being afraid of Donald Trump. At the time I also began reading bell hooks' book [...]
From darkness, let's reach for light, together - June Warulu https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/january-february-1/s-2uXLtoz9Q95 In this post: Chaplaincy, Isolation overwhelm meditation/Meditation with song for the Beyond Now Festival/ HS2 Protest/Tree Sharing/Sharing on Death/ 2x Interviews, 1 on working with people seeking Asylum, and 2 a sharing on mistakes of being a White Man trying to help as part [...]
< back to sharings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR65XxeGv_c What happens when we die? Do we die at all? Is birth the start of or lives or just a moment of transition? My personal feeling, informed largely by Buddhist and Quaker thought is that life is evolving and everything that makes any moment possible ; the sun, the trees, [...]
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< back to sharings https://youtu.be/ncykvH4XcfA https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/we-go-sailing-friendship/s-epifW Here are the voices of some of my friends recorded in the run up to the album release I asked them what friendship meant to them. This is song is simply about that, a poem written on a little bit of paper inside my journal, the the deck of [...]
https://soundcloud.com/joe_holtaway/oct-dec-2020/s-tctt69PabPz It's January 1st and with Bella our cat snoring at the end of my bed I felt to use this otherwise quiet moment to write the last and first post of mine for 2020/21. This Winter has felt intense in many ways, sometimes beyond a usual state of life unfolding - more something unseen [...]
Festival site closed at the end of January -Thank you for coming - if you click through to the Winter Warmer Festival Youtube Channel you'll find some of videos are still there to view. Love Rachel and Joe a3 festival posters available for £5gbp https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4o48wqRnuINfO4ImxEuuU8?si=mzKPgiYHSJuG5vnpeaQZDQ
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