Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Cancer, Chemotherapy, Hospitals, Radiation, Religion
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Alcoholism, Belfast, Drinking, Foreigners, Immigration, Islam, Kebab Shops, Northern Ireland, Protestants, Religion, Shankhill Road, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Weekends
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Afghanistan, Ahmad Seyar Zia, Architecture, Art, BBC, Belfast, Cartoons, Environmentalism, Fenian Elements, Gerry Adams, Global Warming, Gordon Brown, Hearts and Minds, Ian Knox, Islam, Journalism, Laziness, Love, Mad Magazine, Northern Ireland, Orange Order, Pakistan, Philadelphia, Politics, Religion, Sammy Wilson, Seamus Kilters, Sky News, Socialism, Tae Kwan Do, Terry McLaughlin, The Irish News, Thomas Nast
Ahmed Seyar Zia
Ahmad Seyar Zia is, as he has proclaimed himself to be, the King of Love. He is a young Afghan man, studying abroad in India now. Born in Kabul, raised in different places around Afghanistan and Pakistan, he has developed his own life philosophies that, he finds, hold him apart from most other young people around him.
In today’s interview, Ahmad talks about growing up in the tumultuous past decades of Aghanistan, of the religious and philosophical system he’s developed, of taking up Tae Kwan Do after his brother lost his leg in a mine explosion, and why he’s intent on returning to his country.
Ian Knox is one of Northern Ireland’s premier political cartoonists. After studying for a career in architecture, he made his way into the world of cartooning and now contributes to a whole array of outlets – including The Irish News, Hearts & Minds, Sky News, and The Guardian. He talks about why he likes to annoy people, how he knows if his cartoons succeed in their attempts to shove his opinions down the audience’s throats, which politicians he most likes to draw, and how he survives his daily threat of a heart attack.
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Acting, Adventures, Age, Ambition, Architecture, Artists, Australia, Being Fine, Belfast, Car Parks, Catoan, Change, Characters, Children's Books, Cities, Comedy, Comic Books, Comic Strips, Communication, Conservativism, Construction Work, Credit Cards, Damien Dempsey, Damien Rice, Digital Technology, Directors, Documentaries, Dr Seuss, Duke Special, East Belfast, Education, Ethnic Minorities, Failure, Family, Feature Films, Film, Filmmakers, Gigs, Graphic Novels, Guitar, I Wanted to Talk to You Last Night, Identity, Immigration, Indie Films, Intimacy, Ireland, Irish-Americans, Jared Longlands, Jobs, Joyful Subjects, Julia Atkinson, Jumping Fish, Land, London, Magic Rats, Michael MacBroom, Mischief, Models, Money, Music, New York, Northern Ireland, Northern Irish Accent, Nutsy The Office Squirrel, Office Work, Paddy McKeown, Parties, Paul McParland, People Who Sit in Rooms and Talk, Philosophy, Photography, Poland, Polish Architects, Presents, Property Development, Protestants, QFT, Record Contracts, Religion, Rent, Risk-taking, Screenplays, Selling Out, Serious Literature, Sinead O'Connor, Singer Songwriters, Skeleton Boss, Skill, Space, Squirrels, Subcultures, The Empire, Thespians, Titanic Quarter, Travel, Urban Alienation, Vulgarity, Work, Writing, Young People
Jared Longlands (for more: smartturkey@hotmail.com)
Julia Atkinson
Paddy McKeown (for more: http://www.myspace.com/patrickmckeown)
Michael MacBroom
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Alternative Medicine, Aromatherapy, Balance, Beauty, Belfast, Body-Mind Connection, Breathing, Careers, Caroline Dunne, Chakras, Chicago, Choice, Consciousness, Cross Community Work, Crystals, Energy Centres, Energy Field, Energy System, Energy Work, Hair stylist, Hairdressing, Healing, Healing Breath, Healings, Holistic Practitioner, Hopi Ear Candling, Hypnosis, Identity, Intention, Japan, Journeys, Massage Therapy, meditation, Metaphysical Work, Natural High, NHS, North Belfast, Old Park Road, Paris, Personal Development, Psychoanalysis, Reflexology, Reiki, Relaxation, Religion, Silence, Skepticism, Sleep, Soul, Spine, Spirit, Spirituality, The Troubles, Therapeutic Body massage, Therapy, US, Zoning Out
Caroline's Crystals
Caroline Dunne talks from her home in North Belfast about the practice of Reiki. She has been practicing it for many years, having been trained in the US and then moved to Belfast to live & work here for the past 6 and a half years. Caroline had been a hair stylist before, but then switched into holistic therapies, with reiki being one of her favorite to practice. Reiki is unlike a traditional body massage — with less touching, more silence, and a focus on chakras and crystals. In today’s episode, she explains what reiki is exactly & who is attracted to it. Caroline also discusses what the reaction has been in North Belfast and the city at large to reiki, as well as what it can offer to people (including skeptics of it), and why she enjoys it so much.
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: American Tourists, Belfast, Black Taxi, Loyalism, Michael Leonard, Northern Ireland, Paramilitaries, Politics, Religion, Republicanism, The Troubles, Titanic, Tourism, Violence, West Belfast
a film by Michael Leonard
Filed under: Radio-Video | Tags: Actions, Alice in Wonderland, Ambition, Annoying People, Anonymity, Apocalypse, Applied Amnesia of Difference, Architecture, Art, Artists, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Attitude Change, Bands, BeBeyond, Belfast, Belfast Blitz, Belfast Courthouse, Berlin, Bland Centralism, Boats, Bottle tops, Braids, Bread, Brooklyn, Buff Club, Businessmen, Caff/Flick, Call Centre, Cameraman, Cameras, Car Parks, Catalyst Arts, Cathedral Quarter, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Catholics, City Centre, City Planning, Civil Service, Cliques, Clothing, Coffee, Collectives, Cologne, Compromise, Condescension, Conservativism, Conversation, Corporation, Counterweight, Craft, Cranes, Crap, Creative Unplanned Situations, Creativity, Crescent Arts Centre, Cutting-Edge, David Timlin, Dead Bumblebees, Death, Deformity, Diversity, Documentaries, Doll Corpses, Doll-making, Dolls, Editor, Elephants, Europa, Experiment, Festival of Fools, Filmmaking, Films, Freestyle, Germany, Hilton, Hollywood, Hotels, Housing Crisis, Indie Films, Insularity, Internet, Interventions, Irish Bread, Jonathan Lesbian Seagull, Keyboard, Knitting, Laganside Corporation, London, Making A Stand, Margaret Hagan, Mariachi, Masters Degrees, Mediocrity, Mishapen Eyes, Money, Monsters, Movies, Music, MySpace, Neil Brogan, Non-space, Normal People in a Complex Modern World, Northern Ireland, Obsession, Older Female Relatives, Ormeau Road Bakery, Outsiders, Performance Art, Play, Politics, Pretentiousness, Property Developers, Protestants, Public Art, Public Space, Puddles, Queen's University Belfast, Record Label, Recycling, Redevelopment, Religion, River Lagan, Royal Antedeluvian Order of the Buffalo, Sampler, Sand, Sandcastles, Scissors, Self-Sacrifice, Serious Points, Sewing, Sewing machines, Shopping, Sinead Breathnach-Cashell, Skyline, Soda Bread, Sound Man, Space, Starvation, Stuart Sloan, Success, Survival, Tea, The Best Kind of Music, The Kids, The News, The Past, The Troubles, Tourism, Umbrella, Up the Buff, Victoria Square, War, Wellingtons, Wheaten Bread, Work, Yarn, Zombies
Sinead Breathnach-Cashell … (for more: http://www.myspace.com/draw_in)
Neil Brogan … (for more: http://caff-flick.com)
Margaret Hagan … (for more: http://penelopebox.etsy.com)
David Timlin … (for more: http://www.creativematch.co.uk/portfolio/david_timlin/ or d_timlin@mac.com)
Stuart Sloan … (for more: http://www.youtube.com/user/sloanowski)
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Activism, Answers in Genesis, Atheists, Bible, Catholic Church, Cincinnati, Creationism, David Menton, Dinosaurs, Earth, Islam, Ken Ham, Kentucky, Museum, Politics, Religion, Science, USA
At the Creation Museum
The program visits Kentucky’s Creation Museum and interviews Dr David Menton, who lectures there. He belongs to Answers in Genesis, a Creationist group working to publicize and explain the ‘Young Earth’ view of the origin of the universe, which follows a strict interpretation of the Bible. Dr Menton discusses how he reconciles Creationism and science; how the museum was established in the face of local protests; how he deals with people who criticize and mock Creationists; and why he believes that dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth together.
Security
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Afterlife, Anthropology, Communism, Corpses, Death, Embalming, Funerals, Kremlin, Lenin, Notre Dame, Obituaries, Patrick Gaffney, Politics, Purgatory, Red Square, Religion, Russia, Russian Orthodox, Socialism, Soviet Union, Stalin
Fr. Gaffney in Russia
Fr. Patrick Gaffney, a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, talks about the changing cultures of death in Russia. Professor Gaffney explains how Russians have dealt with corpses, funerals, and the afterlife during the past two centuries. He tells of the journeys to heaven and hell that souls took during the Tsarist era, why the Soviet ‘red funerals’ failed, what happened to Lenin and Stalin’s corpses, and why there are so few obituaries or funeral homes in modern Russia.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Art, Belfast, BT, Call Centres, Chicken factory, County Down, Dance, Dizziness, Film, Hygiene, Immigration, Islam, Jared Longlands, Kemal Yilmaz, Konya, Law, Life plans, Litter, Menial labor, Northern Ireland, Pantomime, Portugese, Projectionisht, QFT, Religion, Students, Turkey, Waterfront, Whirling Dervish, Writing
Whirling Dervishes in action
This week the program features an interview with Kemal Yilmaz, a whirling dervish who recently travelled from Turkey to perform in Belfast. He’s been a dervish since his early teens, now he’s studying law and whirling in the meantime.
Then Jared Longlands talks about authoring anti-litter pantomimes, living the creative life, and surviving menial labor. To see some of Jared’s writings, drawings, comics, and other creations, contact him via email, at smartturkey@hotmail.com.
