https://www.shebanacoelho.com/blogcast/i-have-to-believe I have to believe by Shebana Coelhi I have to believe that the rain will rain and then stop that it will flail at windows down the trees and stop that the leaves will bend this way and that the green will become brown and the brown will become green I have to believe the earth will move us in…

This is Part Two of the Abyss, Days 9 to 13. This is up there as one of my favorite episodes. Because it sounds good, because it's the end of a good story. In my humble opinion. Recorded in a studio in Plaza de Pelicano by Ernesto Ojeda. Music by Carlos Merino, Ernesto Ojeda, Coral de los Reyes, Urtaa Gantulga, Gerry Carthy ABOUT THE ABYSS BEHIND M…

On this episode, the voice unadorned speaking of the abyss behind me, inspired by two powerful Spanish documentaries, Pico Reja and A Las Mujeres de España, and a quote from one of them by a writer named Rosa Montero who said: Women have always had to start from scratch because they've not had the testimony of women before them. And that's a terrib…

"For me success as a musician is to play what I hear and that has been my goal for my whole life....You sit down and you try to hear what's in the air and reproduce."~ Robby Parker. On this episode, a new segment of What Arises in Encounter featuring guest story-travelers and their creative journeys, In this third segment, an encounter with musicia…

On this podcast of Faraway is Close: episode 1 of On the Island, a storypoem spoken and written by Shebana Coelho. "On the Island, a boy called Riiaz stood in his rubber boots on the deck of the boat where he fished." A curious storypoem about recovering the old songs that I wrote some years ago. I've never been able to define it and I kept hearing…

This episode was recorded on May 4, the day after reading about the possibility of Roe v Wade being overturned, feeling despair and coming out on the other side of it, and wanting to share that journey. I don't know what the other side of despair is called but there is hope in it. It all begins, as many things do, with colonization - stories of enc…

This episode comes to you from Sevilla, Spain. It's an encounter with director Sylvie Nys about voice and song, and how over the past few years of the pandemic, she's been going to sing at an event in Sevilla called the Jam Tonic - here, she has discovered her voice, her way of singing. The first song she sang was BB King's "The Thrill is Gone." Sy…

In this episode (recorded October 18, 2021) Creativity beyond the page and the stage Arriving at the end of the world one October 12 a long time ago how to react when someone calls it “civilizing, not colonizing” discovering voice and song a guided meditation into sovereign space Support the Show.Kirjoittanut Shebana Coelho

In this episode (recorded January 6, 2022) An open letter to 2022 on nuance in art making, and shadow and the light the language of the senses the silence behind words and images and feelings messages in the night the enterprise of grant-making why we need art A sudden song in the Gobi desert in Mongolia Support the Show.…

A new recurring segment, What Arises in Encounter featuring guest story-travelers and their creative journeys. On this first segment, I visit with Laurie Bower in northern New Mexico. Laurie is a teacher and practitioner of Yoga, Improv and Creative Writing/Audiobook Narrator and Producer. We talk and sing about about landscape and story, discoveri…