#4: Sylvie Sings the Blues
04/10/22 • 19 min
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."
Sylvie Nys is a director originally from Belgium. She has directed over thirty plays. She is the founder of Ñía Company, the first in Seville to create theater for babies. A translator, playwright, Sylvie is also an actress in her plays for children. She is a songwriter and author of a children's book (Michú y yo) and most recently, the co-author of a book of portraits and text called Sevilla Intima. (Mirada Global, March 2022).
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."
Sylvie Nys is a director originally from Belgium. She has directed over thirty plays. She is the founder of Ñía Company, the first in Seville to create theater for babies. A translator, playwright, Sylvie is also an actress in her plays for children. She is a songwriter and author of a children's book (Michú y yo) and most recently, the co-author of a book of portraits and text called Sevilla Intima. (Mirada Global, March 2022).
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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
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#5: The Other Side of Despair in Portugal
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 encounters in Portugal, with the shadow of India, the origins of tea time, and an invitation to reflect on how you have really changed and from that place of change, to choose a true response to injustice. And a poem in English and French about an unexpected encounter to find your own song by the sea.
24:36 min Intro to Poem & French version of poem read by Irina Sels
30:57 min Poem in English read by Shebana
The English and French text of the poem, along with photos & links for material referenced in this episode - all this on my website: https:/www.shebanacoelho.com/blogcast
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