Caroline Contillo's Blog Posts

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2012: Time for Change as an Activist Tool

As the special screenings coordinator of Daniel Pinchbeck's film 2012: Time for Change, it's been really exciting for me to see the variety of events that people have created around their screenings of 2012: Time for Change.

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do you want to host a special screening of 2012: Time for Change?

The production company that helped create director João Amorim and author Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012: Time for Change is looking to set up special screenings of the film. If you are interested in having the film screen, please message me here or e-mail me at cmcontillo@gmail.com and we can talk about the available options.

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integrating the spiritual with the practical: an unfolding labyrinth

A few years ago, working as an intern for Reality Sandwich, I had the privilege of transcribing an essay written by Hakim Bey on the magical hold money has had over our species since its inception. Shortly afterward, the economy collapsed.

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a must read for evolvers: a paradise built in hell

I picked up Rebecca Solnit's most recent book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster because I'd really enjoyed her book Wanderlust which traced a history of walking and visited the leftist political implications of doing so. walking as resistance, who'd have thought!

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steampunk play in new york!

It's a play about the ruinous results of plundering the earth for non-renewable resources! But it's also so much more. And I get to play a singing, dancing, scantily-clad mummy queen. If you live in New York there's no reason to miss Cocktails at the Centre of the Earth!

Show Info:

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i'll be offline for a little while...

I'm going to be studying German in Kassel, Germany for a little over a month. My access to the internet, aside from at the school, is unknown, and I'll probably be deeply immersed in my studies for a bit.

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re-watching the x-files

This is kind of a light blog post on the topic of the X-Files. My girlfriend and I have been re-watching (or, for her, watching for the first time) the series from the beginning over the past several months. We're at the end of the 5th season. I think this show was pivotal in my personal exploration of the unknown, and also provided an enduring crush on one ms. gillian anderson.

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a folkloric approach to the machine elves

found this great article, "indexing the machine elves," on the Daily Grail. Folklore, of course, does not necessarily negate the experience of either UFO abduction scenarios or fairy encounters, but instead seeks to index and understand the nature of the belief. Well researched and v. interesting article!

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at the bottom of the trench: some poetry

Some recent poems.

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After traps tangle, slip, hold buoys.
The pale perched plumb bobs, heart throbs,
Black Adirondack china soap dishes in the ceiling.
Thought it walked upon faded
blue glass and Claire was a warehouse.
The barn with an irregular curving fracture
and only a small limestone gargoyle, smooth and sinister.

She’d always lived in a field like an endless house,

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Goddess Alchemy Project on tour

Consiousness expanding multimedia collective Goddess Alchemy Project are on tour, and will be featured this weekend at the Chicago Grand Prix, an event combining music, fashion, and visual art.

http://www.thechicagograndprix.com/

www.goddessalchemyproject.com/

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Experimental Soundscapes in Brooklyn

Experimental, drone, ambient, noise-- these are all words used to describe the unique sound pieces constructed by multimedia artist Sarah Lipstate, who performs under the name Noveller. Her first LP is being released on No Fun records, and my advertising for it serves a dual purpose, since I designed the LP art.

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Ayahuasca in National Geographic

A video and article in National Geographic Adventure magazine takes a look at the shamanic experience of ayahuasca.

Peru: Hell and Back

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A Particularly Striking Dream

A few years ago, I had a dream that was much different than any other I’ve had before or after. It was analogous to both alien abduction scenarios and reports of near death experiences at the same time. My life, since then, has changed.

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The Politics and Science of Climate Change

This semester at CUNY Hunter College, I’ve been taking a course on the science and politics of climate change. It’s an interdisciplinary course taught by two distinguished professors, one a chemist and one a political scientist.

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Films for Evolvers at Lincoln Center

the 2009 program for the New Directors/New Film series presented by the Museum of Modern art and Lincoln Center has a few films that might be of particular interest to those in the Evolver community.

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Recycling & Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s

If the notion of recycling doesn't call to mind bright, vibrant art, then you might want to check out the American Folk Art Museum's exhibit on Depression-Era quilts, which show just how

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Kenneth Anger @ P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center

A blood red, cavernous, and dimly lit room is probably the exact environment Kenneth Anger intended for the viewing of his films, which mix mystical occult imagery with pop culture references.

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Timing is Everything

. Paths of potentiality unravel into a non-simultaneously apprehended event woven cyclically of the tendrils of will, intertia, possibility, and actuality.

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By Way of an Introduction

Hello, fellow Evolvers. This blog entry will serve as a small introduction. My name is Caroline and I am nothing if not an undulating series of selves.

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Permatecture

When considering how to make a metropolis more sustainable, architecture and development plays a large part.

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"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders

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