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Event Details Birth & Death Among Us with Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson Part 1/3 of an 3 part on-line conversation on successive Sundays starting January 15th R e g i s t r a t i o n link ($225 Regular Price). You've misheard your spouse. In most people's' worlds - even the morally and ethically single,...

10,000 Heroes Podcast: What do we owe our ancestors? A conversation with Stephen Jenkinson

Orphan Wisdom · 10,000 Heroes Podcast: What do we owe our ancestors, with Stephen Jenkinson Original Show Link Hey everybody. This was a powerful interview to record. Stephen Jenkinson has quite a presence and it took me from my default jovial nature to a real sense of centering and depth and real-ity. He invites (demands?)...

One Post, One Beam

The origin story of the Nights of Grief and Mystery is an unlikely dovetail joint of timing (the Deity's middle name), money (not ours) and self-unemployment (Hoskins and me). Within eighteen months of our meeting we were touring widely, and people were coming to the shows on several continents, we had a record, and...

Interview: Artem Zen – Elevating Consciousness: Stephen Jenkinson – Master Storyteller

Stephen Jenkinson is a former palliative care worker, cultural activist, and master storyteller. He is the author of countless books including “Reckoning”, “A Generation’s worth”, and the award-winning “Die Wise”. He is also the co-founder of the “Nights of Grief and Mystery” a musical storytelling ceremony along with Canadian singer/songwriter Gregory Hoskins. What started...

I Close My Eyes

I close my eyes when I sing. I always have. As far as I can tell, it’s not to exclude the watching crowd, or the band with me on stage. It’s to include the words. I get distracted easily, interpreting people’s postures and facial expressions, and a full-on conversation starts in my head while I’m trying to wring whatever I can...

Gig Mechanics

The arrow doesn’t know The target or the bow It’s born in air Dangerously unaware. It flies a faithful arc Through skies light and dark No promise it finds its’ mark But it flies anyway. From “Arrow” ©2022, Gregory Hoskins Let’s say you have a good notion of what you’re supposed to be doing with your life — some use the term “a...

Interview: Kimberly Ann Johnson: Grief, Heartbreak and Elderhood with Stephen Jenkinson

Celebrating the release of their new book Reckoning, Kimberly Ann Johnson and Stephen Jenkinson grapple with the key themes of their convergence: grief, heartbreak, culture work, elderhood, and the prevalent myth of individualism in this Me First era we find ourselves in. Three times as many people listened to their 2021 conversations (Episodes 135 and...

Starling

In the midst of the sorrow and combustion that has laid claim to the last years/months/weeks, a few of us gathered in a dank former factory on a cloudy afternoon. Over 5 hours, we played and sang, and recited, and a few friends we invited shot the proceedings on iPhones and committed the sounds...