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Slow motion is life’s best hack: a Personal Essay by Paris-based poet Haydée Touitou

Lucy Pullicino — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:26:26 +0000

Imagine living your life in slow motion—a life where detangling your hair takes close to an hour, where you stroll more than you walk, and the dishes you cook are delicious only if they’ve simmered for half a day. Welcome to a writer’s life. I am what they call a poet. I write, and most

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Super Super Markt: Storytelling Exhibition at the FF Apartment

Julia Merkelbach — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 11:45:00 +0000

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From the Arab Spring to Slow Factory, Céline Semaan on her advocacy journey and the pace of change-making

Emma Hammar — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:30:00 +0000

This story is part of Movement, a series of profiles, think pieces, and photo essays exploring creative projects that put motion and fluidity at the center. Céline, who has been living in a forest a little outside the city of New York since the COVID-19 pandemic, addresses life and the challenges facing the present with

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Three women at the intersection of sustainability, inclusion, and wellness

Emma Hammar — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 08:56:00 +0000

Sinikiwe Stephanie Dhliwayo Sinikiwe Stephanie Dhliwayo always says her full name “it grounds me in Zimbabwe, where I was born. I have American sensibilities (I came here when I was seven), however, my soul belongs to the [African] continent.” By embracing and understanding her position as a Black immigrant woman, Sinikiwe has developed an approach

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A Song For You: The power of many voices becoming one

Isabelle Moulding — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:11:17 +0000

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A year of change, creativity, and collaborations: 2022 in review

Amelie Varzi — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:18:50 +0000

Around this time last year, we asked ourselves how creativity could inspire new, more sustainable ways of living, how it could guide us through change, and help us rise to the challenges facing our communities and ecosystems. As we embarked on a journey to explore these questions, it became clear that finding answers wouldn’t be

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Kai Avent-deLeon’s Sanctuary opens up space to heal and create with intention

Emma Hammar — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:17:47 +0000

Exposed to many different cultures, Kai was born to an African American and a Grenadian American in the Northern part of Brooklyn, today’s Bedford-Stuyvesant—known as Bed-Stuy. Her parents reconnected at a community meeting for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, and their love started from there. Growing up, she was influenced by her family’s entrepreneurial spirit

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Culinary anthropologist Tanita de Ruijt’s seasonal recipe for salt-roasted pears with honey

Ellen McBride — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 11:20:48 +0000

Salt-roasted pears with honey Ingredients Method Thank you to Tanita de Ruijt for her salt-roasted pears with honey recipe. Tanita is a culinary anthropologist, chef, and writer. She is the founder of Jamu Kitchen in London and author of books ‘Super Roots‘ and ‘Tonic‘, both of which provide education and inspiration for natural remedies that

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Rebuilding the art ecosystem: Super Super Markt brings together different generations of art lovers

Emma Hammar — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:51:13 +0000

From recommending an exciting show in town to advising in first art purchases, both Julius Jacobi and Rory Kirk-Duncan have always been the “designated art person” in their circle of friends. Grandson of an art historian and having co-run an exhibition space in Cologne, Julius began laying the foundations of Super Super Markt—a Berlin-based membership

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Intimacy and desire through the eyes of three mind-opening creatives

Ellen McBride — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:27:28 +0000

The inclination of creatives to probe these themes through their work spans generations, cultures, and disciplines. Greek god of sexual desire Eros enjoys a steadfast, prominent role in many artworks and mythological tales, usually as a roguish child or a handsome youth. Songs of love and longing have been a mainstay for composers and musicians since ancient

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