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Death Bear Goes Visiting
From Thomas Dodson | Part of the Champs Not Chumps series | 05:08
Performance artist Nate Hill describes a harrowing break-up.
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Who or what is Death Bear?
According to performance artist Nate Hill, this imposing ursine visitor is just a humble servant of the dispirited and the lovelorn:
“We all have someone or something we would rather just forget. Things fall apart. Love hurts. Dreams die. But when you summon Death Bear to your door, you can rest assured that help has come . . . Death Bear will take things from you that trigger painful memories and stow them away in his cave where they will remain forever allowing you to move on with your life.”
In this CNC short, Death Bear recounts his most harrowing adventure into the sadness of others’ lives.
Drawing from Nightlife
From Thomas Dodson | Part of the Champs Not Chumps series | 08:03
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is not your typical drawing session. It’s held in a bar, for starters, and features models ranging from circus performers to drag queens.
It's an evening of bodily contortions, bad jokes, wardrobe malfunctions, and stories from the burlesque stage.
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Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is not your typical drawing session. It’s held in a bar, for starters, and features models ranging from circus performers to drag queens.
It's an evening of bodily contortions, bad jokes, wardrobe malfunctions, and stories from the burlesque stage.
City of Apples
From Thomas Dodson | 06:07
The Boston Tree Party celebrates the planting of the first tree in their urban orchard.
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Boston was once a city of apples. The first apple orchard in the American colonies was planted on Beacon Hill in 1623; a few years later the oldest variety of apple in the United States, the Roxbury Russet was born here.
Nearly four hundred years later, the Boston Tree Party is working to make Boston an apple town again by planting one hundred pairs of heirloom apple trees throughout the city. At their inaugural event, the Party planted a golden russet apple tree on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a strip of parks and public spaces in the middle of downtown Boston.
Introduction to Champs Not Chumps
From Thomas Dodson | Part of the Champs Not Chumps series | 02:07
Clips from Champs Not Chumps podcast 2010. Hear what you've been missing.
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Clips from the Champs Not Chumps (CNC) podcast during 2010. CNC is an audiopodcast featuring interviews with people who are pursuing creative, social, or intellectual projects. Tom Dodson and Alana Kumbier produce the show and take turns hosting. Hear what you've been missing.
A Place for the Genuine
From Thomas Dodson | Part of the Champs Not Chumps series | 29:11
Champs Not Chumps celebrates National Poetry Month by inviting some of our favorite people to read some of their favorite poems.
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Champs Not Chumps celebrates National Poetry Month by inviting some of our favorite people to read some of their favorite poems.
Child's Mind
From Thomas Dodson | Part of the Champs Not Chumps series | 31:10
Champs Not Chumps talks with psychotherapist Chris Willard about his book, Child’s Mind.
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CNC talks with psychotherapist Chris Willard about his book, Child’s Mind, to be published this summer by Parallax Press.
In the book, Chris discusses the benefits of teaching meditation to kids, adolescents, and young people. He not only presents scientific research, but also draws from contemplative traditions and uses storytelling to illustrate larger points.
He would also like you to know that Buddhists and other meditators are not doormats.
Chris Willard received his doctorate in psychology from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology and is currently pursuing postdoctoral work at Tufts University. He has been meditating for over ten years and has participated in retreats with Thich Nhat Hanh, Jack Kornfield, Noah Levine, Pema Chodron and others in Asia and the U.S.
He is part of a growing movement within psychotherapy that seeks to integrate meditation and mindfulness practices into therapy and to study their effects.