SELECT KEYNOTES & PODCASTS
Imagination Infrastructure Summit
Alixa García was the curator for Imagination Infrastructure, 2024, a convening by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. She gathered some of the most brilliant, heart-centered scholars, activists, organizers, and creatives who are bringing forth worlds unseen. Imagination Infrastructure 2024 brought to the center the spirit of creativity through ancient wisdom, cutting-edge perspectives, and new visions in service of life for emerging worlds.
In this keynote Alixa García speaks to the role of imagination in times of collapse. Below is a link to all of the speakers featured at the summit.
The Art of Transformation
The episode includes an intricate exploration of grief as a ceremony and the potential for art to help heal even in the darkest places.
Sarah talks with multidisciplinary artist Alixa Garcia about Alixa's transformative experiences with art, her powerful personal stories of loss, and her impassioned work in social and climate justice. Alixa reflects on the role of imagination during times of collapse and the importance of creativity, awareness, and community in fostering resilience and healing.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
On Extinction and Enchantment
Alixa Garcia speaks to the role of enchantment in times of collapse.
Sounds of SAND is a podcast from Science and Nonduality which contemplates and reveres the beauty, complexity, pain, and great mystery that weaves the infinite cycles of existence.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Expanding Possibilities of Love: Queer Ecology & Reimagining Belonging
Alixa García’s keynote challenges the way we think about the natural world and our place within it. By queering ecology we unbox our linear thinking. By challenging the way we think about love, relationship and belonging in the human and more-than-human world we unearth wisdoms urgently needed in these times.
Pandemic Is a Prism
Alixa García’s keynote speaks to the incredible opportunity the the Pandemic is offering us to transition from a path towards extinction into post capitalist realities.
The Pandemic is a Prism series features philosophers, poets, artists, and scientists, inviting a mythopoetic bridge between divided worldviews with speakers such as Pat McCabe, Stephen Jenkinson, Charles Eisenstine, Tiokasin Ghosthorse and many more. You can experience the entire series right now.
Tending The Roots
Alixa García’s keynote speaks to the role of imagination in times of collapse.
We are, in many ways, at a crossroads of sorts between the “no longer” and the “not yet” worlds to come (Arturo Escobar). We’re being asked to disrupt and agitate the foundations upon which harmful orientations and structures have been built. What comes next is an invitation into uncertainty, mystery, emergence and co-creation. Here, we center the portals of possibility that open up when we meet these borderland spaces centering our bodies, creativity and imagination.
Trailblazery: Hedge School
Alixa García’s keynote speaks to the crucial urgency of re-wilding our Earth and imaginations as we move into the heart of the 6th Mass Extinction, if we are to keep participating in the miracle.
The Hedge School is a virtual home school rooted in Ireland that invites people around the world on a collective learning experience to find our shared humanity and resource our possibility as global citizens.
Being Human is an Awakening
Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman of Climbing PoeTree combine impactful poetry and sharp beatboxing in a spoken word performance of "Being Human." They're joined by the captivating vocals and instrumental melodies of Claudia Cuentas and Tonya Abernathy for "Awakening.”