For half a century STEFAN FREEDMAN has developed his talents as a multi instrumentalist musician, songwriter, circle dance leader, champion of world music, trauma therapist, author, and poet. He travels the globe giving joyful workshops in dance and music, some of which focus on trauma release and wellbeing. In-person and online movement and voice courses remain Stefan's greatest ‘mission’, and his most significant book Dance Wise is published in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

In CREAGEIVITY 31 Stefan reads some lines from Dance Wise as well as sharing a wry poem written by a cat, and a love poem from his soon to be published new collection of poetry. In addition we get to hear excerpts from 'Sto Perigiali’, a traditional Greek song; 'Slow Down', an original by Stefan, and 'Carousel', a trad tune played on the accordion. This is used for a dance choreographed by Stefan that’s now popular in Belgium, Canada, Chile, Brazil, Bulgaria, Holland, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Slovenia, the UK and USA.

His band Dark Flame also plays at gigs and celebrations around the UK.

Stefan's interest in wellbeing and trauma release grew out of many years of work with the charity Inside Out which promotes arts for mental and emotional wellbeing.

For an inspiring ride with a true Creative Magpie, tune in to CREAGEIVITY 31 with STEFAN FREEDMAN!

Stefan's Dance Wise website: https://www.dancewise.net/

Bursting with info, songs and video content!

If you feel you're too old to be creative, or too creative to be old, then Creageivity is the podcast for you!

HALIMAH COLINGWOOD, aka Halimah the Dreamah, has been making music all her life, even claiming that when she was born, instead of the usual scream on entrance into the world, she sang a high C, shattering all the windows in the delivery room.

Her stories of a life in music are many and varied and feature the duo Blackburn and Snow from mid-sixties San Francisco, at a time when she went by the stagename of Sherry Snow. Many of her Bay Area acquaintances went on to become internationally famous artistes (although Halimah somehow only told us of her being in the room with Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey and Bob Dylan after the podcast was done!)

With two singles and an album’s worth of songs completed – eventually released in 1999 as Something Good for Your Head by Blackburn and Snow – Halimah turned away from the music business after a profound inner prompting which began a spiritual journey that took her to Indonesia, and a Shepherd’s cottage in Scotland. This was not before she’d also become a vocalist with the highly regarded Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, a period she speaks of with affection.

After some time in Europe, Halimah and family moved back to the USA where she is now settled in Arcata, California. Along the way she returned to college to study philosophy, which she wryly describes as ‘something very practical’, and co-founded the Redwood Interfaith Gospel Choir – whose track He Made a Difference is our intro and outro piece. She also DJ-ed on the local radio station for many years with her Ethnic Excursions show.

Her motto, borrowed from the I Ching, is Perseverance Furthers. We couldn’t agree more!

Blackburn and Snow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYAKa9ZSpPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Cw0KxRLwY&list=RDH2Cw0KxRLwY&start_radio=1

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks (with the song Halimah sings on our podcast):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTz7nABgIH4&list=OLAK5uy_lMEgr_MuA_OdLKR7oWkHJ2B0Z-KATGbkY&index=1

If you feel you're too old to be creative, or too creative to be old, then Creageivity is the podcast for you!

​Our special guest in this episode is the PRIME NUMBER 29 which gives us the chance to mention the 29 other guests we've had on our previous podcasts. And what guests! OK, on this occasion we probably overuse 'amazing' and 'incredible', but then these descriptions are actually justified.

Plus 29 the number is also pretty amazing and incredible: tune in for some very interesting 29-related facts and figures which you can astonish friends and family with.

Add to this the​ fact that the intro and outro songs are created with the help (well about 92% of help) from a very smart Artificial Intelligence, and we think you'll be intrigued and entertained by Creag​eivity 29.

PS: Our AI singer couldn't quite get her tonsils around the name of every guest, but she did reaonably well, don't you think?

If you feel you're too old to be creative, or too creative to be old, then Creageivity is the podcast for you!