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Lodestar with Tamzin and Finola

Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 11 episodes

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About this podcast

Sisters Finola Merivale (composer/producer) and Tamzin Merivale (writer/visual artist) have come together to explore one of the most fundamental relationships of our lives: our relationship with our creativity. Episodes feature in-depth interviews with writers, musicians, artists, filmmakers and more, revealing the highs and lows, the twists and unexpected triumphs of the creative process. We also launch weekly "creative challenges" to push us out of our comfort zones — and invite listeners to join the experiment. Ready to unlock and unblock your creative voice? Then tune in and ignite the spark! Thank you so much for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Unknown Host hosts Lodestar with Tamzin and Finola, a arts show with 11 episodes published.

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Poet Jason Allen-Paisant on Silence, Language and Releasing the Need for External Validation

May 28, 202650mEp. 10S1

Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican scholar, poet and writer. His work explores how Afro-diasporic artists and communities shape their futures through embodied philosophies, focusing on the intersections of poetry and phil

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Emma O'Halloran's Creativity Challenge: Embracing Boredom, Quiet-time and Ditching our Screens

May 14, 202625mEp. 9S1

In this Creativity Challenge episode, Tamzin and Finola discuss whether or not they embraced the idea of "boredom." In the last episode, GRAMMY-nominated composer Emma O'Halloran pulled a card from the Oblique Strategies

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GRAMMY-nominated composer Emma O'Halloran on Opera and Breathwork

Apr 29, 202650mEp. 8S1

Irish composer Emma O'Halloran was fresh off the plane from the GRAMMYs when we sat down with her to discuss her nomination for Best Opera Recording. She is the first woman composer from Ireland to be nominated for a GRA

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Payal Kapadia's Creativity Challenge: The Process of Making Video Letters

Apr 16, 202621mEp. 7S1

In this next Creativity Challenge episode, Tamzin and Finola sit down to discuss the task set for them by award-winning film-maker Payal Kapadia, called "Correspondence." For the challenge, the sisters created video lett

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Film-Maker Payal Kapadia on Creativity Games and Making Rain on a Mumbai Film Set

Apr 2, 202646mEp. 6S1

Our dream guest today is a writer and director making history. Payal Kapadia won the Cannes Grand Prix in 2024 for her sublime film, “All We Imagine As Light,” which was hailed by The Guardian as “A triumph.” She was the

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Creativity Challenge #2: Tamzin and Finola's Fun Fact-Finding Mission about Ireland

Mar 26, 202624mEp. 5S1

In this fun episode, Tamzin and Finola get together to chat about how they fared with journalist Hanna Liubakova's creativity challenge. Last week, Hanna Liubakova gave the Lodestar listeners the creativity challenge of

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Journalist Hanna Liubakova on Homelessness and Creating in Exile

Mar 19, 202639mEp. 4S1

Content Warning: In this episode, self-harm and torture are mentioned at approximately the 29:00 mark. “We in journalism say that whatever happens, you have to stay alive.” In this episode, we speak with the extraordinar

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Creativity Challenge #1: Tamzin and Finola Unlock Old Memories

Mar 12, 202630mEp. 3S1

Our amazing guest last week, pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown, gave hosts Tamzin and Finola Merivale their first Creativity Challenge: Set your timer for 5 minutes and write about memories you might be forgetting.

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Pianist-Composer Michael Stephen Brown on isolation, collaboration and the personalities of pianos

Mar 5, 202641mEp. 2S1

In this episode we sit down with Michael Stephen Brown, the New York‑based pianist‑composer hailed by The New York Times as “a leading figure in the renaissance of composer‑performers” and celebrated for his “fearless pe

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Lodestar with Tamzin and Finola

Feb 26, 202627mEp. 1S1

Why do we chase creative sparks that burn bright and hot one moment, only to flicker and die the next? In this debut episode of Lodestar , sisters Finola Merivale (composer / musician) and Tamzin Merivale ( writer/visual

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Trailer for Lodestar with Finola and Tamzin Merivale

Feb 5, 20262mS1

Lodestar is a new podcast hosted by two sisters: composer Finola Merivale and writer and artist Tamzin Merivale. In Lodestar, we explore our relationship with our creativity. We will be inviting writers, artist

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Lodestar with Tamzin and Finola has published 11 episodes.

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