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This is YOUR META's first show of the New Year! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Our first guests of the new year are co-founders of Hudson Valley Bee Habitat, Elena Sniezek and Emily Puthoff! The Bee Ladies! (Are they ladies who are made of bees??? Or bees who are made of ladies??? Tune in to find out!) We've got community happenings, as well as opportunities to participate, volunteer, and to SPEAK OUT AND BE HEARD. Plus . . . all the music, mindful, and META you've come to crave!
Forget the BIRDS, this week's show is STRICTLY FOR THE BEES!
--Your Black Meta!
TheBlackMetaWKNY@Gmail.com
Support Our Community AND BE INFORMED
Community organizations to connect, to listen, and to be heard:
- https://citizenactionny.org/about
- https://citizenactionny.org/events/venues/7-grand-st-kingston-ny-12401-usa
- https://kingstontenantsunion.org/
- https://kingstontenantsunion.org/events/
- https://kingstontenantsunion.org/news/
- https://riseupkingston.org/
- https://riseupkingston.org/blog
HASTAGS WORTH HASHING-OUT
- #FreeNewYork
- #DemandJustice
Upcoming Local Events & Demonstrations
DON'T SCROOGE OUR SCHOOLS
WHAT: A small feast for the holidays
WHERE: Everett Hodge Center, 15-21 Franklin Street
WHEN: Friday January 10th, 5:45pm – 8:00pmWHY: Your children are NOT the problem. Underfunded schools and the school-to-prison pipeline are!
WHO: YOU!
- Tell your story
- Hip-Hop and spoken word welcome!
- Transportation available (call below)
- Childcare available
- Fight for just education
For more info contact Fanon: 845.750.0295 | Ffrazier@citizenactionny.org
#DemandJustice Committee Meeting
WHEN: Wednesday, January 15th
WHERE: 7 Grand Street, 6:00pm
WHO: YOU!
Open to the public.
For more info contact Fanon: 845.750.0295 | Ffrazier@citizenactionny.org
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Your Meta will keep you updated regarding local events and demonstrations as we hear about them!
THE INTERVIEW:
saving the bees through the arts
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| From left to right: beetle, FreedomWalker, Elena, and Emily: THE BEE LADIES of Hudson Valley Bee Habitat (Hvbeehabitat.org)! Photo by Nate Brogan. |
Elena Sniezek & Emily Puthoff | Co-Founders of Hudson Valley Bee Habitat (along with Co-Founder, Jennifer Woodin) | Hvbeehabitat.org | Hvbeehabitat@gmail.com
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| Image from Hvbeehabitat.org. |
The Hudson Valley Bee Habitat was founded in 2016 when three artists: Emily Puthoff, Elena Sniezek, and Jennifer Woodin, asked this very question. Our mission is to utilize our expertise as artists, designers, and mindful educators to pollinate public engagement with bees, the environment, and each other in order to help both humans and bees thrive.
THE BEE LADIES
Image from Hvbeehabitat.org.
Emily Puthoff is a sculptor, bee habitat designer, art educator for over twenty years, and beekeeper. When she took up beekeeping 'by accident' a few years ago, she rediscovered the beauty and wonder of the natural world and she committed to leveraging her creativity to save the bees. Emily is a 2016-2017 National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow, 2017-2018 Good Work Institute Fellow and a 2017-2018 Sustainability Faculty Fellow at SUNY New Paltz, where she heads the Sculpture Program. www.hvbeehabitat.org/about
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Elena Sniezek is an artist, educator, and beekeeper. She has over twenty years experience as a teaching artist (Pre-K to College) in Chicago, Arizona, and New York. As a resident of Kingston since 2005, Elena is excited to collaborate with educators, youth and community members with projects involving art, environmental education, and bees. www.hvbeehabitat.org/about
Jennifer Woodin is an artist, bee habitat designer, art educator, bee-keeper, and meditation teacher. She also a mindfulness meditation teacher, with a global community aspiring to awaken kindness, goodness, and wisdom within society. Jennifer’s creative practice works to reconnect us to our natural world, each other and ourselves, through socially-engaged art practices and contemplative social innovations, helping to foster a vibrant society. www.hvbeehabitat.org/about
UPCOMING and ONGOING:
BEE-HABS
BEE-HABS
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Kingston Bee-Line | The Kingston Bee-Line is public art for people and pollinators! The Bee-Line is an emerging network of pollinator habitat sculptures and gardens along the Kingston Greenline, a developing urban rail trail providing the Kingston community with a walkable + bikeable connection from the Waterfront to Uptown. The Bee-Line habitat sculptures and gardens are co-created with you, our community. We invite you to learn more + get involved with the Bee-Line Pollinator Programming: creative events and workshops to engage in conversations about pollinators and hands-on, collaborative making of habitats and pollinator gardens. DONATE Support the Kingston Bee-Line by volunteering your time or sponsoring a Pollinator Habitat. www.hvbeehabitat.org/beeline
Bee Habitat Arbor Entrance for the Native American Seed Sanctuary | Endangered seeds are being grown and protected at the Native American Seed Sanctuary through a collaboration of Akwesasne Leaders, Seedshed, Indigenous Seed Keepers Network and the Hudson Valley Farm Hub. Hudson Valley Bee Habitat was invited to create an arbor that is a threshold into the Three Sisters Garden at the Native American Seed Sanctuary. Akwesasne Leader, Mary Arquette, inspired the arbor's bee habitat design, which takes the form of the Hiawatha Belt. The Hiawatha Belt represents the five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy living peacefully together. Solitary bees nest in the locally harvested phragmites stems, Onondaga sunflower stalks, and logs in the Hiawatha Belt form. We see the diversity of bees, such as leaf-cutter, mason, and sweat bees, thriving together in the arbor as beautifully congruous with the symbolism of the Hiawatha Belt. As one passes beneath the Hiawatha Belt bee habitats into the Sanctuary, we hope one enjoys a moment of pause and reflection upon the land and our interconnection with the soil, air, water, sunlight, species, and community that sustains us. www.hvbeehabitat.org/beehabs
Solitary Bee Habitats for your home. We are designing bee habitats for solitary bees to have a safe, clean, dry place to lay their eggs and for humans to have a beautiful, sustainable, and easy way to help bees thrive in their yards and gardens. Our habitat designs are inspired by a different type of pollinator plant blossoms. After field testing of our prototypes, we plan to offer the habitats for sale to support our educational mission and pollinator programming. Please sign-up on our mailing list to get the lastest updates. What is a solitary bee? Most people know that honeybees live in large colonies and are ruled by a queen. Honeybees only make up 10% of the bee population, while solitary bees, such a mason, leafcutter, carpenter, and sweat bees make up the other 90%. Solitary bees, unlike honeybees and bumblebees, do not have a queen nor live in large colonies. The female lays her eggs in individual tubes in reeds, wood, or the ground. They are non-territorial and docile as they do not have a large colony or queen to protect. Solitary bees are all around us, too busy about their work to bother with humans, which makes them ideal bees for your backyard and public spaces. www.hvbeehabitat.org/beehabs
Large Scale Bee Habitats | We collaborate with communities to co-create bee habitat sculptures. We have co-created sculptures that support pollinators with habitat and forage with the Nomad9 MFA program , the City of Kingston’s Beautifying and Restoring Kingston Teen crew at the Y Farm Project. www.hvbeehabitat.org/beehabs
A FEW FAST BEE-FACTS
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- Bees are responsible for pollinating 1 in every 3 bites of the food that we eat. Food like apples, oranges, mangoes, blueberries, chocolate, coffee, avocados, and tomatoes all require bee pollination. Food, such as barley and alfalfa, which the animals eat that produce meat and dairy is also pollinated by bees.
- Bees contribute over $20 billion to the value of the U.S crop production, and in the past decade there has been a 300% worldwide increase in the production of crops that require bee pollination.
- 90% of the bee population are solitary, which means that they live solitary lives, nest individually and each female bee is her own queen. Solitary bees include mason, leaf cutter, carpenter, digger, and sweat bees. Social bees (like honeybees and bumblebees) live in colonies with a queen. All bees are wonderful pollinators.
www.hvbeehabitat.org/bees
RECOMMENDATIONS
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| Image from Hvbeehabitat.org. |
"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.”
-quote attributed to Albert Einstein and Rudolph Steiner
Multimedia
- "The Keepers." BMany, Youtube. October 24, 2018. [10:42] A short documentary I made for my Seminar in Digital Filmmaking class at SUNY New Paltz. I was a camera operator, co-editor, audio engineer, and colorist on the project (See credits for the rest of the cast / crew). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SffxrglRw6I
Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites
Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is an abnormal phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear, leaving behind a queen, plenty of food, and a few nurse bees to care for the remaining immature bees. While such disappearances have occurred sporadically throughout the history of apiculture, and have been known by various names (including disappearing disease, spring dwindle, May disease, autumn collapse, and fall dwindle disease), the syndrome was renamed colony collapse disorder in late 2006 in conjunction with a drastic rise in reports of disappearances of western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in North America. Beekeepers in most European countries have observed a similar phenomenon since 1998, especially in Southern and Western Europe; the Northern Ireland Assembly received reports of a decline greater than 50%. The phenomenon became more global when it affected some Asian and African countries as well.
Colony collapse disorder causes significant economic losses because many agricultural crops worldwide depend on pollination by western honey bees. According to the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the total value of global crops pollinated by honey bees was estimated at nearly USD$200 billion in 2005. In the United States, shortages of bees have increased the cost to farmers renting them for pollination services by up to 20%.
In the six years leading up to 2013, more than 10 million bee colonies across the world were lost, often to CCD, nearly twice the normal rate of loss. In comparison, according to FAO data, the world's beehive stock rose from around 50 million in 1961 to around 83 million in 2014, averaging about 1.3% annual growth. Average annual growth has accelerated to 1.9% since 2009. Honey-producing colonies in the United States increased 4% to 2.8 million in 2018.
Several possible causes for CCD have been proposed, but no single proposal has gained widespread acceptance among the scientific community. Suggested causes include pesticides; infections with various pathogens, especially those transmitted by Varroa and Acarapis mites; malnutrition; genetic factors; immunodeficiencies; loss of habitat; changing beekeeping practices; or a combination of factors. A large amount of speculation has surrounded the contributions of the neonicotinoid family of pesticides to CCD, but many collapsing apiaries show no trace of neonicotinoids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
- http://www.hvbeehabitat.org/bees
- http://www.hvbeehabitat.org/savethebees
- https://www.bumblebeewatch.org/
- https://crownbees.com/
- https://nativebeeology.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acarapis_woodi
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beekeeping
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_destruction
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunodeficiency
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mite
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticides
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_bee
SOCIAL MEDIA
- https://www.instagram.com/hvbees/
FreedomWalker's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links
COFFEE & GREEN TEA COMBO
- Welcome - good new network.org - Dec. 26 2019, "New Spray Gel Could Bring an End to Frostbite" - Jan. 3, 2020.
- "Uber Passenger Goes out of his way to pay off Driver's College Debt," by McKinley Corbley
THE SPRUCE
- Thespruce.com
K-TOWN NEWS
- Almanac Weekly
MINDFUL MUSEUM
- Sate.com- "The Birth of Race-Based Slavery"
beetle's Sources, Citations, Credits, and Links
Sources for MoTM: "A Bunch of Things I Like . . . Plus Three Things I Don’t"
Multimedia
Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites
Sources for BXF: "One More Thing I like (Plus ONE THING I Can’t STAND)"
Multimedia
Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites
First Hour Music and Playlists:
Second Hour Music and Playlists:
Multimedia
- "Godzilla KOTM - Godzilla (feat. Serj Tankian) - Bear McCreary (Official Video)." WaterTower Music, Youtube. April 25, 2019. [3:10] Godzilla (feat. Serj Tankian) - Bear McCreary From the film: Godzilla: King of the Monsters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOO8Um_jmLI
- [Referenced, but not aired in segment] "Godzilla." Blue Oyster Cult, Youtube. September 23, 2015. [3:41] Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment Godzilla · Blue Oyster Cult Spectres ℗ 1977 Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myqSETD5_bs
Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(2014_film)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(song)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla:_King_of_the_Monsters_(2019_film)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_vs._Kong
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Watanabe
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ghidorah
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong:_Skull_Island
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechagodzilla
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonsterVerse
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodan
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toho
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5034838/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3741700/?ref_=tt_sims_tt
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/?ref_=tt_sims_tt
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3731562/?ref_=tt_sims_tt
- https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blueoystercult/godzilla.html
- https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bear-McCreary-feat-Serj-Tankian/Godzilla
Multimedia
- "Quantic - Time Is The Enemy." Boniverful, Youtube. July 20, 2011. [3:42] 'Time Is The Enemy' by Quantic. From the 2001 album The 5th Exotic on the Tru Thoughts label. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUeo5sagkA
- "clipping. - The Deep." Sub Pop, Youtube. August 18, 2017. [5:28] "The Deep" created by clipping. for This American Life episode #623 “We Are In The Future” This American Life producer, Neil Drumming, has recently become fascinated with Afrofuturism. It's more than sci-fi. It’s a way of looking at black culture that’s fantastic, creative, and oddly hopeful—which feels especially urgent during a time without a lot of optimism. http://tal.fm/623. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT1ujfuXFVo
Articles, Bibliographies, Resources & Websites
- https://genius.com/Quantic-time-is-the-enemy-lyrics :-)
- https://genius.com/Clipping-the-deep-lyrics
Music Playlists
First Hour Music and Playlists:
- Morcheeba: "Gain the World"
- The First Edition: "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition Was In)"
- Bear McCreary, feat. Serj Tankian: "Godzilla"
- Cowboy Junkies: "F*ck I Hate the Cold"
Second Hour Music and Playlists:
- Del Rey "Swan Song"
- Quantic: "Time Is the Enemy"
- CLIPPNG.: "The Deep"
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