In this episode, Juliana talks with Larisa Schuckle, a humane educator and owner of vegan art gallery and cafe, Glitter Thicket. They discuss pleasure, play, children's compassion, and how beautiful vegan treats can be. Yum!
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Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals
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Larisa Schuckle is a humane educator and herbivore crafting with sugar and flowers. She is the owner of Glitter Thicket, a small cafe featuring local art and handmade products. They have an entirely vegan menu that includes grilled sandwiches, hotdogs, cookies, muffins, soups, mac and cheese, cupcakes, coffee and tea! Learn more at glitterthicket.com.
Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU.
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Pleasure of compassion with Larisa Schuckle