Happy Rumbles

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Happy Rumbles

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Jan 19, 2022

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When you're at the Oakland Zoo at night you can see the glow of the city in the sky overhead. But down on the ground, in amongst the animals, it's an entirely different world.

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Jan 19, 2022

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A storytelling show that explores the night, the landscape of the unseen, and how thoughts, feelings and behaviors transform in the dark.

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Welcome to the Night: Nocturne will officially launch in the coming weeks. Here is a taste - hope you enjoy! by Nocturne
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A Luminous Bubble: The night bus rolls through the city like a small enclosed world. You never know who you’ll meet or what you’ll see. One night, Helen Zaltzman’s bus ride home from the movies took a dark turn. by Nocturne
26 min listen
What the Baker Saw: While working at night in the wilds of the Marin Headlands, baker Eduardo Morell witnesses the struggle between life and death. This struggle plays out all around us all the time, in ways both large and small. by Nocturne
22 min listen
Night Owls: Nighttime feels different to different people. Some are at their most energized and creative, while others are a little creeped out. Which side of the night are you on? by Nocturne
19 min listen
Best Feeling in the World: The night can be like the great frontier to a kid; a forbidden zone; the perfect place to explore autonomy and independence. At first it might be tempting for parents to just lay down the law. But they're up against a lot. by Nocturne
24 min listen
Letting Go: Sleep can serve as both refuge and captor. That’s the case for Monica, who’s blessed with the enviable ability to consistently sleep through the night, almost without fail, no matter what’s going on. During one of the most difficult times of her life, by Nocturne
26 min listen
The Vanishing Dark: The stars are disappearing. We're losing natural darkness. It's happened rapidly, but just slowly enough that it's hard to notice. But once your eyes open to the vanishing dark, you see it everywhere. Can we bring back the night sky? by Nocturne
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Alter Hours: Amanda Gefter is nocturnal. Really. Being an extreme night owl works for her in a lot of ways, especially since she makes her living as a writer. But her normal patterns are being shaken up by a new love in her life – the first day-dwelling guy she’s e... by Nocturne
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To a Distant Continent: Lynne Cox has spent her life swimming vast distances and pushing herself to the edges of possibility. Since the beginning, she has thrived on exploring uncharted territories, including the ocean at night. by Nocturne
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Triumph’s Ring: Things happen sometimes that don’t make sense, that we can’t explain. And would we really want to if we could? by Nocturne
24 min listen
Playground Rules: The blurred edges of the night can inspire excitement and transformation. The shroud of darkness emboldens some to reveal hidden aspects of their personality, sometimes with gleeful abandon. by Nocturne
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A Hole in the Night: Al Wilkinson drove a big rig through the night for 28 years, and it was a new experience each time. The runs offered beautiful scenery and time to think, but one dark rainy night this peaceful solitude fell out from under him. by Nocturne
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Into, Under, Through: The darkness of night offers rich opportunities to mine and explore our fears. When you choose to walk straight into the darkness you don’t know what you’ll find; both outside in the shadows, and deep inside yourself. by Nocturne
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Portal: What happens for a visually oriented person when the darkness of night takes away all of the reference points for making a memory? by Nocturne
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The Kindness of Others: The ethos of randonneuring emphasizes personal challenge and comraderie. Randonneurs share the goal of having everyone make it to the finish line. They take care of each other, because what they’re doing is kind of crazy and a little dangerous. by Nocturne
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3am: Have you every woken up in the wee hours of the night to find that you’re gripped by fears and anxieties that just didn’t exist in the light of day? - You can lie there awake in bed, in your comfortable home, maybe even next to a loved one, by Nocturne
21 min listen
Freedom and Control: The police play an important role in civil society. Their first mandate is to serve and protect - the ultimate goal being the maintenance of social order. Often this is accomplished with out undue assaults on individual liberty. by Nocturne
30 min listen
(This is Not) A Love Song: A man, a bird, and a hose. The sounds of night can delight or enrage, in equal parts; and lack of sleep can lead to desperate measures, in some. by Nocturne
24 min listen
Forward Momentum: Sometimes the best way out of the darkness is to walk through it. A woman transforms her life through motion. by Nocturne
18 min listen
Nocturne Bake Sale: Picture it – It’s dusk. We’re on a small neighborhood corner, with a faint moon starting to peak through branches of trees overhead. Kent and I are sitting behind a large battered folding table, and there’s a jar on top of it. by Nocturne
8 min listen
Moon Shadow: In September 2015 the full moon crossed into the Earth’s shadow and turned redish gold. It was the first blood moon, or total lunar eclipse of a super moon, in over 30 years, and it wouldn’t happen again for almost twenty more. by Nocturne
12 min listen
I Was Flying: Our dreams can allow us to experience things that are – impossible. Yeah, some dreams take us where we’d rather not go. But others invite us into a world filled with joy, and ease, and wonder. They connect us to a forgotten part of ourselves. by Nocturne
15 min listen
Stars in Unison: The moon, the stars and the tides are through-lines connecting us to the beginning of life on our planet. These lines can flicker in and out of awareness in the glare of modern culture. But there are ancient creatures living among us, by Nocturne
22 min listen
Proof of Passage: Picture it. You’re biking along a winding country road, 30 miles from the nearest town. The air is cool, there’s a slight wind, maybe a gentle mist. It’s three o’clock in the morning. You’ve been awake for 23 hours. by Nocturne
29 min listen
The Weight of the River: Our relationship to the darkness can shift over time. One of the main ways that this happens is by walking into the dark, both literally and metaphorically. By walking toward the thing that scares us the most, or causes the most pain, by Nocturne
28 min listen
The Vampire Beat: Jade Walker hates the daylight so much that most of her neighbors have rarely seen her. The sun is a personal affront to her. But she’s not disconnected from life. In fact, she sees it all. And because of her, so do we. by Nocturne
31 min listen
A Word of Hope: The night can be a desperate and lonely place. Fortunately, there’s a group of people who make it their mission to bring comfort and hope to people in the night. by Nocturne
28 min listen
Standing Over the Bed: Sometimes the world of our dreams can be unsettling; even terrifying. The fear can be like an echo or a shadow of true emotion; or it can be utterly real, even justified. At times the fearful experiences we have at night can introduce questions into th... by Nocturne
29 min listen
Look Up!: The stars are always there in the sky, even when we can’t see them. Why should we look? Why should we care? Paul Salazar cares, and he has compelling reasons why you should, too. by Nocturne
29 min listen
Quiet Transmission: Poetry and the night are some of the last remaining domains of “unknowing”; places where it’s acceptable to digest the world slowly and without conclusion, and where one can linger in, and traverse, experiences like solitude, impermanence, and wonder. by Nocturne
29 min listen

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