"You can be Bold and gentle-hearted, you can be soft and a warrior. Power
in vulnerability”
The Fandangoe Kid

Host Amanda Blainey talks to The Fandangoe Kid a print artist who makes
large-scale narrative pieces for the public realm to create a platform
around complex subjects such as grief, trauma release, mental health, and
gender constructs. Much of her work is driven by navigating her own story
following the death of most of her family in New York in 2011. In this
episode we discuss:

Sitting with grief

The physical & emotional manifestation of grief

Post-traumatic growth

Dancing through grief

Processing grief through meditation and exercise

Embodying and making friends with grief

Grief as an individual & and non-linear experience

The uncertainty of change

Legacy and moving on from your ancestors

Finding ways to connect more than ever

Being a vulnerable warrior

Unlearning as we get older

The Fandangoe Kid has created work for a wide range of purposes, most
recently installing artwork on 14-metre pillar for University of the Arts
London's 120th year anniversary and a large-scale permanent piece of public
art at the Southbank Centre for the charity CALM. For World Mental Health
Day 2019, she installed an 80-metre floor narrative at City Hall for the
Mayor of London's charity Thrive, addressing the connection between
movement and mental health. Additionally, she screened her film Into Your
Light, directed with Tara Darby, at Tate Modern and on the Manhattan
Bridge, looking at dancing as a tool for survival following a great
personal loss.

Podcast references

www.fandangoekid.com

https://www.cruse.org.uk/

http://taradarby.com/film/into-your-light/

https://www.shedoesfilmz.com/

The Ted interview Elizabeth Gilbert

Books

Grief Works - Julia Samuel

The Body Keeps Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk