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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Art as activism with Brenna Quinlan

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Permaculture illustrator Brenna Quilan speaks to Brooke about her art and activism, what living in an intentional community is like and solutions based permaculture

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast.

0:03.4

My name is Brooke McCallory.

0:04.8

And my name is Ben McCallory.

0:07.0

Welcome to episode five of season nine.

0:11.6

Thank you very much.

0:12.4

In this episode, like a lot of series in recent times, you speak to a permaculturalist.

0:21.7

Yeah, I mean, I think permaculture has by, almost by default,

0:27.0

ended up one of the threads throughout the whole slow home podcast

0:30.8

because there is just so many points at which there's overlap,

0:36.1

you know, and I think that there's often a lot to be learnt

0:40.2

about slow living from permaculture. And I just find myself drawn to it and, you know,

0:46.4

have over the past few years started to understand a little more about what it actually is,

0:52.3

which is not just organic gardening, you know, it's a whole

0:55.2

philosophy. And I'm really excited to talk in today's episode to Brenna Quinlan, who if you are at

1:03.0

all even engaged with the permaculture scene, I'm sure you will have seen her work. She is an

1:09.3

illustrator and her illustrations are in

1:13.1

Milkwood's book. They're all over Instagram. She's worked with a whole heap of other authors and

1:18.3

permaculturalists and creators. And just as a standalone creator herself is brilliant. So I was really

1:24.0

excited to be able to talk to her. Based in Western Australia? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So her and her partner and we talk about this in the episode so I don really excited to be able to talk to her. Based in Western Australia?

1:27.8

Yes.

1:28.2

Yeah.

1:28.5

Yeah.

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