Tuesday mornings from 9 AM to 10 AM, join Spillian founder Leigh Melander on her radio program, Myth America!
Myth America explores the ways in which myth shapes our sense of self and the world around us (hint: myth is alive and well in the American psych!), with depth and lightness. Sometimes Leigh riffing, sometimes featuring amazing guests from around the world.
- Tuesday, December 16: Exploring the use of myth in Fantasy/Sci Fi literature and gaming, with special guest author Nathan Long.
More on Nathan on Wikipedia...
Myth America. 9 AM ET on WIOX 91.3 FM or streaming at http://wioxradio.org/
The ancient Greeks said that myths were the things that were most and least true simultaneously. Far from just being a lie, myths pulse in the background of all of our lives -- our selves, our families, our communities -- we tell ourselves stories about all of them.
What are the myths we're living in and how are we living in them?
A project of Spillian LLC, a creative center offering programming in imagination, story, myth, sustainability, and community. http://spillian.com/
About Leigh Melander, Ph.D.
Leigh has a doctorate in Cultural Mythology and Psychology, with an emphasis in Imaginal Studies.She has an eclectic background in the arts, nonprofit management, and marketing, branding, and strategic planning consulting in the nonprofits and for-profit worlds. She is a singer/songwriter, whose first album of harp and vocal music hit the Top Forty Folk Charts; she has performed internationally as an actor and puppeteer; she has served as a teaching artist in schools and universities around the country; led an innovative community-government-nonprofit coalition to create a multi-tenant family resource center; and has generally romped through her life deciding that the next cool shiny thing was a great thing to reach for.
Leigh is the Founding Fomenter/CEO of Spillian LLC, as well as its various media & educational efforts, including Myth America; Meandering Press, publishing works on creativity and imagination; and, coming soon, Cool Catskills, a web magazine celebrating the Catskill mountains.