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BCTV "Here We Are" 2025 Cai Xi, Artist, Chef, Tai Chi Teacher - Interviewed by Wendy O'Connell
Coming from a lineage of artists, Cai learned the disciplines of art from her father. She grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution, and came to America in 1987 where she found a new freedom of expression in her painting. She is the owner of CX Silver Gallery, Cai’s Dim Sum catering and teaches T’ai Chi on the Brattleboro Commons.
Nye Ffarrabas: Fluxus and Then Some
This episode of the Brattleboro Words Trail Podcast was written and edited by Adam Silver of CX silver gallery in Brattleboro. Executive Producer was Lissa Weinmann. Adam also interviewed Nye Ffarrabas and selected the pieces that she reads in this podcast. Musical excerpts are used by permission from Annea Lockwood's 1998 composition ‘Immersion’ performed by Rebecca Celebolsky and Peter Scholes, members of Auckland Chamber Orchestra originally recorded for ANZ concert.
Fluxus artist Nye Ffarrabas talks flow, fun and 'Flux'
As Ffarrabas herself describes it, Fluxus was “calling out art as a business, something that was making a lot of money for the galleries, but not so much the artists.” She says Fluxus is art for everyone — something that may be considered more community than art movement.
Nye Ffarrabas, Artist, Writer | interview with BCTV
Nye was part of FLUXUS, an avant garde group of artists which included Yoko Ono and John Cage, who pushed boundaries and created new ways of seeing.
Nye's work is in many collections including MoMA,The Getty, the Walker Art Center and CX Silver Gallery here in West Brattleboro.
BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Oh Yoko!
On the occasion of Yoko Ono’s 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4’s program includes Yoko in her own words from the BBC archive together with a collage of BBC interviews including Yoko’s contemporary and peer, Nye Ffarrabas (formerly Bici Forbes and Bici Hendricks) reminiscing.
“Dragon-lady”. “Witch”. “The woman who broke up the Beatles”. These are some of the labels that have been commonly used to describe Yoko Ono, a pioneering musician, artist, and activist who can plausibly claim to be one of the most maligned and misunderstood figures in the history of popular culture.
On this edition of Archive On 4, marking her 90th birthday, you’ll hear Yoko Ono on her own terms, in her own words.
Host Jennifer Lucy Allan, a music writer and broadcaster specialising in experimental sound, also assembles a collection of Yoko's peers, friends, and admirers.
Art historian Reiko Tomii reveals how the deprivation and danger of wartime Japan formed Yoko’s artistic worldview.
Sound artist Tomoko Hojo explores how an audience becomes Yoko Ono’s co-collaborator.
Fluxus poet Nye Ffarrabas remembers baring her bottom for one of Yoko’s seminal works.
Rock star Peaches reflects on Yoko Ono’s infamy.
Music writer David Keenan asserts that Yoko is "the best Beatle".
Producer: Mae-Li Evans
Executive Producer: Jack Howson
Sound Mix: Mike Woolley
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4
BBC archive interviews featured:
Late Night Line-Up (BBC 2 - 1967)
Parkinson (BBC 1 - 1971)
Andy Peebles (BBC Radio 1 - 1980)
Face To Face (BBC TV - 1998)
Kaleidoscope (BBC Radio 4 - 1998)
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (BBC 1 - 2003)
Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4 - 2007)
Andrew Marr Show (BBC 1 - 2007)
The First Time (BBC Radio 6 Music - 2016)