Nativity: one-hour version

Summary:

A celebration of the wonder, joy, pain, and innate sacredness of childbirth.

Website:

http://www.independenteye.org

Additional Credits and Funding:

Produced by Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller
Music & editing by Elizabeth Fuller
Funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and a reversioning grant from Public Radio Exchange.

Timely on:

May 14: Mother's Day ??Also appropriate for Christmas season

Tones:

Contemplative, Inspiring, Intimate

Language:

English

Description:

Childbirth: human and divine. The voices of twenty-six women describe their pregnancies, child-bearing, and the shadow and sun of what follows. It?s about the diversity, the immense challenge, and innate sacredness of every birthing. A celebration of the real ? a miracle, in the words of these women, that?s magical, hellacious, transcendent, messy, liberating, excruciating, easy or impossible.

It?s interspersed with fragments of ?divine birth? stories from the Gospels to Egyptian to Native American sources.

From listeners:
?Amazing. Powerful. It cost me a few tears. I want my mom to hear it. Thanks for doing this magical work.?
?What a great show... made me think and remember and long to hug my kids again and again.?
?I found myself getting chills all over, crying, laughing, and feeling so moved! It was a spiritual experience. It brought back the birth experience so vividly and made me feel connected to the other mothers and the web of life.?
?NATIVITY features potent interviews with women on the joy and pain of pregnancy, birth and new parenting. Narrators Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller dramatically frame snippets of dialogue with haunting music and mythical stories about birth. This is a gem of a recording.?
?Melissa Chianta, Mothering Magazine

Available in either one 57-minute version or a series of three 27-minute programs. Longer CD version available for listener premiums.

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