Apr 1, 2021 | Megan Otto, Nightingale, Op Ed
An editorial with Megan Otto Rest We’d like to share with our Awakenings community that The Nightingale is taking a hiatus. We’re pausing this project, and we’ll continue to focus on our visual exhibits and our ongoing literary magazine. As an...Mar 18, 2021 | Ania Garcia Llorente, Essay, Nightingale, Uncategorized
What if we imagined what we usually call “healing” as “building” or “rebuilding?” Ania Garcia suggests and analyzes this shift in language by imagining survivors as architects. She highlights important concepts of inside and outside...Mar 4, 2021 | Interview, Marieken Cochius, Megan Otto, Nightingale
Marieken Cochius is a prolific visual artist, deeply inspired by the natural world around her. A painter, sculptor, and photographer, Marieken is an expert in letting her inspiration lead her to whatever form of expression suits it best. Currents and Shadows #7 and #8...Feb 18, 2021 | Fiction, Krista Robey, Nightingale
A familiar image: a bird circling in the sky. With a gentle metaphor, Krista Robey writes to describe survivors’ ongoing pain. A bird circling overhead may never descend, but it still feels ominous, and this image functions to describe how a survivor can feel...Feb 4, 2021 | Memoir, Nightingale, Shantha Bunyan, Uncategorized
When we’re brought to city of Amman, Jordan with Shantha Bunyan, we’re briefly wrapped up in all the details, small and large, that make up moments of her daily life there. There’s a clear sense of place, and as we learn about something as simple as...Jan 21, 2021 | Bianca Thompson, Interview, Megan Otto, Nightingale
Bianca Thompson is a longtime friend of Awakenings and has participated in many areas of our programming, from backstage in a more administrative sense to center stage as a performer. Bianca is an Associate Board Member and a member of our Art Committee. And as an...