Margrét Pála Olafsdóttir, is an Icelandic pioneer pedagogue, educator and philanthropist. She is a kindergarten and elementary teacher with further studies in school management, an M.Ed. in pedagogy and education and an MBA degree in business administration. Margrét Pála has written numerous books and articles on gender equality, pedagogy and education, both for parents and academics. She is also well known as a consultant, lecturer and analyst and has been granted numerous awards and...

Michael J. Sheehy is a musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist, whose collaborations include Dream City Film Club, Miraculous Mule, and United Sounds of Joy. He’s just released his first solo album in 11 years, Distance is the Soul of Beauty. The album was recorded and produced during lockdown and he self-released it on Bandcamp for the first time in his career. We talk about how he balances making music with parenthood, what it was like to make this album and release it independently...

I sat down with photographer and author Rhiannon Adam during week four of lockdown in London to talk about two projects, Bigfence/Pitcairn Island and a project in progress about the community living on the Salton Sea. In part one we discussed some of her personal history and what lead to her interest in Pitcairn,  agency in chaos and the desire to emerge from isolation. In this episode, part two, we talk about her current project set in the Salton Sea, unattainable perfection, her process...

Show Notes for EP03 Part01 of 2: TRT 01:06:21 Rhiannon Adam (Guest): Find Rhiannon at rhiannonadam.com Instagram @rhiannon_adam Book: Polaroid: The Missing Manual Project: rhiannonadam.com/big-fence-pitcairn-island About: rhiannonadam.com/about Rhiannon Adam was born in Co. Cork, Ireland and was educated at Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design (London), and at the University of Cambridge. Adam's work is heavily influenced by her nomadic childhood spent at sea, sailing around the...

I sat down across the internet airwaves with Fiona Brice who is a British composer, arranger and performer working with the violin, piano, and voice. She once was a stranger to me but hasn’t been since about 2001. That’s the thing, aside from perhaps your family, everyone starts out as a stranger. Where you go from there is unknown.  We talk about the cancellation of the music industry, sitting still in one place, "The Artist’s Way", the composition headspace, isolation, travel, exercise,...

Hello, my name is Gabrielle Motola, welcome to Stranger Curiosity. I’m a photographer and writer based in London. I love meeting people and having compelling conversations with folks I know and ones I don’t. I especially enjoy approaching people I don’t know but am curious about. Before COVID19 changed our daily lives, I used to approach strangers on the street to photograph and talk with them. I would do this most every day. But For the moment, because of the pandemic,  this is not...