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2008 EVENTS
Kids Gemstone Dig: NOW OPEN!!!
May 1st Cross Quarter
Day
June 20th Summer Solstice Celebration
14th ANNUAL
TRADITIONAL SOLSTICE CELEBRATION @ 2PM
Celebrating the 14th annual summer solstice at America's Stonehenge, Friday June 20 at 2 pm.
The solstice is a turning point. It
marks the longest day in the year when the sun has reached it furthest
point to the North before it starts its journey back to the south again.
It is the time when the sun is at its utmost strength and when the earth
is opening to her fullest creativity and expression. It is at the
moment of utmost light the seed of darkness is born.
The details as to what this year's focus
will be, will be posted later in May. There will be something
around being in a nature year, a year of change and transformation.
Katja Esser and Valerianna Claff guide
you through this highly participatory ritual. The rituals they
facilitate are fun, energetic, profound and open to young and old.
Valerianna Claff is an artist, teacher, sound healer, and ceremonialist. She is steward of RavenWood Forest Retreat in Western Massachusetts which is dedicated to deep healing, soulful self-expression, and the nurturing of sacred relationships between the Earth and Her creatures.. She has over 20 years of teaching experience and combines her lifelong exploration of creativity, spirituality, music and healing to invite authentic self-expression and deep transformation. At RavenWood she paints, sculpts, offers private healing sessions, and facilitates groups and workshops. She teaches at Clark University and The Rhode Island School of Design. She completed Priestess Path Apprenticeship with Alisa Starkweather and has studied a variety of shamanic and vibrational healing modalities. Her CD, Breath and Bone, is a collection of original songs and chants. Valerianna has been co-facilitating Solstice Ceremonies with Katja Esser at America's Stonehenge for the past 5 years.
Katja Esser is an inspirational artist, mask and costume designer, ritualist, photographer and performer. She has exhibited her work in the Netherlands, New York and Boston. Katja has studied different forms of movement and voice. She has created sacred ceremonies for the seasons since 1992 for small and large groups of people of which the summer solstice at America’s Stonehenge is most well known. She is very involved in African based spirituality with Malidoma Somė and the East Coast Village which has brought her to Africa a few times. She creates rituals and gives talks on colleges and universities. Katja sings with Bonesong, an improvisational sacred singing quartet that sings in a cave. She has performed with the Theater Behind The Mask in schools and at First Night. Katja has an extensive website www.ritualexpressions.com at which her work can be viewed.
CELTIC
MUSIC @ 6 PM
"The Bowlings
are three siblings from Byfield, MA. Patrick, at 20, is the oldest of
the three. He has played Irish flute for over 10 years, and also plays
the tin whistle, Uilleann pipes (much like the Scotish bagpipes), and
the bodhran, an Irish drum. Tom, 18, has played Irish fiddle for
almost 12 years and has studied with some of the best fiddlers in the
world. Meghan, 17, plays the tin whislte as well as playing backing on
the cello. Patrick and Meghan are also notable Irish stepdancers, both
having qualified for Regional competitions, and Patrick having
qualified for the Nationals in 2006. They have been performing
together since 2004, and recently qualified in several competitions to
compete in the Worlds of Irish Music held in Tullamore, Ireland in
late August."
August 1st Cross
Quarter Day
September 22nd
Fall Equinox & Drumming Circle SPIRITS AMONG THE RUINS SATURDAY OCTOBER 4TH
6PM-9PM HALLOWEEN FRIDAY
OCTOBER 31ST 6PM-9PM
REAL GHOSTS - REAL INVESTIGATORS - REAL FRIGHTENING
November 1st
Cross Quarter Day
December 21st
Winter Solstice 2007/2008 DAYTIME SNOWSHOE RENTAL RATES
*WEATHER/SNOW CONDITIONS
PERMITTING*
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