SUMMER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION AND BONFIRE

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The beloved Summer Solstice Celebration honors the changing seasons, the beauty of nature, and the strength of our community. This year, we hope to deepen our gathering by including Earth’s many companions, beings of sky, water, and land that are part of nature’s everyday dance. We welcome these non-human voices to join us, blending their presence with ours in a shared celebration of life. Recognizing our place within the web of life is essential if we are to meet the challenges of this time with wisdom and care.

In honor of this expanded circle of kinship, we present these special free events before and on the Summer Solstice. Come celebrate summer, community, and life on earth on the northern hemisphere's longest day of the year.

Bring family, friends, your own picnics, games, etc. All ages, everyone welcomed!
Schedule of Festivities
4:00 Canoes provided to canoe Starkweather Creek (free) from 4-7pm at the inner boat ramp on the creek (Canoe storage parking lot on Creek & Atwood)

4:00-6:00 Earthly Creatures and Kin Tent - Make your own masks
Step into the spirit of another being and prepare to join the Council and/or the Procession of Earthly Creatures and Kin.
5:30 Food carts open to serve
5:30-6:30 Council of Earthly Creatures & Kin: Embody, speak and listen on behalf of your creature prior to the procession
5:30-7:30 pm Music groups perform: Ambrosia Affair Acoustic, Front Porch String Band, Onadare Celtic Music
7:30 Procession of Earthly Creatures and Kin: In masks, wings, fur, fins, hooves, and flowing forms, we’ll circle Olbrich Park in tribute to the season and the many kin with whom share this Earth.
8:00 Drumming begins
8:15 Welcoming Ceremony (Human Microphone)
8:30 (Sunset): Bonfire is lit with the International Flame of Hope
🔥 Come early so as not to miss the awesome blaze of the bonfire 8:30 - 8:45pm 🔥
9:00 Wishes are added to the fire after it burns down
9:45 Fire is extinguished
10:00 Park closes

Sponsored by:
SASY Neighborhood Association and Friends of Starkweather Creek.

Great thanks to contributors including Design Coalition, Gemini Landscaping, International Flame of Hope, WORT, Isthmus, Eastside News, Bachmann Const. Co., Community Creatures Puppet and Mask-Making Collective, Children’s Museum, 350 WI, and all the amazing volunteers!

Volunteers: The Solstice celebration is 100% volunteer-run. Why not be one? We especially need wish agents, and safety & clean-up crews. Please contact: madisonsolstice@gmail.com or Betty Chewning 608-263-4878