Midwinter Magic is back! Don't miss our legendary Winter Solstice Festival on Saturday, December 21st at First Unitarian Universalist Church in San Francisco, with Soriah, Orchestra Gold, Singing the Bones, Miriam Peretz, Arula, AguaMayyim, and many others. The Winter Solstice, shortest day and longest night, has been celebrated since ancient times in many ways around the world.
At this gathering we honor diverse traditions of ritual, reverence, reverie, and revelry with three stages of music, dance, poetry and ceremony:
SANCTUARY
7:30 PM True Life Trio (Eastern European Solstice)
9:00 PM Teokalli Aztec Dance (Panquetzaliztli - Aztec Solstice)
9:30 PM Singing the Bones with Miriam Peretz (Persian Solstice)
10:45 PM Barron Scott Levkoff (Saturnalia Coronation - Roman Solstice)
11:00 PM Soriah (Avant-Shamanic Throat Singing)
12:30 PM Oshan Anand (Solstice Poetry)
12:45 AM High Tide (Pancha Ganapati - Hindu Solstice)
CHAPEL
7:00 PM Pagan Interest Circle (Pagan Solstice)
9:00 PM Lama Mike Crowley (Tibetan Buddhist/Welsh Druidic Solstice)
9:45 PM Dalyte Kodzis & Rolad Sayn (Koledy - Polish Solstice)
10:30 PM Paul C Wang (Dongzhi - Chinese Solstice)
11:15 PM Aaron Mayer (Jewish Solstice)
12:00 AM Triángulo (Latin American Solstice)
1:00 AM Amre Leon Dana (Oklahoma Solstice)
STARR KING ROOM
8:00 PM Arula (Folktronica DJ)
10:00 PM Orchestra Gold (West African Psychedelic Rock)
12:00 AM AguaMayyim (Folktronica DJ)
FIRESIDE ROOM & OUTDOOR COURTYARD
World Folk Acoustic Jam (Low-Income Musicians can apply for free tickets to participate).
Nature Dreamweaver (Solstice Nature Altars)
Pancha Ganapati Altar (Hindu Solstice)
Shab-e-Yalda Altar (Persian Solstice)
Saturnalia Throne (Roman Solstice)
Free Gourmet Tea Service by Tea Tribe
KID'S PLAYGROUND
Kids must be supervised by an adult at all times.
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