Join us for a three day workshop, ending with a ritual in the Bread and Puppet fields and forest. Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. The souls of dead kin were thought to revisit homes and loved ones at this time of year.

Through songs, dance, movement, masking, altar building, fire, and silence, we will create an outdoor community ritual together to remember the dead and thank our mother earth.
Although this workshop takes place at the Bread and Puppet Farm, it is not a Bread and Puppet show, but rather a participatory community ritual.

Schedule:

Friday November 3:
1-6pm: Singing, movement, planning, music sound experimentation. Oratorio with Peter Schumann.
6 pm Potluck supper

Saturday November 4,

9-12: Lithuanian Dance and Song with Vaiva Aglinskas. Vaiva will be teaching sutartines, an ancient Lithuanian song type deeply rooted in the cycles of nature and seasonal agricultural practices.
12 -1 potluck lunch
1-2pm Movement with Sophia Emigh.
2-4:30 oratorio with Peter Schumann
4:30 walk through ritual

Sunday Nov 5
10-12noon— bonfire/soup making/ costumes/lantern making
2-4 pm songs, dances, possibly another oratorio rehearsal
4 pm gather
4:30-6 pm ritual

For more information and to register, reply to this email. Thank you!

Event Info

Nov 26, 2024, 7 to 9:30 PM

Nov 29, 2024, 10:30 to 11:30 AM

Nov 29, 2024, 7 to 9 PM