GREENLAND — Ancient Wisdom for Our Changing World
Wednesday, August 31, 7pm, Kellogg Hubbard Library, Montpelier

This evening event will include a slide-show of photographs of Greenland, combined with an interactive introduction to the traditional teachings of the far north from Greenland.

For millennia, the Kalaallit (Greenlandic) people not only survived but thrived in a land of cold winter darkness and summer midnight sun, a place where the natural world was both spectacularly beautiful and unforgivingly harsh. Survival required that practical knowledge and skills be integrated with a rich inner life so that, within each person, each family and each community, both the seen and the unseen were woven intricately together in the ceremony of life.

Calais resident Jane English has for nine years studied with Angaangaq, a Greenlandic elder who has visited Montpelier several times. She has participated in ceremonies in Greenland four times, two in summer and two in winter

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