Celebrate the Winter Solstice at the Schuylkill Center during our last event of 2025 with crafts, stories, and of course hot chocolate! Make winter crafts with Rose Hammerman of Philadelphia Free Range Education – tree cookie ornaments, naturally dyed candles, fire-side snacks, and more!. We will also be joined by Chief Barbara “Bluejay” Michalski of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, who will be sharing Lenape stories of the importance of wintertime by the fire.
Tickets: $30
20% off for parties of 4 or more. Ages three and under are free with an accompanying adult ticket purchase.
More about Philadelphia Free-Range Education
Community Education and Crafty-Adventure Play! Philadelphia Free-Range Education guides you to creating on the landscape with Earth Skills and crafts, piquing the benefits of human development in natural surroundings. Always looking to encourage and incorporate every person’s unique expression. Above all, Rose is an avid believer in play being the caveat to teach compassion, empathy, and community.
More about Chief Bluejay
Chief Bluejay, aka Barbara Michalski, was given the name by her grandfather, Bill Thompson, late Chief Whippoorwill of the Unalachtigo (people near the ocean) Tribe of the Turkey Clan. She is a member of Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, and she has immersed herself in the activities of the Nation. In October 2022 was appointed Chief. Bluejay serves on the Tribal Council, she is the Tribal Secretary and one of the Storytellers of the Nation. She has been participating in educating the public by attending events or festivals in the Lenapehoking (Homeland of the Lenape). But most of all, Bluejay loves to teach children the history of the Lenape Nation through crafts, storytelling, and artifacts as she visits numerous area schools and children’s groups, such as the Boy and Girl Scouts and children camps.
Bluejay has also been involved in environmental issues, particularly working for clean water and protecting our Earth Mother. Recently, there have been many requests on medicinal plants, and she has been working to learn more about plant nation and did her first zoom presentation in November 2022 and plans to build a closer relationship with the plant nation. She attends Lenape Language class in Unami Dialect on Monday nights through LNP to help keep endangered language alive.
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