High summer approaches! Come join us around the fire for an evening of story and song from the Bonny Shoals of Herring.
Grianstad, translated from Irish, means “sun stop”. It is the moment of balance between dark and light days, in which, according to Celtic lore, the sun appears to stop at the moment of solstice.
We’ll gather this night in homage of the peak of sun, their blazing fire and passion, their steady eaons of generous, life-giving light. In revering this, in gathering in gratitude, we connect to a central the pan-cultural gods of our natural world, and the entanglement of reciprocity we are inextricably bound within. Forgetting this constant generosity, and our belonging to it, is a root mentality of colonial violence. Let us remember how to say thank you in the old ways: seasonal, cyclical, holy ourselves as soil & starshine, created by trickster elegant cosmic wisdom with the capacity for thriving, egalitarian lifeways.
We will also gather this eve to put our hands to the ancestral art of making fire by friction. We’ll learn hand drill and create a fire from the alchemy of wood, air and many hands working together.
Then we will feast! And tune our ears to the stories and songs of our Euro-Celtic-Nordic Isles ancestors. Through these stories and songs we can revive bone memory, cells and organs still tuned to the numinous, animate intelligence of earth.
~ We are building rooted culture to light our inner fires as we build networks of solidarity! June 14 is also No Kings Day in 2025, a national day of solidarity actions to counter the abject greed sowing ever more chaos and imbalance on Turtle Island and the globe. We invite you to join us during the day June 14 in Santa Rosa with song, music and giant puppetry! ~
Deets:
~ June 14, 4:30-9:30
- 2505 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol; watch for the sign, it’s a tight turn
~ 4:30- 5:30 pm: Hand drill fire by friction lesson and collective fire lighting
~ 5:30 - 7: potluck
~ 7 - 9:30 pm: storytelling and song
Please bring:
- a potluck dish, with ingredient label (local / homemade gaily encouraged!)
- bowl/plate/mug/utensils/water
- chair or ground cloth as needed (seating will be hay bales or ground)
- headlamp
- layers
SUGGESTED DONATION:
$30-$20
~ No one turned away for lack of funds ~
PLEASE PRE-REGISTER, IT IS HELPFUL FOR US
ALSO, it takes many hands to make these gathering come to fruition. We’d love to gather a few more folks in to take on support roles (and of course no ticket payment expected for those who lend a hand) — if you’re interested in weaving in, respond to this email (the sooner the better!) and we’ll loop you in to our supporter crew. Thank youuuu!
Also check out other Food & Drink events in Sebastopol.
