A Winter Solstice celebration for all
ages and all faiths
Cedar
Cultural Center, Minneapolis December 20, 2003
Doors open at 7pm Show starts at 7:30
Tickets $10 advance, $12 at the door
5 year olds and under are free
This year’s theme for Winter Solstice
is Threshold. "We are all in the process of change,"
Tauring describes. "This year will give everyone
the opportunity to drop the baggage they carry which prevents
them from fitting through the door of evolution, or take
off the blindfold that keeps them from seeing the door.
It will give help to those who seem to be confronted with
several doors to choose from by ritually revealing that
all doors are one door when we are present in the moment.
For some of us, it will integrate all these things until
we realize that we are the door we wish to pass through."
The Yule show was the first what has become
a series of ritual performance art shows entitled Discovering
Origins, Building Traditions. "As a new mother, I
was interested in creating traditions for my children
that were meaningful and transformative," says Tauring
of her first show in 1999. "Our culture presents
holidays to us all packaged and marketed and devoid of
meaning. When people feel empty after holidays their only
recourse is to purchase better next year." Through
deconstructing the holy days that fall on the seasonal
changes such as the two solstices, the two equinoxes and
the points in between called cross quarters, Tauring and
Friends have been able to find meaning. The meaning that
was lost to us is now re-presented in the building of
new traditions.
"Our goal is to provide opportunities
for transformation at these special times of the year
through original song, dance, puppetry and video. There
is something for everyone at these shows. After the show
we provide a chance to get a mehndii (henna temporary
tattoo), eat and drink, and participate in a drum and
dance circle."
