Summer Solstice Celebration
June 21, 2004
5 pm - sunset

The third annual Summer Solstice Celebration hosted by Socrates Sculpture Park and Materials for the Arts features live music, theatrical performances, artmaking activities, food and offerings to celebrate the change of season, the beginning of summer and the longest day of the year.

Activities include:

• Mama Donna, City Shaman, will be performing a Solstice ritual. Mama Donna (Donna Henes) is an acclaimed urban shaman, contemporary ceremonialist, artist and writer. She has designed and produced countless public participatory ceremonial events in celebration of the universal cycles of the seasons in more than 100 cities in nine countries since 1972. She is the author of three books and also publishes an acclaimed quarterly journal. In addition to teaching and lecturing worldwide, she maintains a ceremonial center, ritual practice and consultancy in Brooklyn, MAMA DONNA'S TEA GARDEN AND HEALING HAVEN, where she works with individuals and groups to create personalized rituals for all of life's transitions.

• Pyeng Threadgill will be our musical entertainment.  Daughter of musician Henry Threadgill and dancer and founding member of The Urban Bush Women Christina Jones, new-blues-chanteuse Pyeng Threadgill steps it up with her ever-evolving band. This sultry songbird delivers a sound that is at once reminiscent of the likes of Sade, Sam Cooke and Portishead. Performing her own cross-genre originals, Pyeng blends trip-hop, Soul, world, Jazz, and alternative to a unique and addictive beat.

• Agostino Arts will be doing their incomparable storytelling and Transformation! Facepainting for kids

• Artmaking workshops will be offered by The Noguchi Museum, Materials For the Arts, Queens Museum of Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, and others

• Sage American Kitchen will be selling delicious food!