​​​Sun Song: 

Summer Solstice Celebration

with crafting and ancestral song

With Meagan Chandler 

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Sunday, June 22

10am-12pm

Santa Fe 

$30-80*

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On these very longest days of the year, as the sun reaches the northern most point of sunrise, people across the Northern hemisphere mark this important celestial moment with celebration and bonfires, songs and feasting.  In Ireland the Solstice is called “Grianstad”, which means “Sun stop”, in honor of this pause in the fullest life-giving light of the year. And we will continue our celebrations together here at the Wellspring as well as we deepen in our connection to our Western European lineages and learn more about both their beauty ways and the grief and accountability needed to heal our ancestral lines in support of work in social justice, anti-racism and decolonization. 

 

Together we will learn a sweet traditional love song to the summer time in Irish and lift it up with the old tradition of tying our hopes and intentions and prayers onto the fairy trees with colorful prayer ties in hopes that we can lend strength to the sun and inspire the monsoons to come and dance here in our beloved desert home.  

 

Come join us this Summer Solstice and be in community together, singing and honoring the complex and dynamic histories we carry together. 

All ages and genders welcome! 

 

To join, please RSVP to WELLSPRINGNM.CONNECT@GMAIL.COM or click below.​ The exchange for this is $30-80 sliding scale, no one is turned away for lack of funds. 

Meagan Chandler has cultivated herself as a performance and ceremonial artist, arts educator and mother. Her experience includes over 20 years of sacred community theatre, vocal performance and coaching, rites of passage work, Spanish Flamenco singing, arts education and needle felted spirit doll making. Her ancestral pilgrimages have thus far led her to the land in Alba, Éireann, Cymru, Briton, Western Europe and Scandinavia.  She loves to work with people in all of life’s stages to live beautifully and well for the sake of future generations and the Wild Holy World that cradles us all. She can often be found mothering her child, singing for all occasions, learning new hand crafts, and trying new recipes in the kitchen.

 

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